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I watched Spider Man 2 today. I missed it when it was around. It is my holiday blockbuster.

I liked it as much as I can like this kind of film. I really watched it to see Tobey Maguire and was not disappointed. He is very good. I am worried that he is trapped in these things and won't be able to get out. He has no films scheduled until the third installment. Maybe that will free him up to do the kind of work we saw in Wonder Boys and Cider House again.

My problem is all the crashes and dead bodies left behind and the contraptions and all. No one ever seems to clean up the broken glass. I cannot imagine watching it on the big screen. Noise.

I know. It is the comics. But then, I never read them either. The melodrama of his human failures and conflicts is kinda hard to take. He can't be that big a fuckup.

Nonetheless, it held me and I even got teary here and there. I didn't use fast forward or skip anything. I even liked the values expressed. With great power goes great responsibility. Sometimes you have to sacrifice what you want to do the right thing. This thing is bigger than you and I. And, we won't tell anybody who you are.

I will give it a 3 out of Netflix5.