With Great Podcast, Comes Great Responsibility… and so FRANCHISOGRAPHY returns with a new mini-series focused on everyone’s favorite friendly neighborhood wall-crawler.

It’s difficult to understate the impact that SPIDER-MAN had on pop culture when it hit theaters in 2002. Filled to the brim with meme-able moments, memorable characters, and an iconic kiss that has never been matched, the first film to feature Peter Parker was unstoppable. Not only was it the first film to ever break $100 million at the box office in its opening weekend, it eventually became the top-grossing domestic film of the year, beating Star Wars, Harry Potter, and Lord of the Rings.

And with that, Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man launched superhero cinema into the stratosphere.

Join Nick and Scott as they try to pinpoint just what makes this movie so special and how it continues to stand the test of time.

(NOTE: This episode features clips from the podcast SPIDER-MAN MINUTE hosted by Scott Carelli and Zach Luna, originally released in April of 2017.)

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