Title: Spiderman 3 (I will call it S-3)
Director: Sam Raimi
Starring: Toby McGuire , Kirsten Dunst , James Franco
Story: The story of the web-slinger continues.
Bottomline: Makes "Superman Returns" look like Noddy's Toytown.
I have been wanting to write a blog for the previous Spidey movies. But alas never got the time. So here I start off with the first two movies to brush up your memories. So those of you who remember the first two movies skip to paragraph 3.
Spiderman:
Director: Sam Raimi
Starring: Toby McGuire , Kirsten Dunst , James Franco
Story: The story of the web-slinger continues.
Bottomline: Makes "Superman Returns" look like Noddy's Toytown.
I have been wanting to write a blog for the previous Spidey movies. But alas never got the time. So here I start off with the first two movies to brush up your memories. So those of you who remember the first two movies skip to paragraph 3.
Spiderman:
A bite from a irradiated spider gives high school teenager and geek Peter Parker (Toby McGuire) spider-like abilities. A series of events leads to Peter having an indirect hand in his uncle, Ben’s death. With his new found powers he decides to fight for justice and faces his first adversary The Green Goblin a.k.a Norman Osborne (played brilliantly by William Defoe), who is ironically the father of Harry Osborne (James Franco) Peter’s best friend. The first movie was a lot about Spiderman discovering himself as a superhero how he uses those powers for the good of mankind. He also makes a choice of not to express his love to his childhood sweetheart Mary Jane(Kirsten Dunst).A superb popcorn movie!!
Spiderman 2:
Spiderman 2:
Life has never been worse for Peter Parker as he juggles his two lives, that of Peter Parker, college student whose grades are declining, loses his part-time job and doesn’t even remember his birthday and the other of Spiderman who is haunted by bad press propagated by Daily Bugle editor Jonah Jameson ( a very lovable character played JK Simmons) where Peter works as a part-time photographer. In the meantime a nuclear fusion test in the city goes horribly wrong when the head scientist Dr Otto Octavius (played superbly by Alfred Molina I thought he would get a supporting actor nomination) attached to robotic arms which starts to control him. Enraged at his failure he decides to reconstruct his machine by robbin
g banks. Peter Parker meanwhile loses his girl to astronaut John Jameson, who is now dating Mary Jane. Irritated by his failure in life, he starts to lose his powers and makes a choice to become Spiderman no more. Unlike the first movie the second movie was more about Peter Parker rather than Spiderman. Spiderman in the lift scene and the fight in the train with Doctor Octavius is one of the best visual effects scene of that time. In this movie Harry Osborne, Mary Jane discover the identity of Spiderman. The movie ends on the note that Harry finds out his father was Green Goblin and decides to step into his shoes and Mary Jane breaks her engagement with John Jameson and joins with Peter Parker once again. I thought the movie would get an Best Film Oscar Nomination at least.
Spiderman 3:
First of all let me tell you where I saw this movie At the renovated and rocking new Sathyam cinema hall. The hall has been upgraded to a more snazzier look and looks a lot abstract in appearance with weirdly shaped ceiling lights.
Ok now to the movie. Spiderman 3 just as the previous movies continues the story of Peter Parker (for the first time superbly played by Toby McGuire). In S-3 Spiderman has everything he wanted, he’s got his girl Mary Jane, stands first in college and best of all is loved by the people of New York as Spiderman. All this popularity gets into his head and he sort of inflates his ego. At this a meteor shower in NY results in the arrival of symbiote from space, an ugly goo monster which has an uncanny resemblance to a Spider in the shadows. In a accident involving a crane atop a skyscraper ( a must-see action sequence) Spidey saves a Gwen Stacy (Bryce Dallas Howard) Peter’s lab partner and classmate. To complicate things he even receives a grateful kiss from her much to astonishment of Mary Jane in a ceremony conducted to honor Spiderman ( a very humorous sequence). The alien symbiote then clings onto Spidey’s outfit and results in the formation of a rocking black Spidey outfit.The new outfit amplifies Spidey’s more darker personality. Peter Parker then discovers that the actual killer of his uncle is Flint Marko aka The Sandman(Thomas Haden Church) who robs money from the bank to save his sick daughter.
