Um, it's opening weekend of Spidey 3 and we have our second Dr. Who frontpage inside of a week? And the third one inside of two? Really? C'mon!

I loved this movie - yeah, the last 20 minutes were a bit too hokey, but overall, I thought it was excellent - totally enjoyed it. I thought the buildup to Brock becoming Venom was really well done. Like NWM said, the actual Venom part was a bit rushed, but up until that point it was great. I think that they handled the Gwen part nicely - giving MJ another reason to be down on herself and adding to her jealously of Peter on a different level - both jealous of his success and of another woman - that angle worked for me and I liked that it was Gwen and not some random character.

Loved the action scenes!!! The fight between Peter and Harry in the penthouse was awesome! The audience fucking lost its mind (I love opening night audiences - they are the real fans... LOL) during that scene. The scene in the jazz club and dark-Pete dancing around the streets had everyone cracking up. Hysterical.

Would totally see this again.


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I think Raimi just wanted to do the venom story,




actually Raimi hates Venom and didn't want to use him at all. He was talked into it by Avi Arad.

I think I'll wait for dvd on this one. it doesn't have that "must see" feel to it.



That makes as much sense to me...I can't believe everyone liked the Venom stuff so much. I thought it was the weakest part of the film.


Venom was actually one of the better handled parts of the film, in the build up at least, it was just the actual Venom bit itself that was rushed (but maybe that was because Raimi did not want Venom in the movie).

The rivalry with Brock and Parker was great, and really gave Brock motivation for becoming Venom.
His character was also well thought out and was almost the mirror opposite of Parker (even more so than when Parker was Dark-Parker).



Agreed on all of NWM's above points.

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I do find it funny though that they cast a blonde to play red head MJ, and a red head to play blonde Gwen!



Yeah, I noticed that too! Gwen is soooooo much prettier than MJ...


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Yeah I thought the same thing with that Butler!



Yeah, when he's like, "I've seen many things in this household...."

It was like, why the fuck didn't you say anything before? Is the butler a comic book character or a character created for the movie? I'm only a sporadic reader of Spidey, so I don't know.

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There was defo some inconsistancy in how MJ acted like Peter was selfish, but was being selfish herself.
She ignored him, and wondered why he then blew her off when she came to see him.
Then of course she goes running to her ex.




I disagree. She wasn't ignoring him - everytime she tried to talk to him, he didn't listen and turned it around and made it about himself. Then he publicly uses "their kiss" in a publicity stunt with Gwen knowing full well that she was watching and doesn't think that she's going to be upset and pissed? No. I totally got where MJ was coming from here.

When she finds out about Uncle Ben's murderer still being out there (a bit forced as was the forgiveness of Flint in the end), she puts aside her anger because she loves Peter and realizes that he needs her - nothing selfish about putting aside her hurt to be there for him. The whole thing made sense.

Speaking about running to her ex - gah! The whole Harry fucking with Pete's head was fucked up! LOL Franco did a really good job with that.

Oh, and Bruce Campbell rocks! When he looks at the ring and he taps the micro diamond and says with that fake French accent, "oh, hello there" like, you're so tiny I had to actually search to find you! Awesome. One of the funniest scenes in the movie.


Dear, sweet Harley Kwink...I'm madly in love with you. Marry me! We can go to Canadia. Or Boston or something. It'll be grand...You know the cookies are a given. They are ALWAYS a given. You could dump me tomorrow and you'd still get the cookies. Boston..shit, wherever dyke weddings were legalized. And where better to rub their little piggie noses in how bad they suck than right on their doorstep? What are they gonna do? Be jealous of you? Stare furiously at your tah-tahs? Not willingly give you cookies, but instead begrudgingly give you their cookies? Woman, time to wake up to the powers you wield - Uschi