Hi-Res Version of New THE AMAZING-SPIDER MAN Teaser Poster

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Raimi! where art thou ?

All of Raimi’s Spider-Man movies weren’t that good. It’s really the perfect example of why you should get people who really understand the character/history to make the films and NOT someone that claims to be a big fan via having a Spider-Man on your wall when you were 10.

I could handle the first one for being a decent origin and plot (not to mention I was excited because he was just in the costume and not black leather), and the second one could be considered a great movie on its own. But it’s the combined films of the whole franchise, not to mention all of the GREAT comic book movies to spoil us since then, that show how poor they really were.

The biggest offender of Sam’s films is mis-casting the two leads. There is no excuse to have a HORRIBLE Peter Parker AND Mary Jane. Peter is a pretty happy nerd, albeit not happy with his life in general, but escapes and gets to be himself when he has the mask on. He jokes, he’s excited, he’s loving life. Tobey sounded bored all of the time. Mary Jane is an upbeat, fun, beautiful girl who doesn’t really let most things get to her, in fact the only thing between her and Peter that caused problems was her concern over his safety. Sam’s MJ is an okay-looking hyper bitch by the end of the third movie, not to mention her hair is only right in the first movie.

Don’t get me wrong, all of the other casted actors were PERFECT. Even if their outfits were questionable at times.

The villains were also handled in Sam’s own way, instead of paying real respect to the characters. Osbourne was probably the closest, but Norman never really had trouble giving into his insanity. He embraced it, it’s what made him fantastically evil. That’s a nitpick, I feel he was the best villain in all the films. Doc Ock was turned into an innocent bystander for seemingly no reason. New Goblin was total shit an uninspired (AMNESIAAAA~) though I enjoyed that he went good by the end. Sandman was made TOO sympathetic (I like him for being just a regular non-evil goon that got powers, but everything they did with his story is too much). The symbiote was handled clearly by people who didn’t care about how it worked and Venom was literally given NO lines until Topher Grace (a real fan) improvised scenes to do the character justice.

Every film has the same/similar plot. Spider-Man is all cool, Spider-Man wants MJ (to be with him/to be with him instead of getting married/to marry him) even though there are clearly better women elsewhere, Spider-Man wonders if what he’s doing is right, MJ wants to not be with Peter, Spider-Man saves MJ from the bad guy, 1-2 of the bad guys die at the end (Venom is up in the air, though since the series doesn’t matter anymore neither does this).

In fact now that SM3 was brought up let’s get into that for a moment. It’s THE perfect example of why Raimi, as much as I love him, was the WRONG choice for Spider-Man. It was the first time he and his brother was writing the script, instead of Sam just directing. Everyone likes to claim the STUDIOS made Raimi add Venom and that’s why it sucked. But let’s be clear, with the except of just the dancing scene, everything that made SM3 bad was in the script before the studio pushed for Venom over Vulture (A SMART MOVE).

1 – There was still 3 villains in a film that focused 80% on Peter and MJ’s relationship
2 – Sandman still killed Uncle Ben
3 – There was still a pointless love triangle in addition to all the villains where the choices were “Bitch that only cares about herself” and “Really cool girl that likes you for who you are”
4 – Peter still wanted to murder Sandman (except now without the excuse of having a symbiote on)

Sam always wanted to tell HIS story, not the story that was best for Spider-Man. At the time the first two moveis were good, but then Iron Man, The Dark Knight, and even The INcredible HUlk came out all in the same year and showed us what a comic book movie SHOULD be.

This franchise NEEDED a reboot, desperately. I am looking forward to this film.