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We went to see it last night. I agree completely with Bodhi. I thought it was absolutely terrible. And I loved the first two movies. It seemed like every ten minutes someone was on the verge of an emo-angst ridden cryfest. The only interesting character was Thomas Hayden Church playing the Sandman. And he was so underutilized and underdeveloped it was pathetic.

The movie was bad. The plot was terrible. The characters were sad. Topher Grace got hosed because Venom was terrible. I give it one star and even that's pushing it.

He was the only thing that was amusing in the movie.

Did not care for it, but didn't hate it; I would put it at 3/5 stars.

Worst parts included the gaping plot holes, and amnesia (I heard someone yell "Are you kidding!?"), the necessary shot with the American Flag, and watching Harry eat with his mouth open.

Second worst parts included MJ's whining, Tobey's emo hair, Spidey ALWAYS losing his mask in fights, and squirming uncomfortably when Tobey thinks he's Bob's gift to women.

Neutral parts were the dance scene (we had cheering, not booing, in our theater), the scenes with the landlord and Ursula, Topher's role in general (not great, not horrible), and Harry being an idiot and using the damn blade board again.

Decent parts included MJ getting smacked (collective gasp from the audience), Spidey parade, Venom's appearance (as in, how he looked), and emo-Tobey going against Harry at his house.

Good parts included the Sandman's story, the final fight (especially how to deal with Venom), the previews for Pirates 3 and Harry Potter 5 (they look good, GFY), and the scene with MJ and Harry (another collective gasp, but I felt the chemistry between those two a lot more than between her and Tobey the entire time).


I'd see a fourth, but I felt this was pretty weak, and I would only go if friends wanted to go. And it makes me think once again that Peter Parker = Charlie Brown. Anything bad that can happen, WILL happen. Not as bad as Matrix 3, not by a long shot, but not as good as LotR 3 either, again by a long shot.

It was definitely the weakest of the 3 movies. Yeah, the whole dance thing made me cringe. I suppose it was supposed to be funny, or something, but I could hardly bring myself to watch it. The fight sequences were pretty good for the most part, though I would agree about the falling/catching thing, it tends to get overused. Venom looked awesome, but the Sandman was the high point for me. In the end exactly what I hoped would not happen in this movie ended up happening, they threw in too many villains in one movie and it ultimately affected the end result.

However, I did feel I got my money's worth.

Peter pimpslapping MJ was a non event for me. By this point I felt she deserved it In fact by the end I was more emotionally invested in seeing MJ die than I was any of the villians.

I gotta say, the way you describe the cinem'a collective reactions reminds me of when I watch movies with my 8-year old Godson. He gasps, shrieks, clapps, yells, and sometimes cries. I haven't heard him shout "****!!" yet, but that will come no doubt.

Well, thanks for saving me $20 Bhod. I was thinking of seeing it for Venom, but from what I heard, I'm not gonna like this movie.

The little Ukranian film from 1976 in black and white about a blind boy in an orphanage with skeeterphiles and heroin addicts sounds tempting, on the other hand...

I laughed at the dance scene in Little Miss Sunshine, in this movie not so much. I think it has less to do with machismo and more to do with context.

The whole time during the dance scene I kept thinking to myself "since when are emo kids into 1950's jazz?"

What theater did you see it in, Omega? I saw it at Fenway last weekend and I shit you not at least 1/3 of the audience burst into applause when the movie was over. I thought the movie was entertaining enough despite its flaws but jesus, applause??