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  Spider-Man 2 2004

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 29 Nov 2023

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  Version: Open Matte

  "Too few characters out there, flying around like that, saving old girls like me. And Lord knows, kids like Henry need a hero. Courageous, self-sacrificing people. Setting examples for all of us. Everybody loves a hero. People line up for them, cheer them, scream their names. And years later, they'll tell how they stood in the rain for hours just to get a glimpse of the one who taught them how to hold on a second longer.…

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  Spider-Man 2002

  ★★★★ Rewatched 28 Nov 2023

  Version: 35mm Matte Print

  Watching this in such a breezy, open format made me feel a little bit spiritual. The crackles of the print and the academy ratio genuinely bring you closer to the film sets; so, when this lets rip with fights and leaps and dives, you appreciate the craftsmanship even more. It helps that this gets all the beats of Spider-Man mythos, too, and sources a new national grid via the electricity of Willem Dafoe's manic performance.

Popular reviews

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  Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer & the Island of Misfit Toys 2001

  ★½ Rewatched 12 Dec 2016 2

  I loved this so much as a child.

  It's aged horribly.

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  The Starving Games 2013

  ½ Watched 29 Apr 2017

  I laughed once and that was when I realised I had wasted 83 minutes of my life watching this.