I really like the first Spidey movie. My only pet peeves with it are the Green Goblin’s suit, Kirsten Dunst, and the organic webshooters.
May I ask what bothers you about these things? The organic web-shooters were an interesting thing that I forgot to mention in my post. I actually prefer the webs being biological over the plot device ridden mechanical ones from the comics (“I’m out of webbing!”). I also really like the Green Goblin suit. I feel it captures the comic book feel while also making sense within the story context. And I already mentioned that I think Kirsten Dunst did a fine job.
I’m less taken with Spider-Man 2 – I prefer the egomaniacal Doc Ock from the comics, thank you very much –
I prefer Alfred Molina’s wonderful performance to any old bowl cut, thank you very much. 😉
and Spider-Man 3 is an interesting failure.
“Awful” in the words of Raimi. I think the biggest issue is that because 2 capped off the character arcs so well, it would’ve been impossible to make a third film feel like a natural continuation like 2 was. Everything had to go down hill for a new conflict to work out. Then of course is the real reason it sucked; the studio forced Raimi to work with Venom being shoe-horned in even though he didn’t care for the character. Bruce Campbell’s cameo was as wonderful as ever though. 😄