Spider-man 3 Thread

[Apollo Leader]

I decided I'm going to pick up some tickets for a Friday evening showing at one of the biggest screens here in Omaha... unfortunately they weren't doing a midnight showing there! But that's okay since that will save me a vacation day or personal time.

Can't wait for next Friday!

[bandit29]

Any chance of a Red Foreman cameo? "you dumb ass".

I'll check this out next week for sure.

Edited April 26, 2007 by dejr8bud

[Mog]

Yeah, I'm shooting for a midnight and morning/noontime showing too.

I think I'm gonna be "sick" on Friday, 5/4.

(Actually, I requested the day off awhile back.)

[Renato]

I'm gonna see it on the 1st or 2nd, nya-hah!

http://www.sonypictures.jp/movies/spider-man3/index.html

[SpacePirateNeko]

new weta bust from spiderman 3

[pfunk]

this may have been said before, but a radio station around here said that U2 is doing the soundtrack and its going to be a type of musical

[GutsAndCasca]

new weta bust from spiderman 3

No doubt that looks cool. But color it red and it's that carnage fellow.

[kanedaestes]

this may have been said before, but a radio station around here said that U2 is doing the soundtrack and its going to be a type of musical

Correction U2 is making a musical for broadway about Spiderman

[David Hingtgen]

Carnage is decidedly skinnier than Venom, and lacks distinct teeth. And almost always (always?) has tendrils emanating from his "skin".

[CoryHolmes]

Carnage is decidedly skinnier than Venom, and lacks distinct teeth.

Which describes exactly how that bust looks in relation to the "real" Venom.

[bsu legato]

The saddest part of this discussion is that Venom was never really that great of a character to begin with. I'll take Sam Raimi's aesthetics over Todd McFarlane any day.

[David Hingtgen]

Which describes exactly how that bust looks in relation to the "real" Venom.

Not skinny enough IMHO, and still has distinct teeth. They're a lot smaller than we usually see, but he clearly has red gums and white teeth. Carnage simply has "black spikey parts hanging from below where his nose would be".

[azrael]

And as a point of reference, The "classic" version of Carnage:

[GutsAndCasca]

Yeah, and look at that buffed-out venom in the upper left.

[Gaijin]

This reeks of the hands are too small thing before...you guys are never happy eh?

[eugimon]

This reeks of the hands are too small thing before...you guys are never happy eh?

nope, that's what macrossworld is all about. find the most trivial detail and whine and moan about childhoods raped and pillaged.

[Macross73]

this may have been said before, but a radio station around here said that U2 is doing the soundtrack and its going to be a type of musical

heard the same here. Why bother making this a musical?

Who really wants to see Spidey singing at all?

[David Hingtgen]

Better than seeing him dance! (I will NOT link to "that" .gif, someone else will have to)

[chowyunskinny]

Saw it tonight

Venom is more than just a cameo.

Funny thing is, I don't think they ever call him Venom in the movie.

Spoiler

Venom's appearance doesn't seem to be a setup for him to be featured more in a 4th movie. The ending definitely seems to have closure, but you never know

oh and yes the movie rocked!

I liked it the best out of the 3 and had no problem with the way Venom looked. Thought his origin was a good nod to the original comic origin with details a little different but with more of the Ultimate Spiderman Venom physique

Edited May 2, 2007 by chowyunskinny

[Guppy]

Saw it tonite too.. twas good! Liked 2 better. I've come to think that in every superhero trilogy franchise the 2nd film is gonna be the best. 1st film, gotta waste lots of time setting up the character/s. 2nd film you're free to do any story you like, obviously it will be the best/most popular. 3rd film has to be bigger and pack more in than #2 so it gets episodic and OTT.

But back on topic, I like venom lots. I found it a bit odd how spidey's black symobiote costume was just a costume and not a smooth alien coating his body. I guess the CGI looked too CGI if spidey was totally smooth.

And the best bits are always the Sam Raimi touches.

