Spiderman - Comments

[IkeaBoy]

I was very impressed. Visually it was great. They kept a lot of his origin in (e.g. how Ben dies, the wrestling) which I definitely appreciated. As a comic book movie this is far better than X-Men which was more of an action movie based on the comic book rather than a comic book movie. It's also one of the few comic book hero movies where the hero does get his ass kicked during a fight with the villains. Very rarely will you see the heros in real danger, sure they might be caught but rarely do the villains pound them mercilessly.

The actors were pretty much all great- James Franco, nice set up for the rest of the series and he's a damn fine actor. Willem Dafoe one of the best comic movie villains ever, and the goblin looked great. They kept Spider-Man as Spider-Man and didn't try to serious him up, he is a nerd with super powers and he's excited about them and Maguire did it excellently. The best part though was the short role of Schillinger as Jameson- he had the look and the character TO A FUCKING T!!!!!

In addition, I think Alicia Witt would have been a better Mary Jane.



Edited By IkeaBoy on May 04 2002 at 7:16