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Wednesday, August 04, 2004

Spider-man 2 review

Yes, I know. The movie has been out for the past month already. But been a bit busy and wanted to write a special and personal review on Spider-man 2 since he's been my comic book favorite since ........ secondary school I guess.

Where do I begin with the review? THE MOVIE ROCKS!!!! So far it's the best movie of this year, no doubt about that. Every review on the internet says the same. I can't disagree with them at all. Is it the best movie ever made. Well, that's a very subjective question. It's gotta be one of the best movies ever made. I mean, what other movie that has action, drama, a love story and good characters all in one movie? Which movie that you watch ever made you feel happy, sad, laugh, suspenseful and even cry. 2 thumbs up for Sam Raimi for his excellent work.

To compare Spider-man with movies such as .... Six Sense is plain wrong. I mean, Six Sense was great and all, but there not in the same category. Spider-man should be compared with other movie of it's genre which are comic-to-movie movies. Here's my top 10 to comic-to-movie movies

  1. Spider-man 2 (Doc Ock rocks)
  2. X-Men 2 (everything was excellent)
  3. Superman 2 (kneel before Zod)
  4. Batman Returns (the one with Penguin and Catwoman)
  5. Spider-man
  6. Superman
  7. Batman
  8. X-Men
  9. MIB
  10. Daredevil

Notice that I preferred the sequel of the movies compared to it prequel. Unfortunately, movies like Superman 3, Superman 4, Batman Forever and Batman and Robin are the movie ever made. They we so horrible. It puts to shame to the people at DC Comics. At least Marvel is not gonna fuck up their comic book characters in the name of profit making. (I hope....)

What Sam Raimi did with Doctor Octavius (Doc Ock) was excellent. As a frequent reader to the Spider-man universe, the only time Doc Ock was portrait as a fast cunning advisory to Spider-man was in the "Ultimate Spider-man" comics. Other variations of Doc Ock were not too brutal or menacing. Sam Raimi did a good job by making Doc Ock so menacing yet at the same time having a human side. Doc Ock has gotta be one to the best villain in movie history. In my opinion, he is up there with other great movie villain such as General Zod (Superman 2), Brig. Gen. Francis X. Hummel (The Rock), Cyrus 'The Virus' Grissom (Con Air), Darth Maul (Star Wars: Phantom Menace), T-Rex (Jurassic Park), T-1000 (Terminator 2) and the best villain of all Darth Vader (Star Wars).



The Spider-man comics are filled with wonderful characters, let it be allies or villains. Here are some villains that I hope they will have in the later sequels of the Spider-man movie. I read it somewhere, that Sony is trying to push Spider-man for 4 more sequels. That'll be great for many of the Spider-man villains.


Venom aka Eddie Brock, have basically the same powers as Spider-man only stronger and faster. Brock got his powers from an alien symbiote that Spider-man used to wear.
Carnage aka Cletus Kasady, a criminal which was serving 11 consecutive life terms until he was fused with Venom's symbiote's child. Has the same powers as Venom but stronger. The symbiote itself create snares, swing line, and most often bladed weapons as a weapon.
Lizard aka Dr. Curtis Connors, the professor that teaches Peter at college, tries to regrow his missing hand with the help of reptile genes. The hand was successfully grown at the cost of turning him into the monster known as the Lizard.
Black Cat aka Felicia Hardy, was one of Spider-man's love interest at one point. Black Cat has fantastic gymnastic and fighting ability that makes her one of the best cat burgler.
Sandman aka Flint Marko, has the ability to turn his body to sand and control sand. If he comes into the movie, he'll look something like the T-1000 in Terminator 2.


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