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  1. 4d ago

    Spider-Man (2002) Movie Review and Analysis on Disney+

    Hello everyone, welcome to the Mattacritic. This is Matthew Hemenway. In this episode of the Mattacritic, I will be reviewing and analyzing Spider-Man the 2002 version that starred Tobey Maguire, Wilem Dafoe, and Kirsten Dunst. Tobey Maguire played Spider-Man in that movie. Why do this review? I figure I might give it a new perspective since people would have seen it all those years ago. When Spider-Man: No Way Home came out in 2021, it brought back Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield and they both worked together with Tom Holland’s Spider-Man to fight the villains from the universes of both Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield. This means since all the movies from the Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield are on Disney+, people can watch them. There is no rule that a person cannot watch any of those movies. Without this movie, there would be no MCU. When this movie was released, it broke a record for box office receipts. Iron Man would have not come out in 2008, 6 years after this movie was released. This movie showed people that you can make money from a comic book/superhero movie. I will give you my rating at the end of this review. I will use images and have the video clips in the description below if you are watching the video on YouTube or it will be in the blog post on Patreon and my website. I hope this episode will inspire you to read, watch, and learn. Thank you. Please help support the channel Please become a Patreon supporter as that will help the channel and this blog. If you do not want to do this, please go to my website and subscribe to this blog. The video and written portion of this blog is on my website as well as on my Patreon page. Thank you. Rest of the Review and Rating for Spider-Man (2002) Movie Tobey Maguire as Peter Parker narrates the movie and tells the story that this story is not for the faint of heart. Peter Parker tells the story that if anyone tells you, this is a happy little tale; someone lied. Like any story this story is about a girl. He tells the viewer that it is about Mary Jane Watson played by Kirsten Dunst. Peter Parker is chasing the bus, and everyone is laughing at him for missing the bus. The bus driver is also enjoying it, which tells me how much of immature a******s they are. How can you take joy in watching someone chasing a bus? Mary Jane Watson tells the bus driver to stop the bus. He does. It is unfortunate that it took her to tell the bus driver to do the right thing. Peter Parker gets on the bus, and no one would let them sit with them. The first person who is a girl who looks like a geek would not let Peter Parker sit with her. The guy who sat behind her would not do it either. Believe me, I was a nerd like Peter Parker and since I am an introvert, it is hard for me to talk to people. At times, I will freeze and not know what to say. When I worked at the movie theater all those years ago, I could talk to people. My confidence got shaken after my automobile accident. I was told I was getting too close after my accident even though I was broken from it, so I chose to isolate myself from people. Peter Parker gets tripped by a person who is part of Flash Thompson’s crew. Peter Parker will meet up with Harry Osborne and will be at the Columbia University’s display of the new species of spiders they have created. Peter Parker will meet Harry Osborne’s dad Norman Osborne. Norman Osborne is impressed with how Peter Parker can understand the nano technology that he created. Peter Parker will be at the demonstration and during it Flash Thompson and his crew are picking on Peter Parker. Harry Osborne tells them to leave Peter Parker alone. Flash Thompson says, “his father will fire your father. What is daddy going do, sue me?” This shows that Flash Thompson and his friends are a bunch of immature a******s. People like these are weak people and are insecure. They always must pick on those who cannot defend themselves. Picking on someone that cannot defend themselves is not strength, it is weakness. It shows that you are a coward. For example, when you hear about the ICE raids that are going on and people getting picked up for no reason. A lot of these people are not criminals, they are small children, sick people, or single mothers. They are also people who were working at a construction site here in my home of Charotte, NC. His daughter spoke out against this. These are not criminals; these are good people wanting to make it in this world. It is wrong and I do not care if it is legal, it does not make it right. You can go to this Instagram link to learn more. Their behavior is like what one would see in how these kids in high school behave like. Peter Parker will later get bitten by the spider when was taking pictures of Mary Jane Watson. He will get sick and must sleep. It will transform him into Spider-Man. Here is a clip from the opening scene. Peter told