A Lowell Point

[xsr]

Dear Mr. Raimi,
Quit while you're ahead.

Love,
me

No one learns. No one ever learns. Do you know what killed the Batman franchise? No, not that. The other reason. No, not that either. Villains. So many villains taking up so much time and making us look at how awesome they were. The movie should've been all about Venom and Harry; Sandman got in the way

Comments

[skyjammer]

Pretty much my thoughts exactly. On the surface, the story seemed to make sense, but if you looked just past the surface, you could see there wasn't much depth to it. There wasn't enough character development for anyone we hadn't seen in previous movies, and even then some of Harry's development seemed kind of forced.

And you're right -- Harry could have easily been the thing that forced Peter towards the dark side. But Raimi's too old-school Spidey to have given that up. And while they nailed the look of Sandman and Gwen (my God, Bryce looks HOT as a blonde) they were superfluous.

[raptorck]

The only problem I have with the Venom story is that, honestly, it felt forced, as though Raimi didn't want to deal with it, and while he tried to do a good job, it lacked heart.

Visually, mind you, it looked good, and the basic themes were true to the comic.

(Also, the other thing that killed the Batman franchise was *removing* the villains from the picture. Villains have to stay alive *and* evil every so often, or else you're going to lose your entire rogue's gallery.)

(Unless you're Ash. Then your enemies can stay dead *and* still be a threat.)

[z4nd4r]

I thought it was awesome.

They really could have left Venom for Spiderman 4 and not done the "big" battle with him. If you want redemption for Harry, leave it for #4 as well. Have his Goblin story span 2 movies as a background and have the Peter/Gwen/MJ thing span 2 movies as well.

Peter didn't need the Venom symbiote to start going out with Gwen. When Norman tell Harry to take his heart it easily could have been Gwen that he took and killed. The rage Peter feels could attract the symbiote to him, and the final battle would be the Sandman and Harry vs Peter THEN Peter vs his rage when the symbiote wants him to kill Harry. Not the Sandman (because I wouldn't have done the whole OMG he is the REALLY REAL KILLER).

But really. I liked it. I would have done stuff differently, but I thought it was an awesome movie despite everything.

[repowers]

I'm with Tim. It was awesome, and it was a lot of fun seeing Harry and Peter fighting side by side, enough so that I was disapointed they killed off Harry.