comment #1

actionman says ...

Me neither. Could care less at this point.

comment #2

Hickenlooper says ...

That announcement has about as much excitement as the 1999 announcement of the new H2 Hummer.

comment #3

Rothchild says ...

Jamie Vanderbilt.

comment #4

YRG says ...

You can count on Raimi to make these different from your typical franchise films.

comment #5

Craptastic says ...

I'd rather count on Raimi to make Evil Dead 4. Now THAT would be exciting news.

comment #6

markj says ...

Spider-Man 3 was woeful, and I was never very impessed with the first one, with its sub-par FX work and silly villain. Spider-Man 2 was good fun, but doesnt really hold up to more than one viewing. The Spider-Man films are typical of the 'hype, hype, hype' mentality these days, They're deeply average flicks. Darkman was much better!

comment #7

Richardson says ...

Spider-Man 3 is exactly the kind of auteur-driven bad movie I wish Hollywood did more often.

But I do so love a bad Sam Raimi movie.

comment #8

p.Vice says ...

Considering Raimi and Maguire have done nothing watchable since they started making these crap movies, this really isn't so big of a loss. Better they waste their lives making shit in this franchise pigpen instead of corrupting projects that might turn out to be worth seeing.

comment #9

CitizenKanedforChewingGum says ...

God, I love p. Vice. He always expresses all the shitty things I'm *thinking,* so when I turn up and read his comments I can just think, "what an asshole," and move on with no further thought. If I actually stop to examine my conscience (like I am doing now), I realize just how completely I agree with him, and start to wonder why I am such an asshole.

I'm actually being completely serious, this happens with like 90% of his posts.

comment #10

madskrilla says ...

ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ

comment #11

Jack Price says ...

Do you mean as a director p. Vice? Because in that case, you're 100% right about Raimi.

He literally HASN'T done anything watchable outside of the Spiderman films. If he had, I would have seen it by now.

comment #12

Aladdin Sane says ...

A Simple Plan was awesome. Evil Dead is fun. I haven't seen Darkman in like 13 years or something, but I remember thinking it was alright.
Never ever want to watch any of SM films again though. 2 is the best out of 'em. 3 was terrible and the first was meh...The reviews will have to be awesome for me to see it before the 4th week of release for #4.

comment #13

D.Z. says ...

Don't see how this is any worse than Donner doing Lethal Weapon 4. For me, though, each film gets better, which is something I can't say about that last Die Hard flick.

comment #14

Redmond says ...

E! Online is saying Tobey Maguire is still in negotiations and holding out for more cash.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/eonline/20080905/en_celeb_eo/27601

If they replace him, Spidey 4 will have a 50% chance of actually being watchable. Maybe. Don't hold me to that.

comment #15

Spacesheik says ...

Please REBOOT this tired franchise!

Tired of the look and sound of the Spiderman films in general - SPIDERMAN 3 pretty much killed the franchise for me: the cliched repetitive music, the Emo-Saturday Night Fever scenes showing how cool (or uncool)Parker is, one-dimensional villains who morph into Godzilla at the climax, Sony's insistence on taking Parker's mask off for many scenes, Raimi's interruption of action scenes ny inserting lame comedy and characters such as TV reporters, the same Spiderman gliding/flying angles, the infuriatingly boring love triangle with a most irritating actress Kirstin Dunst - I could go on but a reboot is in order.

They better get someone else too to direct, Raimi has kinda lost his edge on these films, they all look like carbon copies of each other.

And I'm tired of numbers behind the titles; why cant they make sequels called THE AMAZING SPIDER MAN, THE SPECTACULAR SPIDERMAN and so forth. Sony is trying to milk the franchise but by sticking to the same formula, cast and director it is killing it.

comment #16

EnglishBob says ...

I totally agree that "Spiderman 2" was impressive for a single viewing; but it certainly doesn't hold up. I tried watching it again and couldn't believe how dull it was. Part 3 was unwatchable from frame one. I have zero desire to see a fourth installment.

comment #17

Lars says ...

Just because the 3rd was terrible doesn't mean that 4 & 5 won't be better. Having said that, doesn't Raimi get bored of doing this? Is this really the legacy he wants to leave behind?

comment #18

Brian R says ...

What's the problem? So, the third film was a mess (two screenplays badly soldered together by the looks of it), but the others were superb fun for what they were. And Reboot? What the hell is wrong with people that they have to fall back on that now tired and overused phrase? Is this the concept du jour in Hollywood - let's pretend what happened didn't happen to fix every damn problem? It's not like Spidey 3 was Batman and Robin. There is no need to reboot the Spider-Man films. If you want something different, go with a different creative team and use what has gone before to save yourself having to expalin everything else all over again and risk pissing off an already impatient audience. But to reboot only after, what, six years after the first film? Please. Don't be daft. Yeah, I want to see Raimi make other films, but I'm not averse to sitting down to have more fun with his iteration of Spidey. Oh, and "could care less", actually means that you do care, not that you don't care. If you don't care then you "couldn't" care less. If you could care less, then you already care. Fucking internet grammar. Next it'll be teh pwn! Jeez.

comment #19

bluefugue says ...

>He literally HASN'T done anything watchable outside of the Spiderman films. If he had, I would have seen it by now.

A Simple Plan and Evil Dead 2 are both good films. Darkman did nothing for me, but I haven't seen it since it was in theaters.