The perfect example of Hollywood...

Rating: 1/10 (27 December 2002)

Money. This is all Hollywood stands for, and all it really cares about. Spider-Man's main goals: 1. Money 2. Money. and 3. Money. I saw this movie on it's opening weekend, and left the movie theater with a bad migraine, and several regrets. I could not comprehend what people found so great about this movie. Yeah it had some good action sequences, and some fancy camera angels ( which was the main cause of my migraine ), but aside from that nothing special. The acting is simply the actors reading off of que cards, and occasionaly smiling. Despite the fact that Kirsten and Toby did go out during this film there was no chemistry between them at all ( nor anyone else for that matter ). The plot is just plane unoriginal, and moronic. "Uh oh my uncle died well I better go become a superhero, and save the world." However it is not the movie I hate so much, but rather everything surronding the movie. The hundreds of hours of advertising, the thousands of stupid toys, the fact that the companys had to slap Spider-Man's face on every coke bottle, candy bar, and happy meal. If you have read my other reveiws you can tell I'm not too partial nor fond of Hollywood, which may or may not "blind" my judgement. Perhaps I have been a little too harsh. The movie itself is entertaining, and you can easily sit through it many times over. William Defoe ( I know that is misspelled ) is great, as always. Only he could act his way through the Green Goblin mask. However I do not look at movies as just things to watch when I'm bored, I think of movies as contempary paintings, and the directors artisits. That's why I did not like this movie, it had no real objective rather then $. Over all it merits about 5 out of 10.