Spider-Man 4 on Track to be Horrible

I liked Spider-man 1 and 2. They weren’t masterpieces but they were fun, and Willem Dafoe classed up the entire project as the Green Goblin. As we all know, Spider-man 3 was a mess, partially by cramming in too many villains, that ridiculous evil Peter Parker dance scene, and — although I might be the only one who thought — trying to ret-con Peter’s Uncle Ben’s death from the first movie so that Flint Marko (somehow) did it and no one knew until just that moment. I absolutely hate when movies and TV series do that. It works when you plan for it ahead of time, but it’s just pathetic and forced when you don’t, and clearly, Sam Raimi and crew hadn’t planned for it when generally unknown actor Michael Papajohn (love his pizza!) played the thug who offed the kindly uncle/rice magnate. Worst of all, this sloppy, shoddy ret-con could not possibly have been necessary to introduce Sandman as a character or a villain, making it even more needless and maddening.

So guess how excited I am about this (from Superhero Hype):

Last week, we received word that actor Michael Papajohn might be back for Spider-Man 4. Scooper ‘Wolf’ tried to follow up with him on Saturday and here’s the result:



I was over at the weekly comic book show Frank & Son over in
Industry, CA, and while I was walking around with my uncle we suddenly
ran into Michael Papajohn. I wouldn’t have noticed him except for the
pictures he had all over his signing desk. … Anyways, I asked him about Spider Man 4
because of the rumor I read that he was going to be in it. He said “I
can’t talk about it, but who says I died in the first one?” My uncle
asked him again and he quipped “if I tell you I’ll have to shoot you.”
Jokingly, of course. That’s all I got.

You have got to be shitting me, Raimi. Are you retconning Uncle Ben’s death again? Is the dude who shot Uncle Ben and died then became the guy who didn’t shoot Uncle Ben and died now becoming the dude who possibly shot Uncle Ben but didn’t die? Goddamn it, get a new idea. This one isn’t even that interesting, and you’re making the entire franchise retroactively stupider evert time you mess with this shit. Mean-spirited comics nerds, please compare/contrast the movie to the spidey comics in the comments. Thank you.