Spider-Man (2002)

Spider-Man is the first movie in the Spider-Man movie franchise by Marvel and Columbia Pictures/Sony.  Spider-Man is the first of the three Spider-Man movies all directed by Sam Raimi in the original Spider-Man trilogy. Spider-Man is the story and journey of a young teenage high school student Peter Parker turned superhero Spider-Man (played by Tobey Maguire) and finding his one true love,  Mary Jane Watson (played by Kirsten Dunst), a beautiful girl who lived next door to Peter. Peter is also a junior photographer at the Daily Bugle under the supervision of J. Jonah Jameson (played by J.K. Simmons). Eventually, during the science class tour of the laboratory with many species of spiders, Peter’s life would change forever. A genetically advanced super spider with red and blue colored skin had bitten Peter on the hand at the spot where Spidey shoots his web out from his hand. After that event, Peter has the amazing superpowers of a spider. He can run faster, jump higher, shoots web at will, and more. Before Peter’s Uncle Ben was killed by a carjacker in the movie, Uncle Ben said to Peter to never forget the phrase, “With great power, comes great responsibility”.  That has been Peter’s motivation to do good and great things ever since after Uncle Ben’s death. Peter still has Aunt May (Rosemary Harris) to look after him and to comfort him all the way through.

 

Also, Peter has a close friend Harry Osborn (played by James Franco) who is the son of Oscorp funding, Norman Osborn (played by Willem Dafoe) who later goes insane and becomes a great villain to Spider-Man called the Green Goblin. Norman gained his superpowers from the test that he goes through and is powerful, strong and aggressive than ever as the Green Goblin. Later in the movie, the Green Goblin confronts Spider-Man many times and has their brutal fights yet. Furthermore, the Green Goblin kidnapped Mary Jane and put her on the Brooklyn Bridge and have Spider-Man come and rescue her and then the two have their battle, one on one hand combat which the Goblin beaten Spider-Man up until Spider-Man discovered his strength and willpower to save the woman that he loved, managed to fight back and defeat the Goblin by killing him with the Goblin’s own glider’s blades. The Green Goblin/Norman Osbrn is dead. Later Harry mourned his father’s death and vowed that if he finds Spider-Man, he will surely kill him himself but not Peter Parker who is Harry’s best friend. But Harry does not know at first that Spider-Man is actually Peter himself in the Spider-Man suit until Harry unmasked Spider-Man at last in Spider-Man 2.

Spider-Man is released in May 2002 in the United States and released worldwide and stars Tobey Maguire as Peter Parker/Spider-Man, Kirsten Dunst as Mary Jane Watson, James Franco as Harry Osborn, Willem Dafoe as Norman Osborn/Green Goblin, Cliff Robertson as Uncle Ben, Rosemary Harris as Aunt May and more. The movie is directed by Sam Raimi. The movie is produced by Avi Arad, Grant Curtis, Laura Ziskin, Stan Lee, Ivan Raimi and Alvin Sargeant. The film is distributed by Columbia Pictures and Sony Pictures. The first movie is so successful that it spawned two more Spider-Man movies, Spider-Man 2 (2004) and Spider-Man 3 (2007).