What a waste of my time!!!

not as good as all the hype

One of those movie experiences that is so good it makes you realize you've been grading everything else on a curve.

Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

While this has a decent story, it went wrong in every other possible way.The terrible acting,special effects,directing and editing don't help.I was never an expert on Spider-Man, I don't much care for whiny super heroes, but I think I know his origin story by now.Of course Marvel has to dumb it down for the masses.In this show Peter Parker gets bitten by a spider(I'm not sure it actually even touched him) and immediately forgets about it.On his way home he climbs a wall for no reason then immediately realizes it's because of the spider bite.His Spidey-sense is nothing like it was before or since.It makes him see things and they usually don't make much sense.Anyway, he goes home and makes his costume in an hour and it just gets worse.Apparently putting on the costume makes him crouch down and move extremely weird.I would have made some tweaks.When he climbs buildings he keeps stopping and looking around,sometimes he even looks back through his legs.It's so lame that you will be ashamed to even be watching.He doesn't shoot webs either.He invents a device to shoot ropes and only uses it on one flagpole, probably because they couldn't afford a second scene.The plot isn't half bad, it's almost the same as the Captain America movie that would come out soon after.Definitely not a coincidence.It's supposed to take place in New York City but the first hour looks like LA on a Sunday morning.Warm,sunny,no traffic and no pedestrians.The only real story problem is that Parker knows the bad guy is controlling people with radio signals but doesn't think to jam the signal until after he is controlled for a short time.Then he just rips the antennae down and it reverses the signal so the bad guy is affected by it.WHAT?They spend so much time making you think it's a good show then they just kick you in the face, Marvel style.The best thing about this show is that Uncle Leo from Seinfeld is in it.I have never seen him in anything else.This show is only for hardcore Spider-Man fans.No one else could ever like it.

"Peter Parker" (Nicholas Hammond) is a bright, young college student who accidentally gets bitten by a radioactive spider and soon finds out that he has gained great strength and can climb buildings because of it. At first he doesn't know what to do with his special powers but when prominent citizens begin doing bizarre things upon the command of a master criminal he realizes that he has little choice but to investigate the situation and to attempt to stop him. Now rather than reveal any more I will just say that this film served as the pilot for a television series aired back in 1977 and because of that it clearly shows its age. Not only is it quite dated but the special effects were extremely basic and the overall plot definitely suffers from the made-for-television format. Having said that, while I don't necessarily believe that this particular movie is a complete waste of time, I honestly have difficulty rating it any higher than I have. Slightly below average.

I am a little surprised that this series is remembered by even the relatively-few people it seems to be; as a 12 year-old fan in 1977, I caught what episodes of this series as I could, although I must have missed some due to it being yanked all over the schedule like it was. Of course, kids, we only had TV Guide, and the local newspaper television supplements to help us, you know, in those "prehistoric" days.I have seen a couple of the television movies made from episodes tacked-together lately, the nostalgia value is still high even if the series' production vales weren't so great. Nicholas Hammond as Peter Parker/Spider-Man was really too old for the part, but that said, he was clearly a good-hearted, kind fellow one could accept as a super-hero sort of person. I missed more elements from the comic book like Mary Jane, for example, but they did adapt the clone saga from the mid-1970s era of the title which was nifty. Robert F. Simon did well as J. Jonah Jamison even if he didn't look anything like his comics counterpart.I think CBS mad another error by not having super-villains to oppose Parker, as this undoubtedly turned off many of us then-young fans. I suppose the fellow with psychic powers in the Curse of Rava was about the nearest thing to one.All this aside, it wasn't as bad a show as many seem to think, given the limitations of 1970s action/super-hero television effects. I'm not sure if this is out on DVD yet or not, but hope it will be so in time if it isn't.

I was excited at the concept of my favorite comic book hero being on television... and sorely disappointed at the end result.The only "amazing" thing was the wall crawling (despite the visibility of the cable). I didn't think Nick Hammond was Peter Parker... and he was visibly of a different build than the guy who did the stunts in the spider suit. You could tell they were two different actors.Granted, I can also spot in the modern Spider-Man movies when I am looking at Tobey Macguire and when I am looking at CGI. But that is from a trained eye and experience working with CGI. Still, the 70's version could have been better despite lack of Special FX.The webs were hokey and looked like ropes that seemed to wrap around things rather than stick to them. And what was up with giving him a spider mobile to ride around in. Hello? He's the web slinger people.Sorry... didn't mean to get so worked up, but our beloved wall crawler deserved better.