Spider-Man 3 DVD... just in time for Halloween

So the guy gaining super-powers after being bitten by a radioactive hybrid spider, the super-Green Goblin-creating serum, and mind-controlled mechanical arms all fell within the realm of possibility, but somehow this film is far-fetched?

Definitely going for the Blu-Ray Trilogy set.

Referring to any superhero movie as "far-fetched" is a sign that you need to cut back on the peyote.

The spider that bit Peter wasn't radioactive in the movie; that would be too far-fetched. It was a genetically engineered super-spider, which is totally believable.

I'm a Spider-Man nerd, so the two-disc DVD's on my list. Hopefully, like the Cinematical review says, SM3 will play better the second time around for me. :/

A genetically engineered super-spider bite that rewrites someone's DNA, turning him into a being with spider powers. Yeah I can get that. But an alien symbiote that takes control and turns a nerd into the mambo king...fuck me dead, that can never happen.

its not a matter of whether any of it can really happen...

its more a matter of some things happening and being great and some things happening and being absolutley shit. Like 95% of spider man 3.

You didn't actually read the first post that we're commenting on, did you?

What, was The Chin not available?

I'll be excited to pick this up. Sure, it has some flaws, but I still thought it was a fun flick.

I'm also with Devin in thinking that the dance sequence was one of the most joyful moments of cinema we've experienced this year. I can't remember the last sequence in a film that divided people so harshly, but it is now my new litmus test for people: If you don't like the dance sequence, you don't like LIFE.

It's because it's not dark and gritty, that's why the fanboys don't like it. Me I enjoyed it quite alot.

I find that anytime something divides people that harshly, I end up loving it. Some people just can't stand to see anything they haven't already seen a thousand times. I love it when filmmakers have the balls to do something unexpected.

Most hardcore comic book geeks if bonded with the Venom symbiote would go all Kevin Bacon in The Hollow Man with the rape and murder.

I, much like The Tobey would hit the Men's Warehouse pick up a superfly outfit and hit the disco with crotch thrusting abounds. I'm not grim and gritty... I don't want to be Frank Castle I want to be the heterosexual equivilant of 1970's era John Travolta.

Eh, might as well go with the two discs since I have two discs of the first two movies (even though I didn't have a choice then).

Every hero has a choice.

You know, I've got the first two, and I love the dance sequence, but I have no strong desire to buy this.

Might be interesting to hear whether Raimi noticably perks up during commentary for the dance sequence, which from the end result appeared to be just about the only part of the movie that he was interested in making.

Now that's dark and gritty. Don't forget growing hentai-ish tentacles.

Snow Patrol did the theme song for this one? Gee, that wasn't predictable at all.

I've held off on buying any Spider-Man movies for a nicely done trilogy set. "Trilogy 3-pack" doesn't exactly get my heart all aflutter though. I hope I'm wrong.

Maybe they'll do something notable when 3.5 comes out.

I feel like ANY of the other poster artwork used for Spider-Man 3 would be more attractive than what they went with. I'm still on the fence about what I'm going to pick up, here. I never bought Spider-Man 2 simply because I figured we'd be getting some kickass boxed set around this time, but it looks like that's not quite happening the way I wanted it. The Blu-ray trilogy set looks best, but I only have standard DVD and won't make the leap until one format dies or I unexpectedly come into lots of money.

Then there's the issue of Spider-Man 3 itself, and whether it's worth buying. I don't think it's a BAD movie at all, and people who believe it's a huge piece of shit just don't know how to cope with minor disappointment. It's a big letdown punctuated with enough moments of brilliance and goodwill leftover from the previous movie that I can tolerate it as the final film in this particular version of the franchise. I think a big problem with it is that a lot of the people who have been with Spider-Man since the first one are all sort of phoning it in here, and so it lacks the enthusiasm to make it work (plus, the script is all over the place). The movie perks up during stuff like Sandman's origin and the dancing sequence, but in the case of the dancing it just comes at the wrong point in the story. They give us this fun, goofy montage and then throw Peter hitting rock bottom at us in the very next scene.

Does somebody care to try talking the on-the-fence camp into buying it or not buying it?

I thought the "Dark Peter" scenes were the best in the film. I embraced the balls-out camp it was. The rest of the film was awful, with the exception of the Sandman Birth Scene.

And I can't wait for the commentary with the power trio of Maguire, Dunst and Franco. That should be wonderfully entertaining, as they were on the press tour...

They should certainly be more entertaining than Raimi. His commentaries have been about as interesting as watching my grandfather watch paint dry. Dunst was the only one in the first commentary who tried to say anything outside of what a great job everybody did.

Do you think a lot of this has to do with the company he keeps on the Spider-Man films? Maybe Raimi just can't relate to the kids...what with their MTV and their snaggle teeth. Come to think of it, though, he does only seem truly alive when he's around Bruce Campbell. Hell, even the Spider-Man movies themselves seem to crank it up to 11 whenever he pops up. As worn out as I am over the internet gushing over The Bruce...he really does spread cheer and good will wherever he goes. He's like a manly Santa.

I thought the movie was crap when I saw it in the theater, but I'm willing to give it another shot. If only to find little hilarious nuances in the film that I missed the first time around. That and Thomas Haden Church, and Bruce Campbell. His cameo as the waiter was one of my favorite parts in the movie.

I'd buy this DVD in an instant if we could get Bruce to do a "French Waiter" commentary like the "Elvis" one on "Bubba Ho-Tep".

Good point. Raimi was not bad at all on the Evil Dead II commentary, even though Campbell was on a separate track. I loved Campbell's whole "Sam is gonna lie to you on the other track, but I'm here to give you the real story" approach.

It's certainly likely that Raimi just isn't a very cool guy, and not a particularly good conversationalist. Maguire carried the Spider-Man 2 commentary as well. It helped that he had seen the film with an audience, which Raimi hadn't yet, so he had a better idea of what had worked well. But Maguire gained my respect when he compared the final shot of the film to the final shot of The Graduate, which had really struck me as well. It's good to see young actors who know their cinema.

I always did like that last shot of Spider-Man 2. I find Kirsten Dunst woefully unappealing, but I was able to look past that and liked the sort of ambiguous note they ended on. Come to think of it, I actually like the final shot of Spider-Man 3 as well. I talked to a lot of people who were angry that it didn't end with him web-swinging his way across the Manhattan skyline, or at the very least were mad he didn't kiss her passionately, backed up by swelling music. Considering the state of their relationship and how physically and emotionally drained they must have been after all of that, I thought it was actually a nice, understated moment that took us back to what Peter said the story was always about at the beginning of the first film. It's just too bad that much of what came before wasn't handled as well.