his aunt and uncle that he needed to sleep. Peter Parker will later have a fight with Flash Thompson which he will win. He runs away after that. He later finds out he has superpowers. Here is the clip of the fight scene with Flash Thompson. Peter will climb a wall after the fight with Flash Thompson and one of the words he says is Shazam which is a DC comic book character. Here is a clip from that scene. Peter does not decide to fight crime or help people with them; he decides to use it for himself. He will become a wrestler. He wanted to buy a car so he can impress Mary Jane Watson. Uncle Ben will tell him that with “With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility.” He also told Peter that just because you can beat him up does not give you the right to. I understand that principle since I took Tae Kwon Do. Just because I can beat someone up doesn’t mean I should beat someone up. It is for defensive reasons not offensive reasons. Here is a clip of Uncle Ben talking to Peter before the fight with Bone Saw MacGraw. Peter Parker will win the match against Bone Saw MacGraw and the owner of the fight only pays him $100.00. Here is a clip from the wrestling match. Peter Parker is mad and after the owner gets robbed, he lets the robber escape. Peter Parker will later learn that his uncle Ben was murdered, and he goes after the killer. Here is a clip of Peter watching his Uncle Ben die. Peter chases the killer and finds out that it was the same man that he let escape after robbing the owner of the wrestling match. Peter Parker must break his wrist after he put a gun on him, and he trips out the window and the robber ends up dying because of the fall. Peter Parker escapes. Here is the clip of Peter Parker getting revenge for Uncle Ben’s murder. Peter Parker will meet with his Aunt May, and she cries in his arms after they both knew that Uncle Ben was murdered. It is sad to say the least. Norman Osborne will blow up the Quest Aerospace testing site as the Green Goblin and here is that clip. Peter Parker, Harry Osborne, and Mary Jane Watson graduate from high school. Mary Jane Watson will break up with Flash Thompson. Harry Osborne will make his move. Norman Osborne tells Peter Parker if he needs him just give him a call. Here is that clip of the graduation. The movie will progress with Norman Osborne deciding to kill the board members after they decide to sell OsCorp to Quest Aerospace. Norman Osborne will do this as the Green Goblin at the OsCorp Unity Festival. Peter Parker is there to take pictures of the festival. He was hired by the Daily Bugle to take pictures of Spider-Man earlier in the movie. This means that he is taking pictures of himself. The Board members see the Green Goblin and one of them will say that is our glider. The Green Goblin throws the grenade, and it explodes with the board members on along with Mary Jane Watson. Peter Parker must become Spider-Man to keep more people from being hurt. The Green Goblin kills the board members so that Norman Osborne can keep his company. Spider-Man stops the Green Goblin from hurting more people and he rescues Mary Jane Watson. Here is a clip of the Green Goblin murdering the board members, and Spider-Man saving a kid from getting hurt and saving Mary Jane Watson. The movie will progress with Norman Osborne meeting his dual personality in the mirror. When he became the Green Goblin, it created another personality. This means that he has multiple personality disorder. I mentioned this disorder when I did the Moon Knight reviews. I also mentioned when I did Gotham Knight reviews. Both Marc Specter and Harvey Dent have multiple personality disorder. The side that is dark tells him, “Do you think it was coincidence, all these good things happening for you.” Norman says, “What do you want?” “To do what you can’t, to remove those who stand in your way.” “The Board members, you killed them.” “We killed, them, remember your little accident.” “The Performance enhancers.” “Me, your greatest creation, giving you what you always wanted, power, beyond your wildest dreams. There is only one that can stop us but imagined if he joined us.” This will progress to the Green Goblin attacking the Daily Bugle and Spider-Man must come to stop him. Green Goblin will knock him out with sleeping gas. Green Goblin offers Spider-Man to join him. He leaves him with that decision. Here is a clip of that attack. It will also have the trailer that was seen in Final Fantasy. Spider-Man will save Mary Jane Watson from a bunch of rapists and will have the upside-down kiss which is cool. Here is a clip from that rescue. Spider-Man will later have to save a baby from a burning building. A police officer goes to arrest him after he does that. Spider-Man will go back in the building when he thought there was another person who needed his help. Green Goblin will want to know if he wants to join him. Spider-Man tells him no and Green Goblin will release the grenades that have blades on them. One of them cuts Spider-Man and Spider-Man kicks the Green Goblin. Green G

