Spidey’s web of gold
“Spider-Man 3″ pulled in $148 million in its first three days, setting a new domestic box-office record. In addition, the movie has also pulled in $227 million overseas, for a total of $375 million, well more than the movie’s reported gargantuan $258 million production cost.
The movie’s roll-out wasn’t just wide, but also deep. “Spider-Man 3″ ran in over 4,000 theaters in the U.S. and grossed almost $35,000 per venue.
Opinions are mixed on Spidey 3. Below is a mix of reviews by various bloggers:
It’s one of the things that hurt this movie… there are just too many characters/stories to cover in one movie. You get the sense that they were all jammed in there because at the time they thought this would be the final film and that they wanted to please the fans by sticking in all these reference characters from the comic book.
Typing this review was like pulling teeth for me because deep down, I WANTED to like it. But a bad film is a bad film and I can’t help but wonder if Raimi has lost his touch.
The movie suffers from Batman Forever syndrome. Throwing more villains at Spider-Man doesn’t make him more interesting. It’s always been Peter Parker’s real-life problems that made him interesting. The filmmakers could have easily gone with the conflict between him and Harry as the centerpiece of the film and left it at that.
Rob Monroe at Continuity Error:
All said and done, Spider-Man 3 is the single best film to be the third installment of a superhero franchise. That action is solid, if not more impressive than the first two movies, and the consistent tone with the other films make this a good addition to the series in a genre where sequels usually become unbearable after the second film.
Spider-Man 3 is a good movie. The characters are well drawn out, developed and engaging…
The film is at times, very funny, exhilarating and unpredictable, but it just doesn’t stir the emotions in the same way as its predecessors. Maybe it was because “2″ was so much better than the original, that I warmed to it so. With “3″, because the stakes had been raised, I sort of knew what to expect.
Our “friendly neighborhood Spider-Man” is back to thrill us with an action-packed adventure that provides an even better movie experience than Spider-Man and Spider-Man 2 combined.