Sam Raimi Explains Why
Spider-Man 4 Didn’t Happen

nope, i agree with him, spiderman was the better movie of all the superhero films so far, sure the batman films are great, but they never had the same impact spiderman did when it came out, it was literally perfect down to a T and couldnt have been a better comic book movie, dark knight is an adaptation of batman really, and as much as it is amazing, it has ALOT of flaws in it, spiderman didnt.

Ryan took two roles in different universes.. what conflict was there? Same concept with Batman (DC) vs Spider-man (Marvel). A better comparison would be the recent Captain America being the same guy who played the Human Torch.

The newest Bay flick, “Pain & Gain” is the type of movie that he was born to make. I really don’t like the guy, but give this movie a chance. Yeah, there’s shit blowing up, everywhere in it, but at least in this movie, it makes sense.

Well Reynolds did also play Hannibal King in a Marvel Universe film. But, the Human Torch is the same guy as Captain America, and nobody seems to care, so what difference does it make?

Oh c’mon.. I expect slightly more outrage from comic fans.. people were tired of these crappy, comic-based movies, before they even started making them.. They talked about making X-Men and Spiderman movies for about 30 years before they finally did- and look at what we got.. laughable garbage. All of these movies stink. They’re admittedly made for movie addicts, not fans of the actual product. Same goes for the Star Trek movies (especially the new ones)..

Stop supporting heartless movie producers. The word ‘reboot’ doesn’t give them a free pass to repeatedly defecate on once-entertaining ideas. Also, how about some real, working actors, who actually resemble the characters, instead of the same old Hollyweird faces. Next to Hugh Jackman as Wolverine and Halle Barry as Storm, I’d have to say that Kirsten Dunst as Mary Jane was just about the stupidest casting decision I’ve ever seen.

still find it amazing that even after a 100 years of Hollywood that they still cannot write a story and then a script. I know I am not in the industry but surely you sit down look at the ceiling and imagine stuff then write it down then discuss. I get the feeling that the process is actually more closer to “I have a great idea for a set piece which brings nothing to the film but would look good in 3D”. I really do not understand how the creative process can be so difficult but I accept it as they screw up my own favourite TV shows or Film brands etc. Something needs to change as I have only watched a couple of films this year compared to a few dozen in previous years. Thanks for listening

tobey mcguire by far was the best spider man because if u read the comics, the original comics ,peter parker was a quirky nerd .not a discusting beaver looking jock like garfield i sat through 5 minutes of the amazing spiderman and threw up because they ruined an american classic now with the nolan batman movies the last one completly sucked except for maybe 5 scenes the dark knight by far was the best of the series due to ledgers performance as the joker he carried it nicely scarecrow in batman begins was fan fucking tastic michelle phiffer in the burton bat man film was a far better cat woman than anne anne is a great actress but is no cat woman no one mentioned electra daredevil as good comic movies and i cant say this enough they need to make a WONDER WOMAN MOVIE she deserves one and i think in the wonder woman movie if anyone saw the tv show from back inthe day i forget her name but she should play wonder womans amazonian guide i forgot one of the main characters in her comic but all i remember is she was a high preistess or a ms marvel movie any of the ladies would be a nice change of pace and the real challenge is for hollywood not to over sexualize them like the pigs they are i feel girls deserve good role models and wonderwoman is one of those role models

I’m gonna have to disagree with all of you!! I love The Avengers because it had all the amazing superheroes except for spider-man :( but all the superheroes have their own journey and each of them have special powers and are all amazing!!

i grew up watching spiderman and all of thm I like, not saying number three was good, but hey its spiderman.. i think marc webb is doing ok with the franchise so far, the amazing spiderman was good in my eyes.. i do wish sam Raimi could have done a fourth so that maybe it can be ” the best spiderman” of them all..

i think mr. raimi should keep searching for scriptwriter to finish spiderman 4 with tobey maguire.

I would give Wall-E far more credits than both…

I can point out one giant flaw. Tobey Maguire.

No its because if you ever read the Spider-m4n outline you can tell he was tired, the studio pretty much had him strong arm and spider-man films take a lot out of you. TASM film is crap. Garfield is a good actor jsut a terrible peter parker and an okay spider-man.

Spiderman 4 couldn’t be made because of how poorly spiderman 3 was done. Waaay too much was done in S3 and we saw yet another green goblin. Because of that repeat, both Sandman AND Venom were both brought in. The biggest battle of a heroes life should always take more from him than he has to give. And that simply wasn’t the case with S3 with the green goblin 2 switching teams. It was a mess, and although dramatic, only so in a spectacular sense, not an emotional one.

I disagree. He is one of the things that made it so good. Parker is supposed to be a dorky wise-ass and he played him perfectly. Kirsten Dunst is another story. I loved the first Spiderman movie but 2 wasn’t very good and 3 was somewhere in between.

Great reply! Thanks for this!

It’s one thing when a director/screenwriter/actor has an obvious apathy for the franchise or characters. Or when their personal egos get in the way of telling a good story. But I think it’s always been clear that Raimi’s vision simply never made it to the screen and that he was as unhappy with the film as the fans, if not much more so as you say.

The thing is, he didn’t play the wise ass very well at all. The new Amazing Spiderman much more accurately displayed Spiderman in my opinion. He made jokes, made fun of people and was the epitome of dorky wiseass. The only thing Tobey Maguire got right was dorky. He did that to an overabundance. To the point where I couldn’t even stand him, and I’m a dork.