Spider-Man 3 isn’t bad. At least, it isn’t all bad. Spider-Man 3: Friendly Neighborhood Re-Cut is my fan attempt at re-editing Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man 3 to make the movie more closely match the rest of it’s trilogy in theme, feeling, and tone. My edit also re-shapes Parker’s character and interactions in the film to make him more closely relate to the Parker we love. (Long story short, he’s not a dick anymore.)





(and hey, if someone wouldn’t mind getting a torrent started, let me know, and I’ll add it’s link to this post.)



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Major changes (spoilers follow):

Spider-Man is back to being your Friendly Neighborhood hero. Yes, he still has mood swings here and there, mostly from the symbiote, but he isn’t a jerk for no reason anymore. And he certainly doesn’t hit Mary Jane.



No more Gwen Stacy story, and no more love triangles. (In fact, between Peter, Harry, M.J., Eddie, and Gwen, it was a love pentagon.) I realize that Peter has had many relationships in the original 616 canon, but he’s most enjoyable when he’s not being a terrible relationship partner.

No more Jazzy evil Spidey.

Run-time significantly cut. Certain scenes run too long, and drag on the parts we don’t need. As such, scenes have been edited for speed and flow where appropriate.

Spider-Man no longer is portrayed as having killed the robber from Spider-Man 1. Although we all saw that he didn’t kill that man, for some reason, 3 features Parker having flash backs edited to imply that he did. Weird and un-needed.

Important changes (spoilers to my re-cut follow):

Cringe-worthy quips removed. Spider-Man is supposed to make jokes, but a lot of lines in this movie, be they from Spider-Man or even Venom, are terrible and out of context. Venom shouldn’t make Eric Foreman style one-off’s before he kills someone.



On that note, as much of Eddie Brock being Eric Foreman removed as possible. It doesn’t feel in character for Eddie to be oddly whiney, or to be constantly trying to smooth-talk others. His portrayal in 3 also makes Eddie come off particularly gross to women. (Not in a Dolores Umbridge love-to-hate kinda way, but in a “Ew I don’t want to see this” kinda way.)

Updated intro graphic. Spider-Man 3 had the Marvel intro, but it was the older one.

Large portions of Sandman cut. We’re shown his motivation almost literally 590 times. I cut it down to 3. Many of his lines are also delivered very strangely, so these were removed for quality.

Venom’s screech is now a howl. For some reason, Venom sounds like Yoshi in the original.

Shots of Eddie Brock in Venom but with mask off are reduced to a minimum. Why.

Harry’s deus ex machina butler is removed. Butler, who are you. Where were you in 2. Stop it.

Cheesy sound effects / visual effects removed where possible. The movie’s still a bit dated, but less so.

Many tiny other things. Spider-Man doesn’t say “Shazam” anymore.

Small but important changes (big spoilers to re-cut follow. I recommend not reading these until after watching the re-cut, but hey, I’m not your Mom.):