![]() ![]() Superhero movies and Bond movies live and die by their villains. 14) met Peter Parker, she'd have him for breakfast. If there is a "Spider-Man 4" (and there will be), how about giving Peter and Mary Jane at least the emotional complexity of soap opera characters? If " Juno" (opening Dec. But if you are still dangling in taxicabs at age 20, you're a slow learner. The unique quality of the classic comic books was that their teenagers had ordinary adolescent angst and insecurity. If I argued earlier that Bruce Wayne and Clark Kent were boring human beings, I had no idea how Peter would begin to wear on my nerves.Īnd what's with Mary Jane? Here's a beautiful, (somewhat) talented actress good enough to star in a Broadway musical, and she has to put up with being trapped in a taxi suspended 80 stories in the air by alien spider webs. But I made the mistake of declaring that was because "the movie demonstrates what's wrong with a lot of other superhero epics: They focus on the superpowers, and shortchange the humans behind them." This time, I desperately wanted Peter Parker to be short-changed. ![]() Faithful readers will recall that I found " Spider-Man 2" (2004) the best superhero movie since " Superman" (1978). ![]()
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