Spider Man 3 [Blu-ray]

When the review of "Spider-Man 3" in our local paper came out and trashed the movie I was braced for the worse, although since there were four midnight showings on opening day it seems obvious this movie is going to make a lot of money (at least this first weekend). But I really did think it would be nigh impossible for this 2007 film to be better than its 2004 predecessor, which is my favorite comic book movie to date (a verdict I render as someone who teaches comic books in general and Spider-Man in particular in my Introduction to Popular Culture course). "Spider-Man 3" certainly has its flaws and it is not as good as "Spider-Man 2," but those things do not add up to the film being a disappointment.For Peter Parker (Tobey Maguire) and Spider-Man these are the best of times. Spider-Man is beloved by the people of New York City and Aunt May (Rosemary Harris) has given Peter the engagement ring that she received from Uncle Ben (Cliff Robertson) a half-century earlier so that he can propose to Mary Jane Watson (Kirsten Dunst). But Harry Osborn (James Franco) knows that Peter is Spider-Man, believes Spidey killed his father Norman (Willem Dafoe), and has found the secret Green Goblin hideout. So right off the bat he comes gunning for Spider-Man. This seems like they are trying to wrap up a loose plot thread from "Spider-Man 2," but this is but one of the several major pieces this movie puts in place for the endgame. Meanwhile, Flint Marko (Thomas Hayden Church) has broken out of jail and become the victim of one of those classic comic book situations where science turns a man into a monster, in this case the Sandman. When Peter finds out it was Marko who actually shot Uncle Ben he takes his first step off the deep end. Peter also has problems in that ambitious Eddie Brock, Jr. (Topher Grace) wants Peter's job as a photographer at "The Daily Bugle," where J. Jonah Jameson (J.K. Simmons). Then there is Gwen Stacy (Bryce Dallas Howard), a classmate of Peter who gets rescued by Spider-Man and has a big old crush on the web-head, and the sticky black thing from another planet that has attached itself to our hero. No wonder the movie runs 140 minutes.Director Sam Raimi pours on the special effects in the computer generated fight sequences. What made Doctor Octopus a great villain for a Spider-Man movie was how the two could fight on both the horizontal and vertical axises. Obviously that continues with Venom and to a lesser extent with Sandman, but what those two villains have in common is the fluidity of their "costume" and "body" respectively. They have fun making Spider-Man's costume all torn and tattered, but that is nothing compared to what they are able to do with Sandman's face and body in these fight sequences. When Spidey fights the New Goblin (and there is a reason Harry is not running around as the second Green Goblin), it looks more like a high-speed video game with everything happening faster than the eye can see (compare that with the great fight between Peter and Harry when they are not wearing their costumes).For me the problematic character is Gwen Stacy, because in the original "Spider-Man" comic books Gwen was Peter's girlfriend long before Mary Jane became his wife. Given the relatively small number of Spider-Man movies that you can make, it made sense to skip Gwen and have Mary Jane there from the beginning, even if it meant turning her into the girl next door instead of the sexy redhead in the go-go boots. But we now know that Peter ends up with MJ, just like we know Clark Kent ends up with Lois Lane and Bruce Wayne is never going to get married. So Gwen's mere presence is problematic because she cannot be the woman he loves who dies because he is Spider-Man. In the "Ultimate Spider-Man" comic book MJ is there from the beginning too, knowing Spider-Man's secret identity, and the integration of Gwen's character into that revision of the story was okay, but it did not have the significance or resonance of the original storyline. The movie Gwen is more like the comic book Mary Jane and that whole plot line would have worked better with Betty Brant (Elizabeth Banks) or an entirely new character than resurrecting Gwen Stacy.Besides the delicious irony that the blond Dunst has died her hair red while the redheaded Howard has gone platinum, I was bothered by how they had Gwen be a model. Mary Jane was the model and that was important because just like Peter it was a mistake to take her at face value. Instead Dunst gets to sing a couple of songs and while the movie agrees she is not good enough to sing on Broadway it seems a strange way to create a crack in her self-confidence, especially given that nobody faked self-confidence better than MJ. But they are fully committed to the idea of Mary Jane as the girl next door even if they have yet to figure out what that means for the character and her relationship with Peter. Howard is not given much to do, although her last moment is her character's best, and the same goes for James Cromwell as Captain Stacy. But Bruce Campbell completely steals his one scene, Mageina Tovah as Ursula steals a couple, and Stan Lee has his best "Spider-Man" cameo to date, but Dylan Baker's Dr. Curt Connors is still no closer to turning into the Lizard.The main element they have kept from "Spider-Man 2" is the idea that the conflict between Spider-Man and his foes is no longer black and white, but shades of gray. I liked that for once Doctor Octopus was not a ranting lunatic with mechanical arms but a good man turned evil by a fateful accident (the flip of what happened to Peter Parker) who refuses to die a monster. It was that moment more than Mary Jane discovering that Peter was Spider-Man that really gave "SM2" its weight. This time around there are important shadings for Flint Marko and Harry Osborn, just as there are for Peter Parker as his black Spider-Man costume gets the better of him (but Eddie Brock, Jr. is bad to the bone from start to finish).In the end I round down on "Spider-Man 3" because I think they are overdoing it with Spider-Man's mask coming off or being half torn (even though I understand the impulse to have the face of the actor you are paying millions to actually appear on screen), the comic relief from spectators during the big battle at the end gets in the way of the developing tragedy, and the fade out scene was by far the weakest of the series to date. I am also not happy with the way Peter's character is regressing, because even before the symbiotic flips him to the dark side he is embracing his inner nerd way too much. Maguire is hysterical when he has Peter strut himself down the street, but it rings wrong for the character. Also, even with the swelled head he is getting from the public adoration as Spider-Man, I do not want to believe that having the costume on when he receives the key to the city was enough to let Peter betray MJ the way he does there. The scene later on at the Jazz club is the insult; it was the other that was the real injury part of the equation. Still, I bet I make it back to the theater to see this one again.

