Spider-Man

Pros: Cast, Special Effets, It's Spider-Man dammit!!
Cons: Drama Drama Drama..., Cameos, Special Effects

Well the long awaited Spider-Man has finally hit theaters. Somehow I feel that when a movie trailer is shown in theaters over a year before the movie is released I feel that the movie should be exceptional and a totally outstanding film. This is...

Pros: superb cast,character development, costumes, comic tones
Cons: Direction errors, effects, awkward love story, pacing

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Comic book adaptations can be a difficult and struggling process in finding a middle ground in developing what possible in a live action film standpoint and keeping the comic’s established world...

Pros: The feel was highly reminiscent of classic Spidey issues
Cons: The Green Goblin was rather over-the-top

Marvel has had a long history of movies, including the Hulk series, the horrific Punisher movie, Captain America, etc. However, our friendly neighborhood Spider-Man has only been treated to a short-lived live-action series, a Tokusatsu (Japanese action ...

Pros: Just About Everything
Cons: Nothing major

Could it be that somebody finally did a adaptation of a comic book character right? Could it be that somebody with real respect for the mythos and intentions of Marvel Comics got his hands on this character instead of some hack just collecting a studio...

Pros: Breathtaking effects, Mr. Maguire is da bomb diggy.
Cons: I truly can't think of any.

The summer movie.

You gotta love it.

Year after year, we are besieged by endless advertisements for the next 'big thing' in the theatres, and inevitably, we leave disappointed. Hollywood has a knack for never delivering exactly what...

Pros: computer graphics surprisingly good, good choreography, decent acting, no prior comic-book knowledge needed
Cons: not entirely accurate, overall movie slightly disappointing

Like every Spidey fan, I've been waiting for this movie for a long time. Strange, then, that I saw it on the Monday of its first week instead of seeing it on Friday (or Wednesday, the day of the sneak) with all the other die-hard fans. Life is busy, I...

Pros: Good actors, unfortunately working with a very poor script
Cons: A poor script and a message of violence.

The bespectacled Peter Parker who's unable to attract the girl of his dreams or even catch the bus that takes him to school immediately catches the sympathy of those in the audience who habitually root for the underdog. They sit back, their jaws...

Pros: great action scenes, Tobey is cool
Cons: kirsten dunst

I bet tons of people can agree with me when I say that there hasn’t been a good comic book movie since Batman, Batman Returns, and Blade and that the movie industry has had crappy movies such as X-Men, Batman and Robin, Batman Forever, and Blade 2....

Pros: The fx are far more visceral than the big-wig critics would have you think.
Cons: I cannot now or ever honestly say I care for Kirsten Dunst.

Meeting Tobey Maguire when he was a more exotic commodity would have made me lightheaded and thrilled beyond words, but now that he's swimming in the public blood stream, the charm of the notion, admittedly, has somewhat diminished. Words cannot express...

Pros: Great story, great characters, great CGI
Cons: Goblin's kind of goofy

By now you’ve probably seen Spider-Man, considering it was one of the most popular movies in history, and those that didn’t get to see it in the theater have had ample time to rent it. Wait, so why am I writing a review? OK, so never mind. ...

Pros: Everything you liked about the comic
Cons: Really, really predicable

Before I begin to write the review, let me let off a little steam: Advertising has gone too far! I had to endure like six commercials before we even got to the previews. Isn't the whole point of going to the movies to get away from commercials? Previews...

Pros: Eye-Popping Effects, Great Action Scenes
Cons: Too Much Reliance On The Romance, Kirsten Dunst

Spider-Man has long been a mainstay of modern comics, right up there in icon-status with the likes of Superman and Batman. But while those other two have produced countless cartoons, movies, lunch boxes, and action figures, Spider-Man has remained...

Pros: A lovingly faithful adaptation. Exciting and moving. Well-acted.
Cons: One cornball moment during the Tram scene. Wouldn't Peter have alerted someone when first bitten?

What a lucky 6 months it’s been for cultural landmarks of my adolescence and their conversion to motion pictures. First, last Christmas saw the miraculous transformation of J. R. R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring into...

Pros: Toby Maguire, fine action scenes, special-effects, and story.
Cons: Cheesy characters, lousy dialogue, and an uncomfortable love story.

When high-school student Peter Parker (Tobey Maguire) is bitten by a genetically enhanced, radioactive spider, he finds himself developing some amazing abilities. Suddenly, Parker can shoot webs from his wrists, climb walls, and leap tall buildings in a...

Pros: Tobey Maguire, Willem Dafoe, Kirsten Dunst, story
Cons: score, some of the special effects

Look in the sky! It’s a bird … It’s a plane … Oops! Wrong comic book brand! Even without this comic catch phrase, one can easily say many things about the rising stock of Marvel in the movie industry. It is thanks to the successes of films like Blade and ...