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The OG Spidey trilogy deserves your respect.
Let's count them down!
Denial: "You can't do this to me."
Anger: "You know how much I sacrificed?!"
Bargaining: "Max, please."
Depression & Acceptance: Seeing he has no way out, Norman breathes heavily and looks like a defeated animal. He only accepts what's happened when he realizes he can just murder everyone.
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Peter Parker may be a photographer, but we mainly just see his work for the Daily Bugle. But if you've ever met a photographer, you know they have PLENTY to show you. So it makes sense that Peter would save some pictures he took of Mary Jane — especially if he snapped the picture just before a spider gave him superpowers.
We usually imagine the Marvel/DC rivalry as a tense, no-nonsense battle between the two biggest players in the comics arena. So it's always fun when one references the other, like when Chloé Zhao got a Superman reference into Eternals. Tobey Maguire riffed two iconic lines that unmistakably belong to DC characters when testing out his web powers: "Up up and away, web!" and "Shazam!"
When Peter Parker says, "I am Spider-Man, no more," he really means it. He means it so much that he throws his suit away in the same alley where he did one of the most Spider-Man things ever: kissed Mary Jane Watson while hanging upside down. Was that particular alley easiest for the studio to shoot in? Was it a pre-built set they recycled? Let's just give Sam Raimi the benefit of the doubt and say it's super deep.
In Fantastic Four #19, published in 1963, Stan Lee first said "'Nuff said" in his Bullpen Bulletin. The bulletin was a part of the comic book in which Lee could go over news in the Marvel Universe, promote new issues, and make announcements. That "'Nuff said" became as cherished a catchphrase of the man as "Excelsior!" It's only fitting that one of Lee's most touching cameos in Spider-Man 3 has him saying it. 'Nuff said.
Every child dreams of growing up to be an astronaut, secret agent, or spider wrangler. Steven Kutcher is living the dream as a professional spider-man, and he wrangled the house spider that was used in the first movie. The initial idea was that a spider resembling a black widow bites Peter, but those tend to be, y'know, super dangerous. When they say Kutcher "wrangled" the house spider, I like to imagine a tiny little leash and spider-snacks. Kutcher used paint (non-toxic) to paint the spider, and the bite was created using CGI.
When we first see how Harry Osborn has set up shop in his father's lair, Raimi shows us Norman's stuff, then Harry's stuff. We see the Green Goblin's glider, then Harry's...snowboard. We also see the Green Goblin's helmet and Harry's facemask, but in between those two pieces of headgear we get this silver helmet. It could easily be a version of the Green Goblin's helmet, but fans think it's a nod to the Hobgoblin. Did Roderick Kingsley (the Hobgoblin) somehow buy Oscorp? Did Harry tinker with the idea of becoming some version of the Green Goblin that would wind up being the Hobgoblin? We can't be sure, but the small glimpse of this helmet was enough to set off the rumor mill.
First thing's first: Bruce Campbell himself has said that he was never told by Raimi that he was set to play Mysterio. The franchise was supposed to have several more films before Spider-Man 3 tanked, and rumor has it that there was a storyboard of Campbell as the master of illusions. Campbell as Mysterio could fit the fact that he plays three different characters in the trilogy. When the rumors started, fans were quick to point out a line Campbell has in Spider-Man 2 about "maintaining the illusion." Regardless of whether this theory has any legs, we could always use more Bruce Campbell.
This one may seem like a stretch, but it was actually confirmed in the director's commentary. A bit of foreshadowing, Peter Parker's bedroom wallpaper is made up of hundreds of spider webs. No wonder the guy turned into a human spider.
OK, this one doesn't include a comic reference, Stan Lee cameo, or Easter egg. Spider-Man 3 has a lot of memorable images: the church scene, Tobey's bangs, hip thrusting. Another shot that tends to stick with you is when a Venom-laced Spider-Man shoves Sandman's head against a moving train. His face is slowly filed down (into sand), but the CGI artists paid incredible attention to detail. They went so far as to animate each of his teeth flying out of his head!
Willem Dafoe and Alfred Molina gave two stand-out performances as villains in the Raimi Spider-Man movies, but the two actors had opposite approaches to stunts. While Molina didn't trust himself to do stunts and was reluctant to take work away from stuntmen, Dafoe was more than willing to step onto the glider. Roughly 90% of all Dafoe's stunts were performed himself.