[Movie] Spider-Man 3

The movie wasn't bad. The action was incredible, and it was certainly action-packed. I only had one or two major issues with it.

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My biggest gripe is Harry's stupid butler. "Hi, I'm your butler. I've known about everything all along, but I've kept my mouth shut and haven't told you anything for no good reason. But now that Spiderman needs you, I'm going to come out of nowhere, and in classic deus ex machina fashion turn the whole plot around, then disappear again. Would you like a crumpet with that?"

My other gripe was the simple lack of decent villain development. If you're going to be so bold as to have three villains, for Pete's sake make them more dynamic than that. And killing off Venom so easily is RIDICULOUS. I'm sorry.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

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Sandman was so one-dimensional, and they made him near-omnipotent in power. Then Venom, while developed, was extremely linear. There wasn't any real depth to his character, only breadth. And then he wasn't as powerful as he ought to have been, I though. Venom largely worked alone in the comics if I recall correctly, so to not really even attempt taking on Spiderman alone before going to Sandman for help bugged me.

The Harry stuff was well-developed, but his character was severely hampered by where they took him - the short-term memory loss was cheesy, attacking MJ the way he did was bizarre, and the complete turn-around after the butler's revelation was dumb. There was so much they could have done there that they really didn't.

How ya doing, buddy?