Warning: There are spoilers for Spiderman 3 and Spiderman: No Way Home
Every year, people switch their opinions about something. Sometimes it’s positive but most of the time it’s usually negative. Its like pineapple on pizza. There are actual people who put fish on pizza and I don’t see them getting as much hate as Hawaiian pizza. The point is people change their opinions on something when something worse eventually comes out after it. Like Spiderman 3 in 2007. The original Spiderman trilogy was directed by Sam Raimi, which included Spiderman played by Toby Maquire. The first movie was great and highly received. The second one was amazing. So when the third one was going to have Venom in it. I mean, how would they mess this up? (They did and it was bad). The third Spiderman movie was bad because it suffered from 2 love triangles, too many villains, and bad writing. In this movie, Spiderman slaps his girlfriend, gives his best friend so much brain damage to where he was hospitalized until he comes back where Peter Parker finds out that he was the new Green Goblin, he then breaks into his house and blows him up. Then Peter finds out that this guy made of sand was the one who killed his uncle just so that he could raise money for his terminally ill daughter. So Peter’s natural response was to cave half of Sandman face in with a train and drown him with a sewer pipe. All of this happens while also an alien from space, which is heavily marketed from toys and promotional material, barely gets screen time. This movie’s only legacy are memes and being on the list of the worst superhero movies. It had a tough competition with Pirates of the Caribbean 3 in that same year. A lot of people hated this movie when it came out and that lead to Spiderman 4 being cancelled. Luckily, people grew to like it mainly because they hated what came after it even more.
The Amazing Spiderman movies had it even rougher than the Spiderman 3 because it didn’t have Toby Maguire, instead it had Andrew Garfield, which was definitely well received at first. The Amazing Spiderman 2 especially had it rough because it had the same problems as Spiderman 3 with too many villains. So the potential for a third movie in that series got cancelled. Then when we had the Tom Holland Spiderman people didn’t overreact as much. But when Spiderman: No Way Home dropped and it had Andrew Garfield, all of a sudden people liked the Amazing Spiderman movies the whole time and wanted that third movie. I was there, no you didn’t. But now, we have the internet where you could actually form your own opinion instead of joining what Twitter is mad at for the day. The lesson to take from this is that people can and will change their opinion on something if something worse comes out.
