I enjoyed reading both your posts, guys.

I think I like this movie better than the first because whenever you do an orgin story it takes a while to get it off the ground. In this movie Spidey is alread established and you can get right into the main plot.

I think Octopus was brilliantly played and I seriously could not think of a better way he could be portrayed on the big screen. It's interesting the way he died in the movie. He had to die of course, because it's a movie and the villians always die. If it was a TV show or comic where they could use him again a whole bunch of times it would make more sense to not kill him off, but you're really only going to get 3 movies, maybe a couple more, but there are so many other villians left in the Spideyverse that you don't need Ock running around. A villian team-up would be cool, but you'd need at least two more movies to set up the other villians and it just isn't feasible.

I think the twists were good ones with MJ/Harry discovering Spidey's identity. MJ has to learn it at some point and now Pete has a confidant which would hopefully create some good moments. One thing I was wondering as soon as Harry unmasked Spidey was if they would get Defoe back for the third movie to help Harry go nuts but my question was answered early! That was a great end. The end was most certainly better than the first one.

Couple things I didn't like. I didn't like how the tentacles controlled Octavious, it took a lot of his personality out of it. But the casting was so good that he eventually convinced me that the arms were just tapping into his own emotions and resentment for his losses and magnifying them, so I was cool with it. The other thing was Peter losing his powers because he 'didn't want to be Spider-Man'. I'm hoping that was just a metaphor and it was really the mutation disease that caused it, but I wouldn't be upset if they just left that whole plot out of further films.

So it looks like Spider-Man 3 will be vs. Green Goblin 2. That's kind of redundant. I hope they throw in a lesser villian like Lizard (we did see some of Doc Connors after all) to keep Pete busy while he deals with the main issue of Harry pumpkin bombing the hell out of everyone. I don't like it when they use two villians (Batmans 3 and 4) but in this case it might work because the characters are so familiar to Peter and Lizard can't really carry his own movie. That's what I like most about Spider-Man. The heroes'/villians' identities are just as important as their costumed alter egos.