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I'm finally back
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Spider-Man 3 is the best movie that Spider-Man made.
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Since it's release in 2007, critics have spent countless hours analyzing every frame,
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every scene, every line of dialogue in search of it's many subdued themes and messages.
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Like Garfield, Spider-Man 3 is a film about layers.
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On the surface, It's your typical thrill-a-minute Blockbuster with cutting edge special effects.
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But upon further viewing, you start to understand this is merely a facade.
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A false attempt to placate a broader audience.
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In superhero movies, you can only tell two different stories, really.
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The origin story or a story about heroes, learning to work together as a team.
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Spider-Man 3 shatters expectations by not giving you the rise of Spider-Man but rather the fall.
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Peter Parker becomes tangled, if you will, in a web of violence and deceit
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and ultimately becomes the villain.
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The movie starts with Pete. He sees his best friend James Franco
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And he clotheslines him down an alley and kills him
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Then we're introduced to Sandman
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who we learned is a great father,
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trying to save up enough money to pay for his daughter's surgery.
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So, Spider-Man gets wind of this and kills him in a sewer.
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Good riddance
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Then the city throws a parade for Spider-man,
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and he kisses some bimbo, right in front of his girlfriend
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Then he meets this guy, who is actually his biggest fan
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Up to this part, I kind of figured out:
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"Maybe Spider-Man is just having a bad day"
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We all know, he's a good guy at heart.
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Spider-Man killed him
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Spider-Man? I don't understand.
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Spider-Man doesn't kill people.
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But then, fucking stupid ass James Franco starts being alive again
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So, Mary Jane dumps Spider-Man, for no good reason
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And then, she says "she's seeing another guy"
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Spider-Man, in a state of such distraught and fragility
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Goes to the only guy he thought he could trust James Franco, who goes:
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"I'm the other guy"
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Fucking backstabbing piece of shit James Franco
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How's the pie?
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Now, this scene is essential.
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Peter looks back into the cafe and that little bitch, winks at him
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and then BOOM!
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Like that, he's gone.
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Now, the question is.
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Where the hell did he go?
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The truck takes like one second, to go in front of Peter and then he disappears.
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This is where I realized that James Franco is actually hiding under the table.
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Think about it!
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Naturally, Spider-Man slams James Franco into a wall
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and then chucks a fucking grenade at his head.
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Then we cut to Spider-Man being fed a plate of cookies, and he says:
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You got any with nuts?
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I have some nuts. I could make some.
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Go make me some.
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Now, this is actually a very clever scene, when you think about.
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In life, there was such a rich variety of cookies
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Peanut butter, chocolate chip, mint cookies, oatmeal raisin.
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But director Sam Raimi, has Spider-Man consciously choose Nut cookies to signify, that this man has gone nuts.
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Do you guys get that?
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You have the scene where Spider-Man is pointing at various women on the sidewalk
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Now, look at the gesture he's making with his hand.
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He is saying to these women, "you're safe now"
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But in Spider-Man 4, I will shoot you with a pistol.
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But, it's not until THIS moment where we,
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the viewers, see that faint flicker of hope, within Peter, snuffed out.
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He changes his hair from the normal way to this Evil hair.
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This is when the Spider-Man, that I knew
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who had lost Uncle Ben
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who'd defeated Bonesaw
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This is when he had become truly lost.
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You'll get your rent when you fix this damn door!
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Spider-Man 3 tells a dark story that confronts the audience with serious questions
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and for this reason,
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I think it became a very divisive film.
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I talked a lot with Sam Raimi about the tone of that, of the character and how far to go with the darker side of Peter Parker
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and for me, I just kept pushing.
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I wanted to explore that, further and further
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It's a movie from a different era where artists were encouraged to take bold risks,
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uninhibited by close-minded executives
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And I sincerely doubt we'll ever see Marvel, reach these heights again.
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Like Alfred said:
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"with big power comes big responsibility"