![]() “I got the call and was immediately open about coming to do this. ![]() Maguire himself said in an interview for the book Spider-Man No Way Home: The Official Movie Special, released last month, that when he got the call to come back for No Way Home, he was “like finally! The actor most recently returned to the Spider-verse for the 2021 multiverse pic Spider-Man: No Way Home, which had him reuniting on screen with Maguire’s version of the character, while striking fear into the version played by Tom Holland in the more recent film series.Īnd Dafoe certainly isn’t the only legacy star of the franchise to have expressed excitement about further installments. While the character meets his end in that film after a failed attempt at killing Parker, Dafoe reprised the part with small appearances in the Raimi-directed sequels, Spider-Man 2 and 3. Underutilized I felt since there's an overubandance of villains.Dafoe’s Spidey character Osborne is a scientist holding the post of CEO at Oscorp who goes mad in Raimi’s 2002 trilogy opener Spider-Man, coming after the web-slinging superhero of the same name played by Tobey Maguire, after an experiment with strength enhancement goes awry, despite the fact that Spidey is, in his day-to-day life, Peter Parker, the best friend of his own son, Harry (James Franco). I think he's a really good villain however he is kind of Marco was great! He has a heartfelt story with his daughter and However Thomas Hayden Church as Sandman/Flint Thats pretty much where it stops for me she is in the grey areaįor me. Bryce Dallas Howard as Gwen Stacy is okay and Topher Grace as Eddie Brock, I really despise this character Iįeel like he's poorly written and wasn't a good choice to play thisĬharacter. And all the cast from the previous films areįantastic as ever but it also introduces us to some new Tobey once again is great as the character of Peter Saying that I actually enjoyed this movie. Spider-Man 3 is definitely the weakest in the trilogy. But is sometimes careless in its execution There's plenty I can't forgive about this film, especially the infamous 'dancing in the street' sequence, but I don't think it's anywhere near as bad as people make it out to be. I think if Raimi had the tools that filmmakers have now (improved CGI) and perhaps a little less studio interference, then Spider-Man 3 could be a much better end to the trilogy than it ended up being. At the end of the day, Raimi was trying to give us a Spider-Man film that dealt with bigger and more important personal issues, whether that worked for you or not is entirely up to the viewer. I also think Thomas Haden-Church's performance as Sandman is nothing to scoff at, reminding me of the character depth that made Doc Ock so memorable. If only the dialogue surrounding the action could match the brutality. The CGI is definitely dated when looking back on it after 10 years, but the action is as visceral as anything in any Spider-Man film to date. Raimi, as he proved in the first two, is great at shooting high-scale action. I don't mind having Harry go the villainous route, but the memory loss was all a bit of a headache. Having him get "hit in the head" and lose his memory for half the film was one of the stupidest and laziest decisions I can remember from a comic-book film. This was far from the Peter Parker we came to love in the first two films.Īnother headache was the direction they took Harry Osborn. It's one thing to have the symbiote change Peter, but it's another thing to have him physically abuse Mary Jane, and nearly kill his best friend Harry multiple times. Only, it did the exact opposite.Īnother thing that definitely didn't win over fans was the fact that this film made Peter Parker an absolute jerk. Venom is, more or less, just a third act reveal that is meant to please fans. None of the three villains are all that great, but there's at least some emotional undercurrent with both Sandman and Harry. Apparently, the studio forced Venom on Sam Raimi and hence making Harry & Sandman's arc far less effective when the final act is bogged down by a silly attempt at bringing Venom to the big screen. Only a few films have tried balancing more than one villain, Spider-Man 3 being the classic example of how not to do it. This was the first trilogy of superhero films that I connected with, and at 13 years-old I was willing to forgive many of the mistakes this film made, most of which I cannot forgive a decade later. Like the previous two films, there's a tremendous amount of nostalgia attached to this film for me. Ah, the Spider-Man film that nearly ruined the franchise, Spider-Man 3.
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