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Spider-Man (2002)
Spider-Man (2002)
2002 | Action, Sci-Fi
Tobey maguire (2 more)
Kirsten dunst
Willem dafoe
Green goblin costume (0 more)
With great power comes great responsbity
Just rewatched and i still love this film tobey maguire is spider - man u totally believe in him the rest of the cast are just as brillant including j. k. simmons as j jonah jameson the one thing i didnt like the green goblin costume everything else perfect great soundtrack
  
Spider-Man (2002)
Spider-Man (2002)
2002 | Action, Sci-Fi
Well-crafter origin story (0 more)
Green Goblin costume (0 more)
"Remember, Peter: with great power comes great responsibility"
2002.

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*.)