Sam Raimi Hates One of His Spider-Man Movies: ‘Awful!’
Sometimes the director just hates the movie he made.
Sam Raimi showed with his first films – the Evil Dead trilogy and the superhero noir Darkman – that he could work cinematic miracles on a shoestring budget.
But what's even cooler is that when he was given big money to work on Spider-Man, one of the first major superhero franchises of the 2000s, he didn't lose his head, but gracefully adapted his amazing directorial plasticity to the new conditions.
Of course, with each successful film, he got more and more money, and the third Spider-Man installment cost $258-350 million, making it the most expensive film at the time of its release.
Spider-Man 3 Was a Disappointment for Both Fans And the Director
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Spider-Man 3 was supposed to be a big blockbuster, but it turned out to be a big disappointment. First of all, of course, for the fans, whose expectations were higher than ever. But it wasn't only the fans who were disappointed, but also the film's creator, Sam Raimi, who didn't hesitate to express his dissatisfaction in an interview:
“It’s a movie that just didn’t work very well. I tried to make it work, but I didn’t really believe in all the characters. [...] I should’ve just stuck with the characters and the relationships and progressed them to the next step and not tried to top the bar.”
Moreover, Raimi later called Spider-Man 3 not just a bad movie, but an "awful" one.
Spider-Man 3 Tried to Focus on Too Many Storylines at Once
The success of the second Spider-Man forced Sam Raimi to go over his own head – the third installment featured three villains at once, none of whom got the attention they deserved.
Perhaps if Spider-Man 3 was made now, when any decent action movie runs over two hours, it would not be so sad. But in the end, we have what we have.
The third Spider-Man turned out to be a victim of the producers' ambitions – instead of stuffing it with a myriad of storylines, the creators should have focused on the personal conflict between Tobey Maguire and James Franco 's characters, which simply got lost in the shuffle with Venom and Sandman.
Source: Collider