#158: Great Power, Great Responsibility, Pt. 1 - Spider-Man 2

The Next Picture Show

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Tv & Film, Film History, Film Reviews

4.6 • 858 Ratings

🗓️ 25 December 2018

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Spider-Man, the web-slinging comics creation of Stan Lee and Steve Ditko, has made the leap to movie screens many times, but arguably never as successfully as in Sam Raimi’s 2004 sequel SPIDER-MAN 2 — or, perhaps, in the new animated entry INTO THE SPIDER-VERSE. This week we’re putting two of Spidey’s cinematic high-water marks in conversation, beginning with a deep dive into why SPIDER-MAN 2 holds up so well, how its performances and action work together to honor its comic-book roots, and whether we prefer our web-shooters organic or engineered. Plus, some feedback on recent episodes and a reader question about whether different generations regard the film canon differently. Please share your comments, thoughts, and questions about any and all Spider-men (or Spider-women, or Spider-pigs) by sending an email to comments@nextpictureshow.net, or leaving a short voicemail at (773) 234-9730. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	It's very difficult to keep the line between the past and the present.
0:05.1	You believe that someone out of the past can enter and take possession of a living being?
0:11.8	We may be true with the past, but the past is not through with us.
0:18.9	Welcome to The Next Picture Show, a movie of the week podcast devoted to a classic film and how it shaped our thoughts on a recent release.
0:25.6	I'm regular universe Keith Phipps here with Tasha Robinson Noir.
0:29.8	Gwynnevieve Koski.
0:31.0	And the spectacular Scott Tobias.
0:32.9	Every week we get together to talk over a classic film and consider how it relates to a current movie.
0:37.4	This week we'll be looking at two different takes on Spider-Man, the superhero created by writer
0:41.5	Stan Lee and artist Steve Dickko. The first offers a reverent take on classic Spider-Man
0:46.4	comics and comes from a long ago time when it wasn't yet apparent that superhero movies
0:50.2	would be a big deal for years to come, the distant past of the year, 2004. The second is in
0:57.9	theaters now and takes Spider-Man, the character and the idea in directions neither Lee nor Dick
1:02.7	Coe ever could have imagined. Tasha, can you tell us more? It was a sweltering June Friday in 2004.
1:09.4	The humidity hung in the air like the sweat of an angry god, and I wanted
1:13.2	some relief, so I ducked into a downtown movie palace. The marquee read, hot dogs, and healthfully cooled
1:20.3	air. Frankly, those mattered to me more than what was playing, something called Spider-Man
1:26.5	2.
1:28.6	Okay, sorry.
1:30.3	I don't know what came over me there.
1:33.1	I was trying to talk about the first film in this week's pairing.
1:37.4	The Sam Ramey directed Spider-Man 2, a sequel to his 2002 hit Spider-Man.
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