 Ladies and gentlemen of the jury today, I stand before you as a humbled man a man who once made fun of spider-man 3 and thought It was kind of a train wreck Times have changed pretend my arm is on a fictitious mantle right now and so have I I have since looked back on spider-man 3 with fresh Eyes with hungry eyes and I have determined that spider-man 3 is not a bad movie. Nah It's in fact a very fine movie. It's a good movie dare. I say great Before we dive into this I think uncle Ben would be pretty ashamed if I didn't ask you to subscribe to the channel He's a big fan of mine. He tells me so please do that now and then when you're done You can continue watching and if you didn't and you continue watching then you're just a jerk. All right Let's proceed. Sorry for calling you a jerk. There's no question I don't think anybody's gonna argue that spider-man 3 is jam-packed to the brim with stuff a lot of stuff Too much stuff going on for a two hour and 20 minute film especially when 15 hours of that is opening credit scenes like the other two movies But I digress even though there's a cornucopia of things going on. There is a message here a message of letting go a forgiveness of peace of mind and that's what spider-man 3 at its core is we have multiple characters who are struggling both Internally and externally with those around them Peter's at his prime right now Spider-man is beloved by almost everyone outside of J Jonah Jameson and Eddie Brock and he is determined to share in that happiness with MJ who is at her lowest point in all three films for me Kirsten Dunst is the most compelling character here who previously was no more than a damsel in distress She now has layer complexity. She's a talented yet failed Broadway performer who's been looked over who's been passed up And she has to look on to her boyfriend who is at his peak He's being showered with praise given keys to the city and even gets to make out with the new hottie on the block Ron Howard's daughter who I don't know how those genetics worked out, but good job Wow braced else Howard's in this as Gwen Stacy She's very much just a constant reminder that Peter has it all and that MJ is a piece of crap Which I love MJ, but she's down on herself in this movie dammit and she needs to get out of it So I've established that the story is about letting go about forgiveness Well MJ has to let go of her jealousy for Peter She has to forgive him for his selfishness because he's very much about himself in this movie Then we have Harry Osborne Harry's best friend. He hasn't gotten over his dad's death. I suppose that's fair That's a tough thing to cope with however. It's not fair to blame spider-man. I mean his dad was kind of garbage You know he wasn't it wasn't the great He wasn't father of the year Harry's gonna be going after Peter for the majority of the film until he too Learns to forgive. This is just the stuff going on with the good guys. Like I said, this is a meaty movie There's a ton going on J Jonah Jameson's doing his thing still yet. He's trying to keep his anger under control He's taking meds It's not helping topher graces in this is Eddie Brock. He's trying to take Peter's job as a photographer He's also trying to take his life as venom later on, but we'll get to that in a little bit last and arguably least Sandman cool character cool effects the CG's holding up decently well It helps that Sam Raimi has a style to his movies. It's a little bit surreal So green screen work and things like that. That's pretty obvious now. It kind of has a charm to it It doesn't take me out of the film and in fact it kind of enhances the experience the whole Sandman plot really comes out of nowhere It it sandbags you sorry we find out. He's the real killer of Uncle Ben What what why why do we have to do this? Well, it's a way for Peter to confront his past some of his trauma and to finally learn to forgive and again Let go each one of the main three characters has to go through this process And even though the way they get there is pretty messy They still do get there and it is compelling at the end could venom Sandman and Green Goblin Jr. Be their own movies with their own full story arcs absolutely We do get a decent amount of time with these characters still Harry has some great scenes in this the part where he's eating that dessert with His douchey grin is just perfect Where the film suffers in the character department, I would say is Aunt May I love Aunt May in these movies She's a fantastic actress great character sage advice and wisdom But we often only get her for these like small incremental moments two minutes tops In these scenes. I wanted my spider-man two moment. I wanted my new I believe there's a hero and all of us We don't get that. I think she starts an I believe moment here, but it never catches on and it's not very good It's pretty alluded to at this point that Aunt May knows he's spider-man. It's never set out right But you know through dialogue we can kind of tell we kind of tell it She knows this kid's up to something and she's on his side. I'm almost done talking about the story I just have to point out that there are three villains, but they're rarely together on the screen They find convenient ways to knock these people out whether it's getting hit on the head and having amnesia To getting sucked down a watery great and then like being Timmy down the well not being as erected or found for another Hour like Sandman's gone for like an hour of this movie and then it's the Venom show It really does feel like two or three different movies kind of wedge together Especially the Venom stuff where there's been a ton of hearsay off-camera about how Sony like demanded Venom be in this and they had fights with Raimi. I don't know how much of that is true I don't want to spill a bunch of gossip. That's not It does feel like it was kind of hammered in there is a scene early on where the symbiote crashes down and it Sticks to Peter Parker's bike, but then it goes forgotten for like another 40 minutes before it attaches to the suit And the whole thing plays out and I have to say Venom looks awesome I much prefer this version the sleek slimy one to that of the Venom movies And I know the Venom movies are you know more comic book accurate with this bulkiness and whatnot But I like this kind of predator alien, you know, it's got it's more alien looking to me I don't like his voice, which is just Topher for the most part and then these weird high-pitched screams I'll forgive it, but man that design is sweet and I am an apologist for Sam Raimi I tend to go with his artistic direction over even the comic book originals. I don't like the web shooters I like the fact that they're organic webbing The haters will say that well Why isn't the web