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We’ve spent decades listening to people praise The Sam Raimi Trilogy and we’re going to spend the rest of our lives listening to edgy idiots unjustly bash The MCU High School Trilogy. Now, take a trip back to The 70’s for the only Spider-Man trilogy capable of uniting the entire fandom… by agreeing it’s the most boring adaptation of the character ever made. Easily!

Spider-Man, Spider-Man Strikes Back, and Spider-Man: The Dragon’s Challenge. Three compilation films that are just a few episodes of that boring 70’s show nobody talks about anymore because we’ve got new versions of the character to serve as the local punching bag for Marvel AND the fans. I only watched the first one last year and I was massively disappointed with that as I was watching the other two. Speaking which, I used to own the VHS copies of Strikes Back and The Dragon’s Challenge as a kid and, man, do I regret thinking that these were good as a kid.

Curse you, 8-9 Year Old Me! What were you thinking?

Anyway, these “movies” are actually just episodes of the show that were re-edited to be sold as movies and… they aren’t really good. However , they do have a few redeeming qualities. Not a lot but a few like the cameo from Ted Danson and being the first of any Spidey media to feature a one-off love interest of Asian descent who’s actress would go on to play Mulan’s mother in that Disney Remake I never watched… nor do I ever plan on watching. While Nicholas Hammond is a pretty solid Peter Parker, his Spider-Man is my least favourite of all the live action iterations but that’s mostly the fault of the time period this show was made as well as other aspects like the lack of supervillains. The show could’ve easily done the likes of Kraven, Hammerhead, Mr Big, or Chameleon but chooses ordinary people with zero personality or staying power. Fun fact, despite the lack of MCU Uncle Ben other than minor nods, Uncle Ben is nonexistent in the show and Peter just decided to become a hero without any personal tragedy or learning about his Great Responsibility mantra. A pretty decent change but I prefer the standard Spidey origin.

So yeah, this is easily the worst Spider-Man Trilogy but I don’t entirely blame the people that made it since, again, this was The 70’s. … However, let’s not forget that this show was also made at the exact same time as Japanese Spider-Man. Let that sink in for a second. We got these movies from America while Japan gave us Spider-Man using a giant robot to punch monsters in the face ala Power Rangers/Super Sentai. Don’t worry, America, you’ll beat Japan in the “giving us cool stuff to watch/enjoy” competition sometime… in a few decades.

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We’ve spent decades listening to people praise The Sam Raimi Trilogy and we’re going to spend the rest of our lives listening to edgy idiots unjustly bash The MCU High School Trilogy. Now, take a trip back to The 70’s for the only Spider-Man trilogy capable of uniting the entire fandom… by agreeing it’s the most boring adaptation of the character ever made. Easily!

Spider-Man, Spider-Man Strikes Back, and Spider-Man: The Dragon’s Challenge. Three compilation films that are just a few episodes of that boring 70’s show nobody talks about anymore because we’ve got new versions of the character to serve as the local punching bag for Marvel AND the fans. I only watched the first one last year and I was massively disappointed with that as I was watching the other two. Speaking which, I used to own the VHS copies of Strikes Back and The Dragon’s Challenge as a kid and, man, do I regret thinking that these were good as a kid.

Curse you, 8-9 Year Old Me! What were you thinking?

Anyway, these “movies” are actually just episodes of the show that were re-edited to be sold as movies and… they aren’t really good. However , they do have a few redeeming qualities. Not a lot but a few like the cameo from Ted Danson and being the first of any Spidey media to feature a one-off love interest of Asian descent who’s actress would go on to play Mulan’s mother in that Disney Remake I never watched… nor do I ever plan on watching. While Nicholas Hammond is a pretty solid Peter Parker, his Spider-Man is my least favourite of all the live action iterations but that’s mostly the fault of the time period this show was made as well as other aspects like the lack of supervillains. The show could’ve easily done the likes of Kraven, Hammerhead, Mr Big, or Chameleon but chooses ordinary people with zero personality or staying power. Fun fact, despite the lack of MCU Uncle Ben other than minor nods, Uncle Ben is nonexistent in the show and Peter just decided to become a hero without any personal tragedy or learning about his Great Responsibility mantra. A pretty decent change but I prefer the standard Spidey origin.

So yeah, this is easily the worst Spider-Man Trilogy but I don’t entirely blame the people that made it since, again, this was The 70’s. … However, let’s not forget that this show was also made at the exact same time as Japanese Spider-Man. Let that sink in for a second. We got these movies from America while Japan gave us Spider-Man using a giant robot to punch monsters in the face ala Power Rangers/Super Sentai. Don’t worry, America, you’ll beat Japan in the “giving us cool stuff to watch/enjoy” competition sometime… in a few decades.