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You brought up Raimi whereas Spider-Man 3 is still directed by him.
Actually with all said and done if you don't have anything good & related to say on IM 2 DVD, just shoo away.
The IM 2 negative train has gone past the station like 3-4 months ago.
What does Raimi have to do with Iron Man? Seriously? Also, if we want to go down this train of Favs vs Raimi, let's not forget, Raimi did 3 SM films...Favs has only done 2 IM films. There is no guarantee he does IM3 yet. So, let's look at their 1st 2 efforts on RT (since people throw that crap out there all the time). Here are the RT scores of SM1 and SM2 vs IM1 and IM2:
Spider-Man: 89%
Spider-Man 2: 93%
Iron Man: 94%
Iron Man 2: 78%
Guess what, Raimi on average wins this battle! Because both of his first two efforts are around 90%. Favs only got around 90% 1 time in his 2 tries. Plus, IM2 suffered much more negative feedback than Raimi was getting when SM2 was out.
Now, SM3 does have a 63% score. It is lower than IM2's, but...that was his 3RD effort...not 2nd. Let's have this trilogy conversation when Favs gets to IM3. Or if. Unlike Favs, Raimi upped the anti with his sequel. Not to mention, the action in SM2 is great (so much better than ANYTHING Favs has done). Heck, for all its flaws, SM3 had some very good action sequences in the 2 Spider-Man vs Harry fights. Again, better than anything in IM2 (though overall, IM2 is prob a better movie).
Now, get off the Raimi bashing. It has really gotten old on this site