Sam Raimi Talks ‘Spiderman 3’ In Retrospect, Echoed Andrew Garfield’s Sentiment On ‘The Amazing Spiderman’ Reboot; Director Confessed ‘He Didn’t Really Believed In All The Characters'

Sam Raimi talks "Spiderman 3" eight years after release. Raimi gets self-critical and brutally honest about the worst Spiderman movie ever made (most fans and critics agree). Raimi'sconfession echoes Andrew Garfield's earlier sentiment on "The Amazing Spiderman" and its sequel.

Apparently, Sam Raimi talks "Spiderman 3" as the beginning of the franchise's downward spiral, which was supposedly at its height in "Spiderman 2." Raimi admitted directors don't like to talk about their bad films, which puts his comment in a Nerdist interview in perspective.

"It's a movie that just didn't work very well. I tried to make it work, but I didn't really believe in all the characters, so that couldn't be hidden from people who loved Spider-Man. If the director doesn't love something, it's wrong of them to make it when so many other people love it.

I think [raising the stakes after Spider-Man 2] was the thinking going into it, and I think that's what doomed us. I should've just stuck with the characters and the relationships and progressed them to the next step and not tried to top the bar ..." (screenrant.com)

Andre Garfield shared Raimi's sentiment on both "The Amazing Spiderman" movies, in which he starred as the cocky web-slinger. The critical reception for the reboot reportedly undermined Sony's push for the Venom and Sinister Six spin-offs.

"It's interesting. I read a lot of the reactions from people and I had to stop because I could feel I was getting away from how I actually felt about it. For me, I read the script that Alex [Kurtzman] and Bob [Orci] wrote, and I genuinely loved it.

I think what happened was, through the pre-production, production, and post-production, when you have something that works as a whole, and then you start removing portions of it because there was even more of it than was in the final cut, and everything was related.

Once you start removing things and saying, 'No, that doesn't work,' then the thread is broken, and it's hard to go with the flow of the story. Certain people at the studio had problems with certain parts of it, and ultimately the studio is the final say in those movies because they're the tentpoles, so you have to answer to those people."

News of "Amazing Spiderman 3" is still up in the air, in light of Sam Raimi talks of "Spiderman 3" and Andrew Garfield's take on the reboot.