But, hearing how familiar Sandman's arc is (criminal doing bad with noble intent), I guess I'll be glad for some diversion later in the film.

I'd really like this to be good.

Good work Adam, but you will be kicking yourself when you realise how much that extra paragraph about weight and physics and whatnot would have added to your article.

The whole killing uncle ben thing bores me now. they should move on.

Routh was good, and unlike everyone else involved with that atrocity deserves another chance, but not great.

SPOILER ALERT!! I MEAN it!! Don't read if you don't want to know! Turn back NOW!! I will say this though HUGE SPOILERS the kid's storybook version of 3 has Harry FORGET he's the New Goblin and that he wants to kill Pete after Pete knocks him down in the alley and he hits his head. So, for a time, they are friends again. But SPOILER later his dad's ghost 'talks' to him again, he remembers he's goblin, and he attacks Pete, at which time Pete launches a pumpkin bomb at him and Harry gets disfigured. Oh, and SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER Venom enlists Sandy for help in nailing Spiderman, and yeah, Harry does come to help Pete. The story book is very vague and does not say how Spidey / Pete defeats Sandy, or whether Harry dies. It does indicate that SPOILER Peter uses the fact that he knows Venom will be vulnerable to sound. I won't say how he uses it. Other spoilers? OK. Gwen Stacy is a fashion model that Spidey rescues from a photo shoot gone wrong when a wayward crane shreds its way into the upper floors of an office building. Turns out Peter knows Gwen from school, and Gwen knows Peter (but not Spidey) because her dad was the first cop on the scene of Ben's shooting, and he, Capt. Stacey, saw Peter's grief. More spoilers? OK. MJ gets bad reviews on broadway and becomes a night club singer. She falls on Peter for emotional support because the reviews hurt her, but Petey, under the influence of the symbiote, doesn't care so much. Also, Peter's landlord returns--REEEENT!! Flint Marko returns home to visit his sick daughter after he escapes jail(lets call this the 'orange jumpsuit Marko'), but he grabs some clothes and goes running again after his wife throws him out of the apartment. Only then does he become Sandman, and according to the storybook, all this is after New Goblin attacks Pete and Harry gets hospitalized. And SPOILER the end of Spidey 3 will see JJJ and everyone out on the street, watching the battle royale at the construction site. How about a HUGE SPOILER, you say? Alright. This is a BIG spoiler--turn back! All this is in the books but if you want to be "pure" for the movie, read NO FURTHER!!

Remember Harry's butler in 2? The one who says, "Your father only obsessed over his work?" Yeah, him. According to the storybook, he is the one who ultimately reveals to Harry that his father was GG and died by his own efforts to kill Spidey. Oh, and Spider / Peter is so overwhelmed by the tag-team villains that he moves his bowels into his costume and there's a dark stain on his otherwise well-formed blue ass. Hey, I saw it in person when they shot 2nd unit in Cleveland, and that stunt guy is, well, even as a straight guy I must say, he wears that friggin suit in a way I cannot. But it doesn't look so good with a toilet chili stain. Whose ass does? Later kids.

Sooo, he had fecal debris in his costume?

Pillow, sorrow about putting your name in my "Spider-Ass" sentence. The placement was incidental, not malevolent or what have you. And with that, Shamoan!!

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I understand all of them, they are just not good.

The pacing in SR was dire, the plot had more holes than albert steptoe's long-johns and Ms Bosworths performace was so bad she was very justly nominated for a razzie. It was terrible, boring shite.