Great effects my son loved it

Classic movie

My review is strictly about the quality of the Blu Ray, and my feelings on the whole Mastered in 4K concept.First and foremost, this is a regular Blu Ray that will play in 1080p, and should not be considered a true 4K source. But it says mastered in 4K though, you may ask. Which it does, what that means is instead of a 1080p source being transferred onto a Blu Ray disc, the 1080p source goes through a 4K upscaling source and color corrector. However, the technology didn't exist at the time for 4K to play on disc (I will get to that towards the end) so what Sony did was come out with a Mastered in 4K line. Is it a gimmick... Maybe. Will you notice a difference... Very little unless with the right accessories.You see, this movie went through a wider color correction called xvYCC. Which not all TVs or players support, almost all of them don't support it even though it gives a wider range of color. The most common and widely used format has always been standard sRGB, however it discarded a lot of color. Sony TVs and players support this color format, I want to assume the new OLED, and SUHD would as well since these TVs support HDR (High Dynamic Range) which far surpasses xvYCC. But still need the player to support that color, which Sony's Blu Ray player and possibly the PS3 and PS4... Possibly those. I don't know of any other Blu Ray player that does because it's such an unused color format.Without those, you won't get the true picture that the disc wants to give, but it's still the best 1080p picture you can get on any Blu Ray disc.After which it goes though Sony's 4K detailing, then gets downloaded on to a single Blu Ray disc. You'll notice that there isn't any special features, commentary, trailers... Nothing. Because the entire disc space was used to download a more detailed, colorful, high definition movie.Now, is this movie worth buying? Yes and no, if you don't already own the movie and you want to then this is the better option to have. If you already own it, I wouldn't buy this again. While this is the better version of the movie, it's only so much better that you may or may not notice much of a difference.If you're going from DVD to Blu Ray, then yes this would be a better one to get.Now, when I said the technology wasn't available at the time... It's because the Blu Ray association was currently working on a disc formate that could handle 4K, 3D 4K, and HDR. Because there wasn't enough space on the Blu Rays we have now. They finally announced a few months ago that they finished finalizing the format that would support 4K. I don't know if we will see another battle between two disc formats like HD DVD and Blu Ray, but I'm confident they will stick to a single format.Panasonic at the beginning of this year showed us at CES that they had a prototype 4K UHD player, but was only a prototype. However, Samsung introduced their 4K UHD Blu Ray player that will come out in February next year. While they haven't listed a price, they did say it will play DVDs, Blu Rays, 3D movies as well as 4K and have a fantastic upscaling ability because it will also be upscaling with the HDR color coding. The only TVs now that will give you a wider range of HDR color is the flat LG OLED, and Samsungs SUHD TVs. TVs that support HDR, will be Samsungs JU7100-7500, Samungs HU8550 and up (with purchase and upgrade from the evolution kit), and select Sony 4K TVs.With this being known, I suspect a lot of Sony 4K movies being released on that format. So if you have the money, and you are an early adopter to new technology, I would wait a little while longer before you buy any Mastered in 4K movie. If you aren't, and have no intention of buying a new player, then this is as close as you are going to get to a 4K movie on a disc.

