Spider-Man 3
Published October 21, 2012
Film info
- Title Spider-Man 3
- Director Sam Raimi
- Year 2007
- Run time 2hrs 19m
- Genres Action, Adventure, Fantasy
- Tagline The battle within
Peter Parker finally has the girl of his dreams, Mary Jane Watson, and New York City is in the throes of Spider-mania! But when a strange alien symbiote turns Spider-Man's suit black, his darkest demons come to light changing Spider-Man inside as well as out. Spider-Man is in for the fight of his life against a lethal mix of villains - the deadly Sandman, Venom, and the New Goblin - as well as the enemy within himself.
Live Blog
| Time | Comment |
|---|---|
| 0:36 | I wonder what crazy long titles we’ll have this time. |
| 1:54 | That’s one film recapped. Are we going to do the other one as well? |
| 3:10 | I think we’re through it and out the other side! |
| 4:40 | What does “layaway available” mean? I clearly don’t pawn enough stuff. |
| 8:33 | Is this a sequel that is the same as the first movie then? Guy goes into green smoke, goes insane? |
| 14:02 | Spiderman needs to get himself a better motorbike. |
| 17:27 | Ooh, he has new web missiles? |
| 18:45 | Who pays for all this damage, going in one office window and out the other side? |
| 20:38 | Don’t you just hate it when your weird little spherical weapons come back and hit you instead? |
| 29:34 | That was some amazing CGI, how did they do that? |
| 35:44 | “I’ll be taking shots of you for the Bugle. Smile, are you smiling?” |
| 43:13 | Now she’s jealous that he’s more famous than she is. Doesn’t sing though, does he? |
| 48:18 | Spiderman high fives! |
| 51:48 | That guy leaves quite a lot of sand behind. |
| 1:02:13 | Is the fact that door sticks going to be important later, I wonder. |
| 1:07:20 | Totally confused by this black gunk. It’s just changed his suit colour? |
| 1:11:11 | “This is a free country, not a rent-free country.” |
| 1:25:13 | It really was the root of everything that she didn’t tell him straight away that she had been fired. |
| 1:27:33 | Woah, emo hair alert. All he needs is some eyeliner and the look will be complete. |
| 1:33:37 | Okay, that’s it. Being mean to Ursula is crossing the line. Bad Spidey. |
| 1:36:48 | The trouble is, Maguire just can’t pull off the cool side. It’s cringeworthy in the extreme. |
| 1:45:09 | Again… none of that makes sense. He could take the suit off fine before, and why didn’t he notice someone screaming as the black stuff took over Topher? |
| 1:48:16 | Why did he turn into a rogue Spiderman? I thought it enhanced your bad side, and he deffo wasn’t a spider before. |
| 1:56:49 | God knows what would happen if Sand-dude found his way to the beach. |
| 1:58:52 | What child has ever said “wicked cool”? |
| 2:07:40 | Always two sides to every story, I guess. |
| 2:11:34 | I feel sorry for the butler man. He has no one left to look after now. |
| 2:13:13 | No one seems to have noticed that she stopped singing mid song. Maybe that’s a jazz thing. |
Conclusions
The third film in the Spiderman series, and we were feeling a bit better about it. The first was not great, the second was better, if a little long. It wasn’t until after we’d already started this one that we realised it was well over two hours. Otherwise we might have been a bit more wary!
I really didn’t think this was very good. It started out so promising, Spiderman looked like he had a happy life that was about to be compromised, and there was an incredible villain in the shape of an awesome-CGI sand-monster thing. But then there was also the black goo, there was also Harry flipping out, losing his memory, getting it back, going bad, going good. There was Mary-Jane and all her baggage, there was the guy taking the photos. It was all too much.
Too many threads, and not enough common sense to string them together. I had questions galore. Where did the black stuff come from? Who does a weird scientific experiment and is all “it’s just a bird, who cares” about it? What was the sand-man actually trying to achieve? Why was the photographer’s bad self just like a spider too?
It was mildly entertaining, but by about halfway through I was more frustrated than anything.
**Rating: **2/5
Rating: 2 / 5