Consumed by his thirst for revenge he attacks Sandman, and this shows in his character as admirably changes from a nerdy , timid guy to a flirty, hot blooded youngster(that club sequence where he dan
ces is simply awesome and humorous). Later in the storyline comes Venom who is actually Eddie Brock(Topher Grace) a competition to Peter in the newspaper photographer.
The story suggestatively shows that Peter and Eddie live parallel lives and Venom is Spidey’s opposite or his anti.
Other than this is Harry Osborne (James Franco in a brilliant finale to his character) who is out revenge and steps into his father’s shoes as The New Goblin .
Loaded in this complex movie are some heart-stopping action sequences especially the climax. The editing looks sloppy in places. The movie is much more humorous. A welcome change indeed. The movie could have been good with a little less number of villains and little less complexity. The movie is complex certainly, and that shows in the mixed critical reaction the movie has received. Overall a rocking movie and which is a must-watch movie for your summer. Can’t wait for Spiderman 4(if it has the same cast).
Rating: 7.8/10
g banks. Peter Parker meanwhile loses his girl to astronaut John Jameson, who is now dating Mary Jane. Irritated by his failure in life, he starts to lose his powers and makes a choice to become Spiderman no more. Unlike the first movie the second movie was more about Peter Parker rather than Spiderman. Spiderman in the lift scene and the fight in the train with Doctor Octavius is one of the best visual effects scene of that time. In this movie Harry Osborne, Mary Jane discover the identity of Spiderman. The movie ends on the note that Harry finds out his father was Green Goblin and decides to step into his shoes and Mary Jane breaks her engagement with John Jameson and joins with Peter Parker once again. I thought the movie would get an Best Film Oscar Nomination at least.Spiderman 3:
First of all let me tell you where I saw this movie At the renovated and rocking new Sathyam cinema hall. The hall has been upgraded to a more snazzier look and looks a lot abstract in appearance with weirdly shaped ceiling lights.
Ok now to the movie. Spiderman 3 just as the previous movies continues the story of Peter Parker (for the first time superbly played by Toby McGuire). In S-3 Spiderman has everything he wanted, he’s got his girl Mary Jane, stands first in college and best of all is loved by the people of New York as Spiderman. All this popularity gets into his head and he sort of inflates his ego. At this a meteor shower in NY results in the arrival of symbiote from space, an ugly goo monster which has an uncanny resemblance to a Spider in the shadows. In a accident involving a crane atop a skyscraper ( a must-see action sequence) Spidey saves a Gwen Stacy (Bryce Dallas Howard) Peter’s lab partner and classmate. To complicate things he even receives a grateful kiss from her much to astonishment of Mary Jane in a ceremony conducted to honor Spiderman ( a very humorous sequence). The alien symbiote then clings onto Spidey’s outfit and results in the formation of a rocking black Spidey outfit.The new outfit amplifies Spidey’s more darker personality. Peter Parker then discovers that the actual killer of his uncle is Flint Marko aka The Sandman(Thomas Haden Church) who robs money from the bank to save his sick daughter.
Consumed by his thirst for revenge he attacks Sandman, and this shows in his character as admirably changes from a nerdy , timid guy to a flirty, hot blooded youngster(that club sequence where he dan
ces is simply awesome and humorous). Later in the storyline comes Venom who is actually Eddie Brock(Topher Grace) a competition to Peter in the newspaper photographer.The story suggestatively shows that Peter and Eddie live parallel lives and Venom is Spidey’s opposite or his anti.
Other than this is Harry Osborne (James Franco in a brilliant finale to his character) who is out revenge and steps into his father’s shoes as The New Goblin .
Loaded in this complex movie are some heart-stopping action sequences especially the climax. The editing looks sloppy in places. The movie is much more humorous. A welcome change indeed. The movie could have been good with a little less number of villains and little less complexity. The movie is complex certainly, and that shows in the mixed critical reaction the movie has received. Overall a rocking movie and which is a must-watch movie for your summer. Can’t wait for Spiderman 4(if it has the same cast).
Rating: 7.8/10
