Category Archives: Super Movie Monday

Super Movie Monday – Spider-Man Part 3

Moving into the finale of Sam Raimi’s 2002 Spider-Man. Watching the movie this closely, I realize just how many scenes in this movie make me cringe. I think I’ve said before that being a genre fan in my lifetime often … Continue reading

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Super Movie Monday – Spider-Man, Part 2

Continuing our look back at Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man. Raimi was always an interesting filmmaker. His early films showed incredible youthful energy that translated into a restlessly exaggerated visual style, often at the expense of the story he was telling. The … Continue reading

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Super Movie Monday – Spider-Man (2002)

Continuing our look back at the film adaptations of Spider-Man. Spider-Man did not enjoy the kind of pop icon status of elder statesmen like Batman and Superman. His first animated series was in 1967, just five years after his introduction, … Continue reading

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Super Movie Monday – Spider-Man 1977

No real screencaps in this one because the only version I could watch was an awful low-rez video upload on Youtube. I’m launching into the Spider-Man films, but first I want to revisit the original Spider-Man production from 1977. This … Continue reading

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Super Movie Monday – The Iron Giant, Part 2

Concluding our two part look back at 1999’s The Iron Giant. In 1957, young Hogarth Hughes has befriended a gigantic robot which has fallen from outer space and eats metal. Hogarth hides him out in beatnik artist Dean McCoppin’s junkyard, … Continue reading

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Super Movie Monday – The Iron Giant, Part 1

This is the second run I’ve taken at this film, mainly because my DVD doesn’t play nicely with the drives in my computer. But having made some hardware and software upgrades recently, I was finally able to eke out some … Continue reading

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Super Movie Monday – Kick Ass, Part 2

Sorry for the late update; I’ve been having a lot of trouble accessing the site to make updates. Also sorry about how by-the-numbers the first part of the recap was. I’ll try to make this week’s more interesting. So the … Continue reading

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Super Movie Monday – Kick Ass

So we’re back. You may notice some differences in how some things display. I’m considering some changes, which would mean the plug-in I currently use for lightboxing would no longer work, so I’m going to be posting without the lightbox … Continue reading

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Super Movie Monday – X-Men: First Class, Part 3

Here it is, the final chapter of the final (so far) movie of 20th Century Fox’s X-Men series. Last week, evil mutant Sebastian Shaw had manipulated the U.S. and the Soviet Union into a confrontation off the coast of Cuba … Continue reading

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Super Movie Monday – X-Men First Class, Part 2

Sorry this is late, but, you know (ETA: Wow, so lateness is not an excuse for not proofreading, apparently; corrections added throughout). Continuing our look back at the final (so far) film in 20th Century Fox’s X-Men series, X-Men First … Continue reading

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