Just watched all 3 back-to-back.....

[Darkness Falls]

yeah the goblin storyline effected the plots of all three

 

[jacob301]

I always felt that spidey 3 got a bad rap.. I think people were looking it at a stand alone movie.. it was more a conclusion of the 3 part story that we were watching like ROTK (LOTR).

they wanted to make harry good.. more like for the audience to remember him before the green goblin too. his friendship with peter and MJ before becoming the new goblin again.. they explained that in the commentary.. it was more about the romance of MJ and harry from the first movie..they had some history together in the first movie.

Jacob

 

[Arcturus]

I think when SM-3 comes out on DVD i'll watch them back to back.

 

[AVEITWITHJAMON]

I always felt that spidey 3 got a bad rap.. I think people were looking it at a stand alone movie.. it was more a conclusion of the 3 part story that we were watching like ROTK (LOTR).

they wanted to make harry good.. more like for the audience to remember him before the green goblin too. his friendship with peter and MJ before becoming the new goblin again.. they explained that in the commentary.. it was more about the romance of MJ and harry from the first movie..they had some history together in the first movie.
Jacob

Yeah, and ultimately this is what Harry used to get to Peter.

 

[Mr Jide]

I watched all 3 back to back...and I'll never do it again. I tolerated sm1, sm2 for the most part annoyed me, the film's saving grace was Fred Molina and of course the short-lived but awesome action sequences and sm3 was pure entertainment although, there were glaring flaws that made me cringe and some scenes should have been revised or done away with completely.

 

[AVEITWITHJAMON]

^While i did love Molina, i also thought Defoe and Franco brought a lot to the table in terms of the trilogy also. Their performances were some of the best parts of 1 and 3 respectively IMO.

 

[sandgoblin]

^While i did love Molina, i also thought Defoe and Franco brought a lot to the table in terms of the trilogy also. Their performances were some of the best parts of 1 and 3 respectively IMO.

I agree on Franco and Defoe. They did bring alot to the Spidey trilogy.

 

[AVEITWITHJAMON]

I agree on Franco and Defoe. They did bring alot to the Spidey trilogy.

They added a different element to it, they were genuinly sympathetic, instead of sympathy almost being forced upon us with the likes of Sandman. I was sad when both Norman and Harry died, for different reasons of course, but i was still sad.

 

[Kevin Roegele]

In fact, a warm round of applause to all the supervillains of the series, as they've all been played impressively. Dafoe, Molina, Hayden-Church, Grace, Franco if you want to include him....not the star quality of the Batman movie villains, but certainly a better success rate.

 

[AVEITWITHJAMON]

In fact, a warm round of applause to all the supervillains of the series, as they've all been played impressively. Dafoe, Molina, Hayden-Church, Grace, Franco if you want to include him....not the star quality of the Batman movie villains, but certainly a better success rate.

Agreed, 100%, I think i can speak for most people when i say that not one of the villains was dis-interesting or portrayed poorly by the actors. Harry was just the icing on the cake of a 3 movie build up, but the others dont really get enough credit either.

I still think Sandman shouldnt have been as involved in Peter's life/storyline so much in 3, and i still wish that Venom, and to a lesser extent, Doc Ock, would have been seen more, but overall, i have to say weldone to Raimi and co.

 

[The Caped Knight]

After watching all three in order (not only am I fully convinced that the SPIDER-MAN movie franchise is by far The BEST Superhero movie Trilogy ever . But I even appreciate the third movie even more than when I saw in in the movie theater . ) I can't wait to see What happens next in Spidey 4.

I hope Sam, Tobey, Kirsten & the rest of the gang return for the next three movies .

 

[Prison Mike]

I haven't thought about a marathon. Sounds like a good idea. But I'll have to wait until Thanksgiving break. I would want to watch it on my parents' 42 in. HDTV rather than my 13 inch TV in my dorm. lol

 

[BobJM]

Connors is waiting in the wings for a fourth...

And I really hope that everyone comes back for a final one. Screw Sony's idea to make like another 6 movies or whatever.

 

[bellepheron]

I haven't yet watched all 3 back to back but I have watched SM3 a few times since it was released on DVD and I like it way more than when I saw it at the cinema. Maybe it's because I know what to expect from it now so there isnt that initial dissapointment that I got the 1st time!

There are still too many flaws in the writing and editing (did we really need to see harry making omelettes!) but I now appreciate it for being a good movie and decent closer to the Tobey Maguire SM trilogy.

 

[Arcturus]

In fact, a warm round of applause to all the supervillains of the series, as they've all been played impressively. Dafoe, Molina, Hayden-Church, Grace, Franco if you want to include him....not the star quality of the Batman movie villains, but certainly a better success rate.

Agreed, Kevin Roegele.

 

[The Caped Knight]

In fact, a warm round of applause to all the supervillains of the series, as they've all been played impressively. Dafoe, Molina, Hayden-Church, Grace, Franco if you want to include him....not the star quality of the Batman movie villains, but certainly a better success rate.

Agreed

 

[AVEITWITHJAMON]

After watching all three in order (not only am I fully convinced that the SPIDER-MAN movie franchise is by far The BEST Superhero movie Trilogy ever . But I even appreciate the third movie even more than when I saw in in the movie theater . ) I can't wait to see What happens next in Spidey 4.

I hope Sam, Tobey, Kirsten & the rest of the gang return for the next three movies .

