There are a lot of reasons Spider-Man 3 didn’t work as well as it could have. Or rather, should have. I’m going to share with you three steps that could have saved the movie:

Step One: Eliminate Venom from the script.
Seriously. I know a lot of people wanted to see him on the big screen, hell, I thought it was exciting. The problem is that Venom’s back story is pretty hefty. I’d say almost as much as Harry’s, if not more. They could have kept the symbiote and Eddie in 3, but left out Venom. Maybe have a cliff hanger ending. The clock tower scene would have made a great ending. Especially if they had filmed 3 and 4 together (like originally planned) and had 4 come out that fall.

Step Two: Write Mysterio into the script.
Some would say Spider-Man 3’s biggest downfall was too many villains. I don’t think this was the case at all. If any superhero deals with 10 different bad guys while trying to bring home Aunt May’s dinner before it gets cold, it’s Spider-Man. He has a plethora of great B rated villains: Shocker, Vulture, Mysterio… They could be 20 minute bit parts trying to stop Peter while he’s going from point A to B.

Why Mysterio, you might ask?

Step 3: Cast Bruce Campbell as Mysterio.
For those of you who don’t know who Bruce Campbell is, shame on you. He’s the greatest B movie actor on the planet. He’s had small parts in Spider-Man 1 and 2, so giving him a bigger part in 3 would be awesome. Mysterio is a special effects expert turned to the dark side. His costume is ridiculous, and so are most of his capers. What better villain/actor for comic relief just after Harry breaks up Pete and MJ?

I’m sure a lot of people would have their own ideas for the perfect Spider-Man 3. Although, I don’t think many of them could argue that mine would have been better than what we got.

Tomorrow: Swank-mo-tron gives his opinion on how Spider-man 3 could have been fixed.

The folks at Warner Brothers have finally put their Dark Knight marketing campaign into gear following the untimely demise of Heath Ledger.

Right now, the campaign website for Harvey Dent is soliciting email address to find out how we can all change Gotham together…

It also has a slot for a phone number, so who knows if we’ll randomly get a call from Harvey Dent a’la that Transformers phone call…?

Click here to be transported to IGN where you can download the brand new Iron Man Trailer #2 in glorious HD Quicktime.

I really hope this movie kicks as much ass as it looks like it’s going to.

And if it does, then they should give Jon Favreau a chance to direct the Avengers… I’ve been to a Jon Favreau Iron Man panel at Comic-Con and the guys love of comics is intoxicating…. So, here’s hoping he doesn’t pull a Tim Story and fuck things up beyond compare.

And honestly, aside from the cheesy music in the trailer, this trailer kicks a whole lot of ass.

I made my way to the local media superstore this week to do some DVD shoppin’. Tops on my list was the new release Justice League: The New Frontier. Adapted from Darwyn Cooke’s Eisner Award winning mini-series, the movie flat out rocks. No plot holes, a solid voice cast, no moments of “that’s not how it is in the comics,” and most importantly for me, no pandering to an under 10 age group. This is PG-13 and earns it with some violence, a little salty language, and some blood and guts. One deterrent is that it’s a love letter to the Silver Age of comics, so knowing the characters will definitely increase your enjoyment level, but not knowing them won’t stop you from liking it.I give it a solid 3 out of 4 Power rings. Green ones of course.Also, if you’re gonna buy the 2-disc set, do so at your local BestBuy. It comes with a cool little plastic Green Lantern figure that’s just the right size to sit on top of you monitor at work. No evil shall escape his sight don’t ya know!

But c’mon…. Seriously? People really find this funny?

I’ve been a cheap slacker and haven’t made it to the movies so I can write an actual review on something “worth while”. Anyway, Just watched another new trailer for M. Night Shyamalan’s new thriller The Happening. Well, aside from the craptacular title we can only expect another horribly lame ass thriller that will consist of the Shyamalan writing himself into the flick and some crazy, outlandish twist that no one will expect. This twist will most likely be that the world the characters live in is not really the present, but really the past. 

No, not really, but the Iron Man/Lost paths will cross when a new trailer for Iron Man makes its debut during (updated) NEXT WEEK’s episode of Lost. That would be February 28th. Ahhh…it’s good to be a geek these days. If you miss it, don’t worry, I’m guessing it’ll be online soon afterwards at www.ironmanmovie.com on the intarweb.

Click over here to check out some exclusive pieces of production art from Hellboy II.

They look really good.  This film is probably going to be awesome.

I was just privy to the wonder that is the trailer of Superhero Movie. Wow. Really, wow. I just can’t get enough satires on an idea that has been spoofed so many fucking times that it would make Leslie Neilson spin in his grave. Oh, wait… He is still alive… shit.

“From the creators of Scary Movie, Epic Movie, Not Another Teen Movie, Date Movie, Superhero Movie, Superhero Movie 2– err, um- Meet the Spartans:

                                                SPOOF MOVIE!

STARRING LESLIE NEILSON AS SOME OLD KOOKY GUY!”

 Sadly, there is a market for these movies, people who live in Florida.

It’s been announced that Gambit has been cast in the new Wolverine spin-off movie.

This is bad news.

Gambit is probably one of the stupidest characters in the Marvel mythos and I have no idea why every teenage girl X-men reader in the galaxy likes him so much. His powers are okay, his costume is silly, his story is even sillier.

I mean, really. How can you make this cool: