Arachnophilia

I finally saw Spiderman. And, yes, it was extremely cool. I've never been all that much into comic books, really, and the ones I do read have tended to be more along the lines of Sandman than Spiderman. But I am definitely down with Spidey at the moment. I think it's because Peter Parker is such a complete geek. I'm not talking Superman putting on his Clarke Kent glasses and acting unconvincingly dorky, I'm talking science fair-winning, beaten-up-for-his-lunch-money nerd. I can so identify. I mean, consider this: Peter gets bitten by super-spider. Peter comes home and goes to bed. In the morning, Peter reaches for his glasses, puts them on... and suddenly realizes he doesn't need them any more. Talk about wish fufilment! Whoo, man, bring on the spiders!

Oh, yeah, and the action stuff and everything was pretty cool, too. And the romance was inifinitely more convincing than Anakin/Padme, but I think that's pretty much a given.