QUESTIONS ABOUT THE SPIDER-SCRIPT

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1. Why does Harry Osborne seem to be embarrassed about his wealth the first time we meet him, but then pressures Mary Jane into being embarrassed about her lower class status?

2.  Mary Jane instantly tells the Science Lab guide that there are only 14 spiders in the cage, not 15 … how does she know?  Is she a spider-counting savant?

3. Norman Osborne ends up on the floor of his house with his shirt on after his first Goblin-like episode, with no memory of what has happened and after we left him in the lab with his shirt off… is this a Hulk thing where the ripped pants repair themselves?

4. Mary Jane’s family is abusive… why?  It doesn’t do anything for the storyline of this movie.

5. Why is the 68-year-old Uncle Ben trying to get a job???

6. When and why does Peter move in with Harry Osborne and how can Peter afford even a part of the rent in that apartment… especially after we heard how much financial trouble Aunt May and Uncle Ben were having?

7. How does Uncle Ben know that Peter fought Flash Thompson?

8. Why is a carjacker who just scored thousands carjacking Uncle Ben’s old crappy station wagon? 

9. What does General Slocum have against Norman Osborne?   (And is the character of “Captain Curtis,” who is wearing the competing flight suit, of any significance in the comic universe?)

10. Why do balloons in Times Square when Batman did the same thing, to equally poor effect? 

11. Why have Peter Parker run into the camera, bearing his Spider-suited chest in an near-exact rip-off of the original Superman?

12.  Why build a Green Goblin mask that is so emotionless that it seems like it’s right out of an Ultraman episode.  I understand why they decided to make the reflective eyes retractable, so we could get some value out of Dafoe when he is in the suit… but it seems like a cheap out.

13. Why does Mary Jane use the word “incredible” to describe Spider-Man three times?  Is that supposed to be funny?

14. Why do the Mission:Impossible “liquid drop endangering the guy hanging from the ceiling” gag… especially when there’s no pay-off?

15. Why double clutch and have a Green Goblin attack on Aunt May (scares her, mostly) and a Mary Jane kidnapping?  It feels redundant.

16. Aunt May tells Peter to tell MJ how he feels about her… even though she was awake though his whole 60-second love ramble to her.  Why? 

17. Mary Jane’s ability to keep herself alive in the final sequence is absurd, only to be topped by a “gruff New Yorker” element is cheesy beyond belief.  Was that a post-9/11 addition?

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