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...were no consequences, no censorious adult monitoring them. His tone of impish hell-raising seems out of place amid all the agonizing analysands - Peter-Spider, Flint-Sandman and Harry-Goblin - seeking to purge their inner demons, receive absolution for their sins. In this very serious movie, only Grace and Raimi regular Bruce Campbell, in a nice cameo as a varry Franch maitre d', seem to be having the outsize fun normally associated with comic-book capers...
...Raimi made his cult rep with the two Evil Dead horror films and the comix-inspired Darkman. But he's gone sensitive before, as in the Kevin Costner baseball drama For Love of the Game. In the last two Spidey films he's teamed with screenwriter Alvin Sargent, who in a 40-year career has scripted such weepies as The Sterile Cuckoo, Love and Pain and the Whole Damn Thing, Bobby Deerfield, Julia, Ordinary People, Dominick and Eugene, White Palace, Anywhere But Here and Unfaithful. The rules for Spider-Man 3 are closer to the ones for those wayward domestic...
...Responsibility for keeping a film under budget belongs to the director. Both Spider-Man's Sam Raimi and Pirates' Gore Verbinski have earned their respective studios' trust with the first two installments in their franchises. And, like their actors, they've earned a pretty penny...
...Venom, Thomas Haden Church as Sandman). For all the zippy fights and persuasive visual effects, SM3 is essentially a relationship movie, and a very sensitive one, about male-female and male-male bonding--it must set an all-time record for action heroes in tears. Mostly, director Sam Raimi's juggling act works. This is his most intricate and gripping "web cast...
...stand up in the theater and say, 'Did you just hear that?!'" says Pegg, whose new film, Hot Fuzz, provides similar moments for fans of buddy-cop movies like Bad Boys II. Other fanboys who have gone on to work in the business include Spider-Man director Sam Raimi; the two Transformers writers, Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci; and David Arquette, who showed up for a screening of the horror film he wrote and directed, The Tripper, in a fake-blood-spattered suit. "I can relate more to people at a horror convention than I can to most Hollywood executives...