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| Tobey Maguire, Kirsten Dunst, James Franco, Rosemary Harris, J.K. Simmons, Thomas Haden Church, Topher Grace, Bryce Dallas Howard, Daniel Gillies, Ted Raimi, Adrian Lester, Theresa Russell, James Cromwell, Elizabeth Banks, Steve Valentine |
| Friday, May 04, 2007 |
| 140 minutes |
| 20th Century Fox |
| Sci-Fi/Fantasy, Action/Adventure |
 Some material may be inappropriate for children under 13. |
Synopsis
 A strange black entity from another world bonds with Peter Parker and causes inner turmoil as he contends with new villains, temptations, and revenge. Director Sam Raimi and stars Tobey Maguire, Kirsten Dunst and James Franco are joined in the third installment of Spider-Man by Topher Grace as Venom, and Thomas Haden Church as the Sandman.
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Rumor: John Malkovich and Anne Hathaway in The Next Spider-man Film
According to a Movieline report, rumors have been running rampant about the upcoming "Spiderman" film. Casting for the fourth film in the franchise series is said to be after John Malkovich and Anne Hathaway to star in the film as father/daughter villains.
Malkovich is said to be eyed for The Vulture, an elderly character who has a suit with wings to fly around as well as use as a weapon. H...
Tobey Maguire Hits Pay Day With Spider-man Series
According to Times Online, Tobey Maguire has signed a $50 million deal with Sony Pictures to star in Spider-Man 4 and Spider-Man 5. He will also earn money from profit shares.
While that may seem more than enough for most people, Maguire demanded on more thing... not more money, but time off to spend with his daughter, Ruby. Ruby is 22 months old, and Maguire requested that he have early morn...
Spider-man's Venom To Get His Own Movie?
According to the Hollywood Reporter, the Spider-man trilogy is said to be spawning a new film. The spin-off will be based on the villain, Venom.
Sony is currently seeking writers for a new draft to a script that has already been penned by Jacob Estes. No word on casting yet, either. Topher Grace played Venom in Spider-man 3, but Sony is not sure that he could carry a whole movie on his own...
Spider-man Spins Web To Box Office History
Spider-Man 3 has broken all kinds of records this past weekend. It opened this weekend with $148 Million in it's frst three days of showing. This has broken the previous $135.6 Million record, held by Pirates of the
Caribbean 2: Dead Man's Chest.
It also broke another record held by Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest for opening day sales. Spider-Man came in with $59.3 Million ...
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Once upon a time I was listening to a self-help guy give a presentation. I was, like, in high school and there were a bunch of other people there and his entire crew (entourage? cult? whatever). So he tells this story:
You're this guy, see, and you've been working for Consolidated Sprockets (I'm paraphrasing a lot--this was like 20+ years ago). You've been there since the begining and you're the VP or something ... close to the top. The guy at the top, Mr. S, is retiring. You're coming up next. You're on deck--and he calls you into his office ...
"Well, there Mr./Ms. _______________, we've been friends a long time. I'm stepping down from Consolidated Sprockets and I'm going to need your help! My son, Junior, needs to be helped--groomed--for the presidents spot. You're just the person to do it!"
The Hidden Secret!
So the self-helpy guy asks us "what we do." People, imagining this, were pretty outraged. Tell him off? Quit? Get the goods on him? Sue? So then--then Mr. motivational speaker goes "But what you don't know is this: Junior has a terminal medical condition and is going to die!" He can't tell you because of insurance reasons. After Junior dies, you'll be the president.
So we sat there all paradigm shifted going "wow--being mad at the dude was totally unacceptable. We must reconsider our preconceptions! Man, we should be ashamed of ourselves for reacting so badly!"
But this guy in the back--a business man, from the look of him, wasn't convinced. He goes "W-wait a minute: if the guy was going to make you president of his company ... he should've trusted you."
And Mr. Motivational Speaker ignored him.
Because that guy had him dead-ass to rights and Mr. Motivational Speaker was completely wrong.
So imagine that you're in love with, maybe gonna marry a superhero and a good mutual friend who happens to be a supervillain threatens your life and tells you to pretend to break up with your fiance (even if you are having some hard times).
You meet your hero friend on a bridge and go "It's over! We're through!" because you want to protect him? No Way! You slip him a piece of paper that says "Harry is a supervillain and he's making me do this and he's maybe gonna kill you anyway."
Because if you can't tell a superhero you're being threatened by a supervillain who can you tell?
Anyway: The whole of Spiderman 3 is built on this kind of communication: necessarily bad communication like the kind that keeps stretching LOST out over more and more seasons. This kind of communication is aggravating. Mary Jane doesn't tell Parker she's kicked out of the production she's in--why? So he can be a Man-From-Mars to her Woman-From-Venus (apparently they aren't big on flash news updates on Venus) come off as a 'jerk.'
When he throws off an alien mind-control parasite, (which, beyond all logic, turned him into a 'cool bad-ass-dude from the 70's'--and if you think I am exaggerating, I dare you to watch the movie and still say that) he doesn't call her and go "Mary: Professor So-and-So says that thing turns people it touches into an evil John Travolta from the era of disco!" No. That would clear things up.
Fiction that is based on bad communication (many comedies) is, frankly, painful to watch and while S3 is not egregious in this regard, it happens enough that it's part of the basic architecture. The basic lesson-learned here is that Peter is, supposedly, not yet man-enough to get married. He's too caught up in himself. Yeah? This from a superhero who lives in squalor, has a soul-crushing job, and dotes on his aging aunt? I mean--yes: he does get a giant city parade for himself--but they have to cook that up to make him narcissistic.
When MJ comes in complaining about her bad review and he gets a police call she's kinda annoyed that her superhero boyfriend has to go save some lives. I can imagine the imaginary situation where she gets what she wants:
MJ: :: pouts ::
Peter: "Uhm--ah--I can see you're upset and you've upbraided me for not listening to your feelings. I'll stay another 10-minutes and be with you."
MJ: "My life sucks."
:: people die ::
MJ: "Somehow this isn't my fault."
Peter: :: GUILT ::
It wouldn't have made a better movie but that's kinda the position the audience is willing to take because Peter needs to learn a lesson. Eventually, of course, he does. It's not that he should respect her feelings--it's that he should ask for help (but, of course, when she got the bad review she wasn't asking for help ... she was asking for a shoulder to cry on).
So he does ask for help. In what was one of the stronger scenes of the movie he asks for it and gets it--and someone pays The Ultimate Price because the moral of the story is this: If you are a superhero your life sucks.
I think this is because in order for superheroes to be taken seriously they had to become tragic figures. Most supers do have a 'tragic core.' Even Superman was sent from a dying world--but he's rosy compared to Batman, Spiderman, or The Hulk. However: playing up this tragic core means that the hit of wishfufillment that we get watching Spiderman fight aerial battles with improbably perfect acrobatics has to be tempered with a lot of moralizing soap opera (how does his friend die? The same way his friend's father died--did you, um, get that audience? Are you sure? How about we have a bit-character say something about it to set the scene up? Would that help?)
Interestingly some of the less tragic characters (Wonder woman, the Green Lantern) have yet to hit the big screen. I wonder how they'll be done.
But Spider-man 3? Well, it's a masterpiece of Fx work. Toby and Kristen are good as always. It plays on the first two movies well enough--but was it satisfying?
For me? Not especially.--Marco Chacon
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