Knize wins for reading my mind; worst comic book movie post X-men is absolutely Spider-man 3. Catwoman, Elektra, League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, and Ghost Rider are all awful, but there was no precedence for them to be great. Spider-man 3 came from two good movies and was still one of the worst movies ever.
Taken from my initial thoughts after seeing the movie:
Two years ago, and I'm still upset at what an atrocious movie it was.
Taken from my initial thoughts after seeing the movie:
-Bernard is a cock. He could have saved Harry and Peter a lot of misery if I'd opened up his miserable gob two movies ago.
-The entire symbiote thread of the movie is tacked on and pointless. No explanations for anything. And how did Venom learn so much about every single character? He knew about Flint's daughter, he knew about freakin' SPIDEY-SENSE, which are words that haven't even been uttered in the movies (that I recall). I guess you could argue that it was the symbiote that knew, but the movie could have maybe explained that (and a lot of other stuff) rather than have Dunst sing two songs and Peter go all Saturday Night Fever on us. There were repeated instances in the movie where they'd do something and not explain the how's and why's of it.
-The score was awful. Even Superman Returns had good music. Outside of the two times we got to hear Elfman's main theme, Christopher Young's score sounded like music out of bad Saturday morning cartoons.
-The way-too obvious foreshadowing of Harry saying he'd die for his friends. So of course we knew he was going to die. And the amnesia thing? More Deus Ex Machina to the rescue!
-No character development whatsoever. Three new characters, and Harry basically as a new character and not a single one of them was developed at all. When Sandman and Peter were crying together at the end I thought they were going to go out for drinks and have some makeup-sex. And Sandman's farewell? How can anyone watch that with a straight face? (But then, how can anyone watch most of this movie with a straight face?) Gwen had about three lines, which is a shame, because she was so amazing onscreen that she made Dunst look like a drowned rat.
-The really lame pose in front of the flag, coupled with the cheesy crowd reactions (that guy clapping and the wicked cool kids) had me rolling my eyes. The newscast was really retarded. During the third act, I found myself yawning as much as I was laughing because who could give a crap among all the ham?
-All the really retarded smartass kids, like the girl who was price gouging.
-Bruce Campbell was awesome, as was the kid who told spidey not to kiss Gwen.
I'm sure there's more, but I'm running on four hours of sleep.
This is definitely one of the worst comic movies ever.
Two years ago, and I'm still upset at what an atrocious movie it was.