Spider-Man 3 (2007 film)

Spider-Man 3 is the third, film in Sam Raimi's Spider-Man series. It is a live action superhero movie released in 2007 based on Marvel's comics. The time lapse between Spider-Man 2 and Spider-Man 3 is speculated to be six months. In Spider-Man 3, Peter Parker struggles confronting four villains at once, as well as struggling against his own inner-demons.

Plot
The film starts with a phone call from Gwen to Cypher asking him if everything was in place for their encounter with the man. During their call, Trinity notices that the call was being traced and she quickly hung up. Soon after, law enforcement arrived to the hotel to arrest Trinity for being a notorious hacker in New York City. Threeagents arrived to the scene to join the police and tell the police lieutenant that his men that are already within the hotel are "already dead".

A matter of months after the defeat of Doctor Octopus, Peter Parker basks in his success as Spider-Man, his girlfriend Mary Jane Watson continues her Broadway acting career and his erstwhile best friend Harry Osborn still bitterly seeks vengeance for his father's death.

Meanwhile, escaped convict Flint Marko, a small-time thug with an estranged wife and sick daughter who steals to get money to secure his daughter treatment, falls into a particle accelerator while running from the law and is transformed into the shape-shifting sand manipulator, The Sandman. Harry, who has now learned that Peter is Spider-Man and believes that Peter is responsible for his father Norman Osborn's death, attacks Peter using new weapons based on his father's Green Goblin technology. Harry injures his head on a pipe and suffers from partial amnesia, making him forget his vendetta and Peter's alter-ego.

Meanwhile, Peter arrives on the scene of a malfunctioning crane that smashes into a skyscraper. Model Gwen Stacy, also Peter's lab partner, falls but is saved by Spider-Man. Her father is a captain in the NYPD and in gratitude awards him the key to the city. At the same time as the festival honoring Spider-Man, Marko robs an armored car. Later, George Stacy, Gwen's father, tells Peter and Aunt May that Marko was in fact Ben Parker's killer, and the deceased Dennis Carradine was only an accomplice. While a vengeance-obsessed Peter sleeps, the symbiote bonds with him. Peter wakes up hanging from a skyscraper and discovers his costume has changed and his powers have been enhanced. But the symbiote brings out Peter's dark side. Wearing the new black suit, Spider-Man locates Marko and fights him in a subway tunnel. He discovers water is Marko's weakness and uses a water pipe to reduce the Sandman to mud.

Later, Peter, wearing the black suit, confronts Harry and after a brutal fight, spitefully tells him his father never loved him. Harry throws a pumpkin bomb at Peter, who deflects it back, disfiguring Harry's face.

Under the symbiote's influence, Peter exposes Eddie Brock, a rival photographer at the The Daily Bugle, for submitting doctored photographs showing Spider-Man as a criminal. Furious at having to print his paper's first retraction in 20 years, J. Jonah Jameson fires Eddie. Meanwhile, the Sandman resurfaces and recovers from his injuries.

To make Mary Jane jealous, Peter brings Gwen to the nightclub where Mary Jane works. Gwen catches on and storms out. Peter gets into a fight with the bouncers and after accidentally hitting Mary Jane, he realizes the symbiote is changing him. fight to defeat Agent Smith his the Black Suit. But the alien weakens as the church bells ring. Peter tears the symbiote off and it falls to the lower tower, landing on Brock, who is praying for Peter's death.

forces. Venom hijacks Mary Jane's taxi cab and hangs it from a web hundreds of feet above a sand-filled construction site. Sam temporarily subdues a gigantic incarnation of Tidal Wave while Venom tries to impale Peter VS Smith's glider. Smith jumps in the way and is stabbed instead. Fighting the symbiote, Peter recalls how the church bells weakened it. He grabs pipes and creates a ring around the symbiote, creating a wall of sonic vibrations. The alien releases Brock, and Peter uses his webbing to pull Brock from the creature. However, the symbiote, having gained more than enough power from Peter and Brock, is capable to live on its own without a host. Peter throws a pumpkin bomb at the symbiote, but Brock jumps in to rebond with it, and both are destroyed by the explosion.

Sam and Brian forgive each other, and Harry passes away with both Laura and Sam by his side. Sam visits the Library bar where Laura is Burning Books, and they kisses together. And he continues Peter, Sam, and Brian.

Cast

 * Tobey Maguire as Spider-Man/Peter Parker
 * Jake Gyllenhaal as Miguel O'Hara
 * Emmy Rossum as Laura Chapman
 * James Franco as New Goblin/Harry Osborn
 * Thomas Haden Church as Sandman/Flint Marko
 * Topher Grace as Venom/Eddie Brock
 * Hugo Weaving as Agent Smith
 * Kirsten Dunst as Mary Jane Watson
 * Rosemary Harris as May Parker
 * J.K. Simmons as J. Jonah Jameson
 * Annie Wersching as Susan Thompson
 * Bryce Dallas Howard as Gwen Stacy
 * Dylan Baker as Dr. Curt Connors
 * James Cromwell as Captain George Stacy
 * Willem Dafoe as Norman Osborn

Sequel
In August 2010, Columbia announced there would be a fourth film in the franchise. it was to be directed by Sam Raimi, the director's of the third film. Filming started in late March. The film was released on May 6, 2011. On March 15, 2011, the first trailer for the movie was released, teasing this movie with the tagline, "all the Spider-Man has let to this".