  2. Jul 13

    My thoughts of the Heroes Convention in Charlotte, NC on June 13, 2026

    To view the slide presentation, click on https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1dUcITiouvGZEDDgiyhd7RBO-fgL9CrjvASQkEEBT-gM/edit to view it. Thank you. To view Album of this event, please click this link to view it. Thank you. Hello everyone, welcome to the Mattacritic. This is Matthew Hemenway. I hope you are doing well. In this episode of the Mattacritic, I will be giving you my thoughts on the Heroes Convention that took place on June 13, 2026, in Charlotte, NC at the Charlotte Convention Center. The dates for the 3 days were June 12 to June 14, 2026. The first day took place on Jun 12, 2026, from 11am to 7 pm. The second day took place on June 13, 2026, from 10 am to 6 pm. The third day took place on June 14, 2026, from 11 am to 6 pm. The one for next year will be on the dates of June 11, 2027, to June 13, 2027, at the Charlotte Convention Center in Charlotte, NC. I will have pictures of the event and describe what took place. I hope this episode will inspire you to read, watch, and learn. How to support the newsletter and the channel A little housekeeping, if you are reading this article, please sign up for my Substack and Patreon. You can also make a PayPal donation or donate to buy me a coffee. Buy me a coffee, It is not buying me coffee; it is a way for you to support me if you do not want to become a member. You can also subscribe to my YouTube channel, listen to the podcast on Apple and Spotify. You can listen to it on YouTube Music as well as Pocket casts. Please consider becoming a Patreon supporter as that will help the channel and newsletter out. Please also subscribe to my Substack which will be this link right here. Please sign up for YouTube memberships as well. Thank you. Rest of my thoughts on the Heroes Convention on June 13, 2026, in Chalotte, NC at the Charlotte Convention Center As I told you, I will have pictures of the Heroes Convention and a video of the event. I took the light rail up to the Charlotte Convention Center when I went there on Saturday, June 13, 2026, which is the second day of the event. As I told you before, the event for the Heroes Convention took place from June 12 to June 14, 2026. The one for next year will take place from June 11 to June 13, 2027. You can go to https://www.heroesonline.com/heroescon/ and learn more about this event if you want to go next year. I am giving you my assessment and my opinion on this, but this is worth going. I will leave a link to my experience of going last year and I will tell you that it is worth going. Here are a couple of videos at the Heroes convention. Please click this https://youtube.com/shorts/Oh-WxE-L01k to view the short for part one. Please click this to view the short for part two. I ran into people with costumes that are fascinating to say the least. As you can see from the outside of the Charlotte Convention Center with the Heroes Convention displayed across the Entrance of the building. There is a woman walking with a staff. A woman wears a purple cape that is interesting to say the least. I saw someone where there was a rebel pilot’s uniform from Star Wars Universe. I saw the Ant-Eater creature that was in Episode IV of Star Wars. That is the first film that came out in 1977. Here are the dates for what happened in 2026, and it tells you the one that will happen in 2027. There is an information booth where you can learn information for the event, and it was there last year as well. There were several people in the pictures below I saw dressed as Superman which was cool and he reminded me of Henry Cavill Superman. There was someone dressed as Spiderman which was cool to say the least. Cyclops was there as well, and I talked to him as well as my brother Mark. This young woman in the Superman shirt told me that I met that she liked the new Superman that came out in 2025. She told me the reason for that is that she liked how kind he was. That is true. The world could use more kindness and not all this hate that the world is seeing. I met a man who wore the original movie image for Star Wars Episode IV who grew up the prequels. His shirt is cool, but his first movies were Star Wars prequels. When there is 49 years’ worth of content for Star Wars, this makes sense that people could have been introduced to the original trilogy, the prequels, or the sequel trilogy. There was a guy who wore a Doctor Doom shirt, and he said that he had been disappointed by the Fantastic Four films. He just told me he would rather read the comics instead. I met woman named Sarah who was dressed as Miss America. I first thought it was Captain America, but it was America Chavez. She told me that she liked her and I can understand that. I told her that I watched Doctor Strange: Multiverse of Madness. I told her America Chavez was good in that film and that it was the perfect follow-up to Spider-Man: No Way Home. She agreed with me on that, and we had a very nice conversation to say the least. There was a woman who wore a Loki shirt and said the 2 seasons of Loki were excellent to say the least. She agreed with me when I told her about the Moon Knight series that they were good. Moon Knight only had one season so far on Disney+. I met a guy named Gary who you can see right here in this picture who told me and my brother Mark about how the comics were written. Gary told us that his favorite Star Wars film is the Empire Strikes Back. That is not unusual as that tends to be a lot of people’s answers. I happen to like all 3 movies of the original trilogy as they all work as they connect the larger story to each other. Gary told my brother and me that if Jack Kirby did not have an editor would be going crazy. Stan Lee helped