Thank you so much

Tengo las 2 primeras películas Bluray, pero me faltaba la tercera. De las dirigidas por Sam Raimi, es las más floja, y es la que menos veces he visto, sin embargo verla de nuevo me trajo muchos recuerdos. En su día se criticó mucho al personaje de James Franco: Harry Osborn-New Goblin. Después de tanto tiempo sin verla, no me parece nada mal. Lo menos afortunado a mi gusto, es el cambio de personalidad de Peter Parker-Spiderman. Tobey Maguire es buen actor, pero su caracterización del Peter malvado, no es muy lograda. La película está a buen precio, nueva, y la recibí rápido.

Le coffret comprend le bluray & le bluray 4K du film.Seul ce dernier a été testé.Image nette , couleurs exceptionnelles.Côté son, déception: simple piste 5.1 en VF, alors qu'une piste Dolby Atmos (compatible 7.1 True HD) bien plus puissante est proposée.Une piste HD pourrait être proposée au minimum en VF pour un tel support (d'où une étoile en moins).

Peter Parker a retrouvé un équilibre de vie et il veut se marier avec Mary Jane. Pendant une nuit au parc, alors que Peter et Mary Jane sont ensemble, une petite météorite tombe tout près du lieu où ils se trouvent et éclate, laissant échapper une matière visqueuse, le symbiote, qui s'attache à la mobylette de Peter.Pendant ce temps, Flint Marko s'échappe de la prison où il était détenu pour cambriolage afin d'aller revoir sa fillette qui lui manque terriblement, mais dont il n'a pas le droit de s'approcher à cause de l'injonction d'éloignement obtenue contre lui par son ex-femme ; pendant sa fuite, il tombe dans un accélérateur de particules, qui fond son corps avec le sable et il devient l'Homme-sable. Quant au meilleur ami de Peter, Harry Osborn, il veut venger la mort de son père, et, croyant que Spider-Man est la cause de cette mort, il l'attaque. La bataille laisse Harry avec un choc à la tête qui le rend amnésique à court terme, lui faisant oublier temporairement sa vengeance.Plus tard, durant un festival honorant Spider-Man parce qu'il a sauvé la vie de Gwen Stacy, fille d'un policier et remettant la clé de la ville de New York au héros, cette dernière l'embrasse, ce qui crée un différend entre Peter et Mary Jane, parce qu’elle croit qu’il veut s’éloigner d’elle. L’Homme-sable essaye ensuite de voler un véhicule blindé, mais Spider-Man l’arrête. Le capitaine Stacy informe plus tard Peter et sa tante May que Marko est la personne qui a tué Ben Parker, son oncle.Peter attend Marko pour se battre contre lui, voulant venger la mort de son oncle. Le symbiote se colle sur son costume tandis qu'il est endormi et Peter découvre que ce n’est pas seulement son costume qui a changé, mais également ses pouvoirs, qui ont augmenté. Cependant, ce costume noir le rend plus violent, plus égoïste et plus enragé : il fait remonter à la surface son côté sombre.Le changement de personnalité de Peter l'éloigne de Mary-Jane, qui ne réussit pas à lancer sa carrière d'actrice ; elle se console avec Harry, lequel est guéri de son amnésie (il voit une apparition de son père mort) et pousse Mary Jane à se séparer de Peter. Harry le rencontre dans un restaurant et prétend être le préféré. Plus tard, Peter le trouve chez lui, et avec l'aide de son costume noir, l'affronte dans un combat brutal, qui laisse le visage de Harry défiguré. Influencé par le costume, Peter humilie aussi Eddie Brock, un photographe qui a vendu au Daily Bugle de fausses images montrant que Spider-Man est un criminel afin de prendre la place de Peter comme pigiste. Eddie Brock est licencié à cause de Parker et jure de se venger.Pour rendre Mary Jane jalouse, Peter emmène Gwen au Jazz, le night club où elle travaille comme chanteuse et serveuse. Peter se bat ensuite avec les videurs de la boîte et gifle Mary Jane, la projetant au sol. C'est à ce moment que Peter se rend compte que le costume l’a changé. Il sort en courant de la boîte de nuit et va à la cathédrale Saint-Patrick pour se débarrasser du symbiote. Au début, il ne peut retirer le costume, mais sans le vouloir, il frappe la grande cloche et la fait sonner, et ses vibrations affaiblissent le symbiote, permettant à Peter de se débarrasser de lui. Eddie Brock se trouve également sur place, priant pour la mort de Peter, quand le symbiote lui tombe dessus et s'accroche à lui. Ce dernier a acquis les pouvoirs de Spider-man durant le temps qu'il a passé à l'intérieur de Peter et les transmet à Eddie, créant un double maléfique de Spider-Man : Venom. Eddie, s'étant rendu compte que Peter et Spider-man sont la même personne, trouve l’Homme-sable et lui propose de s'associer avec lui pour détruire Spider-Man.Ils utilisent Mary-Jane comme appât pour forcer Spider-Man à les affronter. Peter va demander son aide à Harry, mais celui-ci refuse. Cependant, Harry apprend la vérité au sujet de la mort de son père grâce à son majordome Bernard (il a été tué par son propre planeur et pas par Spider-man), et arrive à temps pour sauver Peter, s'associant avec lui contre Venom et l’Homme-sable. Pendant que le combat progresse, Brock essaye d'empaler Peter, mais Harry s'interpose et est fatalement blessé. Peter se rappelle alors comment les vibrations de la cloche de l’église avaient affaibli le symbiote. Contre l'avis d'Eddie, qui voulait délibérément rester sous l'influence de Venom, il le libère en faisant résonner plusieurs tuyaux ensemble. Peter jette une bombe-citrouille au symbiote, qui meurt avec Eddie.Après la bataille, Marko dit à Peter qu'il n'avait eu aucune intention de tuer Ben Parker, et que c'était un accident survenu lors d'un essai désespéré de sauver la vie de sa fille. Peter pardonne à Marko, qui se désagrège et flotte au loin. Peter et Harry se pardonnent mutuellement, avant qu'Harry ne meurt. Après l'enterrement d'Harry, Peter et Mary Jane se retrouvent et commencent à réparer leur relation.

