That's where the whole 'with great power comes great responsibility' gets its meaning from...
Exactly! I want to see spidey's humanity, the one that I can relate to. He has feelings of pain, hurt, anger, revenge and spite but its how he reacts, responds and acts upon his feelings. I want spidey to come to terms with the fact that, he has a responsibility to himself and the people he comes into contact with, wether they're good or bad. Spidey does what is right but sometimes, he does contemplate and think ill-coceived thoughts. Responsibility. A defining trait of spider-man that hasn't been properly realised in these movies.
it simply doesn't fit in with the film mythos spidey which real lesson should be '**** happens' which he still has a hard time coming to terms with and hence why he's still obsessed with his uncle's killer. A spiderman based on the original comic would have come to terms with it all but the movie one is completely driven on revenge...
I wasn't too thrilled to see Peter's day dreams being haunted by his uncle's ghost in sm2 to be honest because it was handled badly in having pete, reject uncle ben's plea to stick with it (pun not intended). That was so out of characeter and what kills it, pete didn't even try, it sort of made ben's death meaningless what with all the life lessons he passed on to pete being thrown right back in his face and as cheesy as it may have been, pete's decision to return to the webs found no resolution with ben. Sad.
To be honest, Peter should have come to terms and accepted his responsibilities by the time the 1st movie ended but events in sm2 show that, he hadn't fully grasped the concept of being a superhero and a young man who had a personal life with responsibilities. Thats one of the things I loved about the comics. Peter didn't dwell for too long on the sacrifices he had to make in order to do the right thing. He was selfless and did whatever would have a bigger impact. However, he still managed to balance his normal life and being spider-man to an almost acceptable degree.
he wanted revenge on goblin for what he was going to do to mj (i can live with this one)
revenge on ock for capturing MJ
Revenge on his uncle's killer both in the first movie and now in the second.
One thing that annoyed me was that, Peter seemed more bothered by GG knowing who he was than what GG did to his poor old aunt May and then when he finds out that GG has MJ, Peter was out of the hospital faster than a cheetah doped up on speed.
However, I'll admit that I never got the impression that Peter wanted revenge on Ock for kidnapping MJ. He just wanted to find her and stop him but I dont think it was out of revenge.
As for sandman, I think that Peter's definately right to feel the way he does in that marko is out there and no one knows where he is but I think it changes things if spider-man meets marko once he's actually become sandman. If Pete is acting vengeful on marko pre-sandman then thats just wrong and going too far BUT if its marko post/current sandman then its understandable because, sandman is an even bigger and harder threat to overcome and bring to justice, which will only fuel peter's anger and determination....(which no doubt is what attracts the symbiot) but still, I suppose it doesn't make it right.
all these characters ended up dying and he felt no slight remorse for them, the fact he hasn't really learned anything comes with both him not making up with uncle ben in the dream sequence (acting as he did before he died) and also accepting MJ into his life when no more than a month before he was turning her down.
Yeah, movie pete's character is flawed and full of inconsistencies and its so glaringly annoying. The only "in-character" behaviour in regards to what your saying is, when Peter tried to talk to ock just before the end but that was ruined by the fact that peter had his damn mask off, huge error.
it clearly shows this isn't peter parker in any sense of the hero idealism...simply because they've robbed him of the growth required, he's still merely a dopy eyed child with powers, they should have named the films spider-boy...
Absoloutly, spot on.
