Why I disliked "Spider-Man":
1. I absolutely hate what they did with Spider-Man's character. They took everything about his personality that made him appealing in the first place? His sense of humor and his spunk are both gone (as its been for all of the films), leaving only the angst, which they maxed up to ridiculous levels all throughout the film.
2. I absolutely refuse to accept TObey Maguire as the leading man in anything. He looks like he's part lizard, and he can't act. On top of that, there was nothing, absolutely nothing, appealing about his Spider-Man. He's also still too much of a whimp.
3. They build Harry's character up and we never even get one epic battle between him and Spidey. Just a couple of half-assed fights that my grandma could have filmed in a nursing home using Old Man Wiggins and Old Man Jones as the actors.
4. The actor who played Eddie Brock would have done a better Carnage.
5. Eddie Brock is a tough, pushy New Yorker, not some other Whimenstein, like the film's Parker.
6. The special effects were nothing special, considering the $500 million budget they ended up bracking up.
7. The "bad boy" they gave Parker while he was possessed by the symbiote was laughable.
8. The symbiote's travel to earth was ridiculous. They set up J. Jonah's son as an astronaut in the second film. It would have been much better if they'd had him go up into space, pick up the symbiote while exploring and researching, which would get loose in the shuttle. This would cause the shuttle to go out of the control when it attacked the pilots. This would force Spider-Man to have to rescue J.J., jr. and his co-pilot whent he shuttle crashes into the bridge of the river, which would cause him to come into contact with the blasted parasite. That would have been much easier to swallow in a film than a one in a trillion chance encounter during a meteor shower.
9. They should have held Venom back one more film, allowing Brock's character to build up more, or they should have intruduced him earlier in the series. With the way they did it, Venom never had a chance to truly shine as the complex character that he is in the comics.
10. Why even include Dr. Connors if you're never going to do anything with him?
11. I, somehow, felt no sympathy for the Sandman. Not only that, but they have had him be used in a governemnt experiment conducted by corrupt scientists who use convicted murders. Then just have him escape once he's "sanded". That would have been more plausible for a film that you're supposed to take seriously than just to have him "just be there at the absolute perfect moment, despite the chances being one in a billion".
12. The relationship problems reached such levels of sheer tedium that I wondered if the makers of "Days of Our Lives" had made the film.
Those are pretty much my feelings in a nutshell.
