Spiderman 3 (2007) - An Adaptation Review

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Ok, remember last time when I said I was hesitant to watch this movie because it was terrible? Well, I was wrong. Yeah, this movie isn't really as bad as I or anyone else made it out to be. I mean, yeah it has its problems, but not nearly as many as say Spiderman 2. The problem is that after Spiderman 2 people were broken from the illusion and were seriously hoping for something better to win them back, but it didn't, so they hated it extremely.

Now, the movie is bad for a lot of different reasons and it actually does fix a couple writing problems that were in the last film. The problem is the moves they made to try an win back the audience (I'm looking at you emo-bangs)

First, let's talk about what this movie did right, since no one seems to want to do that. Unlike in Spiderman 2, the pacing and relationships felt a lot better, and the movie all around felt like it was its own movie, unlike Spiderman 2 which constantly tried to retread old grounds. They even made this movie funny sometimes and a good laugh is pretty hard to find in superhero flicks nowadays.

But, let's look at the new characters, Eddie Brock, Flint Marko, and Gwen Stacey, and see what was done good or bad about them. I'm not too fond of how they portrayed Flint Marko, but I was never that attached to him as a character, I never even read about him in the comics, but Gwen Stacey on the other hand, she's a huge let down in this film. Instead of being Peter Parker's lost love, they turn her into the destroyer of the legendary Parker/Watson love. She's made into some perfect version of Mary-Jane that she instantly becomes jealous of: She's a model, she's Peter's lab partner, she replaces Mary-Jane on her Broadway show.

Then we get to Eddie Brock, an up and coming photographer who seems to be trying to replace Peter at the Daily Bugle. He's young, up-and-coming, and seems better than Peter at his job.

And actually, to be honest, this actually felt alright at the beginning. From the way the story was progressing, it looked like Eddie and Gwen were supposed to be the knew power couple that were going to leave Peter and Mary-Jane with nothing and serve as the obstacle for their romance. In fact, the whole first half of the film felt great. It felt like a really well paced story with a great plot. Everything seemed to be going great. I didn't even feel that the number of enemies were too much either.

But then, emo-bangs shows up. Actually, the real problems started to show up when Harry made his second 180 during the course of the whole film. It just felt so forced. I mean, Mary-Jane kisses him, then she runs out of the house, then he starts hearing his father's ghost and remembers everything that he lost during his amnesia? Also, William Dafoe, what are you doing here? At the end of Spiderman 2 you just acted like a representation of Harry's anger and angst, but now he's saying stuff that only the Green Goblin would know to say. As if he was really a ghost and not Harry getting crazy. And that doesn't make any sense.

Then he starts making Peter emo and ruining the whole film. Peter starts doing his stupid strut through the city, he does that ridiculous number at the jazz club, and he goes all dark avenger on Harry. I get that the suit was making him act this way, but does it really need to make Peter Parker a douche? Really?

Well, the second half itself isn't entirely bad. I did like the scene where Peter reveals Eddie for the lying tool he really is, but they ruin that by making Peter act like a douche to Jonah. The scene where Peter starts a fight in Mary-Jane's club and accidentally hits her is great too, though it is overshadowed by him acting like a douche in the scene before it. The entire douche-ness is the real problem of the movie, and that, coupled with Harry's out of the blue 180 is what makes this movie bad.

They actually had a really good movie here, even the ending was good. I laughed pretty hard during the scene where Jonah gets conned by a little kid when he's trying to get some footage of the crime scene. Though I wished they followed with the beautiful art scene caps from the last movie, like they did during Spiderman 2, instead of these photo scene-cuts. It feels a lot lazier.

All in all, this movie isn't that bad. The camera work isn't nearly as good as the last two, which saddens me, but that doesn't mean there aren't some good shots. But there's a lesson that can be learned from this movie: DON"T MAKE DOUCHE-BAGS OUT OF YOUR PROTAGONISTS!

Now, next week I'll be reviewing The Amazing Spiderman, one of my least favorite Comic book movies ever. Right next to The Dark Knight Rises and X-Men Origins: Wolverine.