Amitabh Jotwani

So the much awaited Spiderman3 is out and I ofcourse just had to watch it the first day. I had been waiting for this for so long…Let’s just say, it was dissapointing…it was long and it was boring in parts…far too much drama and the emotions seemed far too stretched out…

It almost seemed like director Sam Raimi was watching some Bollywood flicks while he was scripting Spidy3 (Karan Johar did someone say , cause some of the scenes looked like a direct lift off from them or as Bollywood directors would like to say “Inspired from them!”. Here are some -

• Spidy’s friend Harry Osborn is dying, but he waits for Spidy to breathe his last
• Spidy says to dying Harry “I will get you through this” but Harry replies back “No, I gotta go!!” and dies
• Harry Osborn blackmails Spidy’s girlfriend Mary Jane to dump Spidy or he would kill him. So she does with an emotional speech “There is some other guy I love!!”
• And then in a typical Bollywood hero response, Spidy deicides to play the envy game and uses a girl to hurt Mary Jane back
• Harry Osborn’s butler convinces Harry that Spidy did not infact kill his father – just a few lines and that’s it!!
• The villain, the sandman breaks down in the climax and apologises!!
• Every character sheds a tear..literally each and every character!

Spidy vs Spidy

I really liked the concept of a good spidy vs a bad spidy, I think it was an excellent plot but the director did not use it efficiently. This to me should have been the basic plot around which the film should have revolved…instead the film revolves around emotions with action thrown in as fillers…absurd…infact the bad spidy does not show up untill the last 45 minutes or so of the film..

I think it could have been a great film had it been edited by…ummm…1 hour or so …it’s way tooooo long!!