Spidey Trilogy

Hahaha....I just bought and watched the spiderman movies.

Well, I don't really know if I am a superhero fan but I certainly remembered watching Superman movies with my mum, the part where the movie fast rewinded was stuck in my young mind just like the movie Jaws haunted me for life....I actually feared sharks when my canoe capsizes during PE lesson in college. Then there were the super heros cartoons that I watched with my siblings and years later wondered how on earth we understood the "Meanwhile" when we were not yet in kindergarten.

Superman, Batman, Spiderman, Robin, Cat woman, Hawk Girl, ha...Flash Gordon (kinda like him last time) etc...the Joker (only the late Heath ledger version). Superheros abound. Superman wears a red cape sans mask with red underwear (awful lot of material) Batman...I love his mask which reveals the squarish jawline (Michael Keaton's my favourite) and the small but well proportioned Spidey....Rachel's favourite whose mask covers everything. I love the black suit..."it feels good!" Well, if I had to choose I think I am drawn to the Dark Knight especially the nippled suits....HAHAHAHA.

In 2002 I was enthralled by the "computer generated" Spiderman movie. It's so amazing and I truly feel sorry for the nerdy, small-framed Peter Parker who had no parents. I was not keen to watch it but did so at the insistent request of a then close male friend, a spidey fan. He's married to another friend and was crazy enough to named his son Tobey which he mentioned during the show that he would if he had a son in the future. And my tall and big sized friend actually teared at the movies when spiderman cries, afterall, he did mentioned that he identifies strongly with the superhero: being bullied at school??? nerdy??? i believe its likely the low self-esteem, lack of confidence part. Well, I chose not to probe further.

Because I know the "power" that i sometimes have with guys, being able to help them open up and be in touch with their soul, their feelings especially I did quite a lot of counselling of youth in the past and my genuine empathy for others, I tend to be careful about "ministering to male friends" because a few actually wanted to be my boyfriends after that and things gets messy, I had to end the friendships because I don't like to think I gave them the wrong ideas or started it and the guys gets hurt etc etc etc. My fault...etc etc etc

So the minute I sensed whichever male friend had an "hidden" agenda or was keen to pursue me, my built in antenna cautions me and I normally FLEE.......or turned colder towards that person, a self-protection measure. I became less interested in the friendship........guess i just like to hang out with boys per se being the rose among the thorns but when the platonic relationship turns romantic, its kinda of risky and threatening, though the naughty part of me like to see the guys fight over me, which happened in college. HAHAHA and you wondered why on earth do they need to jostle for my attention, or fight for my friendship???? love???????????????OH PLS...........Come on...we are all friends!!!!! Two guys plus me...perfect combi!!!!!HAHAHA

I love the spiderman trilogy story which appeals to most audiences both the young and the old. General themes like good verus evil, revenge verus forgiveness and especially Peter Parker's guardians the old couple that often dishes out wise advices for our young spidey. What I was unprepared for was the sequels that followed. The development of the love triangle between Peter, Harry and Mary Jane (an image of Crocs shoes just flashed before my eyes). There is so much crying in these 3 movies that if I should ever watch them all three in one sitting I think I may have to prepare a box of Kleenex !!!!!What I don't understand is that even the bad guys need to cry. Sandman.................HAHAHAHAHA.

Was the script written by a woman??? or a super sensitive SNAG???Or gay??? Actually does it matter??? Its pretty good sequels we are watching aren't we? Though i prefer the edit the Sandman asking for forgiveness with tears in his hard looking very weathered face. Isn't he dead forever after both Harry and Spiderman joined forces to destroy him via those cute flying twin bladed explosive "Pokemon balls"????????? Why is Sandman so indestructible??? Invincible???

Finally, I took a piece of paper, actually two and drew both the original and black spiderman masks. On the original red mask, we had the words GOOD SPIDEY and brainstormed with 5 year old rachel the qualities that made Peter Parker a good spiderman. She actually said "kind, gentle, hero..."Of course I added "respect for others, polite, caring etc" And on the reverse side, the black mask with the caption BAD SPIDEY we placed words like "proud, aggressive, angry, vengeful, destroys, selfish, rude, evil etc" My kid like those of many young ones I had taught before in Sunday school years back loved and aspire to be GOOD superheros. Children naturally responds to goodness, kindness, gentleness and love.

Wow........enough said.