After the Rain
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From the USA TODAY bestselling author of Sweet Thing and Nowhere But Here comes a deeply emotional...
A Cookbook Conspiracy (Bibliophile Mystery #7)
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Every Waking Hour
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The fourth book in Joanna Schaffhausen's heartpounding Ellery Hathaway mystery series, Every Waking...
B is for Beg (The Alphabet of Desire #2)
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Blake Apparently I'm a disaster—no steady job, brothers who have to help me manage my money, and...
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The Beast Is an Animal
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A girl with a secret talent must save her village from the encroaching darkness in this haunting and...
Violet's Mail Order Husband
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A historical western cowboy romance about a mail order bride. This first episode of The Montana...
The Great Believers
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“A page turner...An absorbing and emotionally riveting story about what it’s like to live during...
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Wisdom Check (Dungeons and Dating #2)
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Julian’s boss is newly single, ridiculously hot, and looking his way. He’s so screwed. Cal...
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David McK (3557 KP) rated Spider-Man (2002) in Movies
Oct 3, 2021
So that's back before the Marvel Cinematic Universe was a thing (Iron Man was '08).
It's also not long after the twin Towers disaster, which - I believe - had to be edited out of this film.
This was also the first big-screen take on Spider-Man, with a mainly 20 something cast all playing characters in their late teens, headlined by Tobey Maguire as Peter Parker/Spider-Man and by Kirsten Dunst's redhead Mary-Jane Watson.
The early portions of this movie basically retells Spider-Mans origins story (although, here, Parker is bitten by a Genetically modified Spider instead of a Radioactive one and does not need web-shooters: they come out of his actual wrists), complete with the death of Uncle Ben who gets to utter the immortal lines to Parker that 'with great power comes great responsibility'.
Yes, Stan Lee makes a 'blink and you'll miss it' cameo.
Yes, the soundtrack owes a fair deal to that of 1989s 'Batman'
Yes, the Green Goblin costume does look a bit like a Power Rangers reject.
Yes, the film still holds up nearly 20 year later: there's a reason that 'upside-down' kiss is now iconic!
(Oh, and TK Simmons J Jonah Jameson? *Chef's Kiss*.)
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