I’d like to have seen Raimi & Co given a chance to redeem themselves for SM3, the Lizard could have been great. Really don’t want to see a reboot that wastes half the film explaining his origin yet again, fingers crossed they’ll at least handle it like in the Hulk reboot.

Maybe that was more to do with the fact that the elements of Spider-Man 3 just didn’t really gel togeather as much as they could so it felt out of place to me. I don’t know.

Kristina – I disagree about Maguire. I actually quite liked him as Peter Parker, it was Spider-Man where I had most of my problems with him. As for Spider-Man 4 being shit….if, as Grundy said, the studio let Raimi do what he wanted then it had the potential to be quite good.

There were disquieting rumours, like Felica Hardy not being Black Cat but being a brand new character called “Vulturess” or the Vulture controlling an Avatar-alike version of himself, but I’m really not sure if they were the studio’s ideas or Raimi’s.

As far as I knew, Raimi wanted to finish the story of Dr Kurt Connors and finally gives us The Lizard as the villain, giving a nice counterpoint to the hero/villain relationship, but the studio didn’t want him to be the main villain of the piece.

Unfortunately, it’s in the past now. All we have to look forward to is the future and the hope that a reboot can work and we don’t end up with a movie that effectively kills the character in film for the foreseeable future.

The more I think about them sending Parker back to school, the more I’m thinking they’re going to be heading more into the Ultimate Spider-Man kind of territory, but if that’s going to be a good thing or not remains to be seen.

I’m going to stay open minded until director/stars are announced. I’m hoping they actually cast someone who not only looks the part but can act as well rather than just the latest teenie heartthrob (Robert Pattinson as Peter Parker? *shudder*) but we’ll just have to wait for now.

Spider-Man 3 isn’t a horrible movie, it’s quite middling which is what’s frustrating with it. Because the elements are there, they just don’t connect.

Rebooting it back to high school is a pretty bad idea, most likely being as a way of getting more of the tween crowd (dollars to donuts, they’ll cast a pretty boy in the role of Parker). I wouldn’t mind this if it was more of a continuation – a new trilogy, with a vague connection to the prior one. A new creative team and cast moving forward with the story not backwards.