give it a 7.5 out of 10 but because I like Marvel characters and I like Spiderman, I would upgrade it to 8. I dont know about other people's ratings (or if there's a standard movie rating) but here's mine:1-2: its not worth watching, go wash your eyes if you see it!
3-4: sucks! not worth my money unless its a gift for someone i dont like
5-6: good enough to watch on video and kill time or beat boredom
7-8: good enough to watch on cinemas
9-10: its great! its perfect! its mind blowing!
Now, I haven’t been a comic book guy for 10 years (I think the last comic book I bought was in 1997, Marvel vs. DC or DC vs. Marvel, and the reason I stopped collecting was because I lost my entire comic book collection, which I started back in grade school) so I really don’t have much authority on this subject, but having a bit of knowledge of the characters (the way I remember them 10 years ago), I really cant stop myself from saying something about the movie Spiderman 3 and other Marvel films.
Review...sort of: Spiderman 3 was great when it comes to special effects (that was expected). I also liked the fight scenes. As for the acting, can’t really complain. What matters to me more is that they bring the comic book to life and that the actors don’t suck (umm...Daredevil? sorry, not a Ben Affleck fan). So I guess they were ok (besides, it’s already the third installment, so i wont even try to dicuss the way Tobey Maguire cried...wait, is revealing that Tobey Maguire cried in the movie a spoiler? i dont think so, no one would probably notice where he cried in the movie...ouch!).Thomas Haden Church was good. I don’t mind Topher Grace either as Eddie Brock. As for the movie's story, well, it really revolved on Peter Parker and not on Spider-man. it was like, the first two movies introduced Peter Parker and his alter ego Spiderman. The third movie gave me the impression of showing Spiderman's alter ego Peter Parker. i mean, now that Spiderman's famous, Peter Parker has become the secret identity. It was a good ending for the spidey trilogy and in a way, allows a fourth but fresh installment. in case there is a spidey 4, i hope there's a new set of villains (meaning, no need to bring back Sandman and dont settle with one villain unless its Carnage) plus a better, badder and funnier Venom (Venom need not be a villain, for me, he's not really a bad guy because the only reason he's spidey's arch enemy is because he hates Parker, that's it). or try to use Ben Reilly for a change.
Spidey Spoilers and i mean SPOILERS!: I had a problem with the Spidey 3 villains (Green Goblin, Venom and Sandman...ok, maybe not Sandman). of all the villains in the spidey trilogy, Doc Ock appeared to me to be the best one. In spidey 3, it looked like the best villain among the three was Sandman. Ok, I have a bias against Green Goblin, since I’m not really a fan of all the goblin villains, but Venom is supposed to be the best villain in the movie (well, in my opinion). Eddie Brock was ok as Eddie Brock, but as Venom? Not really. I was expecting a more kick-ass type of villain from Venom with a lot of taunting and trash-talking. That’s why I liked Venom as spider-man's arch-enemy, insults fly as they fight, mocking each other until one of them is knocked unconscious or defeated (that's the way I saw it). There wasn’t much of that in the movie. And whenever Venom talks as Eddie Brock, it just doesn’t work. Venom just looked like an arrogant jerk in a costume. And where's Venom's tongue? Ok, maybe they were just introducing Venom but still, why put Venom in the movie without playing the major villain? Anyway, I'm just disappointed with the way Venom was made in the movie, i mean, Venom could have been much better.
Another thing I didn’t like is the ending, the one where green goblin
2/green goblin junior showed up. Ok, like I said, I really don’t like the goblin villains. I would have preferred a cameo from any superhero and team up with Spiderman. It would still be good if Daredevil showed up (but not as Ben Affleck, Matt Murdock should just keep the mask on) or the Ironman (pic on the right is supposed to be the ironman armor for the movie. i hope the ironman costume really looks great and not just some great image editing). If it was ironman, it could help promote the upcoming ironman movie. but that's just called shameless plugging (like the number of times i mentioned ironman in this paragraph. is it really shameless plugging? its a good way to promote an upcoming marvel film). i 
would rather have Venom doing the team-up (but that would just ruin the story for spidey 3 but they do team up in the comic books...i think). i would rather see Stan Lee turn into the Incredible Hulk! ok, maybe not.
Marvel movies: Now that Spidey 3 is out, what's next? Well, there's Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer. Not much of a Fantastic Four fan, but the trailer looks good (and Jessica Alba's there! a movie hottie is always a must! but she looks different this time, i wonder why?). There have been rumors about Galactus being part of the movie but not really "in" the movie (so some are saying why bother having Galactus when they arent going to do it right...like Venom perhaps?). There’s also an Incredible Hulk sequel and a Punisher sequel. There's also the Ironman movie. Again, not a fan of Ironman and any member of The Avengers because im more of a fan of the X-books (X-men, X-Force, X-Factor, Excalibur). But if I had to pick my favorite Avengers member, I would pick Thor, and i think there are also plans of creating a Thor movie.Ghost Rider wasn’t a disappointment but it wasn’t really that good. I think there's also a plan to make a Doctor Strange movie, a Wolverine movie, and a sequel to the Ghost Rider(got my info here). When I saw this line-up of marvel characters, I thought, why not make a Secret
Defenders movie? I would really like to see Wolverine, Ghost Rider (with Daniel Ketch as alter ego, my favorite Ghost Rider version; that's why I didn’t complain much about Nicolas Cage as Ghost Rider, he can be Johnny Blaze anytime he wants), Spiderman, The Incredible Hulk and Silver Surfer teaming up in one movie. I would like to add Venom to the line up but I don’t think he ever became a Secret Defender member. I would like to see Wolverine and Ghost Rider working alongside Venom. Now as for the villains, well that would be a problem. which supervillain or group of supervillains could fit in a story fighting Doc Strange and his team and at the same time, plausible enough to be be capable of at least matching the strength of this group of superheroes? well, how about a Galactus infected by the Carnage symbiote with a minion of Doc Ock clones? ok maybe not. maybe a team up of Thanos, Loki and Mephisto and minion of Carnage infected Doc Ock clones. That won't work (and what's up with the Carnage symbiote and Doc Ock clones? i dont know, i think it would be a good villain). Anyway, they can’t even pull off a good x-men movie. So I guess a team composed of the "major" superheroes of marvel comics wont work. and even if it does, the question is how much will the budget be for this kind of movie.
After writing this blog, I realized, I miss collecting marvel comics! And some batman comics (I'm not a DC fan, Batman is the only exception).
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