In the wake of 9/11 America got a pick-me up in the form of Spider-Man (but deprived an awesome trailer featuring the WTC). Directed brilliantly by Sam Raimi (an all time favorite of mine) and staring the second best casting since Patrick Stewart as Prof. X, Tobey Maguire as Peter Parker.
This movie is near perfect. The power of the origin story is undeniable with Peter growing up so fast from a nerdy high school kid who desperately just wants to be considered cool and admired by the girl next door to accepting full responsibility for what happened to his uncle and using that as his motivation every day of his life from there on out. Sure a lot of people complained about the organic web shooters, but I agree whole heartedly with Raimi in that it helped make Peter a little more normal and relatable. Yes he’s a science whiz, but he’s not so smart that he can build a high tech piece of equipment that no one in the world has ever thought of before or since, and then never invent anything else.
The casting was superb even with Kirsten Dunst’s mediocrity as Mary Jane Watson. But to be honest, with the way they wrote the character it didn’t really matter who was cast. Willem Dafoe was amazing as always, the scene of him talking to himself in the mirror is absolutely brilliant and a sign of why so many people love DeFoe as an actor. But hands down the show stealer was JK Simmons as J Jonah Jameson (that would be the third most perfect casting ever).
I realized something in writing this review, when a movie is amazing it’s very difficult to flesh out a review without feeling like you’re just rambling about all the things you liked about it. I'm sure after I post this I'll think of some things I could've said to make it longer, but that's just how this stuff works.
But to be fair, my only complaint for the entire movie comes from when Spider-Man goes back into the building to save the woman screaming, who turns out to be the Green Goblin, but his Spider Sense never goes off and he gets punched in the face, though now that I read that sentence it sounds pretty funny.
Marvel Movie Score = 10
Why That?: No matter how many times I watch it, I still think it’s perfect. I didn’t even mind the mock up of the Gwen Stacey/Green Goblin thing now including Mary Jane (and her surviving). The action scenes were perfect, including rarely seen scenes of the super-hero taking out just random criminals on the street. But most importantly beginning to end it was ridiculously fun.
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If this gets a ten, the train sequence alone from Spider-Man 2 gets a twelve.
Are you talking best casting in comic book movies? We all know the best casting in the history of ever is Andre in The Princess Bride.
Yes best casting in comic movies. It's hard to argue against anything in The Princess Bride. Oh, and we may be getting a Fezik figure in the near future.
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