Comic Art

Films inspired by comics, most of us, in our minds, connect this phrase with traumatic experiences including the shameless massacre of characters that evolved for many years through the pages of our favorite books. There are of course rare cases where this rule does not apply, remarkable creations which stayed in the spirit of the original or not, but anyway offered us the pleasure of a great movie (Sin City, 300, V for Vendetta and others). Spiderman may not be the best one among them but it could easily be selected between those with which you’ll have the most fun, and with the third part being released in May 4^th the expectations are huge.

Marvel treats every Spiderman movie with the seriousness befitting their most popular character, the first two parts though not masterpieces of the 7^th art were terrific action movies with the proper respect for the story as it was presented in comics so many times. This time nothing seems to have changed, the production indicates it’ll be one of the blockbusters of spring; the promotion has started months ago and the information about the story released are more than interesting. This time Peter finds himself enjoying the benefits of his increasing popularity while preparing to propose to Mary Jane when the police informs him that a new suspect for his Uncle Ben’s murder has been found, Flint Marko a.k.a. the Sandman! Spidey gets in the middle of the biggest fight of his life, he’s hunting Sandman at the same moment fighting Harry Osborn (who has become the New Goblin) and that’s nothing in front of the threat coming from outer space, the alien symbiote that will become his suite and try to corrupt him and later give birth to his nemesis, Venom!

The story is really exciting, combining some of the greatest adversaries of Spiderman in his entire history. I trust that the creators will choose to use some of the good Sandman stories, most of his old ones where lame with Spiderman imprisoning him in a vacuum cleaner and other similar cases, my only concern is the fact that the New Goblin story will be a mixture of the traditional Marvel Universe and the Ultimate Universe with Harry Osborn emerging as a different character, made especially for this movie. Anyway, the risk is not really that grave, best case we get a great movie about one of our favorite characters, worst we watch 90 minutes of something told before, don’t worry though mate, it won’t be as bad as Hulk!

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