Anno_Domini
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But it didn't end the franchise. There was going to be a Spider-Man 4. Raimi just walked away from it because he couldn't make it to his standards.
It was kinda the end of the franchise because Avi and Sony kept dipping their ideas into the story for the next film, Spider-Man 4, and Raimi finally walked off. So, in a way, S-M 3 did kill the franchise, only because Raimi was a smart director who decided to walk off unlike Schumacher.
I'm not trying to convince anyone of anything. I'm in fact agreeing that nothing new is going to be said about the movie and that everyone at this point knows how they feel about it. I'm also saying that holding up Chris' post as if it was wrong or ironically funny isn't really fair because he might still like the film. It isn't as though the film is universally hated as with some of the other films he'd mentioned. I think at best, most folks think it's okay or fun. Even at RT, with people still dumping on the movie 5 years later, the majority of people still like the film. And unlike several of the films mentioned, it wasn't a flop. It was quite successful.
Batman Forever isn't actually a bad movie to some people, so I can't say BF should be in the list of really awful third films out there and while Spider-Man 3 is a little better, it's by far the worst film of the trilogy and that's what makes people disregard that film as a great CBM and that's why Raimi's trilogy never comes to mind really when thinking of a great trilogy.
Plus, to say it was quite successful isn't saying much either. The Transformers films were successful as well. That doesn't make those films great at all. Nor was Batman Forever a flop.