Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man trilogy is, at times, the single best portrayal of the original 1960s Amazing Spider-Man comic books, with a handful of visually stunning scenes sprinkled in. Yet it’s a complete and utter train wreck at other times, with some truly mind-boggling “lock it in the film vault and throw away the key” moments.
Join us now as Phil and Chuck drop into the studio to launch a multi-episode, film-by-film series chronicling one of our favorite superhero-related subjects here at The Nerd Card. Starting off with the good, the bad, and the ugly of the Sam Raimi Tobey Maguire original Spider-Man trilogy!
Video Timecodes:
0:00 – Welcome!
1:11 – 1960s Amazing Spider-Man
2:48 – Genius of J.K. Simmons
4:50 – J. Jonah Jameson “ain’t no punk bitch!”
5:43 – Bruce Campbell Connection
7:07 – Evil Dead Meets Spider-Man
8:41 – Willem Dafoe: Born to Be Green!
10:21 – Peter Parker and the Karmic Crush
12:12 – “One Note Raimi” (Stay Away from Comics, Please…)
14:44 – “First fight that FEELS like a comic book!”
16:27 – New York Bonds with Spider-Man
17:53 – Peter Parker’s Rock Bottom Struggles…
19:31 – “I’m baaaaack… ow, my back!”
21:54 – Spider-Man “Underpowered”
24:49 – “Crap! Crap! Mega crap!”
26:11 – Forman as Eddie Brock, seriously?!
28:07 – Comedy Troupe of Villains
29:57 – Black Suit Fail (a.k.a. “Peter the Tool”)