Spider-Man 2

I liked it. No great surprise there, but seriously, I liked the damn thing a hell of a lot. I didn’t mind that Peter kept taking his mask off. I didn’t mind that some of it made no sense (Ock goes to talk to Peter – and tries to get his attention by throwing a car at him? wtf?). I didn’t mind that Spider-Man doesn’t look quite real.
It was just damn cool. And the romance angle *worked*. Just like it did in the comics. A lot of the reviews have mentioned a sequence near the end where Peter’s best friend lays ground for a sequel – but I was much more interested in the final shot of Mary-Jane, that wistful, troubled look, which is gonna lay out the emotional arc of the next sequel as surely as MJ’s final glance in the first one laid out this.
And man, Doc Ock clambering up walls – it was comics come to life.
I read the other day that Marvel have negotiated a strong position in the control of their properties for film deals. These characters are our lifeblood, they say, do not mess with them. So we get a Hulk, Daredevil, X-Men, Spidey, even Man-Thing that are all true to the core of the characters they depict.
Meanwhile, DC has Batman with nipples, Catwoman as Halle Berry rubbing catnip over her face, and Jack Black signed on as Green Lantern. With the exception of the upcoming Batman Begins (and perhaps the Bryan Singer Superman that has just been announced), its like DC can’t keep the morons off its properties.
No, it isn’t like that – it *is* that. Exactly.
—-
Spider-Man, Spider-Man, does whatever a Spider can…

One thought on “Spider-Man 2”

  1. I may be alone in this but I found Daredevil was a far cry from Daredevil in the comic books. It felt like the bad superhero movies of the 80s.
    Still, I loved Spiderman, Hulk and Xmen 🙂

Comments are closed.