Spider Man III and the Dance of Doom
by Shannon on Friday, 18 of May, 2007 at 6:21 pm
There are numerous reasons why Spider Man III sucked. Too many bad guys, poorly thought out script, just too much crap going on at once. Well, I’ll tell you what bothered me the most. Tobey Maguire channeling his inner John Travolta circa Saturday Night Fever. Surely I wasn’t the only one having flashbacks to the opening scenes of Saturday Night Fever during Parker’s “dark” moments in the film. And can I just point out how dorky that was. How utterly pointless. I was hoping for some real angst, some real darkness from Maguire, instead I got a collection of scenes that make me giggle just to think about them. And the part with him dancing in the jazz club? WTF was that? When did Spider Man become a bad musical? I know that this was supposed to be a little tongue in cheek, but it ruined the good moments that were few and far between in this script. The moments of Parker truly struggling with his dark side. Instead we get fluff. And bad fluff at that.
The whole movie had moments that made me think Sam Raimi has some serous ADHD issues. And some things were just completely ignored. The whole moment when Harry forced Mary Jane to dump Parker (besides smacking of a 90210 episode) was never delt with. And at the end everything was tied into a nice little package of forgiveness, with a bow of melodrama.
In short not the best film of the trilogy, and while I’d hate for them to continue this downward sprial with another movie, I also hope they don’t leave it on such a sour note.
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