coming out of his ass then if it's like a spider because he's a human and because this is science magic It's made up fairy tale shit. The webs could come out of his eyes if they wanted it doesn't need to make sense He doesn't have eight legs either All right, he's not carrying little babies on his back. I don't know what spiders do before I go further I should say the spider-man 3 is not as good as spider-man 2 or 1. I'm not here today to defend that I'm not here to do argue that spider-man 2 still considered one of the greatest superhero movies of all time So, yeah, there's a drop because spider-man 2 has just this perfect focus on the relationship and on the villain And that's it. There's nothing else going on there where a spider-man 3 has 75 different storylines Yet Sam Raimi manages to close them all up pretty nicely And I know there was supposed to be a fourth, but honestly I prefer how 3 ends It's not your traditional spider-man ending I don't see our web slinger shooting webs off into the sky and swinging across buildings while you had Kroger songs playing in the background and an American flag is waving high overhead. No, this ends on a bittersweet moment With our two leads sharing in a dance and embrace An emotional moment that resonates with me because we've gone with these characters for three films now They just lost their best friend. They've been through a ton together through ups and downs through death through love And through life. The last one's not really anything. It's just a that's just a word We don't have a ring on the finger, but I do believe these two end up together There's two there's too much there Sam Raimi leaves the door open for interpretation though He leaves the door open for your imagination Do you think they end up together or is there too much baggage there that they just can't or maybe there's too much baggage there that They're the only ones they can be with let's talk about other pros of this film How about the action does it reach top shelf spider-man 2 subway fight? No, not many things do it's unfair really But it has so much action. It's a quantity Not necessarily over quality, but adjacent because I think almost all the action scenes are fantastic And they're varied we have Peter Parker getting chased by Harry Osborn through the city streets at night He's chucking shit at him Peter's flying through the air Lord of the Rings style as the ring is falling out of place And he brings it in He decks Harry he's clothes lining him. It's great later on We have Bryce Dallas Howard hanging off the top of a building Raimi wisely positions that camera for a perfect cleavage shot I'm a pervert. She falls down Spider-man comes swinging in with that iconic Danny Elfman music playing in the background Even though Danny Elfman didn't score this film because the first two movies were such a miserable experience He won't come back for the third one so they got someone else Christopher Young took over the score is still great I almost got through that without a stumble Peter grabs Gwen. He's falling through shit The music and the audio are top tier the sound effects are really noticeable during the car chase where spider-man's like skiing behind a runaway truck He's on the ground Going over things He uses the web launchers a lot It's in his face. He gets in there He punches Sam and a couple times then Sam man's like power up Nails him out of the door. Oh, it's it's so good Then they fall down the sewer and you hear like the subway noise going by The echoes and don't get me started on that final venom takedown where Peter's smashing those pipes into the ground And then he starts smacking him with a pipe And I'd be remissed if I didn't talk about the man the myth the meme Bully McGuire, let me get into my bully McGuire mode I'm gonna put some dirt in your eye It's easy to make fun of bully McGuire because he's so lame But that's what gives it the charm Parker's coming out of his shell the anger is building up thanks to the symbiote That's attached to his suit and for like normal people that aren't such complete dweebs They might be badass. They might be cool, but Peter's such a dork that it just gets magnified his evils even dorky So it works, you know, he's coming out of the building. He's doing his he's doing his dance and you know Yet yet somehow his spider-man pheromones are attracting the women that they dig it They dig the bully McGuire and upon further reflection. I'm glad that Raimi took him there But didn't go way too far, you know like like a Zack Snyder situation where Peter's like killing dudes It's like Breaks the guy's neck Pulls the guy's legs off I'm gonna put some dirt in your eye mother Punches the guy's head off as cool as it would be to see it goes so against character. It's so off-brand that I'm glad I'm glad this is where things ended up with the character. We still do get to see him go pretty dark I mean he pushes a guy up against a wall decks MJ to the ground and then my favorite scene of the entire film is When Osborne chucks one of those goblin grenades at him Parker's walking Osborne gets his face blown off Then he just walks away in slow motion Well that was a lot and there's still plenty more to talk about in this film I just like scratched the surface of what's going on There's there's plenty to talk about here and I'd love to hear from you in the comments Do you love Spider-Man 3 or at least like it? Do you think it's? Over-hated leave it in the comments. Let me know if you do hate Spider-Man 3 I'd like to know your reasons why I used to be there not hate I don't know if I ever hated it, but now I'm in the other camp. I look at Spider-Man 3 I look at this trilogy and I think well done It has some shaky moments, but you know what at its essence at its core the characters were all done, right? They were all done justice. It's crazy. It's a little messy It's a little bonkers At the end of the day it's Spider-Man and I wouldn't want it any other way. So your honor I'm bringing back this court thing for absolutely no reason at all I want to say on the record Spider-Man 3 is not a bad movie What did it do to you gave you a satisfying conclusion gave you a bunch of new cool villains Gave you phenomenal memes online I say here on the record today Spider-Man 3 is a great movie and it deserves the praise and respect We gave the other two. It's a phenomenal trilogy Case dismissed. I can't say that. I just did. I said it before I'm gonna say it again Subscribe to the channel like the video if you had a good time if not for me if not for uncle Ben then do it for Aunt May She'd want you to she'd be proud if you did and aren't we all at the end of the day Just looking for the respect and admiration about me. 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