Crusader said:
Meinos Kaen said:
What they've done to Gwen Stacy in Spider-Man 3. AAAAAAAAAAARGH!
The good thing about the reboot will be that THERE'S NO TRACE OF MARY JANE but there is Gwen.
Didn't Joe Quesada and J. Michael Straczynski ruin Gwen Stacy already even though it was never really what Straczynski intended?
IIRC, they confirmed her to be a whore that slept with Norman Osborn while seeing Peter and, therefore, retroactively removed all the tragedy from her death.
On the movie deaths, Doc Octopus's was actually well done. Basically, he was just a scientist that ended up going psycho-crazy due to having pseudo-sentient robotic arms fused to his spine. However, killing off villains got old when it was being done in the first Batman movie series.
On the plus side, you don't have to deal with the Joker escaping Arkham and putting the city in critical danger every other movie.
What pisses me off is the escalating number of villains that'll appear in movies. One is perfect; two can work if they're a team, and not two villains that decide to team up. Three... you're pushing it. Now, considering that they start out the first movie with the most antagonistic of the heroe's foes, then work their way down, you're going to have a lot of weaksauce villains to deal with in later titles, hence bogging down the movie with more major villains. And really, there's no reason for this, given some characters' villain galleries.
For Spider-Man 3 (I haven't summed up the courage or mental fortitude to watch it from the beginning, just because some of that stuff embarrassed
me and I wasn't doing anything there)., Eddie Brock/Venom should have been the only villain to deal with, seeing as how utterly challenging it is for Spidey to deal with such a foe that is not only stronger, faster and better than you, your superpowers can't detect him, and the absolute worse thing -- he knows who you really are, and has all the power in the world to completely fuck up your life from the inside out.
Who
wouldn't have shelled out twice to see that movie?
Unfortunately, the third movie was about Harry falling into line with the Green Goblin get-up, which somehow ties in the Sandman, Spidey getting an alien suit that's trying to take over his mind and body, apparently wrecks his relationship with Mary Jane, and then having to fight the suit who's possessing Eddie Brock, the guy that blames you for ruining his life and wants blood.
I'm fairly certain the movie painted Eddie Brock as a 2D, run-of-the-mill mini-boss, given how utterly disbelieving his death was at the end. Kind of like how Bane went from being the unstoppable monster that broke
the goddamn Batman's back to a faceless, tertiary, Jay Cutler-wannabe elite mook that didn't even have speaking lines.
And therefore, any thoughts of the movie being "good" went flying out the window facefirst while wearing a straitjacket.
It's just not cool to have so many major villains together on screen unless their stories have already been explored once and we're just making a villainy collab to ruin the hero once and for all (Sinister Six). If Spidey had to face off against Doom at some point in his movie, that whole damn should, in fact, revolve around Spidey and Doctor Doom alone, not Spidey vs Deadpool, Cardiac, and Doctor Doom, where hes's just pissed with you for interrupting his plans of using Deadpool for... something.
