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You've been feeding us WALNUTS!?!?!?

One of the all time great moments from Taxi. What's better? The look

on Jim's face after the brownie or Gordon after the lava lamp?

// posted by Chuck @ 11/02/2007 02:16:00 PM

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After the Rental: Spider-Man 3

Exhausted from following the plot While the first two films in the

series were good (the first bordered on great), this one seemed to

suffer from a director, Sam Raimi, who knew this was his last film in

the series and the last for the cast in the series. What does a guy in

that position do? Get every last thing possible squeezed into the

film.

Bad idea.

What a total, absolute, mess. This film challenges The Big Sleep for

convoluted plot and has so many characters crammed into it that it

makes the Edens Expressway feel empty.

Uusually it's the jeans taht are painted on The need for Venom in the

film escapes me. Couldn't Venom have infected Spider-Man and kept

infecting him all through the film to make a bridge to Spider-Man 4?

That would have eliminated 2 characters (Venom and Eddie Brock) and

tightened up the plot quite a bit. And the idea to have him team up

with Sandman at the end to defeat Spider-Man? So clich�. Oh, and

haven't we seen the Sandman before? He looked just like the CGI Arnold

Vosloo in "The Mummy." (Maybe Patricia Velasquez would have perked

this film up)

Then, they add Gwen Stacy to make a love triangle for Peter/Spider-Man

and Mary Jane (is that a love square). But, there's already a love

triangle, make that a pentagon, with Peter/Spider-Man, Mary Jane, and

Harry Osborne/New Green Goblin. Was Gwen really necessary? Nope.

Tobey McGuire spends enough time crying for this film to have a slot

booked for it on Lifetime. Was Kristen Dunst talking about Mary Jane

or herself when she said she "wasn't very good" as an actress?

What made the first two films so good were the quiet moments where you

felt that there were real people behind the comic book situations.

That's part of what made Batman Begins so good. In this film, Sam

Raimi tried to do that and failed. What we got were forced scenes with

Aunt May walking in to Peter's apartment, saying a few more "I

believe" lines, and walking out. And Mary Jane and Harry dumping

omelets on the floor.