[...] this can lead to chronic Too-Many-Villainitis (how many bad guys are really necessary to prove our hero has a tough row to hoe?). Movie fans will remember Willem Dafoe's wacko portrayal in the 2002 Spider-Man: I'm good. Foxx lists Dafoe's version (along with the Jack Nicholson and Heath Ledger Jokers) as his favorite comic-movie villain. In the new film, not much beyond the original's name (Max Dillon) and a variant of his occupation as an electrical engineer has been retained. Enough attention has been paid to deeper character motivation to draw the Oscar-winning Foxx, who first encountered the wall-crawler on The Electric Company in the '70s: He doesn't want to be this mean guy; he just wants to be recognized. The LizardNice-guy scientist Dr.
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Michael Ordoña, San Francisco Chronicle: Entertainment
Wed, 04/23/2014 - 6:12pm
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