Comments on: Sam Raimi Walks Away from Spider-Man 4, Sony to Reboot Franchise Instead

By: abhishek

abhishek — Mon, 17 May 2010 10:20:08 +0000

i am the grates fan of spider man movies and i sow spider man 2 more than 20 times and spider man 3 more than 15 times .. i was egerly waiting for spider man 4 .. when i herd about the rubbish of raimi it was like some one punched me on my face .. please continue making spiderman movies …. requesting please

By: Reed Farrington

Reed Farrington — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 17:43:17 +0000

The British Empire (or at least the readers of Empire magazine) have recently voted Spider-Man 3 as one of the 50 worst films ever. Ever! Considering how much money Spider-Man 3 made in the UK, that’s a lot of disappointed people.

By: Bobby Mann

Bobby Mann — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 09:34:58 +0000

OK…No one is a bigger Spidey fan than me…I am 45 years old, so I grew up with the WEBSLINGER…Raimi was a disaster from the first film…he/they screwed things up from the get go…no mechanical web-shooters…Spidey’s mask came off way too much in all three films…Spidey is much stronger than he was portrayed in the films…his Spider-sense should kick in more than it did in the films..The Goblin Costume was a joke in #1, you need to see the Goblin’s facial expressions to make him more menacing…Raimi and the cinematographer shot New York to look like Iowa to often…JK Simmon’s was too over-the-top in his portrayal of Jolly Jonah…Gwen Stacy and Betty Brant come way before Mary Jane…Kirsten Dunst is not HOT enough to portray Mary Jane…A properly costumed and menacing Goblin has to kill Gwen to further develop Peter/Spiderman’s psyche…The 1990’s animated series on FOX does Spidey more justice (as doe the new series on DisneyXD, THE SPECTACULAR SPIDERMAN)..the story arcs are true to the canon from the comic books and Peter’s brilliance as a young scientist is demonstrated in both animated series. The Raimi movies were so wrong on so many levels and SPIDERMAN 2 borrowed way too much from SUPERMAN: THE MOVIE in terms of pacing and sentiment. Makes me wish I went to film school…So yes REBOOT the franchise, it should not have taken 3 movies to get to VENOM, it took 20 plus years of comic book tales to get to VENOM and for that Spidey had to fight in the SECRET WARS and gained the symbiote on another planet, etc…I have no problem seeing the young, high school aged Peter Parker again and done correctly this time..Let Kevin Smith write and direct the new franchise.

By: Napalm

Napalm — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 13:09:30 +0000

On one hand I’m sad because Sam Raimi and the cast did a great job with the first two movies and from the looks of the recent news it seemed like they were taking their time with this fourth one, even though I was on the fence with it at first. But on the other hand I see this as a good news. The third one was pretty bad and honestly I was getting a little tired of the cast and the overall feel of the movies.

With a fresh new cast and a great director behind the camera this new start might give us something good.

By: David

David — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 03:57:10 +0000

Sam Raimi did a mediocre job. Spiderman was a bore and number 2, even worse. I am glad Sony see fit to let someone else direct this franchise.

By: Pete

Pete — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 01:35:00 +0000

incredible suit is wrong on only one point..the studio monkey wouldve rubbed the shit all over himself as opposed to eating it..and i agree with f-shits..except the turnaround for the reboot was close to a decade..that is the point though..the entire franchise crashed and went dormant to open up a revisioning/reboot/new cash cow…when ya see the post about the new zemeckis yellow sub project and all the juice around avatar…kind of gives me a feel of where the studios are going…justice league motion capture 3D in IMAX…along with spiderman along with the eternals(any jack kirby fans in the room?)…

By: fuckingshits

fuckingshits — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 16:04:46 +0000

6. Didn’t it only take about 5-7 after the last Batman film before they decided that they would reboot the series?

By: fuckingshits

fuckingshits — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 15:54:18 +0000

Yes! Finally Raimi drops Spider-Man! Out of 3 movies, he only made one worth watching, Spider-Man 2. And even that movie was overrated.
But I’m glad he has left the movie. Never liked his direction of Spider-Man.

By: Itchy-Finger

Itchy-Finger — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 14:10:13 +0000

My only hope is that they at least pick a villain that they haven’t done before. And please don’t go back to Green Goblin, he’s my least favorite villain.

By: KYriakos

KYriakos — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 13:50:11 +0000

Hhaha ..Zac Efron!?

Atlast spiderman its now Douche-Cool again!

By: The Incredible Suit

The Incredible Suit — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 13:36:41 +0000

Here’s exactly what happened when Raimi met with the head of Sony, a retarded monkey:

Sam Raimi: “Well, Iâ€™ve confirmed Tobey Maguire and Kirsten Dunst for Spider-Man 4, and Iâ€™ve secured John Malkovich to play The Vulture, so it looks like I might be able to atone for the last one and make another great movie!”

Retarded Monkey: “OO! OO! OO!”

Sam Raimi: “Quite. The only thing is, I wonâ€™t have it ready for next summer like you wanted. Itâ€™ll take another year to do it properly because these things take time.”

Retarded Monkey: “AA! AA!”

Sam Raimi: “Indeed. Well we rushed Spider-Man 3, and you made me cram too many villains in, and look what happened there.”

Retarded Monkey squeezes out a huge poo on the desk.

Sam Raimi: “Iâ€™m sorry you feel that way, but what with my excellent track record as an innovative director capable of handling massive action sequences and nuanced emotional drama whoâ€™s made 2.5 billion dollars for this studio, I think youâ€™ll agree I know what Iâ€™m doing.”

Retarded Monkey flings some of the poo at the wall.

Retarded Monkey: “EEK! EEK! OO! OO! AA!”

Sam Raimi: “What? You want to get rid of me and all the actors and start the franchise again with a completely different bunch of people and call it a reboot and put it out only five years after the last film and the scriptâ€™s already written and itâ€™s ‘gritty’ even though the comic was all about fun and bright colours and people donâ€™t want a ‘gritty’ Spider-Man when theyâ€™ve got Batman, Bond and Potter all mooching about in huge piles of grit and could I close the door on the way out? Are you some kind of retarded monkey?”

Retarded Monkey eats the rest of the poo.

Sam Raimi: “Right you are. Good luck with that. Iâ€™m sure the audience canâ€™t wait to see Zac Efron as Peter Parker and sit through another origin story.”

Retarded Monkey: “OO! OO! Do you have McGâ€™s phone number?”

Sam Raimi leaves to make billions of dollars for another studio.

By: Burgus

Burgus — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 10:54:10 +0000

Give us a new episode!