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...look ridiculous. The Incredible Hulk, as incredible as he may be, runs the risk of becoming the angry Green Giant. The heroes who do the best onscreen are the ones who are dark, mysterious, and potentially dangerous. A lot of them associatethemselves with various species of icky animals-Batman, Spider-Man and Nightcrawler (who will appear in X2, the upcoming sequel to X-Men). Wolverine, given all his qualifications, has a cheese factor of zero. Wolverine is cool. Wolverine is attitude incarnate...
...both know that Spider-Man is going to kick some serious ass today. We know the movie will rock the box office and, for various reasons, its sheer success will leave filmmakers, audiences and oblivious film executives breathless, clinging to their armrests, with all the power of an angry storm. The trailer alone, with its eye-popping effects, sleek and postmodern world and hot-as-hell, upside-down kiss between Tobey Maguire as Spider-Man/Peter Parker and Kirsten Dunst as Mary Jane Watson, is enough to leave us all drooling for more. What the trailer establishes from the outset...
...talented director and a stellar cast, maybe inject a load of mind-blowing effects, and you have yourself a blockbuster. If you are trying to get a Marvel franchise off the ground, you might need a little something extra—and that little something is what will make Spider-Man succeed when other comics-based films have the unfortunate habit of landing belly-side down at the box office. For every Blade or X-Men, which made an impressive $157 million, there are at least two films that end up like The Punisher, whose nameless and skull-less vigilante...
...comic-book heroes to live-action heroes was a smart thing to do, given the solid fan base clamoring for film versions of its favorite comics, as well as a ready-made lineup of characters, story lines and personal histories. I read only one issue of The Amazing Spider-Man but what really sucked me into the Marvel world was my brother’s stack of superhero trading cards, with profiles, stats and full-fledged character bios on the back of every one. Most of the heroes, and even some of the villains, had just that—character...
...With Phantom Menace, we didn't know. It didn't have Harrison Ford, Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher. It was not a slam dunk." Well, maybe, but even so, the new picture looks like Shaquille O'Neal standing three feet from the basket. Though it faces sticky competition from Spider-Man two weeks before--and, in weeks to come, from Men in Black II, Austin Powers in Goldmember and Steven Spielberg's Minority Report with Tom Cruise--Clones is the surest bet of the summer. Just in terms of mass appeal, the movie extends the franchise's target audience from...