Spider Man

Taking advantage of a visiting friend, katie and I were able to get away to the dollar theater - we saw Spider Man 3. In my opinion, the Spider Man movies have been the best comic book action-hero movies, and here is a short treatise on why.....

1. Spider Man is a lot more like you than any other superhero
2. The costumes, womenly screams in distress, and action antics are just corny enough that you are reminded, that indeed these movies, are based on comic books
3. Based in NYC, not Gothem City or Metropolis
4. Relationships in the story - Peter and MJ, Peter and his Aunt, Peter and his best friend Harry (see number 5)
5. The first bad guy to appear - this is harry, peter's best friend who is avenging his Dad's death. Harry's silly costume involves this flying hoverboeard/snowboard that is just awesome
6. The first bad guy to appear (Harry) actually ends up helping Peter (Spiderman) against the next bad guy (the sand man, played by Thomas Hayden Church - see number 7)
7. Thomas Hayden Church - he has come a long way from playing Lowell Mather, on Wings

So, in the end the movie comes to a culmination when Peter forgives the man who killed his uncle - this was pretty important, but then the movie ends with the humanistic hurray that emphasis that you have to be a good person. This seems good, but only seems to be half true.......