#SPIDER MAN AND HIS AMAZING FRIENDS MOVIE#
It was a major step in paving the way for both the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s nerdiness and even arguably Christopher Nolan’s gritty reboot of Batman a few years later, which like Spider-Man would be an A-budgeted superhero movie that actually cared about pesky things like character arcs and motivations. Yes, Blade and X-Men came out in the interim, but both of those movies ran from their comic book roots, with the former hiding it was inspired by a Marvel character and the latter downplaying it with black leather costumes and maximum amounts of brooding.īut Spider-Man? It begins with Tobey Maguire’s Peter Parker basically going “aw shucks” while staring at the redheaded girl next door, Kirsten Dunst’s Mary Jane Watson, and culminates with him catching her after a guy dressed like a four leaf clover throws her from the Queensboro Bridge. So entered Raimi’s modern reinvention of the superhero movie formula and its embrace of color, humor, and grandiose comic book storytelling-all elements which had vanished from multiplexes after Batman & Robin five years earlier.
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11, 2001 attacks, the movie came out at a moment when audiences were desperate for escapism and clear cut good versus evil morality. Released in 2002 at the beginning of the millennium and notably less than a year after the Sept. Spider-Man is of course one of the most important entries in its genre. Yes, the superhero movie which spans about a year and is probably best remembered for an upside down kiss in the rain is also a Thanksgiving miracle. Well if you count organic webbing as a good substitute for stuffing, and don’t mind a pumpkin bomb baked into your pie, then you probably have overlooked one of the all-time great Thanksgiving flicks: Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man from 2002. John Hughes’ Planes, Trains and Automobiles is of course an indisputable classic and the beginning of Miracle on 34th Street also kicks off at the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade (before quickly transitioning into Christmas movie iconography). Despite being among the most widely celebrated and popular seasonal gatherings (at least in the U.S.) where the only prerequisite is the sweatpants you’ll need after dinner, there have been few genuinely great movies set around Turkey Day. Thanksgiving is an interesting holiday when it comes to cinema.