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Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man defined the image of the friendly neighborhood wall-crawler for an entire generation of fans. Marc Webb’s The Amazing Spider-Man is mostly remembered as the movie where Peter Parker has a skateboard.
They tell such similar stories — literally the same story in a lot of ways, including Peter Parker’s origin — and yet one became a modern classic, and the other a punchline.
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