Breh, raimi wanted the sandman character.
The sandman arc was just as horrible as the venom arc. I blame raimi just as much.
You can try to blame the studio but that movie would have been ass still with just the sandman and green goblin arcs.
The dancing scene and the extreme campiness is pure raimi. Thats pretty much his signature style.
As for amazing spider man, a huge chunk of that movie was what raimi wanted to do for spider man 4. Same villain and sub plots.
Nothing wrong with the Sandman plot...the problem was all the different storylines and shyt were thrown together...Venom shyt was embarrassing