I agree with pretty much everything Steph said, as stated above, but I think I enjoyed the bloaty mess less.

It was a very bad sign when the times that Peter Parker cried, the audience burst out in gaffaws...really long gaffaws . I'm thinking, not what the filmmakers had in mind. The multiple incidence of a. single. tear. breaking free and coursing down his cheek were just cheese on a stick.

I agree totally with the little Nicky hairstyle analysis. Though my first thought was Peter!Patrelli!

There was just too much going on. Too many contrived 'jeepers!' moments and far, far too little depth.

And, as with the first two, I kept thinking to myself jeez, this is the worst cgi I've ever seen. Saturday morning cartoons look more realistic.

There were very few emotional notes in Spiderman 3 that worked for me. The ones where the acting and writing didn't make me want to scream had been so foreshadowed that there was still pain there.

I'm guessing that I'm supposed to think well of Pete and Harry's rekindled friendship, but I found it insanely creepy and Pollyannaish. I'm not sure what I was supposed to feel for Dark Petey, because although some people in the film recoiled at the fragrant cheese, it also fucking WORKED from time to time. Which? Hell the fuck no.

I agree with all of Steph's kudos, except with a James Franco caveat for the scenes mentioned in my preceding paragraph. Bruce Campbell, who has an ability to annoy me (no matter how much I like him in some stuff, he seems in love with his cool theses days) was freaking MAGIC. I did love him to pieces.

Oh, and I hate Ted Raimi. Never seen him play a character I didn't want taken outside and pistol-whipped.

I had a similar recoil to PetenHarry together again... considering it was based on a pretty self-serving lie.

And then! When the butler finally, and oh so conveniently turns Harry's seething rage of a thousand stubborn bulls into gosh! he really IS my bud. Couldn't he have maybe mentioned that before?

I enjoyed dark!Peter, but mostly because Maguire seemed to be having great fun with it. It made it fun to watch for me.

The whole butler thing made me roll my eyes forever. LAME.

Basically, the movie had too much dudes crying. and not enough snarky dialogue.

What trailers did you guys see before Spiderman 3? We got an extremely emo one about some guy called Jude starring Marilyn Manson's new GF (Rachel Evan Wood? I worry I mess one of her names up), PotC3, Shrek3, HPIV, and some one about surfing penguins. The room couldn't have been flatter after the Jude one, and this is a group that was fired up playing some weird video game onscreen instead of watching ads. Well, the game wasn't weird--it was that standard one with the bat at the bottom of the screen and the blocks at the top with point values. It was just weird to play it as an audience.

We got an extremely emo one about some guy called Jude starring Marilyn Manson's new GF (Rachel Evan Wood? I worry I mess one of her names up)

Evan Rachel Wood. That's Across the Universe, which appears to be Moulin Rouge meets Hair meets the Beatles.

We got all the same trailers you did, it seems. Plus The Bourne Ultimatum. And the HP trailer was NEW! It was one I'd never seen, and it was awesome.

HPIV

Aren't we waiting on HPV?

Plus The Bourne Ultimatum.

How did that look? (though trailers seem to be becomming less and less reliable as a gague of quality, if they ever were to begin with)

It looked fine? I remember almost nothing from the first two movies. I'm not even sure I saw the second one. Was Julia Stiles in both of them, or just the second one?

Okay, she was in both. But, seriously, I don't remember a thing. But the third one looks like...well, it looks like another Bourne movie.

Aren't we waiting on HPV?

I think there's a vaccine for that now...

Bruce Campbell, who has an ability to annoy me (no matter how much I like him in some stuff, he seems in love with his cool theses days) was freaking MAGIC. I did love him to pieces.

I think Bruce Campbell's performance was heavily influenced by John Cleese. And yeah, it WORKED. "You know, I am French."

We didn't get the HPV trailer, damn it. But we got the weird Jude one (which made The Boy say, "I used to have to DROP ACID to see things like that!"), the surfing penguins, Bourne, Pirates, and Shrek.