spiderman III

• although most people might rank the spiderman trilogy in the order that the films were released, i preferred the third film to its predecessor.

• the creators of spiderman III try to weave three or more plots together; it makes the film entertaining, but i think that the added complexity actually makes the film seem more elementary.

• i like that the creators tried to use this trilogy to grapple with darkness. while they're still painfully obvious with their morals and i sometimes had a hard time buying peter parker's nasty shortsightedness, at least the creators didn't settle on a feel-good movie.

• i found this to be the funniest of the spiderman films. when tobey maguire embraced his dark side, i was laughing aloud.

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