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I went to see Spider-Man 2 last night. It was good, but when did Spider-Man become Superman? I don’t want to ruin it for anybody that hasn’t seen it yet, but the whole train thing… What the hell was that? I never read the comic books, but could Spider-Man really do something like that?

I can suspend disbelief to a point and say OK, he has the proportional strength of a spider. Is he indestructible though? Maybe if they’d kept him a little more human, they wouldn’t have had to go through all the hoops with losing his powers in order to create drama.

Also, it could have been a lot shorter. When did every movie have to run 2+ hours. Some movies benefit from longer running times. Most though, don’t. Take for instance Mean Girls which I also saw over the weekend. That only ran about an hour and a half, which was nice. It ended just when I was ready for it to end. Plus, there were a couple of really nice, dark laughs in it.