The new Spiderman was a decent movie, but it has one major flaw. Think, what is it that always made spiderman a great hero? his humanity, obviously. a guy how fought crime one minute and had to write papers the next will always be loved by high-school age America.
BUT
if you overdo it, they'll laugh. like in this new movie, where they played up the human side so much that it has been accused of looking like an action-oriented soap opera :) there is such a thing as too much melodrama, and this movie crosses the line more than a few times. all that said, it's a great action movie anyway. so.....I'd recommend it for couples. Romance for the girls, action for the guys :)

which brings me to Part Two of this little post. Why is it that guys make stupid generalizations like that? (about romance for the girls, I mean). fact is, your average guy-on-the-street thinks that romance is beneath him, that it isn't manly, that...well, you get the picture. But they're quite wrong. The Middle Ages had it right, my friends. or at least, our ideal of the Middle Ages had it right. I won't get into how many knights of that time period actually lived the way we imagine...that's for another day. but our ideal...Damsel in distress, Knight to the rescue and all...it can be true, even today. Has any guy ever wondered why all the classic Medieval-themed movies had the Good Guys swearing to protect women? because protection is one of the things we were put here to do, men. That is what separates the good guys from the bad. that we protect instead of trying to conquer.

ponder that, gentlemen. oh yeah, and watch "Timeline". don't read it, watch it.