Batman? so what?

Rating: Null/10 (3 May 2002)

Ok, I heard a number of people, both on various chats and after the movie standing outside, who claim that the movie rips a number of elements off from Batman. What I fear that many of these people may not realise, is the movie was *fairly* close to the story I knew. The biggest changes I saw (possible spoilers, but not bad) were that, one, Peter Parker now has glands that he spins webs from, (as opposed to inventing the web slingers and haveing to worry about runing out of web) and two, the spider was a genetically engineered spider. No radiation or anything like that, just mankind trying to play god :-0 That said, the special effects were slightly obvious, lots of Matrix-esque look (espically the webing across the city scenes and when he's jumping from building to building.) Now for the good parts! DaFoe is simply awesome as the goblin, espically one particular scene where Norman and Goblin are talking with each other in the mirror. too bad we didn't get to see his face while he taunted spidey. I was anything but disappointed in the casting in this movie, though some of the lines do have a, shall we say, Comic book feel?
ok, I'll stop punning now.