Around in 2005, I watched Spider-Man for the first time on the television set. The superhero film was released in 2002. Sam Raimi directed it. Japanese film director Kazuyuki Izutsu praised it on television after the release, though I suspected that it was so wonderful. I was also not interested in action films so much those days but I watched it several years later. It was fun and intrigued me the lead, Tobey Maguire. I did The Cider House Rules and Seabiscuit in a row after that. I have loved the ones as well as the Spider-Man ones starring him. In January 2022, I did Spider-Man: No Way Home, which was so wonderful that I came to want to do all of the Spider-Man movies anew. I have done the first one several times even since then.
It tells a story of Peter Parker who is bit by a
super-spider as a high-school student, obtains a superhuman physical ability
after that and started to get wicked persons in his town as Spider-Man.
I feel odd with the quite lame Peter in the beginning
scene every time I watch the film. Then I also feel strange about the reaction
of Parker's friends and classmates when they get stunned for a while but unnaturally
do not get serious so much with the huge gap between the uncool Parker and the
superhuman boy. However, come to think of it, the movie is an entertainment
which was adapted from a comic strip, so I must not argue about such trivial
things. Tobey Maguire acted Peter who is not so handsome but charming with a
clear mind. Kirsten Dunst as Mary Jane in it is lovey but not really beautiful,
so I wondered why she was selected at that time as the huge movie's heroin
who the protagonist is falling in love with. Dunst as MJ is prettier in the next
ones, so a person who cast her as the role would have had vision. Or I had not
had much of an eye for women. Or Westerners would tend to be fond of women like
Dunst's appearance. I feel comfortable with the fresh romance between Peter and
MJ and the friendship among the couple and their friend, Harry.
Although I had not been impressed with the scene in which
Peter's uncle, Ben, reasons with his nephew and says, "With great power
comes great responsibility" when I first viewed the flick, yet I have gaze
the moving moment with tension since I did the latest Spider-Man one, in which the phrase is critical.