him to polish his ideas. Steve Ditko was a guy who drew and created comics. He was recluse according to Gary and wanted to be left alone. He did one comic book convention back in 1964, and that was too much. He said no to that. He answered fan letters. He sounded like me in a nutshell. I sometimes have a hard time dealing with people. I do not hate people; I struggle with talking to people unless I have a role to play or something interesting to talk about. I can do it. Gary told me what brought him back to the comics was in 1997 when DC comics killed Superman and had a comic series where Bane broke Batman’s back. As you are aware, I talked about how the Dark Knight rises, and you can click on this link to learn more. There was a scene in the film where the Dark Knight rises where it was in the tunnels under Gotham where Bane breaks Batman’s back. Please click this link to watch the video of that happening. Here is an image of Bane breaking Batman’s back, and you can click this link to watch a video on that. Gary also told me that the characters do need to get older. It made sense that Dick Grayson would eventually become Night Wing. You could not expect him to run as Robin forever. That makes sense. Peter Parker needs to get older. It would be cool to see an older Spider-Man. It is possible to do an older Spider-Man like Peter Parker having a family or dealing with suddenly being older. I told my brother Mark that Marvel did have a comic where they killed Spider-Man off. Spider-Man was shot while taking a bullet for Captain America. I told him it was the sinister six that killed him and that was true as had to fight them wounded after being shot to protect Captain America. It drained him to say the least. Here are two videos that are on YouTube for you to watch that explain that. You can click this link here to watch the first part and this link to watch the second part. It will be in the description below to watch it if you are watching it on YouTube or listening to the audio. Thank you. There was a guy dressed as The Rocketeer. If you are wandering, yes, The Rocketeer is a comic. It was done as a movie back in 1991. I loved the film, the idea of this guy stopping nazis was cool. I told him that I watched that film as a kid. He let me take his picture and I appreciated that. You can watch the movie on Disney+. I met these guys who were dressed as video game characters. These guys are cool to say the least. The Left one is Halo and others I do not know. If you guys know, please let me know in the comments below. Thank you. My brother and I had very interesting conversations with them to say the least. I met a woman who was dressed as Mysterio. She tells me that she loved Mysterio and that she liked the films Spider-Man: Far from Home and Spider-Man: No Way Home. She told my brother and I that she and her friend were meeting other people and that is cool. The mystery machine and the ghostbuster car were back. I will have pictures come up for you to look at in this slide presentation. Thank you. Please like and share this content. Please subscribe to the Mattacritic wherever you consume it. I hope you come back. Please remember to read, watch, and learn. Thank you for reading this newsletter or watching the YouTube video in this article. Please consider supporting this independent source of reviews by making a PayPal donation or going to Shop and buy merchandise to help support it. You can also go to this link to help donate as well. If you do not want to do that, please consider becoming a patron by going to Patreon and help support me there. You can also go to YouTube sign up for YouTube memberships by hitting the join button that is in the channel section there or at the bottom of the YouTube video if you choose to watch the YouTube video that is included in this article. Thank you. Music: A Day to Remember and No Filter Trap from Microsoft’s Clipchamp Video Editor References: Heroes Convention Clip of Bane breaking Batman’s back in The Dark Knight Rises (2012) YouTube video explaining comic of Bane breaking Batman’s back (image) My Review of the Dark Knight Rises (2012) on Substack YouTube video of Spider-Man taking bullet for Captain America and dying later by the Sinister Six YouTube video of Spider-M

  3. Jun 12

    10 Rules for the Perfect Murder by James Patterson Review and Analysis - Audio

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    10 Rules for the Perfect Murder by James Patterson Review and Analysis - Audio

  4. Jun 5

    Breaking the Dark: A Jessica Jones Marvel Crime Novel Review and Analysis - Audio

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    Breaking the Dark: A Jessica Jones Marvel Crime Novel Review and Analysis - Audio

  5. May 29

    On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century Review and Analysis - Audio

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    On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century Review and Analysis - Audio

  6. May 22

    The Christmas Duet Book Review and Analysis - Audio

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    The Christmas Duet Book Review and Analysis - Audio

  7. May 15

    Christmas content I like and dislike Part 2 - Audio

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    Christmas content I like and dislike Part 2 - Audio

  8. May 8

    At the Quiet Edge: A Novel Review and Analysis by Victoria Helen Stone - Audio

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    At the Quiet Edge: A Novel Review and Analysis by Victoria Helen Stone - Audio
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  • Creator
    Matthew Hemenway
  • Years Active
    2025 - 2026
  • Episodes
    232
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