Der Film ist wunderbar wie alle Spiderman Filme bis jetzt. Ich bin mal gespannt was noch so von Spiderman gibt.

Der ewige Student und in der bürgerlichen Existenz leicht verhuschte Peter Parker befindet sich mit seinem heldenhaften Alter Ego auf dem Höhepunkt der Popularität, gipfelnd in der Verleihung der Ehrenbürgerwürde der Stadt New York. Auch privat scheint angesichts der sich anbahnenden Eheschließung mit seiner Jugendliebe M.J. alles bestens zu verlaufen. Bis der ehemals beste Freund Harry Osborn in der von Vaterseite vererbten Inkarnation des Grünen Kobolds seine Rache einfordert. Damit nicht genug, verbünden sich der im Grunde aus tragischen Umständen zum Verbrecher gewordene Flint Marko - auf der Flucht durch unfreiwillige Teilnahme an einem Molekularexperiment zum Sandman mutiert - und die dunkle Spidey-Version Venom gegen die freundliche Spinne aus der Nachbarschaft. Und wieder hat Peter alle Hände voll zu tun, nicht nur sein eigenes Leben in den Griff zu bekommen, sondern erneut die Menschen, die er liebt, zu retten.Nur Chefzyniker können das Übermaß an Emotionen und tragischen Handlungswendungen, die das Erzählgenie und unzweifelhaft größter Spidey-Fan Sam Raimi in mehr als zwei Stunden Leinwandaugenschmaus gepackt hat, als Overkill und Soap-Opera herabreden. SPIDER-MAN 3 setzt konsequent fort, was in den Vorgängern als Grundregel für dieses Comic-Universum festgeschrieben wurde: Menschlichkeit. Um den selbstverständlich völlig irrealen Aktionen der mit Superkräften, technischen Gimmicks und außerirdischen Parasiten ausgestatteten Helden und Bösewichtern die höchstmögliche Glaubwürdigkeit zu verleihen, bedarf es eines nachfühlbaren menschlichen Hintergrundes. Bei Spider-Man ist dieser bekanntlich im unscheinbaren, komplexbeladenen Studenten Parker angelegt, der nächtens die schlimmsten Schurken dingfest macht, es aber nicht schafft, der großen Liebe M.J. angemessen seine Gefühle zu erklären.Doch auch die sogenannten Bösewichter sind nicht von Natur aus schlecht: Harry Osborn treibt das Verlangen nach Rache am vermeintlichen Mörder seines Vaters (der in Wahrheit Opfer seiner Waffen wurde). Da es sich beim Hassobjekt obendrein um seinen besten Freund handelt, dessen Herzdame gleichfalls Gegenstand des eigenen Begehrens ist, kann die Verlockung, mit dem Vatermörder zugleich den Nebenbuhler aus dem Weg zu räumen, umso mehr nachvollzogen werden. James Franco liefert über die gesamte Laufzeit eine hervorragende, wenn nicht sogar seine beste Leistung in der Trilogie ab und sorgt für einen anrührenden Schlussakkord.Bad Guy Nr. 2 - Flint Marko - verfolgt hingegen nur das hehre Ziel, seine Familie und insbesondere die kranke Tochter finanziell über Wasser zu halten. Dass er sich auch noch als tatsächlicher, allerdings unbeabsichtigter