{"id":7800,"date":"2012-05-12T08:38:44","date_gmt":"2012-05-12T13:38:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=7800"},"modified":"2019-11-25T22:02:44","modified_gmt":"2019-11-26T03:02:44","slug":"mothers-day-circa-2002","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2012\/05\/12\/mothers-day-circa-2002\/","title":{"rendered":"Mother’s Day Circa 2002"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>It was 2002<\/strong> and Sam Raimi’s<\/strong> take on the wall crawling web-head<\/em> had just been released smashing box office records and forever raising the bar on what to expect from films about costumed crime fighters. I was fired up about the movie because I was hooked to the comics as a kid, and my son Lloyd was excited by the commercials for the movie that blanketed TV screens at the time.<\/p>\n

So here is my Mother’s Day<\/strong> Card for Tina circa 2002:<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>I’m still waiting for Mysterio<\/strong> to show up in a Spider-Man movie. The tragic scientist warped by his own experiments has been done to death with these movies. Mysterio was a villain with no tragic core. He was brilliant, and nasty and his costume would look really cool in a movie.<\/p>\n

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It was 2002 and Sam Raimi’s take on the wall crawling web-head had just been released smashing box office records and forever raising the bar on what to expect from films about costumed crime fighters. 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