10 Incredible Scenes From Mediocre Movies
7. The Birth Of Sandman - Spider-Man 3
Spider-Man 3 is undeniably one of the most disappointing superhero movies ever made, and though it's certainly not an awful film, it's painfully obvious throughout that director Sam Raimi's heart just wasn't in it.
But if you're able to forgot about all the goofy Emo Peter Parker (Tobey Maguire) nonsense and the film's bungled treatment of Venom (Topher Grace), there is one mesmerising, all-timer scene hidden within it.
That scene is the birth of villain Sandman, which occurs after criminal Flint Marko (Thomas Hayden Church) falls into an active particle accelerator, which fuses his organic matter with the nearby sand.
Initially having more in common with a body-horror scene from a David Cronenberg film than your typical comic book villain transformation, it's a sequence both terrifying and visually stunning, utilising state-of-the-art VFX to convincingly depict every individual grain of sand comprising Sandman's mass.
It's just a damn shame that the movie surrounding him has little of the artistry of this single sequence. Clearly, Sandman alone was plenty villain for the movie, but the producers had other ideas.