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Three's The Charm?
4 May 2007 22:02The Spider-Man 3 review... There seems to be a curse hanging over superhero movies - in recent years, the first film in a series has been very good, but not great, the second is great, but then the third seems to struggle...
(Trying to avoid spoilers...) Like the Superman, Batman and X-Men series before it, Spidey 3 doesn't seem to live up to the promise of the first two. There seems to be too much crammed into one movie, for a start, Kirsten Dunst's Mary Jane is like a miserable wet fish compared to Gwen Stacy, a rather too convenient pair of revelations have major impacts on two major characters - one quite literally, in the end - and Venom was seriously underused, crammed into the last half hour of the movie.
I've said it before that I'm not a particularly great Spidey fan, but that hasn't stopped me enjoying the films. The first was good, the second great, this one... entertaining, certainly not boring, but lacking something. I've seen it described as the movie equivalent of one of those team-up comics, and that seems to fit in this case.
The Verdict: 7/10 - in this day and age, complacency is NOT an option.
Meanwhile... Diaryland is still refusing to allow entries for anyone other than paid-up members, after several weeks of being buggy. This is not good enough. Moving things will be a MAJOR pain, and will take up too much of my creative time to be viable - maybe it's time to start piecing together the Darkhawk complete seasons books I'd been thinking about...
(Trying to avoid spoilers...) Like the Superman, Batman and X-Men series before it, Spidey 3 doesn't seem to live up to the promise of the first two. There seems to be too much crammed into one movie, for a start, Kirsten Dunst's Mary Jane is like a miserable wet fish compared to Gwen Stacy, a rather too convenient pair of revelations have major impacts on two major characters - one quite literally, in the end - and Venom was seriously underused, crammed into the last half hour of the movie.
I've said it before that I'm not a particularly great Spidey fan, but that hasn't stopped me enjoying the films. The first was good, the second great, this one... entertaining, certainly not boring, but lacking something. I've seen it described as the movie equivalent of one of those team-up comics, and that seems to fit in this case.
The Verdict: 7/10 - in this day and age, complacency is NOT an option.
Meanwhile... Diaryland is still refusing to allow entries for anyone other than paid-up members, after several weeks of being buggy. This is not good enough. Moving things will be a MAJOR pain, and will take up too much of my creative time to be viable - maybe it's time to start piecing together the Darkhawk complete seasons books I'd been thinking about...
