How come SPIDER-MAN 3 and THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 2 get flack for having more than one villain when Batman's DARK KNIGHT trilogy has more than one in each movie?

I wonder if we'll get another batch of nasty comments.

More important mystery, why does it say CFL on the teaser, but on the article it says it was posted by Josh Wilding

lol wilding is now "the hawk"

what the [frick]?

I am so confused...

But, to answer the question:

Spider-Man 3 and TASM 2 didn't do it as well as TDK. Here's why:

The Dark Knight had not just two villains, but several. You have Joker, the mob, the crooked cops, and then, Two-Face. That's a lot. But the way in which Nolan approached them is what worked.

Joker was the main bad guy. He didn't get real backstory, but screen time and characterization. He is hired by the bad guys from Batman Begins. The mob don't need significant development. The mob coopts the corrupt cops to torch Harvey Dent, who starts out as an ally, and fits integrally into the story in that way. Once Harvey become Two-Face, Joker sets him loose to kill the corrupt cops.

Notice, only Harvey Dent gets development, and that development only really pays off AFTER Joker is defeated. He doesn't get in Joker's way, though their stories are bound up together.

Batman v Superman will possibly have this advantage: Lex is the main bad guy who both manipulates Batman and Superman, studies (and captures?) metahumans, and then creates Doomsday. He gets development, but he's in the background, while Batman, Superman and Doomsday take the foreground. Wonder Woman is also in the background, and it remains to be seen whether she integrates nicely into the plot.

Integration is the key here. The Dark Knight integrated its bad guys into the central plot without them competing for screen time. As you'll see, neither Spider-Man 3 nor TASM 2 did that well.

Spider-Man 3 tried to develop THREE different bad guys separately: Harry Osborn's New Goblin, Eddie Brock's Venom, and Sandman. Individually, they weren't that bad. Sandman worked the best because of the emotional tie to the first film and the resolution. Eddie Brock was developed gradually throughout as a rival to Peter. And Harry had the baggage of Spider-Man's betrayal. So, individually, they were developed quite well. But they failed when put into the same movie. It was too much, considering just how distinct their arcs were.

TASM 2 had a similar problem, in that Harry and Electro had two distinct development arcs that didn't really connect until halfway through, and even then, they didn't connect very well. Ultimately, though, I think the bigger issues came down to the odd approaches to both characters, as well as the poor plot connecting them both. There never seemed to be any good reason why either Electro or Harry would try to kill Spider-Man. And the Parasite/mentally-disturbed approach to Electro, plus the emo/prep approach to Harry, just didn't really work very well.

Again, the major factor is integration. The Spider-Man films didn't do that very well. The Batman films did.

I think there are several key factors as to why multiple villains work in some scenarios but not in others, but essentially I think it comes down to the fact that there needs to be a clearly defined hierarchy to the villains (i.e. One "main" villain with several supporting villains) and they need to be part of a single cohesive criminal enterprise that is working towards a single objective as part of a single plotline.

In other words, they can't ALL be full-on costumed supervillains of equal stature, and they cant ALL have their own backstory, and they cant ALL have their own agenda and criminal plan as part of multiple seperate plot threads.

Its kind of hard to explain i guess, but in essence its why something like Netflix Daredevil or Nolan Batman works, but something like Spiderman 3 or Batman Forever doesn't.

Maybe because one of these things had good writing and it balanced all the characters and the other was actual poison feces straight from the devil's asshole.

Maybe because the Dark Knight films are actually the greatest films in the comic book movie genre???

It's called execution. The Dark Knight made it work plain and simple, the others didn't.