User blog comment:LoveWaffle/Looks at Screen Dumbstrack for a Good 10 Minutes at this Terrible Casting/@comment-3048593-20130128224419/@comment-5145876-20130129052629

@LoveWaffle

It might seem weird but I've always considered that Sandman was the villain shoe-horned into Spider-man 3. I think they intended to center on the black suit anyway so venom was already meant to be there. But all that BS stuff about Sandman suddenly being the guy who really killed Uncle Ben and his involvement to the story at all was just random. I think the studio said they wanted another villain from the get go so they ended up needlessly working sandman into the overall story and just lazily shunted Venom to the last fifteen minutes.

However, I think it would have been a much better movie if they had only focused on: Pete and MJ's relationship, Peter and Eddie Brock becoming bitter rivals from the beginning and escalating that more, Peter getting the black suit and it slowly turning him evil-ish, Harry becoming New Goblin and wanting to ruin Peter's life (since they started that in the second movie), then introducing Venom just around the half way point and using him alot more then they originally did.

Basically just taking out everything with Sandman, everything with Gwen Stacy (she was pretty darn pointless too IMO), and any segments involving awkward disco dancing or moody jazz club dancing and it would have been 5X better.