[Apollo Leader]

A blast from the past -

The "real" Spider-man movie! Make sure to watch the Director's Cut at the end!

[chrono]

The saddest part of this discussion is that Venom was never really that great of a character to begin with. I'll take Sam Raimi's aesthetics over Todd McFarlane any day.

Venom/Brock has been Spidey's best villian, with only Goblin/Osborn being either First or at least tied. Every other villian is straight campy filler without direct relation, with only Felica/Blackcat being except.

SM3 has just too many characters to juggle & look well doing it.

[Chewie]

While the guys on this forum will tear this movie down brick by brick, I liked it and it was a good "close" to the saga.

While the movie origin is crap, Venom was done really well imho.

[Shmitty]

Saw it last night at the premiere. I really liked it, but that's not to say it didn't have its fair share of problems. As everyone pointed out before it came out, it ended up being that there really was too much stuff they tried to cram into it. The plot is kind of all over the place. But it's still Spider-man, and its still lots of fun and has good drama. Also, the action is fantastic.

[Roy Focker]

Okay they hired a ton of models/actress to be extras for the musical montage but did you notice they decided to kept using them after that point? Like they ran the ugly girls out of town or something.

[Mog]

To all the naysayers........you were right.

I think the movie had a bad case of "sequel-itis." They tried to make everything bigger, more elaborate, more characters, more comedy bits, just more of everything.

Case in point: the whole Disco Parker scene and elaborate dance bit at the jazz bar.

As one of my buddies pointed out, there's definitely a good movie or two in the plot and set-up. But there was just too much crammed into this one movie.

Part of me wishes they had focused the film more on the overall revenge theme and then edited out a good chunk of the extraneous fluff.

A few good things though:

* Harry's wickedly, f'd-up revenge plan and Petey's cold-ass response brought some devilish grins on my face.

* "'nuff said." (Total fanboy moment, but still cool.)

* Gotta love the late-night crowd in Hollywood: SPOILER -

When MJ kisses Harry, people in the audience screamed out "WHORE!!"

[bsu legato]

Venom/Brock has been Spidey's best villian,

No, no he hasn't.

[eugimon]

saw it this afternoon.. it was pretty good, but it felt like a LOT was cut out in editing. The action sequences were great, they went all out animating spidey and sandman looks pretty good... ILM sure has come a long way since the "Mummy"

The ending felt a little hollow for me, I was expecitng a more solid conclusion given all the talk that this would be the last spiderman movie, but I guess if there's more coming it's not so bad.

[areaseven]

No, no he hasn't.

+1 on that. Vulture and Scorpion were better villains than both Venom and Carnage.

[Roy Focker]

Venom is only 20 years old his is more of a modern fanboy villian to me. If this movie makes enough there will be sequel.

[Ladic]

loved it, venom was really well done. and Bruce campbell had the best cameo out of the 3 films.

[Ladic]

Venom/Brock has been Spidey's best villian, with only Goblin/Osborn being either First or at least tied. Every other villian is straight campy filler without direct relation, with only Felica/Blackcat being except.

SM3 has just too many characters to juggle & look well doing it.

I agree, Spidey has probably had the lamest bunch of supervillains in comics. Venom was one of the few saving graces.

Mysterio, Vulture, Scorpion, Chamelon, yuck!

[takatoys]

I saw it and the movie is great.

Although there are too many plots and villians, the movie manages to give them equal importance.

I will have to see it again. I am still not sure which one is better, spiderman 2 or 3.

[Apollo Leader]

Saw it this evening. Loved it! Will see again soon. Besides Bruce Campbell, make sure to watch for the scene where Stan Lee talks to Peter. One more movie needs to be made so Dr. Connor can finally become the Lizard and Peter and Mary Jane can finally get married.

[Shmitty]

Ok, I just got back from my second screening, and I'm not gonna lie. I can't explain it and I really don't know what happened, but everything that had disappointed me in the first time through didn't bother me anymore and I absolutely loved it.

No questions asked- LOVED it. I don't know what to tell you guys, maybe go see it again?