![]() Instead, Peter is a brooding, often resentful jerk, and his attitude towards the women who don’t have much time for him isn’t exactly great, either. He hasn’t met his years of being bullied with the kind of good natured “aw shucks” attitude we’re accustomed to. Go back and read the first few years worth of Spider-Man comics, and you’ll see that Peter isn’t a terribly nice guy. To this day, its tone reads a little more like Stan Lee and especially Steve Ditko’s original, not-so-nice vision for Peter Parker. The James Cameron treatment for Spider-Man, despite the howls of early internet outrage that accompanied it, felt pretty revolutionary at the time, and not just because we had yet to actually get a big screen version of Spidey. ![]() ![]() Well, all but one, which was that any Spider-Man movie should prominently feature at least one Ramones song. ![]() Around 1999, I discovered Wes Anderson’s Rushmore, Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain’s Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk, and James Cameron’s infamous “scriptment” for his Spider-Man movie. Being young, and with entirely too much time to think, I made some connections that didn’t necessarily need to be made. ![]()
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