Spider-Man 2
I'll save you the typical review of this movie, for I feel far too many people will give it. Yes, this is a great movie. Perhaps, it is one of the greatest sequels of all time. It has comedy, drama, action, suspense... Heck, it has it all! But something in it strikes me as interesting, so I'd like to discuss that in this review instead of the actual movie.
At one point, Peter Parker asks his aunt what she did with his comic books. In this little world of Stan Lee's, which often seems like New York but is never flat out referred to as such, comic books do exist! So the question I have is a rather simple one... Shouldn't people be able to connect Peter Parker with being Spider-Man?
In the Marvel Universe, Spider-Man exists, thus, it is not likely that Peter Parker would read any comic books because they would be about himself and he exists more in that world than outside of it. Unless, of course, this movie took a Hellboy approach to comic books being a part of it, which it very well might, but who knows. In any case though, the one thing that should exist is DC Comics, or some form of them. Thus, we have the existence of the second most popular superhero of all time (Spider-Man being the first), Superman.
If Superman exists in comic books, so does Clark Kent. Do you see where I'm going with this yet? Clark Kent is the sort of geeky, awkward guy who wears glasses when he isn't fighting crime. He has a job at a newspaper and is secretly in love with Lois Lane. Clark Kent is, more or less, the guy you would least likely think to be Superman, yet he is.
Based on that knowledge alone, don't you think people should be able to figure out that Peter Parker is Spider-Man? The glasses, the geeky-ness, the newspaper, the secret crushes, it's all there! It's all too obvious! If no one else, Jonah Jameson should be able to figure it out. After all, the only one who can take pictures of Spider-Man is Peter. Isn't that another dead giveaway? Every time something bad happens in a DC comic, Clark Kent disappears and Superman appears. They're never in the same place at once. The same can be said for Spider-Man and Peter Parker. Maybe it's just me, but it seems like these characters shouldn't be so naive. But then again, it is just a movie and maybe I am overthinking this far too much.
