What are you talking about?
SM2 was considered one of the best films alongside X2, Begins and V For Vendetta at the time.
The 3rd film was a drop of literally 26 points and 30% off critic scores and was insanely hated.
MOS was split like TASM but the audience score is positive (while being kinda divisive), Spider-Man 3 is not.
I agree about TASM2 and BvS.
I'm wasn't talking about audience and critics scores . I was talking about the first reactions of
fans in real time not looking at accumulated scores of reviews over the past two decades.
I'm talking from the point of view of someone who was 28 when the film came out, and actually remembers the
first reactions to the film were in the first weeks among fans.
When SM3 was first released , i.e the first couple of weeks, the fan response was more split, and when I use the term split I don't mean divisive. I mean that, some people felt one way, other people felt another.
It was certainly split here on these boards
which I was actually on in real time in 2007. You may not have been around here then, so you may not have known or remembered that.
It never got to the point that films like MOS did in terms of intensity of divisions. Some thought it was overall fine with flaws, others, like myself, thought it was just plain bad.
Heck, you can go back to old you tube videos from around the time the film was released and see that the reaction was more mixed. No one claimed it was the best film.
It wasn't long however that a consensus formed that the film was bad. Again, there's a difference between initial reactions of something in real time and a consensus that builds over time.
I agree with you on SM2 , X2 , etc ., because , again, I was an adult then, saw those films in theaters, and saw them when those films were praised ,so you're not telling me anything I don't already know or remember.
MOS and TASM
are more comparable since they were both reboots made in the same context, both made split fans over the visions of their characters and tones of their films.
Though, I concede the divide over MOS was much stronger with Superman fans than the divide with Spiderman fans over TASM was.
I agree with you the SM3 was not divisive in terms of reaction, which is why I consider ASM and MOS the more comparable films.