Good to see my local cinema doing well!

Rating: Null/10 (2 May 2002)

Over here in Malaysia we have had the privilege to see the movies a few days earlier before the US. (probably a move to avoid the competition with pirated VCD which comes in very quickly after the movies starts showing somewhere else). My local cinema (the only one in town)which normally hardly get admission beyond 30% was fully packed yesterday afternoon. Everyone seemed to enjoy the movies very much. I must say I enjoyed the movies too.The special effect makes spider man moves just like the way we see him in the cartoon series. The character development of Peter Parker, as well as his nemesis, the green globlin is good. It is interesting to see the green goblin as an ordinary man slowly taken over by the evil of his heart (or the green gas?)instead of just being a bad ass to start with.The brief appearance of the bold and arrogant newspaper boss (don't know his name) is impressive. Hope to see more of him in the sequal. Without doubt the ideas of making a sequal is already in their mind when they were making this film. It will be interesting to see how Harry Osborne will deal with spider man in the sequal.(I hope they keep him in the sequal) I can't help but keep comparing this movies with the first Batman movies (by Tim Burton). Sam Raimi seems to makes this movies with a bit of darkness so that we can feel that it is not just fun and glory to becomes the spiderman. Peter Parker makes sacrifice, being misunderstood and live a lonely life for being the super hero.As quoted in the movie -with great power, comes great responsibility