![]() ![]() It’s an outcome of their comic book relationship, and it occurs through sheer coincidence in the film, while doing little to enhance Peter’s story. The fact that Brock and the symbiote eventually fuse is a matter of logistics. In addition, the presence of career climber Eddie Brock (Topher Grace) also serves a similar function, in that he reflects a more ruthless and uncaring version of Peter - a version Peter transforms into anyway during the story, rendering Brock practically useless. Take, for instance, the alien symbiote: Its function in the film is to magnify and enhance Peter’s aggression and insecurity, and while it does so in wildly entertaining fashion, it merely speeds up the story which the film is already telling via its fraught romantic relationship and the way Peter becomes blinded towards his own ego. Some themes feel discordant, given their lack of meaningful overlap, while others feel perfunctory, since they tell a story that’s already being told elsewhere in the film. ![]() Day 9: Spider-Man: No Way Home and Peter Parker’s Most Difficult ChoiceĮach villain’s individual trajectory reflects or magnifies some element of Peter’s personality, but even at 140 minutes in length, the movie is unable to balance this hefty combination.Day 8: Spider-Man: Far From Home Fumbles Its Tale of Power and Responsibility.Day 7: Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse Explores the Meaning Behind the Mask.Day 6: Spider-Man: Homecoming Lives in the Moment, For Better and For Worse.Day 5: The Amazing Spider-Man 2 and the Spider-Man Who Ran Out of Time.Day 4: The Amazing Spider-Man Goes Through the Origin Story Motions.Day 3: Spider-Man 3 Is Both Better and Messier Than You Remember.Day 2: Spider-Man 2 and Choosing a Suit.Day 1: Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man and Choosing Responsibility.The symbiote simply happens to land in Peter and MJ’s vicinity, and Marko hasn’t yet been connected to Uncle Ben’s murder, so for an extended period, the film feels as if it’s merely jumping between random, unconnected events. Of the three consecutive sequences, only Harry’s has even a hint of causality related to Spider-Man - who he believes killed his father - and none of them are causally related to one another. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the back-to-back scenes where Peter’s vengeful best friend Harry Osborn (James Franco) experiments on himself with the green gas his father used in the first film, followed by the arrival of the Venom symbiote on Earth in the background of a Peter/MJ scene, followed by The Sandman/Flint Marko (Thomas Haden Church) running to evade police. One of the chief complaints levied at Spider-Man 3 is its abundance of antagonists, but the problem isn’t simply numerical. ![]()
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