An Hour-Long Look At What Made Sam Raimi's Spider-Man Movies Great

In our current age of mega-Marvel machinations and decade-long transmedia story arcs, it’s easy to forget what it was like before the Avengers assembled. Way back at the turn of the century, we got w69 a pair of films that in many ways paved the way for the Marvel Cinematic Universe we know and love today. Those movies, of course, were Sam Raimi’s first two Spider-Man films. The original was a colorful, optimistic shot in the arm that the otherwise gloomy comic-book movie desperately needed in the early 2000s. The sequel expanded on and more fully realized many of the ideas set w69 slot ทาง เข้า​ forth in the original, while improving fundamentals across the board. (As we all know, Raimi made the first two Spider-Man movies and then stopped making Spider-Man movies. He most certainly did not make a third movie that failed to live up to the first two in almost every way. Nope. That did not happen.)cnx.cmd.push(function(){cnx({"playerId":"e3616d04-4972-4839-a63a-c6975e2e9731","settings":{"advertising":{"macros":{"AD_UNIT":"/23178111854/od.kotaku.com/article","CHILD_UNIT":"article","POST_ID":"1746672629","POST_TYPE":"post","CHANNEL":"uncategorized","SECTION":"","SUBSECTION":"","CATEGORIES":"uncategorized","TAGS":"spider-man","NOP":"0"},"timeBeforeFirstAd":0}}}).render("cnx-player-main")}); Raimi’s Spider-Man films were influential, sure, but they were also well-made, perfectly-cast films that captured a comic-book character in w69 slot ทางเข้า​ a way we arguably hadn’t seen since Christopher Reeve first suited up back in 1978. I’ve been watching Moviebob’s film-crit series “Really That Good” for a little while now; the lengthy episodes make for fun watching when I’m taking a break for lunch. His newest episode focusing on Raimi’s first two Spider-Man films is as enjoyable as the rest, so I figured I’d share it. Sometimes I get the suspicion that I enjoy Really That Good is because it congratulates me on liking the geeky blockbusters that I already liked… but then I’ll think about of Bob’s specific criticisms and observations, and in particular the way he places films within their specific cultural context, and I’ll realize that no, there really is a lot to be gained from giving this kind of movie a closer reading. If this particular entry accomplishes nothing else, it will at the very least stand as a tribute to the timeless masterwork that was J.K. Simmons’ portrayal of J. Jonah Jameson. To contact the author of this post, write to [email protected]