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Message: <blockquote data-quote="wingsandsword" data-source="post: 5962312" data-attributes="member: 14159">Eh, to each their own, but to me it's more a matter of why should I go see a Spider Man movie when I already have 3 of them on disc.  I liked them at the time, and it's hardly like the first one became hideously dated in the last decade.  I was always a casual fan of superhero comics, so the movies shaped my mental image of the characters just as much, or more, than the original comics.  Tobey Maguire is Spider Man to me the way that Christopher Reeve was Superman or Robert Downey Jr. is Iron Man: I have trouble seeing anybody else in the part.  Can't really say that about Batman, he's been through so many actors over the years that no one actor has really become super-associated with the role (at least serious-Batman, Adam West has campy silver-age Batman all to himself).  Lou Ferigno might not be The Incredible Hulk anymore, but he's still so associated with the part they found ways to work cameos into the two Hulk feature films.I didn't really hear anybody talking about how Tobey Maguire and Kirsten Dunst were too old at the time.   I remember comic book fans squealing with joy at the movie, especially the first one (with some slight gripes about basically cheating at the end instead of playing the key scene from The Night Gwen Stacy Died straight).   The third one was a bit of a dud, but the first two rocked.  Spider Man 3 suffered the same "Villain Overload" problem that the later Batman films suffered: trying to cram so many supervillains into one movie that it loses focus.  Sandman, Hobgoblin AND Venom in one film was like Batman & Robin having Bane, Poison Ivy and Mr. Freeze.  I understand from a rational perspective that Sony will churn out a new Spider Man movie at least every 5 or 6 years now ad infinitem to keep the rights, but do we really need/want a new rebooted film series every few years?  How many versions of the origin story of Spider Man (or Superman, or Batman or any other iconic superhero) do we need?</blockquote>

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