[Dean's World] Dave Price: Obligatory Spider-Man Review

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Posted by Dave Price:
Obligatory Spider-Man Review
http://www.deanesmay.com/posts/1179623151.shtml


   Apparently I'm the only one who really liked this movie (well, me and
   the people who made it the biggest opening ever). I saw it in IMAX,
   which I highly recommend. As Dean points out, you do need to suspend
   disbelief and ignore physics, but most comic-book movies are like
   that. Also, I'm a big Sam Raimi fan from back in the Evil Dead days,
   and the Bruce Campbell cameo was great.
   My first impression was that it's just awe-inspiring that we can make
   movies like this; nothing like Spider-Man 3 was even imaginable 20
   years ago. I feel incredibly fortunate to live in a time where upwards
   of $100 million is routinely spent to produce a few hours of
   entertainment for me. Kings and queens should be so lucky.
   What really surprised me, though, is how very Christian the movie was.
   The entire movies centers around forgiveness, and in typical Raimi
   fashion it's unsubtle (religious icons are ubiquitous, and at one
   point we hear, derisively, "Want forgiveness? Get religion.").
   Whatever you think of the plausibility of transubstantiation or
   resurrection, in the practical sense the peculiar power of
   Christianity is the doctrine of forgiveness, and this movie made me
   feel a faint echo of what the first missionaries must have felt,
   spreading such a powerful meme.