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This 5 page paper discusses the “Spiderman” movie franchise, and particularly the latest installment, the less-than-brilliant “Spiderman-3.” Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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film, which has been commented on by most reviewers. Discussion All the critics, at some point in their reviews, mention the fact that Spiderman 3 has a budget of more
than $250 million; they all seem to feel that the huge amount was wasted, at least in part. Kenneth Turan of the Los Angeles Times was typical of most reviewers.
He wrote, "What a difference a few years and more than $1.6 billion in worldwide Spidey and Spidey 2 theatrical receipts makes. All that money means that it wasnt in
the cards for "Spider-Man 3" to be a tale that demanded to be told in any artistic sense, a story that anyone burned to make for anything like purely creative
reasons" (Turan). In other words, it was the huge gross of the first two films that led to the making of the third. It had nothing to do with anyones
desire to tell a compelling story, or even to advance the franchise or take it in a different direction-it all came down to the fact that the studio knew a
third film would make a lot of money; in fact, the success of the first two "mandated" that a third be made (Turan). According to Turan, Spiderman is an "?ber-franchise
whose north of $250-million budget and sky-high expectations make it a master that must be served, a monster to be fed, an imperious creature with its own needs and drives"
(Turan). On-line critic James Berardinelli says that the film has a lot of problems and suggests that some of them may stem from the franchises popularity. "In each of the
first two films, director Sam Raimi was careful to limit the villain count to one ...Here, it triples, and the focus on the bad guys limits the amount of time
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