It's still Spider-man Month!
By now, you
probably know what my opinion is of the Raimi movies, namely that they all
suck. Not to say that there weren’t some good things. Spider-man doesn’t blame
himself for everything that goes wrong in the world (like he seems to in the
comics, according to Linkara) some of the villains were decent, I actually like the Green Goblin, and
erm… erm… yeah, that’s about it for the compliments, I have very little else to
applaud.
Contrary to
popular belief, it was not the poor reception of Spider-man 3 that lead to the
reboot, well, not exactly. Raimi was working on a Spider-man 4, with Maguire
set to resume his role as Peter Parker and Spider-man, hell: they had plans to
make Spider-man’s 5 and 6 concurrently, if Spider-man 4 was enough of a
success. (Having said that, the idea of taking Felicia Hardy, a character who
has an alter-ego as the Black Cat in the comics, and turning her into a female
knock-off of the Vulture does not impress me, in fact, with rumours of the
Lizard, and the real Vulture also making an appearance, means it may well have
gone down the same route as Spider-man 3 in terms of overstuffed villains)
However,
creative problems and Raimi’s inability to get his wanted budget or time frame
lead to him leaving the franchise entirely. Sony decided to the reboot the
franchise with new director Mark Webb (yes, we all know that joke, don’t say
it)
So we have
this reboot origin story, the Amazing Spider-man. Which it’s time to look into
