Very true about Lizard's not acting creepy enough. His design was very good (except for the lack of lab coat most of the time). But he didn't come off as intimidating as he should.
Everything outside of Peter and Gwen in this movie is an absolute mess. The movie begins by giving us the classic two antagonist situation. We have Dr.Connors to is set up to be sympathetic, tragic villain and Ratha who on in his entrance gives Peter a look that makes the audience just hate him without saying on word. He represented true evil in the movie and the fact they cut him out was absolutely ludicrous!
If you ask me if Webb goes to franchise needs to be rebooted again, because they're already so many people involved with production that need to go.
#1. James Vanderbilt, needs to go. What the bad place was that? If I turned that script into one of my professors as an assignment I'd get a C tops.
#2. James Horner, needs to go. He's done some great scores but what the bad place was that? That was probably the worst superhero score I've ever heard it was so melodramatic and cartoonish.
#3. Alan Edward Bell, needs to go. He edited the movie and he cut out the most important parts. I don't care if he was told or being payed to do that, because it was also very choppy in the normal transitions.
#4.Avi Arad, needs to stop abusing his power. Studios make movie possible, they give the funds obviously they're going to get their hands dirty in making sure that certain things go their way. But this guy panders more than John Kerry! Okay he did a good thing giving Spider-Man organic web shooters but was it important to the movie? No! So why on earth, was it so prominently featured in the trailer!? We get it, we wanted webshooters and we got em, we don't need you to wave them around in front of us screaming look at me! Also he put Venom in Spider-Man 3 which has to be the stupidest request I can think of, other than maybe saying put Carnage in there too. Also I believe he has something to do with why the editors are on this list.
#5. Marc Web, Okay the story sucked, the movie was edited badly. The score was not great, but he gave it charm. Seriously the only thing this movie has going for it are its cast and it's charm. Some of the best scenes in the movie were the ones with no or little dialogue. Peter's introduction in high school, Peter discovering his powers on the subway, Peter trying to ask Gwen out, Peter being happy about Gwens answer and his powers skateboarding by himself, Peter telling Gwen he's Spider-Man. It was things like this that made the movie something more than mediocre and for him not to come back would be a major blow. He made some mistakes but he's made his first blockbuster and now it's his time to shine.
The cast was great and theres not much more to say about them other than that.
Just my two cents, this movie was good, but taking out web is not the answer to get something better.
