Spider man without....spider man

[ANGRYWOLF]

Sony overhauls 'Spider-Man' sequel; Raimi, Maguire out | Company Town | Los Angeles Times

epic fail !

[Shiny]

Raimi, Maguire and Dunst already said that they'd only do 3 movies. This was contracted way in advance, so this news isn't very surprising.

[ANGRYWOLF]

and it's generally regarded as a negotiating ploy.

Maguire has made that studio more money that any other star they have.

So it was expected he would be offered some outrageous sum of money and come back.

So the epic fail comment stands.

[Bunny]

A bad series has been made worse.

[AntRid]

Why are they rebooting the franchise? The first movie came out in 2002? It’s too soon for a reboot! Just because the last film was bad doesn’t mean they need to start over! Look at Star Wars, they continue to fail yet they are still going.

[Raistlin]

A bad series has been made worse.

Yeah, pretty much, although I might have said merely "mediocre" instead of "bad." It was a pretty disappointing series, regardless of the semantic labels.

[G13]

Look at Star Wars, they continue to fail yet they are still going.

How dare you!

Seriously though, I get what you're saying. The second trilogy wasn't as good as it could have been, and the story was changed around somewhat.

I don't get why Spiderman was received so badly. I enjoyed them for what they were. It's a little upsetting to hear that it's going to be changing so drastically, but that's to be expected after the initial trilogy. Here's hoping it turns out better than I expect.

[charliepanayi]

In short:

Spiderman - great, but weak villain
Spiderman 2 - great, better villain
Spiderman 3 - complete mess, and a lesson in what happens when you chuck too many villains into your films (as well as what happens the studio start forcing the director to do stuff he doesn't want to do)

It'd be a lot better if they just let the whole thing stop rather than further mess up the franchise, but while there's money to be made that'll never happen. Mind you, it can't be worse than Superman IV or Batman and Robin surely...

[I Don't Need A Name]

Maybe this will make the films watchable!

[Jiro]

Look at Star Wars, they continue to fail yet they are still going.

How dare you!

I'll hold him, you pound on him.

[G13]

Well, he is new. Maybe we should give him a break.

I thought 3 had a nice balance with the villains. Harry has to have a shot at revenge, Sandman poses a problem but is basically to keep Spidey in business while the symbiote does it's work, and then more revenge when Eddie becomes Venom. It is a bit much but at least it wasn't "Hey! Look at this!" in your face in the first five minutes.

I thought most of the story was a bit too drawn out but what do I know about making movies?

[Depression Moon]

Spiderman didn't do much at me. Especially looking back at those movies after Iron Man, Hulk, and Dark Knight, they were child's play in comparison.

I can actually see now the some of the reason it lacked greatness were because of its actors and the second reason is because Fox made it and they do poorly as a whole on creating adaptations.

[I Took the Red Pill]

the smurf

[Cyric]

Look at Star Wars, they continue to fail yet they are still going.

How dare you!

I'll hold him, you pound on him.

Han Solo...is a bitch.

[Boney King]

Why are they rebooting the franchise? The first movie came out in 2002? It’s too soon for a reboot! Just because the last film was bad doesn’t mean they need to start over! Look at Star Wars, they continue to fail yet they are still going.

Ang Lee's Hulk came out in 2003, but it was such a commercial failure that they rebooted the franchise in 2008.

Lesson: in Hollywood, it's never too soon.