If they had the money to film alternate scenes...

[Dark Prophet]

If they had the money to film alternate scenes, you would think they would just go ahead and film MORE.

For example, they could have added to the Eddie Brock/Sandman meeting instead of creating a whole new alternate one... Then there's the Bernard/Mary Jane talking to Harry scene... etc etc

Is it just me, or is everyone else as baffled with Sony's creative and production approach as I am?

 

[Spider-Fan]

This could have gone in the deleted scenes thread.

But anyway, those scenes were cut/altered I am guessing for length...by adding to them, you make them longer. The problem was the scenes were too long in the first place (for the runtime Sony wanted). I mean, the movie was like 2hr and 20min (which for a movie like this, is long).

 

[kward711]

This could have gone in the deleted scenes thread.

But anyway, those scenes were cut/altered I am guessing for length...by adding to them, you make them longer. The problem was the scenes were too long in the first place (for the runtime Sony wanted). I mean, the movie was like 2hr and 20min (which for a movie like this, is long).

I think it was more like 2 hours and 56 minutes originally. I know they cut down 30 pages of the original script. But the MJ talking to Harry, and the alternate Venom asks Sandman for help were filmed.

http://www.freewebs.com/spidermanfan711/spiderman3deleted.html

 

[Blader5489]

The reshoots were done for time; Raimi had to cut the film down to under 139 minutes.

 

[Stevens25]

Some of those scenes could've been left in I think. Pirates 3 was at least 1/2 hour longer than Spidey 3(I'm not sure of the exact time but I know it was longer). I definetly would've sat through a longer Spider-man film. I mean,Titanic was how long,3 hours? And that's the highest grossing film in history. I think it could've worked for the Spider-man franchise.

 

[kward711]

Some of those scenes could've been left in I think. Pirates 3 was at least 1/2 hour longer than Spidey 3(I'm not sure of the exact time but I know it was longer). I definetly would've sat through a longer Spider-man film. I mean,Titanic was how long,3 hours? And that's the highest grossing film in history. I think it could've worked for the Spider-man franchise.

Sony wouldnt allow it. They didnt want the kids to get bored.

 

[Spider-Fan]

Some of those scenes could've been left in I think. Pirates 3 was at least 1/2 hour longer than Spidey 3(I'm not sure of the exact time but I know it was longer). I definetly would've sat through a longer Spider-man film. I mean,Titanic was how long,3 hours? And that's the highest grossing film in history. I think it could've worked for the Spider-man franchise.

But Pirates 3 sucked (not due to its length, but it did suck), and Titanic got all that money cause it was a movie every chick in the world loved, and was in theaters for like a year.

I am not saying I wouldn't have enjoyed a longer SM movie (I would have loved it), but you gotta remember that studios don't normally want really long runtimes for movies like this.

I think it was more like 2 hours and 56 minutes originally. I know they cut down 30 pages of the original script. But the MJ talking to Harry, and the alternate Venom asks Sandman for help were filmed.

http://www.freewebs.com/spidermanfan711/spiderman3deleted.html

I know they were filmed. I am just saying they needed to be cut for length.

 

[sasaesq]

I think it was more like 2 hours and 56 minutes originally. I know they cut down 30 pages of the original script. But the MJ talking to Harry, and the alternate Venom asks Sandman for help were filmed.

http://www.freewebs.com/spidermanfan711/spiderman3deleted.html

everyone keeps saying the Brock/Sandman scene at the park was an "alternate" scene. I think it was an "additional" scene b/c it would explain how Brock knows about Sandman's family in the alley scene.

 

[Spider-Vader]

Some of those scenes could've been left in I think. Pirates 3 was at least 1/2 hour longer than Spidey 3(I'm not sure of the exact time but I know it was longer). I definetly would've sat through a longer Spider-man film. I mean,Titanic was how long,3 hours? And that's the highest grossing film in history. I think it could've worked for the Spider-man franchise.

That one LOTR movie was like 24 hours & it is #2 world-wide, sooo....
I say we really needed more fights, Symbiote Spidey, Sandman character devolpment, Venom/Eddie Brock & NO DANCE SCENES!

 

[kward711]

everyone keeps saying the Brock/Sandman scene at the park was an "alternate" scene. I think it was an "additional" scene b/c it would explain how Brock knows about Sandman's family in the alley scene.

no I think it was alternate because he is talking to Flint in the park:

 

[kward711]

That one LOTR movie was like 24 hours & it is #2 world-wide, sooo....
I say we really needed more fights, Symbiote Spidey, Sandman character devolpment, Venom/Eddie Brock & NO DANCE SCENES!

Yes. The original script for SM3 was 152 pages but they cut it down to 120 pages because they claim they didn't have the budget to produce a longer film.

 

[Kevin Roegele]

That one LOTR movie was like 24 hours & it is #2 world-wide, sooo....

But LotR has an older target audience than Spider-Man.