Originally Posted by notkevinbacon (Post 10205289)

I am completely ok with Fassbender in this. :thumbsup:

Lizard seems like the obvious villain choice, so I won't be surprised if the Lizard ends up being in this movie regardless of who plays him.

Originally Posted by Yavin (Post 10205321)

Too bad it didn't happen with Dylan Baker under Raimi's direction.

Originally Posted by Yavin (Post 10205321)

It would be nice to see the Lizard on-screen. Too bad it didn't happen with Dylan Baker under Raimi's direction.

Originally Posted by MrSmearkase (Post 10205340)

I know, right? Too bad that Baker went through all that set-up for nothing.

Originally Posted by Yavin (Post 10205321)

It would be nice to see the Lizard on-screen. Too bad it didn't happen with Dylan Baker under Raimi's direction.

Originally Posted by Suprmallet (Post 10181012)

To me, it's kind of like the superhero equivalent of Showgirls. Big, gaudy, overreaching, and very unintentionally campy. Also, both movies have one actor who know exactly what movie they're in and steal the show (Gina Gershon for Showgirls, and James Franco for Spider-Man 3).

I could write an essay on every problem with Spider-Man 3, but I'll try and just knock it down to a few salient bullet points:

1. Retconning the death of Uncle Ben. It's a feeble attempt to heighten the emotion of the Sandman, who is an utterly bland villain in every way.

2. Mary-Jane. OK, aside from the fact that Kirsten "Snaggletooth" Dunst was always a terrible choice to play MJ, the character as written makes no sense in this movie. Let's remember that in SM2, she was a successful model AND actress. In this movie, she does poorly in one musical, has a single bad review written about her, is fired, and takes a job as a waitress. WTF? She's also shrill and one-note throughout the movie. If I were Peter Parker, I would have dumped MJ as written for Gwen Stacy.

3. Gwen Stacy. Pointless additional character written in for no reason other than to drive a wedge between Peter and MJ.

4. Venom. Shoehorning Venom, a character with a convoluted backstory, into a movie with TWO other main villains, was a huge mistake that we can at least blame on the execs, but it still drags the movie down. I'll let you decide whether or not Emo Parker is a separate bad bullet point or part of this one.

5. The writing out of Harry Osborne. Harry was always destined to be the big villain of SM3. The setup was there in the first movie. But because Venom had to be written in, Harry gets written out. How else could you explain the head injury that makes him disappear until the third act? This completely robs the character of his arc and makes the ending ring hollow.

6. Almost every scene that wasn't action. The dialogue was awful throughout the film, the character relationships forced, the plot contrived.

If that's a good film, then I don't want to see good movies. :)

Originally Posted by wearetheborg (Post 10207760)

Aaron Johnson is just too pretty for Peter Parker.

Originally Posted by Yavin (Post 10208062)

He was great in Star Trek and Terminator Salvation.