Other then the change in costume the Green Goblin was really the same as he was in the comic. Another problem was he is unmasked way to much. I only read more recent comics and in those and the cartoon Doc Oc seemed much more evil then in the movie. Spoilers ahead. Why you ask. In the movie Spider-Man succedes in reasoning with Doc Oc. In the comic he did similar things but never seemed to listen to reason. Like all good villians do. The comics made a big deal about keeping Spider-Mans identiy secret. Here the question is now in Spider-Man 3 how many people don't know is identiy. He gets unmasked in front of a bunch of people on a train. Plus the comic book Spider-Man would never ever ever ever ever ever in his right mind willingly take off his mask in front of a villian. That was just painful. I like the first movie more overall. The second movie is still a very good comic book movie but X-men 2 is still my favorite comic book movie.