Along with millions of other happy "spider-fans" across the globe, I helped Spider-Man 3 achieve its record box office returns of $148 million over this past weekend. While I can't say I enjoyed it quite as much as the first two movies, for me that's akin to saying I like pizza a little bit more than cheeseburgers! To demonstrate my obsession, I wore a Spidey t-shirt to the event, our nerd posse arriving nearly an hour early just as the line was starting to form. One of the friends who accompanied me said he would pay to see it again. I actually might also, when it arrives at the local second-run theater.

  Given my lifelong esteem for the webhead(hence the domain name of this page, inspired partly by him), I have been most pleased to see the Spider-Man franchise do as well as it has. I'm one of those Spidey purists who gripe when they change certain elements of the comic book story to fit the movie format. For example, when the first movie came out, Comic Spidey needed mechanical devices to shoot his chemically composed web fluid. Movie Spidey had this ability naturally(organically, for you tree huggers out there) as a result of the radioactive spider bite. The comics have since adjusted to this by way of a hard-to-explain-here mutation. As much as I understand the need for some of these adapations, it's still somewhat annoying when you got to know the story one way over the course of a lifetime prior!
  This particular movie seemed to try a lot harder to focus in on the human elements than in past editions. Fortunately, doing so didn't cause any skimping on the web-swinging, stylized superpower action we geeks have come to expect. As always, the Spider-Man mantra is ever lurking beneath the surface, "With great power comes great responsibility". This mirrors the words of Jesus in Luke 12:48, "For everyone to whom much is given, from him much will be required..."(NKJV). In summary...another worthy addition to my widescreen dvd collection(Christmas present mom! ).