I won't argue about this movie. I'm dissapointed, but I'm happy for everyone who liked it.
This is what I think about this film.
Poorly written script, too much "Ned" and characters I don't care about. Everything revolves around Peter and May's death after which unfortunately I felt nothing, because no one tried in previous two movies to make me care about her. So when it happened, I didn't care. "Resposobility" speech didn't help much.
Not enough of Goblin, Doc Ock was turned into a joke, literally a caricature. Now every villain is evil because of technology/failed experiments/accidents/madness. It's not their fault... When you take away the element of choice from villains and show them as complete victims themselves, you also take away the stakes and depth. In previous movies it wasn't so simple, these things influenced them, but it looked more like they were taking the worst of them and they had to choose whether to act upon them or not. Norman in SM1 spoke to Goblin and asked directly how he can defeat Spider-Man, to which he replied about "attacking his heart". In SM2 even after Tobey's speech, Otto still wanted to finish his machine, he said "I don't want to!" and only after told him about "sacrificing our dreams" did he reflect and decided to destroy it.
Tobey and Andrew's performance... Underwhelming. I mean, they are great, but the dialogues they have are not great. When they ask "Are you shooting this from your wrists?" I thought he would replied something like: "Well yeah... I'm a
spider-man." I don't know, something clever, something that would've shown how lighthearted he is. Instead, we get obvious jokes about someone calling out "Peter!" and they all answer because they have the same names. I don't know, something about the dialogues made me feel that they didn't use full potential of this.
Garfield is better because he is more expressive and we also have an extension of his story from TASM2, but Maguire here is a fulfilled character, you can see that everything worked out for him, so he felt like background character. I didn't feel epicness, not even nostalgia, but this is because the writers and the director. Tobey and Andrew we're great.
The action was really bland, dark, ugly, messy, in most Spider-Man movies, the last battles took place at night and were beautiful, clear and engaging, in NWH it's the opposite. The best action scenes are the first fight with the Goblin in the house and the fight on the bridge and this is very telling. I mean... I wanted really badly to see more Green Goblin but he dissapeared for a long time, then he comeback with new look which he almost immediately loses. No glider, no pumpkin bomb, no goggles, no hood... We get short fist fight which is pretty bad compared to final fight in SM1.
The humor in this movie is terrible, the jokes are stretched out and obvious, and at worst, even explained. May asks Doc Ock if he wants water... Fresh or salt? Because you know... Octopuses like salt water.
