SpiderMan 3 – Excelsior? May 7, 2007
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Like tens of millions of people around the globe this past weekend, I found myself in a theatre watching SpiderMan 3.
The black suit is no stranger for me though. I remember very well when i first read SpiderMan #252 when spidey first puts on the suits in his own title and i remember very well the Secret Wars Issue when he first finds the suit (or the suit finds him). I still own pristine mint copies of both books too.
That the suit can bend its wearer to evil is true to the comic – but of course comic book timelines are MUCH MUCH longer than a movie (though spidey 3 was WAY too long).
The Evil Spidey vs. Good Spidey contrast in the movie reminded me more of how SuperMan 3 treated good SuperMan vs Bad Superman than the way the story unfolded all those years ago in the pages of marvel comics.
In the theatre that I was at, there was plenty of laughter when MJ breaks up with Peter Parker and he starts to cry…and plenty of laaughter when ‘evil’ peter sports his flock of seaguls haircut to indicate he’s different.
Not sure if Sam Raimi intended for people to laugh..this movie isn’t a comedy after all.
Cheesy moments galore in this flic, but lots of good ones too.
Stan Lee (creator of SpiderMan) himself makes a (very) brief appearance, saying something like..’..one man can make a difference if he is the right man. Nuff Said.’
Not quite Stan.
If I had scripted your line i would have added one more word to sum this all up..
EXCELSIOR!!!
Show Me SciFi 
Too much drama, not enough action/sex!
I’m sorry, but this flim blows. (8+(
I’ve got a full review of it on my own blog, so anyone interested enough can go and check it out, but it just sucked.