To this day, the Spider-Man 2 DVD is still one of the best DVDs that I own. Easily. I may own the film on Blu-Ray, but the DVD is still a beloved item of mine.
Anyway, the Doc Ock extras on the DVD are awesome. It's fascinating how they pulled off the special effects for his tentacles. In my opinion, the effects on him don't look dated ... And that's probably because a good portion of it was puppetry.
Great stuff.
More practical effects than I originally believed.
I wouldn't go that route, both series had amazing action scenes.
I love that fight and I don't care what other people think. Some really nice choreography. Black suit Peter gets slammed by most people for being goofy, but he did pumpkin bomb Harry - possibly thinking the guy had been killed, and walks away without a care in the world.
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, I think that Movie Bob's analysis of Spider-Man 3 sums it up well: Peter acting that way is cringe-inducing and embarrassing ... But it's supposed to be that way, because Peter (Black Suit or not) doesn't know what "cool" is. So, instead of seeing the charming dork/underdog we're used to seeing, we see an arrogant dork with no self-awareness. It's pretty clear to me that Raimi didn't want the audience to cheer for Black Suit Spidey, and so one can argue that he did too good of a job at making the audience hate him, if that makes sense. 
I also liked the opening scene with Peter in his civilian clothes against Harry. To me it's a perfect representation as to why I love the character so much. He has powers, but he's usually outmatched by the villains. But he somehow manages to get through it all. How he's web swinging like crazy, sustaining blows but doing enough to stay alive. Wall crawling on the damaged wall was cool, too.
Those are good points that you have made and that is certainly an interesting way of looking at it. You might be right. Sadly though, it does seem to me that Raimi and co thought those scenes would be much funnier than they were (they weren't funny at all IMO) and that was a bigger reason for them deciding to do them that way.I think that when Peter is under the influence of the symbiote, he's pretty ruthless when he's doing "Spider-Man stuff," like with that subway fight against Sandman and then his fight with Harry in the mansion. I think that if the movie had shown more of that stuff, then I think the more silly aspects wouldn't be as big of an issue for many people. I think it would have been cool to see Black Suit Spidey stop some d-lister criminals in an aggressive fashion (like the photos shown in the movie hinted).
As for Emo!Peter (I think of him as more of a Beatnik, personally
I thought the dancing stuff was incredibly cheesy ... But I thought it was funny, too. The reactions he gets from random women is what makes it for me. Clearly the movie was not telling the audience that Peter is "cool" now, haha. Now, would the movie have benefitted from adding some more scenes of Black Suit Spidey being ruthless to balance out the silly stuff a bit more? Most likely. I still don't hate all of the dancing stuff, though.
Sandman subway fight > Ock's bank fight.
