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When I heard they had made a big screen, live action adaption of one of Marvels most profitable and most popular heroes, Spider-Man I was a little less than enthusiastic seeing as I grew up watching the Spider-Man 1994 animated series when I was younger. But after finally viewing it and seeing it for what it is, Sam Rami's Spider-Man is a masterstroke among the comic book films and is quite possible the film that started the Marvel revolution.
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Spider-Man when I first saw it I thought it was a little bit contrived and pointless but now seeing it again after a long time I fully appreciate the great style and care that was put into making this movie. Sam Rami crafts a heartfelt, smart, gutsy and highly entertaining Super hero movie, it's one of the best of the best of the best and it really set the benchmark for all other Superhero movies to follow.
Tobey Maguire(Who was really a nobody till he made this movie.) Shines here as everyone favorite wall crawler he is very humble, smart and caring but he lacks the wit and humor that made Spidey so cool back in the day, but Maguire makes up for that character flaw with his his great sense of right and wrong and cool, hyper energy as Spidey makes due. Willem Dafoe(Who really steals the show.) Is sinister, psychotic, malicious, smart and cunning as Spidey's arch rival The Green Goblin, he brings the same power and sense of evil that The Goblin had in the comics and is a true blue, straight from the mind of Stan Lee incarnation of how the character was on paper and makes it something really amazing to watch Dafoe play him, he rocks the house. Kirsten Dunst(While not my first choice for MJ.) She does good here as the main love interest of Peter Parker/Spider-Man while she has the look and the style she lacks in the emotion department sometimes in the film being reduced to nothing but pure eye candy, but that's what MJ was in the series, the comics and now in the movies, but all in all Dunst does good here. The cast is like I said fantastic and does great with there assigned part, they really bring this film up into the stratosphere of greatness and make this one of the best comic book movies around.
Spider-Man is original in the best sense and is something of a stand alone amongst the sea of other comic book adaptions, It's a favorite of mine and a great piece of film making that is too be cherished and loved for the great entertainment and story that it tells. All in all Spider-Man is one wild, web slinging ride you don't want to miss.
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FM_ALEX
October 21, 2010
Agreed man this one was great, I as well LOVED that series in the 90's, well done.
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Scotman
December 05, 2009
Good review. Actually Toby was known for Pleasantville and The Wonder Boys, hardly a nobody.
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Based on the classic Marvel Comics series, Sam Raimi's SPIDER-MAN deftly details the origin of the web-slinging superhero. When awkward New York City teenager Peter Parker (Tobey Maguire) attends a class field trip to a laboratory, he gets bitten by a genetically altered spider while taking photos of his longtime crush, the lovely Mary Jane Watson (Kirsten Dunst). Soon he discovers this bite has given him remarkable powers--heightened strength, dexterity, and awareness, along with the ability to cling to walls and shoot webs from his wrists. Hoping to win Mary Jane's heart using his new talents, Peter becomes distracted from home life with his doting Aunt May (Rosemary Harris) and Uncle Ben (Cliff Robertson), ultimately leading to tragedy--and his new role as the crime-fighting Spider-Man. Meanwhile Harry Osborn (Willem Dafoe), the industrialist father of Peter's friend Norman (James Franco), undergoes a transformation of his own, bringing about the creation of Spider-Man's arch-nemesis: The Green Goblin...
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Cast:
Willem Dafoe,
Kirsten Dunst,
Rosemary Harris,
James Franco,
Tobey Maguire,
Bill Nunn,
Cliff Robertson,
Stanley Anderson,
Jack Betts,
Elizabeth Banks,
Bruce Campbell,
Michael Papajohn,
Gerry Becker,
J.K. Simmons,
Ron Perkins,
Ted Raimi,
Joe Manganiello,
Randy Savage,
Myk Watford
Director:
Sam Raimi
Genre:
Action,
Drama,
Sci-Fi
Release Date:
2002, May 3, 2002
MPAA Rating:
PG-13
DVD Release Date:
November 1, 2002
Runtime:
2hrs 1min
Studio:
Sony Pictures,
Columbia Pictures
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