Monday, September 3, 2012

NOKW - Spider-Man 3

Here comes the next chapter in our "I'm Okay With, I'm Not Okay With" series (if you don't know what this is, click here for all of the past posts):

Movie:  Spider-Man 3

Basic Plot:  Basically, this movie ruined the franchise so much that they had to reboot the whole damn thing 5 years after its release.  Oh, and Spidey fights Venom and the Sandman, and I guess The Green Goblin Jr.

I'm Okay With:  The fact that the alien symbiote just hangs out in Peter Parker's room for a couple days before it finally decides to attach itself to Spider-Man.  The fact that Topher Grace's character had pointed teeth when he became Venom, but just turned Peter into a giant tool.  The fact that Spider-Man gets beaten repeatedly but never has a single scratch on him even when after a fight where he gets his suit ripped all to hell.  The fact that while conducting the experiment that created Sandman, the scientists completely ignore the sensor that says something is inside the test area when any outside factors would skew their results.  The fact that Peter Parker thought it would be a good idea to kiss another girl at the Key to the City ceremony while his girlfriend is in the audience.  The fact that Topher Grace was able to identify his girlfriend, Gwen Stacy, while she was dangling from the top of a building twenty stories up.

I'm Not Okay With:  The fact that Sandman is able to grow to four or five stories tall despite there only being a very limited amount of sand for him to use.  Go back and watch that final battle again and tell me how it was possible for Sandman to grow that large.  It takes place in a construction site in the middle of New York, you know, a place not known for large quantities of sand.  While I will agree that construction crews will use sand when they are putting up a building, there is no way that they had enough sand on site in order for Sandman to grow to the size they depict him.  The only way for him to have grown that large was if the entire construction site was sitting on top of a beach, but that would be about the dumbest thing you could do when putting up a very large and very heavy building.  So, how did he do it?  Did he grow large in order to intimidate his foes but leave a hollow shell?  Nope, we saw Green Goblin Jr shoot him with some missiles and expose his sandy insides.  Nothing about that scene made sense anyways, but that was the most baffling thing of all.  And I am not okay with that.

"He looks confused, that's what happened to me after I saw this movie.  Like why did they cast Topher Grace in an action movie?  So confused."

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