Spidey 3

It has been almost a week since the release of the much anticipated ( surely not by me ) release of Spiderman 3. I saw it with some friends the second day out, and I have to say, was thoroughly disapointed. I had set my standards low since I hadn't found the previous 2 to be all that great, but by no means was I expecting the 3rd one to actually be as bad as it was. Its hard for me to talk about it without spoiling anything, so I'll just list what made it truly bad. Too many characters ( sandman was particularly pointless and wasted a large amount of screentime that most definetely could have been focused on the black spidey suit, or venom ), horrible pacing, acting, dialogue, continuity...it goes on. The entire film just seemed to be a live action comic book, which most surely doesn't ensure it is a good film. The only scene I found to be truly interesting and cool was when sandman first comes to be. Rising out of sand, his determined rebirth...otherwise the film was full of alot of things I thought could have been done better, or didnt need to be there at all.

Below are some conceptual drawings and maquettes done for the film. They and many other production materials are collected in the book: The Spider-Man Chronicles: The Art and Making of Spider-Man 3. Its probably a must buy for die hard spidey fans.

I flipped through this book before going in to see the film. There are some great conceptual graphite drawings by E.J. Krisor ( some of which appear below ) which have some nice rendering of the actors, and capture the feeling of tension and pain that the suit imposes. If they had released just a collection of the pencil drawings I would have bought that in a second.Too bad.