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MOVIES
SPIDER-MAN
Spider-Man... aka Peter Parker is
a super hero created by Stan Lee
and Steve Ditko and first appeared
in comics in 1962. He’s a unique
character in that he’s a teenager
who’s dealing wiht rejection, loneli-
ness and inadequacy, some of the
feelings teens relate to. Also he had
to learn how do deal with his pow-
ers himself, as Uncle Ben said, “With
great power there must also come
great responsibility.”
Spider-Man movies have been nu-
merous starting out wiht a TV series
in 1977 and a movie in 1981 - Spi-
der-Man: The Dragon’s Challenge.
After many legal battles and wran-
gling the Sam Raimi films featur-
ing Tobey Maguire kicked off with
K irsten Dunst as Mary Jane Watson.
In the movie, Peter Parker is bitten
by a genetically engineered spider
resulting in gaining super powers
and the webbing abilities. In this
film, Spider-Man learns to use his
powers as at first he’s uncoordinat-
ed and a touch clumsy. He ends up
fighting the Green Goblin and fall-
ing in love with Mary Jane. In 2004
Spider-Man 2 is released again with
Maguire, who ends up fighting Dr.
Octopus. In film number 3 Spider-
Man ends up battling a villain known
as Sandman and also we see the
creation of Venom.
Further films by Raima featuring
Maguire and Dunst were canceled
and it wasn’t until The Amazing Spi-
der-Man in 2012 featuring Andrew
Garfield as Peter Parker that we
had a new Spider-Man movie with a
second film released in 2014.
The newest Spider-Man film from
Sony - Spider-Man Homecoming
is due out in July and features Tom
Holland as our hero with strong
support by Iron Man himself, Robert
Downey Jr and the role of villain go-
ing to the brilliant Michael Keaton
(who actually also played Batman).
In this film, we see Peter Parker be-
ing mentored by Tony Stark as he
balances life between being a pow-
erful hero and a teen dealing with
the usual teenage challenges.
The trailers shows humour and a
ton of action as you’d expect with
Spider-Man, let’s take a look on the
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