by Thom Yee

Images courtesy of Columbia Pictures

I don’t think it’s possible to talk about The Amazing Spider-Man without first talking about the Raimi-Maguire-Dunst-Franco movies that preceded it by a mere five years. In fact, I know it’s not.

I’ll never forget how it felt as I watched the Green Goblin, sputtering away on his now-damaged goblin glider, barely escaping his first encounter with the man who would become his mortal enemy, and proclaiming, “We’ll meet again, Spider-Man!”  I’ll never forget that definitive, pinpoint moment where I knew that we’re still going to have to settle for the same old superhero movies. Because nobody would say something like that in real life.  Not even supervillains (and don’t even try to tell me that supervillains don’t exist in real life).

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