After hearing Rachel Nicholl speak about the work she did as Matchmovie Lead on this, I wanted to see this movie. Most notable was the sand effect used throughout the movie for the Sandman. Nicholl explained that all the code and programming for that effect was built just for that movie from scratch and the incredible amount of work and detail that went into making the effect look real was insane. Another effect that had a great amount of detail was the goo effect of the alien symbiote, which really looked like it belonged in whichever environment it was placed. The places where most detail was overlooked were the scenes that were full of action and it seemed like the audience wouldn't notice the lack of attention; a building section was flying to pieces after being smashed by an I-beam and Spidey was navigating the obviously computer generated debris. Overall though, the special effects in this movie were top notch as nothing extremely stood out of place.
With that being said about the effects, this movie was horrible. It starts out pretty good but around the middle it just goes batty. Peter goes evil, by pulling his hair down over his face, demanding the neighbor girl make him more cookies and killing people made of sand, when Spiderman shouldn't be doing any of those things. If this movie was trying to make me hate Peter, Mary Jane, and that one guy from Freaks and Geeks, they succeeded because towards the end I just wanted them all to die already. At least I partially got my wish in the last scene.
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