3. The Jazz Club Showdown - Spider-Man 3
I thought about not including this movie at all, but then the list felt incomplete, and - let's face it - there's no use trying to escape the dark shadow that
Spider-Man 3 cast over its predecessors. And to be fair to director Sam Raimi, it wasn't entirely is fault: the producers insisted that there were three villains for some bizarre, inane reason, and the project got out of hand as a result. What
was Raimi's fault, though, was this: the jazz club scene, where Peter Parker stops being Peter Parker and transforms into the biggest douchebag imaginable. I get it: the scene - which has our superhero jumping around on tables, clicking his fingers, and generally making himself wholly unappealing to those members of the opposite sex - is supposed to show Peter in a douchey light, because he's infected with an alien parasite. Still, when this happened everyone who saw it did a double-take... what was hell was going on? Was it supposed to be funny? Even if it was, at this point the
Spider-Man franchise took a nosedive, and all credibility seemed to vanish. Even when you reference the awesome
Spider-Man 2 nowadays, people still think about Jazz Club-Man. "Now dig on this."