The star, Tobey Maguire, was an indie actor who was known more for roles that were dark and brooding than heroic and plucky. The director, Raimi, was more known for low-budget cult horror films than tentpole superhero franchises.
The original Spider-Man, which came out May 3, 2002, 19 long years ago, took more risks than you might remember.
Here's a fun what-if question for you: What if the first Spider-Man movie - the original Sam Raimi blockbuster - had been horrible? What if it had fallen on its face right out of the chute? How would movies look today? Welcome to This Week in Genre History, where Tim Grierson and Will Leitch, the hosts of the Grierson & Leitch podcast, take turns looking back at the world's greatest, craziest, most infamous genre movies on the week that they were first released.
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