Spiderman 3

As you may have guessed from my title, my post is concerned with Spiderman 3. For once, things are actually going pretty well for Peter. He's dating Mary Jane, (the girl he's loved forever apparently) Spiderman is very popular, and his work is going well. Unfortunately, this starts to go to his head just as Harry decides to worm his way between Peter and MJ, his Uncle Ben's real killer reappears as the Sandman, and a symbiote which can enhance his abilities and his dark side gets a hold of him. As you could no doubt guess, the visual effects are awesome, especially with the ones showing him swinging through the air and the Sandman coalescing out of sand. And at least Mary Jane was a little useful and seemed more intelligent to me in this film. And the film was actually funny, even during the scene where Peter and Harry fight in Harry's home. You can tell that they may have superpowers, but at heart they're just two nerds duking it out. And when Peter is eying up all the women in the street you have to shake your head and wonder that he doesn't know how much more nerdy he looks. But sometimes I have to wonder why these movies are so popular. I don't have to question why the character is. But sometimes I felt like this was a kind of corny cult movie that Raimi has a habit of making with a huge budget. The dialogue was so corny that the whole audience actually burst out laughing. Maybe people (heck, me included) are so into the cool effects and the underdog story with the hopeless nerd that they're willing to tolerate it.