Product: Spider-Man 2 (2004)
Rating: 5.0
Of Things to come...
When you really get right down to it, it only makes sense that for the first true silver screen outing of everyone's favorite "friendly neighborhood Spider-Man", that his nemesis for the film would be his comic book arch-rival numero uno - the Green Goblin! And since Norman's Goblin died in the comics, it was no big to kill him in the movie.(For those who don't know, Harry later took on the Goblin name and costume, but later sought psychiactric help. And then his PSYCHIATRIST took on the Goblin name...and got killed. And let's not get started on the Hobgoblin...)So for a sequel, looking at all of "Spidey's" other main villainous staples, who would be the best? Sandman? Scorpion, perhaps? Or the Shocker, Chameleon, or Kraven the Hunter? Rhino, Mysterio, or the Lizard, maybe? But, when you get right down to it, there was only one with the potential to really light up the screen alongside the famous wallcrawler - Doc. Ock!(Can you tell I'm eager to see what they do with him?)As to the black costume that later attached to reporter-gone-rogue Eddie Brock to become Venom, that gets tricky just in figuring out how the black costume/symbiote gets to Spidey! After all, it spawned from some sort of goop in the 93-98 animated series, and in the comics he got it by accident while on the Beyonder's mash together planet near the end of the original "Secret Wars". (Okay, so the film makers will probably take the cartoon's route...)But for now, I shall await the battle of Spider VS. Octopus. And though I give 5 stars, I actually reserve rating until I have actually seen it. Until then, Spider-Friends......