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Message: <blockquote data-quote="barsoomcore" data-source="post: 1638336" data-attributes="member: 812">A number of things. First off, Spiderman 1 only intermittently feels like a Sam Raimi picture. Most of the time, it feels flat, like a movie anyone could have directed. Only Sam could have made Spidey 2. Secondly, there's a couple of bad performances in Spidey 1 (Willem Defoe most outrageously) that make the film unsatisfying to watch. One of the great things about The Evil Dead is how honest Bruce's performance is. He doesn't really know what he's doing, but he's nailing every moment regardless. In this film (Spiderman 2), everyone is firing on all cylinders (except for that one Doc Ock moment, but we'll let that slide).Thirdly, the heart of the story is so open and out on the sleeve of this picture. It teeters on the verge of sentimentality -- which is right where a Sam Raimi picture ought to be -- and is always saved by a dark, angry sense of humour that posits an unfriendly, unmerciful world in which bad things happen for no reason. That's my Sam. The first film didn't achieve that -- largely due to a lackluster script that loses its energy in the second half and never really hits Peter with the sort of emotional wallops that this film does. [spoiler]Once Uncle Ben dies, the film really falls apart.[/spoiler]That's all I can think of right now. I wouldn't watch Spiderman 1 again (though I've seen it three times already), but I'll be buying 2 as soon as the DVD comes out.</blockquote>

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