I'm not a huge comic book fan. However, I've taken to the Spiderman series. Well, actually the only one I really cared about was 2. So I had somewhat high expectations going into 3.
What a mess.
I think the second movie did a good job in playing with our expectations of the characters. You need your rhythm thrown off to expand on something well known and you need to do this carefully. The third one was something I had hoped would do something similar.
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Two new villains and Franco finally teaming up with Toby seemed to be a little overbearing. The sloppiest piece was when Franco's butler tells Franco AFTER Franco practically goes insane for his father's death that it was his father's own doing that caused it, not Peter. I think everyone probably simultaneously thought outloud, "Why didn't you tell him beforehand?!?!!?!?!?!?!?!"
That said, I enjoyed this mostly for Toby acting like a jackass when he becomes Venom. I've said it before and I'll say it again: I'm Peter Parker. I play Spiderman at work, being the unappreciated hero, forced to wear a mask. On the outside, I'm some geeky guy that gets bad luck constantly and my Mary Jane is pretty much a self absorbed nutcase just like Peter's MJ. So naturally when I see Peter transform into a more stylish dickhead, I react positively thinking, "Hey, this is what I should be doing at work!" He's got some great one liners and him being antagonistic after Eddie Brock tries to screw him over his job at the Daily Planet, I was standing and clapping. I need to get some of that attitude myself and be more like Venom Peter, rather than Spidey Peter.
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