Stan Lee reveals his favorite comic book superhero movie

[CyberCubed]

http://www.ign.com/articles/2016/06/...mic-book-movie

Legendary comic book writer Stan Lee's favorite comic book movie is the first Spider-Man film.

"I think my favorite comic book movie was the first one that was such a hit, the first Spider-Man," Lee said in reply to a fan on Facebook, going on to add that "everything else seemed easy" for the comic book movies that followed once that film was made.

How does this make you feel? Aw yeah.

[Powder]

TMNT aside, I think I'm inclined to agree.

[Shark_Blade]

I can't stand Tobey Maguire but I feel everything but him are definitely great in the movie. So I can see where Stan Lee is coming from.

Willem Dafoe is charismatic and magnificent, James Franco is captivating, Kristen Dunst is pretty, Aunt May and Uncle Ben are the closest representation of the comics imo.

Just replace Tobey with Andrew Garfield and everything would've been perfect. And maybe Emma Stone as Mary Jane. Because the two of them have a great chemistry together,

[ZariusTwo]

It's not the best in a deeply flawed and dated trilogy, but it has charm and it feels like it captures an authentic NYC feel.

[chrisdude]

First movie I was insanely out of my mind hyped for.i still remember the first time I heard about it, on the cover of a Wizard magazine, and watching the trailer for the first time in a Suncoast video store. Makes me wish I was 13 again. I still have that Wizard issue.

[TheSkeletonMan939]

Good pick. I really like all three Raimi Spidey films. Even the third one.

[ToTheNines]

I personally feel that the Raimi trilogy has aged about as well as whole milk...

[Casey]

I like his quote that everything was easy after that. I think that is awesome because he realizes how well they set up the formula. The only place I disagree is what Joss Whedon had to do with The Avengers. That almost killed him.

[ZariusTwo]

Originally Posted by ToTheNines

I personally feel that the Raimi trilogy has aged about as well as whole milk...

Yeah, but let's face it, most of Spider-Man dates pretty badly. Most of the cartoons may be fun, but are quite hokey, and people love to pick on the 90s series for it's network restrictions at the time.

I can count on one hand how many "timeless" stories there are in the comics also, and even those ones are eventually tainted by gimmickry and retcons that invalidate them...unless, like me, you pretend nothing past 1999 ever happened and assume the series ended with the Spider-Girl comics (though that does mean pretending JMS's run did'nt happen and I like that a lot)

[Redeemer]

Originally Posted by Shark_Blade

I can't stand Tobey Maguire but I feel everything but him are definitely great in the movie. So I can see where Stan Lee is coming from.

Willem Dafoe is charismatic and magnificent, James Franco is captivating, Kristen Dunst is pretty, Aunt May and Uncle Ben are the closest representation of the comics imo.

Just replace Tobey with Andrew Garfield and everything would've been perfect. And maybe Emma Stone as Mary Jane. Because the two of them have a great chemistry together,

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I agree, I feel like Tobey Maguire did a mediocre interpretation of Peter Paker/ Spiderman, but not entirely his fault the character was not written well imo.
Andrew Garfield did an amazing job as spider-man, he really captured Spiderman's sarcastic and up beat personality. I also agree Garfield and Emma Stone's chemistry was amazing!!.

My biggest grip about the trilogy is not even Tobey Maguire its actually the entire third movie. Especially Eddie Brock/ Venom holy crap was that done so horribly I was so hyped about Venom at the time too......

[The Deadman]

Originally Posted by CyberCubed

http://static.fjcdn.com/gifs/Spiderm...a3d_396861.gif

After seeing that gif I feel dead inside.

[Spike Spiegel]

The first two Singer X-Men films are way better, IMHO.

But the first Spider-Man movie definitely straddled the line between serious and campy in a way that appealed to a very broad demographic.

[CyberCubed]

The Spiderman films hold up fine to this day. There's not much difference in a superhero movie from 2002 and a movie from 2016 to be honest.

[raph27]

I like the first trilogy. They're not the best superhero movies ever, but they're decent. Even 3 IMO.

[T-U-R-T-L-E POWA!]

Originally Posted by chrisdude

First movie I was insanely out of my mind hyped for.i still remember the first time I heard about it, on the cover of a Wizard magazine, and watching the trailer for the first time in a Suncoast video store. Makes me wish I was 13 again. I still have that Wizard issue.

Remember the trailer that contained a scene that was pulled because of 9/11? I know a guy that has a poster of the helicopter webbed between the two towers that is actually signed by Stan Lee. That thing is evidently worth a fortune now. I don't think I could ever sell it under the circumstances though.

[T-U-R-T-L-E POWA!]

Originally Posted by Redeemer

I agree, I feel like Tobey Maguire did a mediocre interpretation of Peter Paker/ Spiderman, but not entirely his fault the character was not written well imo.
Andrew Garfield did an amazing job as spider-man, he really captured Spiderman's sarcastic and up beat personality. I also agree Garfield and Emma Stone's chemistry was amazing!!.

My biggest grip about the trilogy is not even Tobey Maguire its actually the entire third movie. Especially Eddie Brock/ Venom holy crap was that done so horribly I was so hyped about Venom at the time too......

I've always said the same thing about Garfield. He really nailed the actual "Spiderman" aspect of the character. Tobey just wasn't nearly smartypants enough. Then the whole emo kid thing in part 3 just drove me crazy.

[T-U-R-T-L-E POWA!]

Originally Posted by ZariusTwo

Yeah, but let's face it, most of Spider-Man dates pretty badly. Most of the cartoons may be fun, but are quite hokey, and people love to pick on the 90s series for it's network restrictions at the time.

I can count on one hand how many "timeless" stories there are in the comics also, and even those ones are eventually tainted by gimmickry and retcons that invalidate them...unless, like me, you pretend nothing past 1999 ever happened and assume the series ended with the Spider-Girl comics (though that does mean pretending JMS's run did'nt happen and I like that a lot)

I like the JMS run also until stupid Joey Q decided to destroy the whole franchise because of his hatred for married superheroes. I really can't stand Joey and I mean man it is pure visceral animosity that I feel for the guy. Mainly because of what he done to Spidey. One More Day and Brand New Day are two of the worst things ever to exist in my opinion and they are all on him. Even JMS said that there were certain things he was forced to do that he didn't want to do. I'd say he can't stand Joey to this day.

[ZariusTwo]

Originally Posted by T-U-R-T-L-E POWA!

I'd say he can't stand Joey to this day.

Yeah, JMS ultimately stopped writing for Marvel because he kept clashing with the editors over what to include due to all those ridiculous crossover events. His Thor run was sabotaged. He wanted to stay on Spider-Man indefinitely too, but he did'nt want to keep writing him after OMD.

Stan Lee and his brother Larrry control the ASM newspaper strip and they made the decision to keep Peter and MJ together over there, revealing Brand New Day was nothing but a bad dream, as a result Spidey's remained married for 29 years.

[Shark_Blade]

And I think J Jonah really helps a lot with the immersion of Raimi's trilogy.

[Mayhem]

Yeah, I think JK Simmons was a great casting for him.