Mörder von Peter's Ziehvater herausstellt, produziert neues Konfliktpotenzial und stellt Spider-Man am Ende vor die wegweisende Entscheidung, Vergebung auszusprechen oder den primitiven Rachedurst zu stillen. Der kantige und eindrucksvolle Präsenz zeigende Thomas Haden Church (SIDEWAYS) vermag in nur wenigen Szenen Sympathie für den ambivalenten Charakter Flint Marko zu wecken.Venom schließlich ist ebenfalls das Produkt einer Kette unglücklicher Ereignisse, die dem Fotoreporter Eddie Brock zustoßen. Als Konkurrent Parkers beim Daily Bugle der Fotofälschung entlarvt und die Freundin an Spider-Man verloren, ist der bedauernswerte Eddie willkommenes Opfer für den außerirdischen, teerähnlichen Symbionten, den sich Spidey gerade noch rechtzeitig vom Hals schaffen kann.Soviel sei (übrigens bereits im viel zu ausführlichen Trailer) verraten: Tobey Maguire, der mimisch wiederholt alle Register zieht und zu Recht der begnadetste Darsteller seiner Generation ist, merkt man deutlich sein Vergnügen an, so richtig die Sau rauszulassen bei der Interpretation der dunklen Seite Peter Parkers bzw. Spider-Mans, besessen vom Alienparasiten. Cooler und ungehemmter hat man den vorwiegend scheu wirkenden Maguire selten über die Leinwand tanzen (sic!) sehen. Es würde den Rahmen sprengen, die fraglos ebenso Glanzlichter setzenden übrigen Akteure zu bedenken - Kirsten Dunst beweist diesmal ihr Gesangstalent, J.K. Simmons als grantiger Verleger sorgt für ein paar herzhafte Lacher und Rosemary Harris verkörpert die Oma, die jeder gerne hätte.Bleibt zum Schluss die Erwähnung der unglaublich dynamischen Regie, unterstützt durch den bombastischen Score Christopher Youngs (PASSWORT: SWORDFISH, COPYKILL, SPECIES) sowie die abermals verbesserten Special Effects, die geradezu dreidimensionale Wirkung entfalten. Die teilweise beinharten Fights sind von - auch in den Vorgängern - nie gesehener Rasanz und werden ohne sichtbaren Schnitt von der scheinbar entfesselten Kamera durch Straßenschluchten und im freien Fall beinahe minutenlang verfolgt. In fast nicht zu überbietender Perfektion animiert sind außerdem Sandman und Venom in seiner Urform, einer zähen, teergleichen Masse. Die fließende Gestaltung beider Materien symbolisiert somit unterschwellig auch die fließenden Übergänge der einzelnen Charaktere zwischen Gut und Böse, Freude und Trauer, Liebe und Hass.Die dritte Auflage eines erfolgreichen Franchise muss - wie an diversen Beispielen bereits gezeigt und insbesondere im Kinojahr 2007 noch oft unter Beweis zu stellen - nicht zwangsläufig schwächer ausfallen oder gar scheitern. SPIDER-MAN 3 hat diese Hürde mit Bravour genommen: besser unterhalten und von originellen, frischen Eindrücken überwältigt kann man das Kino kaum verlassen. Bleibt nur die Frage: wann kommt Nr. 4?