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Yeah, even though I enjoyed parts of it, this movie was a big disappointment and the entire symbiote costume segment sucked balls. A couple friends I watched it with commented that he was all emo, and we were all laughing our asses off at how bad that entire section of the movie was. I seriously felt like I was in the wrong movie during the whole song and dance number in the jazz club. And what the fuck was up with Spidey eating all those cookies? That was to show what an asshole he was becoming? Telling the girl next door to give him more cookies? That was the best they could come up with? The dyed hair, the eyeliner, it was all just too fucking much.

And I fucking HATED the villain team-up at the end. I was really hoping Raimi would have the good sense not to do this after seeing how well it DIDN'T work in the old Batman movies...my ideal version would have had the Sandman stuff resolved in the first half of the movie, and Venom coming into the second half, with perhaps the Green Goblin 2 coming in and attacking Peter while he's got his hands full with one of the other villains (but NOT "teaming up" with them). The shit with Harry and Peter riding his hoverboard together at the end was incredibly cheesy and it made me just want to groan like I'd heard a hundred bad puns at once. Also, Harry didn't seem at all upset that Peter ruined his face.

They also tried to cram WAY too much into this movie and everything important felt rushed, despite HUGE chunks of the movie that just sort of dragged on (it felt like it was 5 hours long). When the symbiote climbs all over Spidey, he's just like "Hey cool, new costume!" and accepts it just WAY too quickly. The Venom stuff was rushed through way too fast too, though I guess that he had probably about as much depth and development as he ever had in the comics.

Things I DID like were Peter's first fight with Harry (even though I couldn't tell what the fuck was happening for part of the time), the special effects on the Sandman (god his origin was so stupid), and the casting of Gwen Stacey (she looked PERFECT, like she stepped right off the comic page). What pissed me off was that they didn't DO anything with Gwen, so she was pretty pointless aside from pissing off MJ. Oh, and the Bruce Campbell part was very funny. Also, Venom looked pretty good.