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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mouseferatu" data-source="post: 179107" data-attributes="member: 1288">Here you go.  My review, cut-and-pasted from my Live Journal.(And for the record, there were no mechanical web-shooters of any sort in the movie...)-----------------------Folks, this is, without a doubt, the most comic-bookish of all comic book movies.  More than Superman, Batman, or X-men, this was a comic book come to life.  The camera angles, the blocking, everything.We'll start with the few complaints I have.There were a few scenes where the dialog just didn't work.  It was mostly in the "emotional" scenes between Peter and MJ.  It was choppy, it didn't flow, it was written like a speech rather than natural speaking, and the actors didn't seem like they were comfortable with it.Other than that, my only problem was...Well, other than that, there were no problems.The actors were perfectly cast.  Toby Maguire is Peter.  Willem Dafoe is...  well, Willem Dafoe is just scary.  He played the part perfectly.  The mirror scene--you'll know when you see it--is freaky.  He even made the "armor" version of the Green Goblin outfit work, and I had my doubts about that going into this movie.Sam Raimi was the perfect director for this movie.  I can't think of a single objection I had to the directing.Oh, and the guy who played JJJ--damn, he had that part down.The effects were excellent.  Yes, some of the CGI was obviously CGI, but you know what?  That doesn't matter.  We know that CGI can't do humans 100% perfectly yet.  The point isn't that the CGI should look flawlessly like real people, the point is that it should look damn good for CGI.  And it did.  If that's not good enough for you, I point you to Ray Harryhousen movies like Clash of the Titans as a reminder of how far effects have come.In terms of loyalty to the source material, this one's as close as they come.  Compared to this, X-men took massive liberties.  Everything here comes right from the comic.Yes, some details are changed.  The spider is altered genetically, not with radiation.  Peter's webs are organic, not from a device he built.  If this sort of thing bothers you, don't see this movie and go curl up in your parent's basement.  It works.This is the Spider-man movie we've wanted.  Go see it.</blockquote>

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