Spiderman 3: What went wrong.....spoilers ahead

Next new spidey costume; clear eye spidey.

What the hell? I had some serious expectations going into Spider man 3 and the king of all things camp just dashed it. There was WAYYYY to much going on in that film. Not to mention the whole "jump the shark" ending. I can't hate Raimi...Spidey 1 and 2 put the webslinger on the map and Army of Darkness is a all time classic, but Spidey 3.....

First problem was way too many villains. It planted too many sub plots for those villains just to have them in there. Sandman killed Uncle Ben? So spidey murdered some innocent dude in the first one. That being said, the whole reason he had his whole "great power=great responsibility" thing is 'cause of his uncle and what happened to that thug and by putting that thug as a nobody you take away the gravity of the first one rendering that whole subplot useless. Secondly, I personally would've liked to have seen venom come from J.J's sons mission in the second one; a good way to tie the existing films. His son goes to space, discovers the symbiote and brings it back. (Dormant in space but gets to our atmosphere and blammo; its escaped! only NASA knows....)

So sand silos make sand people huh? And water gets on him and he turns to mud, which should be harder than sand, and doesn't lay an ass whooping on spidey? I don't know; it seemed like a different continuity all together. Like movie producers said to raimi " sequels equal more, moRE, MORE! more villains, more explosions, more crap!". Holy not learning from past shitty movie franchises batman! And the way they jumped the shark totally at the end......I don't mind that harry turned good. That was a nice dichotomy between harry and peter and actually gave it a very human touch. My problem was more with the sandman and the way they killed venom. WTF? One of the coolest characters, first off, finally gets screen time and they totally kill him off with a pumpkin bomb that seemed to be super charged. When its thrown at harry, fucked up face. But thrown at venom its Hiroshima.

Venom was fun when he was on screen. Why take that away? And Godzilla sandman; one minute fighting to kill spidey and harry; the next hiding behind a corner ready to apologize for killing spideys uncle and not even saying shit about costing harry his life ( he was fighting both of them after all; I know venom killed him but he probably wouldn't of even been there if spidey didn't have to tackle both sandie and venom). Spidey says its ok; shit happens. Everyone goes on. WTF? I didn't know sharks jumped that high. You could've planted stronger seeds for the fourth film with the time you wasted with sandman (like show doc conners testing shit to set up the lizard). How bout that dance seen too? Oh, and gotta love peters fallout boy impression. "When I'm bad, i wear eyeliner and put my bangs down. Time to get mid evil; maybe play a riff of dance dance as well...". This franchise is starting to smell like a certain clooney-movie with bat suits and rubber nipples. Cant wait for spideys tighter codpiece.....

"Dont ruin it, please!!"

Breaking my cherry and finally submitting to this whole blog thing. Its been a long time coming and I hope I can put up my art and animation on this thing. In the meantime tho, just wanted to talk video games. I am a passionate player when i do have spare time (meaning if something grabs my attention, it holds it till i got it licked).

I got the wii and although it is a novelty, it is a necessary novelty. Its actually going to force the industry to expand, which in anything is a key to survival. I wish the comic book industry had that mentality 15 years ago; maybe it wouldn't be in bad a shape as it's in. I am currently enthralled with a game called "Guitar Hero 2" and having tons of fun with it. I'm really looking for that difference; stuff that's inspiring and really bringing something new to the table. I found even tho Guitar hero 2 is gimmicky (it has to be played with the guitar controller or loses its luster) I'm having fun with it. Even tho Zelda was the same game done so many times but incarnated on the wii, the gimmick of the wii controller gave it a fresh spin and really made it fun. The possibilities for that system, if one of the game developers would give a dam and actually put there blood, sweat and tears into a game on the wii, are endless.

Nintendo seems to be the only one trying to push the envelope on that system; playing the ps3 and 360 really seems like the ps2 and xbox, only with souped up graphics. And even alot of the games graphics are "whatever". I think Ive been spoiled by computer graphics cause you see the possibilities (like in the movie final fantasy 7) and there there in the cut scenes, but come in game time they crap out for obvious reasons. (And even some cut scenes are shit). Honestly, i cant justify the ps3 or 360; gears of war aside. Ps2 tho; I mean i will take god of war 2 and guitar hero 2 over anything in the ps3 library right now. And I know I'm gonna take alot of shit for saying this but honestly, metal gear solid 4 looks really dumb. I honestly think Kojima has lost it...too many weird sci-fi movies. Part 2 sucked balls and part 3 tried to steer it right, but its getting ridiculous. Sequels, without freshness, kills anything.

I don't care if its a gimmick added, as long as its something DIFFERENT! Now I am a huge Simpson's fan. I know they're not at there best and haven't been for a while. I did have alot of fun playing through my copy of hit and run for ps2. It actually held a Simpson flavor akin to the old days. I had heard terrible news tho that EA, distributors of all things sweatshop, obtained the rights to the Simpson's license. Like everyone I cringed. I just hope, honestly the dont ruin it. Please, for the love of god don't "road rage" it. Now, you can see the game in action at gametrailers.com. The animation actually looks really nice (Specially when homer goes all blimp and rolls around; nice secondary ani. on the arms and head!). And one intriguing question was asked, according to IGN.com. They asked if the Simpson's original arcade game would be an unlockable and apparently the director smiled and said "no comment". I sure hope it is! I loved that game, old school. Got it through mame too ; but if this game is good AND it has that unlockable, count me sooo in! God, please give EA a visit from the gaming gods to make a good game from this.....Just some random thoughts for me first blog. Next blog; I'm gonna tell you why spidey 3 sucked balls......