I finally saw Spider-Man 3 last night and Peter Parker was really in trouble in this latest installment, huh?
He beat the Green Goblin in the first movie and overcame Doctor Octopus as well as, well, himself in the sequel. But in the third installment had to battle his most dangerous foe yet.
A black sludge entity from outer space that almost permanently changed Peter Parker … into an emo kid.
When Peter Parker wears his black suit, which was tainted by the black sludge, his emotions change. He becomes dark. Gloomy. A little aloof. His hair seems to become a few shades darker and fall into his eyes. And it causes Parker to start wearing eye shadow, much like our friend Price a couple years back.
I did a Google search for “emo spiderman” and found a few others noticed how dangerously emo Parker became too.
For those of you unfamiliar with the term emo, Wikipedia.org describes it in the following way:
Emo is a somewhat ambiguous slang term most frequently used to describe a fashion or subculture derived from hardcore punk fashion and its subculture. The slang term emo is best known for its fashion style[1] and attitude. Emo may describe this fashion or music, or a general emotive state (as in to “feel emo”). It is also, sometimes pejoratively, used to identify someone fitting a particular emo stereotype or category.
Further, Wikipedia provides this graphic of how emo kids dress.
Overall, I still liked the movie a lot. Comparing it to the first two films, “Spider-Man 2″ is still my favorite, followed by the first “Spider-Man,” but “Spider-Man 3″ is a close third.
I can’t discuss “Spider-Man 3″ too much without spoiling the movie, but I will say it could have been shortened a little. It dragged a bit a times and Sam Raimi missed the mark completely with that sequence where Parker’s jiving down the street pointing at all the ladies right up to the awful dance scene in the bar.
Raimi, who has directed all three films, was trying to throw in some humor. He was successful at that during the proposition scene in the restaurant with the French maître d’ — who was played by Bruce Campbell. But the street strutting and dancing was just … not good.
The fighting sequences and effects were awesome as usual, so the movie still gets two thumbs up from me.
Here’s what Spider-Man’s new logo would have probably looked like if he wasn’t able to escape the complete transformation into emo Spider-Man:
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