At first I thought this thread was concerning the comics or overall. Maybe you should add in Movie to the title.
Going back it's a little boring to watch those movies, for me at least. I can agree about the silliness. The screaming girl, the women singing the Spider-man theme song from the 60s. Dock Oc's hospital seen seemed more silly than serious. I also wondered why they put in known actors for the extra roles. I noticed the boy from Losing Isaiah, The girl from Antwone Fisher, I didn't know who that big guy was back then, but he ended up playing in extra segment in The Dark Knight. He was probably in a show or another movie before.

There was also a guy from Mad TV in there on the train too. I did sort of feel that the maintenance man thing was kind of silly and that Gwen Stacy shouldn't haven't been in any of the movies if she wasn't going to be in the first. It just seemed pointless for her to be in Spider-man threee and she was a throwaway character. Venom I was really disappointed with. For a while I had thought that Topher Grace was both Pete and Brock. I think they went out their way to go extra silly because they didn't acknowledge Venom's name, his mannerisms, his body type, they showed his human face more than his symbiote face, he hardly got any screen time, and they killed him off.

I remember someone saying when/after the 2nd film was in theatres that they were going to build up Venom's presence by having Pete get the symbiote suit and tear it off in the bell tower at the end, ending with the symbiote dripping on Brock's shoulder. I admit that I wasn't really feeling the Pete and Mary Jane relationship. Mary Jane was hot enough and it was done poorly to me. Pete's transformation with the clothes and hair and dance scene, that was dumb. I think everyone can agree with that.


I enjoyed the first two back then and semi liked the 3rd one just for the action, but I can't really watch those first two really. It's boring.