2) Mary Jane Watson (Spider-Man)
Sam Raimi turned to the work of Stan Lee and Steve Ditko when it came to inspiration for his take on Spider-Man, and for the most part, it worked wonderfully. Sadly, his take on Mary Jane Watson wasn’t anywhere near as effective, and the fun loving MJ who partied to disguise her troubled home life was replaced with a drab, whiny girl next door who became little more than a damsel in distress an alarming number of times over the course of three movies.
The fact that she was an aspiring actress instead of a successful supermodel ultimately isn’t that important, but watering down Peter Parker’s comic book wife to someone who needed saving, again and again, was just a mistake. Throw in the fact that Kirsten Dunst clearly didn’t care about this role, and we’re left with one of the worst superhero movie love interests of all-time in not just one, but THREE movies.
That’s a great shame considering the fact we’re talking about such an awesome character, and while she was set to appear in The Amazing Spider-Man 2, Shailene Woodley was cut and there’s currently no official word on MJ’s status in Spider-Man: Homecoming.
Published: Jan 29, 2017 05:33 pm