Spider-man far from amazing 5/10

Rating: 1/10 (5 May 2002)

Admit it. This film is terrible. How do you mess up spider man?(SPOILERS AHEAD!) So much to work with yet this 2002 flick takes all the wrong turns. I definitely agree that it is an insult to great films everywhere that this film is on the top 200 list. I've never commented on a film before but saw that it was on the list and wondered what people are thinking when they vote. Everyone deserves a better Spidey film then this trash. I'd been waiting for a Spider-Man movie since I was about six years old, in the mid 80's, and was there on opening night. The film started off well but quickly went down hill. I almost left half way through but kept hoping it would get better. The CG effects were way over done. Film makers today treat this stuff like heroin. They start using it and can't seem stop. Enough with all the digital effects. Why don't film makers (especially George Lucas) realize half of this stuff doesn't look real at all and ruins these movies. The dialogue, story, and action were all terrible in this film. Peter Parker tells Mary Jane he'll always be there for her, and then leaves her standing alone...IN A GRAVEYARD! Why did Peter Parker turn into Bruce Wayne? I enjoy Super hero films (Batman, Superman etc)but they should still be decent flicks. This film was about as good as Batman and Robin, or the Mummy Returns. The casting of Willem Dafoe was great as the green goblin but why give him that terrible suite and what happened to his pumpkin bombs? Peter's Boss J.J sucked. Toby Maguire did a good job but is totally wrong for spider man. He's way too short to begin with. The old animated Peter Parker was way cooler. I'm a fan of Sam Raimi, and it was cool to see some Evil dead stuff in the film but Bruce Campbell's cameo was disappointing as he was almost unrecognizable. This movie didn't seem to know which way it was going. There were two or three cool scenes but over all this was the biggest film disappointment I've ever had. Couldn't they have stuck the Ramones Spider-Man theme in there somewhere? Couldn't Spider-man have mentioned his Spidey sence? Couldn't he have used a web net on someone? Was he a ninja? How come you never heard his web shoot when people looked away and then saw that he had disappeared? I wasn't expecting the cartoon but at least something as good. This movie hit the lowest point by using a Matrix rip off in a fight scene. This has been done a million times and it was insulting to see it again. Too bad this film was ever made. Kids deserve better films to grow up on. I think most Spider-man fans could have written a better screen play then this campy waste of time and money. Stay off the CG. Help is available.