Ok so over the past few months I have seen a number of movies at theaters all were pretty good they included Spiderman 3 (as stated in a previous post), Fantastic Four 2: Rise of the Silver Surfer, Ocean's 13 and finally Transformers. I personally thought all of them were good even though many people say that Spiderman 3was horribleand that Fantastic Four 2 was even worse they really weren't that bad, so lets start off with the first of these movies I saw (oh yeah there will be spoilers):

In my personal opinion you should not trust what the critics were saying about this movie I thought it was a good movie, butby far the weakest of the three Spiderman movies. Itstill had the feeling of the other spiderman movies but it still fell under the curse of having too many villians in one movie. So basically this moviehad a lot going for it while having clear faults with it. First I will go through the positives there were some great action sequences especially the ones with Spidey going against the Sandman that had great graphics and sequences. Next there was the plot which actually made a lot of sense to me Peter wanting revenge and the symbiote feeding off of that making his actionsmore extreme. These scenes with Peter lookingdark were actually comedy points whichI found hillarious with the crazy dancing and theflirting, showing the effects of the symbiote.Next thecharacters and the actors playing them weregoodas a whole with oneexception, but that will be saved for later. Starting with the main man Bruce Capbell of course, playing a FrenchMatridee turning into another hillarious scene but what is Spiderman without him in the movie. Now on to Peter Parker or Tobey Maguire who once again seemed to do a very good job being Peter Parker again. Bryce Howard was a very good Gwen Stacy she really fit the part and made you want Peter to get together with her instead of Mary Jane. Finally there is Topher Grace playing Eddie Brock and Venom of course and I have to say he was really good playing the roleas Spiderman's Arch-villian. There was much speculation around Topher Playing EddiesBrock because Eddie was supposed to have abody builder's body but Topher Grace wasskinny but to me it worked very well because what body builder would bea photographer and it also worked because he was so similar to Peter buthe let Venom take over him.

The story went a little like this Peter is planing on proposing to Mary Jane but as he isriding hisscooter he is intercepted by the New Goblin aka Harry Osborn bent on revenge forPeter killing his father. However Peter is able to beat him but Harry ends up in the hospital with amnesia not remembering that Peter is Spiderman only remembering that Peter ishis best friend. Next it is found out that Flint Marko had actullay killed Peter's uncle and had escaped police custody, but unknown to Peter is that after escaping Flint is turned into Sandman. Eventually Peter resolves to ask Mary Jane to marry him at a French Resturant however due to her jelousy at Peter's success and her sudden failure at acting she ends up storming off after Gwen Stacy walks in talking about how Spiderman had saved her and that Peter is really helping her in school. The incident where Spiderman saved the day was when a run away crane basically knocks down the building (not really) Gwen is working in, which is where we meet Eddie Brock afree lance photographer, like Peterwho is trying to get the pictures of Spiderman. Petereventually gets soangry about Flint Marko he goes to his apartment where the symbiote that had landed on earth is following and feeding off his emotions him andlatches onto him in his sleep where Peter wakes up later not in his apartment but on a skyscrapper. Somehow Harry gets his memories back and kiddnaps Mary jane and tells her that if she doesn't break up with Peter, Harry will kill him so she does. Once Peter finds out about Harry's involvement, by a cool scene in a dinner, Peter allows theblack suit to take over andtakes revenge on Harry, thus difiguring him. Eventually J Jonah Jameson puts Peter and Eddie on the task to get the photo that ruins Spiderman,Eddie seemingly gets it but turns out to be a fake with Eddie being fired and blacklisted. Eventually the suit takes over Peter so much that he wears it all the time under his clothes and it affects his emotions and actions, eventually leading to a big dance number and Peter hitting Mary Jane. After this fiasco Peter goes to the church where the sounds of the bells disperse the Symbiote however Eddie is at the same church asking God for help in destroying Peter for making him lose his job but as he leaves he is taken over by the symbiote and becomes Venom.

Eventually Venom teams up with Sandman to take down Spiderman by first kidnapping MJ. Well Sandman turns into a giant sand creature and takes on Spiderman while Venom taunts and attacks Spiderman, all hope seems lost until the New Goblin appears and helps Spiderman. The reason for Harry's change of heart is that his butler informs him how his father really died so Harry basically takes down Sandman with some bombs which left Venom, however Venom was able to grab the New Goblin's board and deal a death blow on Harry. Peter would have faced the same end if it wasn't for some well placed pipes/sound from the pipesthat weaken Venom enough for Peter to pull Eddie from it. However once trapped in sound Peter throughs one of the Goblin's bombs in while Eddie jumps back in to reclaim Venom, seemingly killing them both. In the end Peter gets back together with MJ and Harry does die and Sandman explains that he didn't mean to kill Uncle Ben as he floats away in the wind.

Now that I have explained all that I need to get to what I didn't like so much about this movie. First there was Venom, which I did like but there were aspects of him I thought could be better. 1) There was no reference to his name at all. 2) He wasn't introduced until the very end wher he could have easily been a one villian movie. 3) He wasn't the main villian Eddie Brock Venom is a main villian if they wanted to use Venom put him in a movie as the only villian. 4) They never made him appear to be the anti-spiderman he really is. 5) They killed him off where they could have easily made a spin-off of only Venom being a villian or when he became a hero, or kept him alive for another Spider-man movie. 6) THe same bomb that only scarred Harry at close range, managed to decimate Eddie and Venom (although not all of it was destroyed there was still a tiny bit of it left) come on! I just thought they could have done Venom a lot better or at least gave him a little more respect. Ok I really liked the movie and the actors except I thought one could have been better, who was it, none other than Kirsten Dunst (MJ) who to me did a lot better in the first two and wasn't believable. However it could have been the way she was written for this movie making her whine all the time a being jelous of Peter, being famous,which is just stupid, I don't know whose fault it was but it could have been a combination of writing and acting that set me off there. Finally I thought the movie should have been longer because there was just too much to fit into it that you missed too much, which is why they should have done one at most two villians because the third made it seem a little jumpy. So basically it was too much to fit in one movie. Well that is all I rate the movie a 4 out of 5 because it was very good but it was lacking in some important areas. The other reviews will be comming soon.