![]() Sam Raimi used Flash so he could be the stereotypical bully, and at the beginning you think that's what Marc Webb plans to do, but then he shows that Flash isn't as big a douche as he makes himself out to be. Also THANK GOD They got Flash Thompson right. There's not really any goofy moments that I can think of and if there are then it's usually played for laughs. With this film, they get a little more serious. Sam Raimi is the master at making B movies and that's what the original trilogy was, an epic scale B Movie. Going back an having re-watched the Sam Raimi trilogy before seeing this one, the films are more like popcorn films. The first trilogy had a lot of them, yes even Spider-man 2 (The raindrops keep falling on my head scene). The third cliché it avoids is having silly moments. That is not the case with this film, a lot of the time you think one thing is going to happen but then it doesn't and the opposite happens. Girl gets kidnapped, Spidey saves girl, Spidey defeats villain or jumps out of the way so the villain can do harm to himself. The original films basically have Spider-man going through the motions. The second cliché it avoids is being predictable. Finally a Spider-man film where the woman have a brain-stem. Gwen actually has a confrontation with with villain and she doesn't screw around, I won't say what she does but when I saw it happen I couldn't help but cheer. Sure Mary Jane tried to hit Doctor Octopus with a plank in the second film, but she couldn't even do that right. One of the main problems I had with Sam Raimi's films was the fact that all woman were pretty much portrayed as objects that Spider-man can save. Well first of all the woman in this film aren't morons. I'll try and explain a few without spoiling the film. ![]() In fact the film pretty much avoids all clichés at all. ![]() Let me go off saying that behind Spider-man 2, this is probably the best of the Spider-man trilogy for one avoids all clichés that the original trilogy didn't. "Why was this made? We've seen this already?" Blah blah blah. People who've only seen the Spider-man films and never bothered to read any of the comics. So Anyone who is a fan of the comics will respect this movie on that merit, the merit that it was faithful to the source material while bringing in new stuff without losing what made Spider-man who he is. Spider-man has web shooters, Spider-man likes to joke a lot, Gwen Stacy was Spider-man's first love, etc. Being a Spider-man comic book fan I can say that a lot of the stuff that happens in this story is true to the comic book Spider-man. ![]()
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