It's a shame you haven't seen Heroes because it *sounds* like Bad-Spidey is Peter Petrelli.

You would not believe how similar Evil-Peter Parker is to Peter Petrelli, right down to the fringe! Emo-power!

I have to say I'm a bit of a Spiderman fanboy so I actually quite enjoyed the film despite the plot holes - which I was kind of expecting anyway because nobody watches a superhero flick for the coherent narrative. Hellboy is my favourite for that, actually, distracing, like the coy bitch it is, with occult nazis and Rasputin just when it occurs to you wonder what's going on... I guess it's the last one they're going to make because I think they were all about the themes and stuff, and bringing things full circle and so forth, and therefore forgot to pay any attention to what was actually happening. I really liked the ... I can't believe I'm about to say this ... but the thematic resonances with the earlier two films, like when Spidey puts on his venom costume and is bounding over the city whooping and cheering just like he did when he first got his Spider powers. And I'm not sure but I think the awful Dancing Emo sequence was meant to reference the Raindrops Keep Falling on my Head scene from the second movie. I don't know, perhaps I'm just making excuses for it. I also thought it didn't quite live up to the courage of its convictions - about power and responsibility and the choices you make. I mean Peter *chooses* the black-suit repeatedly. And yet he suffers no consequence for it whatsoever. He's MJ back AND he gets a shny new job at the Bugle, and they killed off poor Harry so Peter wouldn't have to face up to what his choices meant. I really dug the Harry arc, actually - especially when he got all scared and interesting and finally grew the fuck up! Honestly, you should *never* change, develop or mature in a superhero movie: it means you die, and die immediately. Although what's going on with Harry's house. He lives in this enormous fuck-off masion and yet has only one servant who isn't, infact, a servant he's a Deux Ex Machina. Perhaps they're more expensive to hire. Also Goblin Junior's flying skateboard was hilarious - every time he whizzed on screen I was like "dude!" Finally, did I misread it or did that film actually have a sign in it reading "Danger! Particle Physics!" Gotta love it :)

Oh god, the Deus Ex Machina butler... the ropey, unconvincing news segments distracting from the climactic action sequences... the whole last half hour of the film. It was so unreasonably rushed - as if they realised "holy shit, we need to wrap this up quickly" and slapped together something half-baked in order to tie up all the loose ends. In fact, it reminded me of a script written to a deadline: the pacing and so forth was fine in the earlier parts of the film but got worse and worse as the scriptwriter hurries to finish in time. Did they just snatch the first draft and film that without bothering to polish it or something?

And then I realised that none of the dialogue in the film was as good as "Holy Penis, what a scoop!"

Also ... I'm just so old and out of it but where the hell did this emo concept come from? One minute it wasn't there and the next it was...

The short answer: America.

The longer answer: a bunch of bands in the States which haven't made much headway in the UK, so only Internet people know about them over here.