I saw it twice already. It was awesome. Good story. Good effects. Fun time. And even the casting was good.
They took a couple liberties the original story line . . . but it actually made for a cleaner more upbeat movie.
Some of the actual Spiderman story lines are kind of tragic or depressing . . . we forget sometimes that comics really aren't designed for little children.
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Here for Spider Man Synopsis (from the original)
I didn't know that whole story, but I would have been kind of depressed if that I what i had seen . . .