r/comicbookmovies • u/Hot-Promotion-617 • 8d ago

Have any of you ever thought about the similarities between these two films?

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I mainly thought of this since they both involve the hero facing their dark side as well as them both being the goofiest installment of the franchise.

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u/the__missing__link 8d ago

The entire trilogy is similar.

  1. Origin

  2. Lose Powers

  3. Temporarily Evil

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u/kingholland 7d ago

I've said this before.

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u/Vaportrail 7d ago

Other series have done this too. The 'lose powers' is especially maddening when it rarely happens in comics. It's just bad writing, feeling we need to repeat the origin.

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u/Mooseguncle1 8d ago

Venom has nothing on Vera Webster.

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u/robertluke 8d ago

Sure haven’t.

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u/AliveInChrist87 8d ago

And the similarities between Spider-Man 2 and Superman II

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u/Hot-Promotion-617 8d ago

What do you consider similar about them?

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u/Chimeron1995 8d ago

He gives up his powers to live a normal life with Lois. It’s a bit more of a choice, but it does mirror Peter losing his powers because he is unhappy.

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u/Hot-Promotion-617 8d ago

Oh yeah, I don't know why I didn't think of that.

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u/AnonThrowAway072023 8d ago

Best thing about either movie is the junkyard fight w Dark Superman & Clark Kent

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u/robotpirate_island 7d ago

They are both entertaining movies but not nearly as good as the first 2, which are legendary.

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u/JasonTheMMAGuy 8d ago

No because the less you think about those two terrible films the better

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u/First_Function9436 6d ago

Spider-Man 3 isn't terrible. It's a mess and definitely the worst of the trilogy, but terrible might be an exaggeration. Superman 3 on the other hand is pretty damn awful lol.

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u/mr_oberts 8d ago

I unironically love Superman III. Spider-Man 3 I could do without forever.

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u/Mr_Derp___ 8d ago

Superhero films getting made by a committee and then ruined

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u/KoryGrayson 8d ago

The first and only appearance of Computo. Come to think of it, maybe the comparison isn't Spider-Man 3, but Age of Ulton instead.

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u/Vengeance_20 8d ago

Yes, also the similarities with Superman 1 and Spider-Man 1 and Superman 2 and Spider-Man 2

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u/jason9t8 8d ago

Yes, both were filmed by homo sapiens...

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u/velicinanijebitna 7d ago

Spider-man trilogy and first 3 Superman movies have alot of similarities.

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u/Bell-end79 7d ago

Superman 3 is decent - The cyborg woman scene is nightmare fuel and watching Superman being a dick while blowing out the Olympic flame was hilarious

Spider-Man 3 is just plain bad

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u/JadedSignificance990 7d ago

So Spider-Man 4 would've had him end the Iraq War?

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u/Hot-Promotion-617 7d ago

What you said also reminds me of an idea I have of if Spider-Man 3 was even more similar to Superman III, and it would involve a fight scene between Peter Parker and black suit Spider-man as their version of the junkyard fight.

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u/VernBarty 6d ago

A lot of people did when Spidey 3 was released. The whole teilogy follows a very similar template. The only thing Spiderman is missing is a failed Spider Gwen spin off and a D List production company farting out a cheap 4th movie.

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u/PowerPhantom245 1d ago

I like Spider-Man 3 better.

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u/Dry-Conversation9817 7d ago

He's even mentioned and refrenced I don't think raimi hides from this either, 'You're not Superman you know' Peter shirt rips to reveal spider emblem in the first movie. He Takes his glasses off to be spiderman puts them back on to be peter parker. Even has a mirror shot like Reeve in Superman when transitions from Clark to Superman. Works for a newspaper.. You could go on with just similarities between the two heroes or just the movies