Y'know, I'm just gonna go ahead and repaste what I just wrote on my Facebook page.
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Here's a confession about something utterly stupid.
Getting ready to watch Into the Spider-Verse, I rewatched the first Raimi Spider-Man for the first time since I saw it in a cinema in 2002. Y'know, to get myself into a Spider-Man mood.
Back then, I got hung up on the ending, because I thought it was super out of character for Peter Parker. It kinda blinded me to good things about the movie. Plus, back then I knew even less about films than I do now. I didn't pay attention to much when watching movies.
"Spider-Man" actually turned me off completely to all superhero movies (to the point that I never watched any) until like 2011, when I watched Captain America.
Yes, nine years was BIT of an overreaction
. But Spider-Man stories were an important part of my childhood, and back when I was a teenager I had a very rigid vision of what the character was. Don't judge me.
I actually have been meaning to revisit Raimi's Spider-Man for like five years now, to see how my perceptions changed. Just never really got around to it.
Anyhow. It's funny that I hated the movie based on just one scene (which is a good scene anyway), because upon rewatch, the entire film holds up REAL well.
It's just a thoroughly well-made movie by someone who also gets comic book stories and how they work. Also, it aged gracefully in almost every aspect. I honestly think it's one of the best superhero movies I've seen, now that I watched it at exactly twice my age back then. I think it's in my "top five ever" of superhero movies now. Teenage me was kind of an idiot.
I hear the second movie is better. I'm watching that one soon, too, and have kinda high hopes for it.