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Great Spider-Man adaptation, 18 June 2003
9/10
Author: Buck Dick (Buck_Dick) from Somewhere

For those of who who havent had the pleasure of seeing this video then you are missing out. A lil history lesson about it: Dan Poole made this video back in 1992 for James Cameron. Cameron was on deck at the time to direct the Spider-Man feature film. Poole wanted to be apart of his project. Unfortunately Cameron hasnt seen it until recently I believe. After the whole live action legal web (no pun intended) was fixed this movie started popping up on websites such as LocalOrigination.com and Spidermanhype.com. It has gained cult status in the last few years and can only really be bought through his website, or from crappy bootlegs at comic stores and comic conventions. If you can find it somewhere then do yourself a favor and grab it. I have the DVD from his company with a cool making of feature.

The movie is from some of the best Spidey comics ever: the deaths of Gwen Stacy and the original Green Goblin (Norman Osborne). Dan takes the reins as Spidey/Peter Parker, an incredible Jimi Kinstle as Green Goblin/Norman Osborne (Hell if Willem Dafoe passed on the movie Id love to have seen this guy as the Goblin. He was brilliant) The story is solid, the stunts are nuts (Poole swings around a 7 story building in a Spider-Man costume), the costumes were very well done (I prefer the homemade Goblin costume in this to the Power Rangers looking one in the movie) and the acting was definetly good. This is a hard to come by video, but it pops up on ebay every so often. If you can get your hands on it you will not be disappointed.

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Great Stuff, 12 July 2004
7/10
Author: Spider_Jerusalem

This is a great indy film based on the best Spiderman comic storyline. The thing was shot with no CG on a barebones budget and, despite this, its still very cool and entertaining. Its certainly not as good as Raimi's Spiderman 2 (which is, in my opinion, easily the best comic film yet) but I actually prefer it to Spiderman 1. Despite the lack of CG, the acrobatics actually work fairly well and the action seems often more authentic than CG. One key strength the film has is the actor who plays the Green Goblin. The guy delivers a deliciously appropriate over the top performance that really captures the character (even the voice is absolutely perfect) in ways that Dafoe doesn't quite match. Poole does a nice job as Spiderman too. He is not as good as Toby McGuire but does manage to deliver a solid performance and, again, his acrobatics were a real strength.

Of course, being such a low budget picture, it does run into a few snags. The most noticeable foible is that the Green Goblin doesn't fly very convincingly. Also, the film is short (only 50 minutes) and as such does not go into a great deal of character development. Poole stated in an interview he wishes he would have cut out the restaurant scene. I disagree. He needed more scenes like that. As is, the story works well but I would certainly have opened the picture with the set of scenes better detailing the death of Gwen's father (perhaps tying it into how the Osborne was committed) and her resulting hate of Spiderman. Still, it is a fine picture and Dan Poole should be proud of his efforts. It is a shame Marvel has not seen fit to make use of Poole's talents in some fashion as I would love to see a big budget film benefit from his creative influence.

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A amazing Spider-Man Fan Film!, 9 February 2007
7/10
Author: Anthony Nardelli (nardelli_12@hotmail.com) from Canada

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There isn't really a spoiler unless you want to know nothing at all but

Well here is Dan Poole a big spied fan decided to make a fan film who made the best fan film I've ever seen director wise cool effects for 92 but didn't exactly hit good story thoe the film was good and outstanding for a fan film despite for the effects and good camera shots it didn't have a good story it should of showed spied getting his powers it was so cool the last fight with gg but that's a different story but there was other movies unlike the last stand with bullseye and mysterio that I'm pretty sure Poole didn't direct that may have showed his powers it's unbelievable the way he made some things work this movie as inspired me so I'm making a spider-man fan film as well that hopefully gets put on here when I'm done my friend is the director and I'm well different story but anyway this movie was a GREAT! FANFILM and well put together and edited by Poole this is a part of spied history ill give it 7 out of 10

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