The symbiote simply happens to land in Peter and MJ’s vicinity, and Marko hasn’t yet been connected to Uncle Ben’s murder, so for an extended period, the film feels as if it’s merely jumping between random, unconnected events. Of the three consecutive sequences, only Harry’s has even a hint of causality related to Spider-Man - who he believes killed his father - and none of them are causally related to one another. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the back-to-back scenes where Peter’s vengeful best friend Harry Osborn (James Franco) experiments on himself with the green gas his father used in the first film, followed by the arrival of the Venom symbiote on Earth in the background of a Peter/MJ scene, followed by The Sandman/Flint Marko (Thomas Haden Church) running to evade police. The studio must have seen the writing on the wall, as merely hours after Raimi’s departure from the franchise was announced, Sony said it already had a script for a reboot by screenwriter James Vanderbilt, which eventually became The Amazing Spider-Man.One of the chief complaints levied at Spider-Man 3 is its abundance of antagonists, but the problem isn’t simply numerical. Sony wanted to bring Lizard into the fold, and when Raimi and the studio reached an impasse, they both agreed to part ways. The experience with Spider-Man 3 is why, when it came time to develop Spider-Man 4, Raimi dug in his heels and said he would be using Vulture as the villain (with John Malkovich set to play the character).
Ultimately, Raimi was forced to shoehorn in a character that he didn’t like, and the result was a film that the director didn't fully stand behind. It was really no secret that Raimi was not at all crazy about the character Venom, but citing the villain’s large following amongst young fans, Sony pushed hard for Raimi to include the character in Spider-Man 3. I should’ve just stuck with the characters and the relationships and progressed them to the next step and not tried to top the bar.” I think was the thinking going into it, and I think that’s what doomed us. If the director doesn’t love something, it’s wrong of them to make it when so many other people love it. I tried to make it work, but I didn’t really believe in all the characters, so that couldn’t be hidden from people who loved Spider-Man.
“It’s a movie that just didn’t work very well. Speaking with Chris Hardwick on the Nerdist podcast, Raimi explained the principal problem with Spider-Man 3:
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