The Avengers

[Amanroth]

You actually paid money to see Spider-Man 2?

I liked Dr. Octopus as much as the next guy, but I'd probably much prefer to pay money to see Bruce Campbell stand still and say nothing.

[Kiriska]

That I paid money to see Spider-Man 3 is the bigger travesty.

I enjoyed Spidey 2, even if they sank a miniature sun into the Hudson and called it some kind of solution to the problem.

[Amanroth]

Hey, there's nothing wrong with Spidey 3... well, besides everything. I'm very ashamed for all of mankind that the movie was even made. I mean Sam Raimi just got lazy... Let's make Venom smaller than Spider-man... Let's make Parker an emo. Well I don't wan to go off on a Dennis Miller rant so I'll cut myself off there.

[Kiriska]

Well, here's hoping reboot Spidey turns out okay. I'm mostly underwhelmed by the trailers, but I'll probably still see it in theatres. There's also hope Disney/Marvel and Sony can come to some arrangement and get film Spidey to mesh with the rest of the MCU.

[Amanroth]

yeah i'd be excited if they could tie it in with the avengers. maybe he'll have a cameo in the sequel if we're lucky.

[Kiriska]

Apparently the Oscorp building was supposed to be part of the NY skyline in the Avengers, but they didn't have a chance to rerender it after finally getting Sony's approval. I've also heard there was suppose to be a shot of a university and a Peter Parker cameo, but who knows~.

[j-ren]

I'm pretty sure Spider-Man reboot is so he can be in the next Avengers movie. Also Spidey 2>Spidey 3
I've heard that Raimi didn't have control over the third film so Sony is mostly to blame for Sandman and emo shenanigans.

[Alpha]

God, venom in S3 makes me want to kill something.

[EnigmaticManiac]

Sandman was the director's idea, the producers wanted closer to the goblin storyline, the fans wanted Venom. After X-Men 3 (another * disgrace of a movie), you would have thought they would have learned their lesson about putting too many big names on the screen. Clearly it worked for Avengers, but that is more a testament to Joss Whedon's crazy ability to write well-developed and balanced characters. Spiderman 3 was just being pulled in too many directions at once with no thought of balance or character. Also, emo spiderman. Alpha, you can kill him.

[Kiriska]

The Avengers' huge cast also worked because, you know, four of them and the villain already had their own movies to develop in (I still think it's amazing that Marvel had the patience and willingness to take risks to do that), so it wasn't like we had everyone's origin story mashed together in two hours. But yes, Whedon's awesome ability write characters was definitely what held it together.