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My Spider Sequel Sense is Tingling...
Posted at 10:40 a.m. - Monday, September 8
As reported in the RedEye today and bandied about the internet, Sam Raimi and Tobey Maguire are set to return to the Spider-man film franchise and reprise their roles as director and star, respectively. You'd think that this geek would be kicking his heels and jumping for joy, and maybe I should be, but for now I'm not.
Why?
Well, for one, Spider-man 3 came off to me as a big let-down. After the great precedent set by Spider-man 2, I may have been expecting too much, but the third installment of the Spidey 'trilogy' was too self-indulgent and excessive. Lots of fanboys take issue with all the crying that took place at the end of the film. I wasn't so much bothered by that, as much as I was bothered by too many characters getting involved in the main storyline, which was Peter coming to terms with being Spider-man.
So where do they go from here? Sam Raimi was initally going to play the behind-the-scenes producer role in any future Spidey installments, but is now getting back behind the camera. Is that a good thing?
This is sort of the flip side to the Ghostbusters argument that's been going on, where it appears as if the GBs will be making way for some new guys to fill in the characters boots. Some fanboys are taking exception to that. In the case of Spiderman, the same cast and crew appears to be staying in place.
And yet, this fanboy can't be happy with that either.
Somebody talk me out of this wishy-washy stupor!
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