The Like/Hate Thread

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I would rather them just not do anything at all. A "complete reboot" is not the way to go, imo.

I agree, or at least not anytime soon.

What worries me is this... The REASON that Spidey 3 was not well received is because Sony insisted that Venom be placed into it, regardless of his original plan (which coincidently was Vulture even then). They felt that Venom would be better accepted, so despite how successful the first two were when Raimi was given the freedom to do his own thing, they jumped into the middle of 3 and guess what? Story got convoluted and didn't work, too many characters. So now he is dropping because he can't make the one year deadline for a movie that doesn't even have a set script much less any filming on it, so they want to just bump the year up by one more and reboot the series to "follow their own vision" more? Remember that 3 was what happened when they started pushing their own intentions in, now consider that he's leaving because they are doing the exact same thing and now they want to have full control over the reboot series.

Its akin to if they decide to go to Nolan and absolutely insist that the third Batman movie involve Joker again, regardless of reasoning and problems, as well as fit in Riddler and Catwoman at the same time, with maybe some Robin. Other than that, "feel free to do what you want". It would be terrible (remember Batman Forever as opposed to the first two?)

Its also annoying that their vision involves them once against making a movie entirely about the origin and High School days (since every movie right now is basically issue one of their comic, get to see the origin on the big screen deal, some good, some terrible).

At first I felt that "Oh, they realized they couldn't force a story in that time so they canceled and moved on", but then I realized that... they just let the director and cast go, and still intend to push a movie out as quickly as fucking possible. Its a bit upsetting and reeks of trying to just cash in as much as possible on the comic craze right now, as if they are terrified that if they let it linger for too long, Marvel will get the movie rights back for their new company and Sony won't have full control.