Sam Raimi's Spider-Man 20 Years Later: How The Movie Changed It All
Movies can't get much bigger than what Marvel has been pushing out these last few years. Especially with giant blockbusters like Avengers: Endgame, Spider-Man: No Way Home, and now Doctor Strange In the Multiverse of Madness. Movies built up with years worth of other storylines and multiverse spanning epics have become Marvel's forte as of late, and nobody really comes close to them in regard to scale and continuity.
But Marvel movies hadn't always been connected to one another and had years of development and story building to them. Up until the early 2000s, comic book movies didn't really have the hype or recognition that they do now. It wasn't until studio Marvel movies released X-Men and, the now twenty-year-old Spider-Man that the emergence of the superhero mega-blockbuster would become a regular at the box office.
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When the emergence of Marvelsuperheroes hit the big screen in the late 90s, Marvel movies weren't even close to the powerhouse of storytelling they are now. For the most part, the line-up of superhero movies wasn't as planned out then as they are now at Disney, which has years of projects planned in advance. Marvel movies weren't as frequent, and many of them like Daredevil, The Punisher, and Hulk, amounted to almost nothing after their initial release. Only Daredevil got somewhat of a continuation with Elektra. Marvel movies were still in their infant stage, and it showed.
It was May 3, 2002, when the first Raimi Spider-Man was released, officially making it twenty years old on the eve of his new foray into Marvel with Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. The impact of Spider-Man set the standard for what could be expected from
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