Yeah, we need at least one more Spiderman movie from this team, just to tie up any remaining loose ends.

And isnt it funny how so many people have enjoyed the movie more on DVD, mysef included.

 

[Victarion]

I'll make this a project for the Christmas holidays for sure. When I saw Spidey 3 in theaters it kinda irked me that we had so many damn flashbacks. Perhaps that will change after the marathon. Funnily enough, I enjoyed Spidey 2 more in the theater than I do the DVD.

---Morzan

 

[sean61675]

I have to wait til Tuesday to to the movie marathon, although it'll probably get pushed back til next weekend.

The problem is that the symbiote saga spanned 4/5 years in the comics. It was done so well because once Venom was introduced, it was kind of like, "Oh yeah, I forgot the black and white threads were once alive." The symbiote saga really should have spanned three movies in lieu of one. I think people forget that next year marks the 20th anniversary of Venom. At that time, the Goblin was about 25 years old (from his initial introduction) so just like the Goblin chronicles deserved three movies of treatment, so does/did Venom.

 

[The Joker]

LOL! The symbiote story most definitely does NOT need 3 movies to be told. The animated series did it better in 60 minutes than Spider-Man 3 did in 2 and a half hours.

Three movies my foot.

 

[sean61675]

LOL! The symbiote story most definitely does NOT need 3 movies to be told. The animated series did it better in 60 minutes than Spider-Man 3 did in 2 and a half hours.

Three movies my foot.

Did you read the original symbiote saga? You do realize it started in Secret Wars, dribbled through the Sin Eater plot which also happened to ruin Brock's rep which leads to Venom? Not to mention three years or so of him just wearing the black & white costume the Black Cat made him.

Anyway, all I am saying is like the Goblin, it needed more than one movie and he (Venom) is too big to be shared with another villian in one movie (i.e. Sandman).

SM4: He gets the symbiote/gets rid of it
SM5: He wears a cloth version, Brock gets humiliated & merges with the symbiote at the end.
SM6: Venom terrorizes Peter the whole movie until the final battle.

So, Venom is only in one movie (SM6) but at least a character with a history deserving of more than 12 collective minutes on film is treated right.

 

[The Joker]

Did you read the original symbiote saga? You do realize it started in Secret Wars, dribbled through the Sin Eater plot which also happened to ruin Brock's rep which leads to Venom? Not to mention three years or so of him just wearing the black & white costume the Black Cat made him.

I've read all that in the comics. 90% of it is unnecessary to tell the story of the symbiote, and just would not translate well to screen.

The animated series story of it was perfect. Alien entity brought to earth from a space mission, finds it's way to Peter, Peter embraces his dark side, finally decides to get rid of it when he crosses a line, or nearly crosses a line.

Don't need Secret Wars and all that nonsense. As for your time frame of 3 years, none of the movies have stuck to the comic book time frame of events. They don't need to.

Anyway, all I am saying is like the Goblin, it needed more than one movie

It really didn't though.

The symbiote story is not as complex or interesting as the Goblin story. Or as important for that matter.

and he (Venom) is too big to be shared with another villian in one movie (i.e. Sandman).

I disagree.

I always found Venom to be an overrated villain, who as a character, has never amounted to anything other than a glorified stalker with a chip on his shoulder.

Even Sam Raimi, when he researched the character, said he found him to be very weak, and could not understand what the kids found so appealing about him.

 

[Visionary]

I haven't watched them back to back, but I did watch them over a period of 3 days. One per day.

I can't say it changed my opinion of Spider-Man 3. The first two had a natural flow and were well structured. The third was just all over the place with it's plotlines. I still like it, it's not without it's merits, but getting it on DVD only re-affirmed that it's the weakest of the three, IMO.

The editing in SM1 was horrible, how can you call it well structured. People (especially you geeks) must have pointed out a 1000 movie mistakes with that flick? Now all of a sudden, it's well structured. I personally think SM1 was the worst structured of the three.

 

[The Joker]

The editing in SM1 was horrible, how can you call it well structured.

Because it was.

What was so horrible about it?

People (especially you geeks) must have pointed out a 1000 movie mistakes with that flick?

Well, I'm not one of them. And, you're a geek too, Oscar. So, don't use the word like you're speaking of something different to yourself.

7 years registered and frequenting a message board about superheros. You're an out and out GEEK!

 

[sean61675]

I've read all that in the comics. 90% of it is unnecessary to tell the story of the symbiote, and just would not translate well to screen.

The animated series story of it was perfect. Alien entity brought to earth from a space mission, finds it's way to Peter, Peter embraces his dark side, finally decides to get rid of it when he crosses a line, or nearly crosses a line.

Don't need Secret Wars and all that nonsense. As for your time frame of 3 years, none of the movies have stuck to the comic book time frame of events. They don't need to.



It really didn't though.

The symbiote story is not as complex or interesting as the Goblin story. Or as important for that matter.



I disagree.

I always found Venom to be an overrated villain, who as a character, has never amounted to anything other than a glorified stalker with a chip on his shoulder.

Even Sam Raimi, when he researched the character, said he found him to be very weak, and could not understand what the kids found so appealing about him.

Valid points. I think he was an interesting character when introduced and during McFarlane's run but got silly as the "Lethal Protector" but he was done so much better initially. I don't know, the way he was handled was about as cool as Bane was handled in Batman & Robin. So, if that is what Raimi thought, was he pressured into having Venom in the movie then?