Spider-Man

I actually bought tickets a month in advance without once seeing a preview, or once reading a marvel comic book, it was more that everyone was talking and I couldn’t miss out. Boy was I surprised when this filmed version of the wall crawling hero’s creation and beginnings turned out to be something quite spectacular. Comic book movies never made it quite like this one did, the reason? Try good acting, good directing, but most of all a working, engaging, well thought out plot. Because it is the first in a series, this film takes it’s time with all the quirks and foibles of it’s main character Peter Parker A.K.A. the newly made hero Spider-Man, but it does not ignore a well paced plot which introduces the audience to themes and characters more deep than we’ve come to expect in summer blockbusters. “With great power comes great responsibility,” so says Peter’s surrogate father Uncle Ben, pretty much condensing the two hours of film into it’s one main point, and fortunately director Sam Raimi follows through with a movie worthy of the old comic books, and worthy of it’s huge profits. This just goes to show people will pay to see quality movies, not just stuff blowing up, and scantily clad characters…and…and…fish.

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