Spider-Man

Now I hate to coin the term "they don't make 'em like they used to" although with Sam Raimi's Spider hypen Man I'm willing to break my own rules, this is a rewatch of course and finally putting my 10 cents on it (Ad said 3000) this is something I remember fondly especially seeing it on its VHS release and it's stuck with me since does that make me impartial? Of course although I can agree there is some some problems i.e CG in places has not aged well or various turns of phrase like "did your husband make that for you?" Although as it was a different time and was socially acceptable in some sense I think we can forgive it, the premise is still there with it's incredible cinematography and story, by no means have I read every single Spider-Man Comic then again what modern Marvel fan has especially with the change to organic web shooting and Norman Osborne donning the iconic Green Ranger suit which brings me to Willem Defoe in a stand out performance in comic book films putting him in the same calibre as Jack Nicholson, Hugh Jackman, Christian Bale and RDJ, it's a performance that Raimi can really take to similar heights like he did with Bruce Campbell in the Evil Dead franchise which of course he cameos as the Announcer in the Wresting segment, Tobey Maguire will always be Spider-Man to me although yes it's because I grow up with that although I've yet to find the perfect embodiment of Peter Parker and Spiderman so well, an ideal world it's a mix of both him and Tom Holland potentially, the film itself once again talking about a time period abandoned by the world granted a major tragic event took place not so long into filming in 2001 and it shows, it's proud identity as an New York centric hero still shines even I as a disgustingly proud Brit feel patriotic when the citizens of New York start disrupting the Goblin's evil doing and it's hard not to, I love everything about the score and it's funny that Danny Elfman has made TWO iconic scores for superheroes now, the film is extremely quotable and encapsules the end of that late 90s optimism and the beginning of a new century, it's once in a generation by my opinion and I'm glad I got a birthday cake that marketed the film, in short if you didn't like this film, I missed that part where that's my problem. Btw the final swing score definitely doesn't sound like the finale of Edward Scissorhands.