If you like seeing all the animatics and stuff from this movie I recommend picking up the Art book for this because it is absolutely gorgeous. I plan to see this movie at least once more and I was hoping it would pick up some more screens with its Oscar nominations but I don't see that happening. It's such a great movie and at times I can't believe that I've lived long enough for us to get a Spidey movie like this. Even ten years ago I would've never guessed that we would've. I've seen this movie five times and it still leaves me feeling great when its over. I've already pre-ordered a digital copy and I'll likely get the 4K when it comes out. It's been such a great year for Spider-Man and a lot of that has reminded me why this character means so much to me. I am also hoping more people share their thoughts on the movie here because I have been really interested to see everyone's different opinions on this one.
My opinions are also really positive! I've enjoyed superheroes for as long as I remembered, but it wasn't until I was introduced to Raimi's Spider-man as a little kid, that I was truly absorbed into the superhero/ comic culture entirely (starting with Spider-Man). Spider-Man 2 (Raimi) introduced me to the concept of a truly good movie, when I was to young to really care about good movies. It also opened my eye to the art and wonder of special effects.
Spider-Man 3 wasn't as good as the previous 2, but it was still Raimi's Spider-Man.
In the years following 3, no Spider-Man movie really stood out to me. I couldn't get behind the Garfield Spider-man. The MCU saturated the superhero market, which while cool seeing so much comic based movies, they do tend to dilute themselves, imo. When Homecoming came out, I didn't even care enough to see it in theaters. To my surprise, it was genuinely good, but it was more of a good MCU movie than a Spiderman movie.
I wanted to see Spider-Verse initially because I'm an animation fanboy. I didn't care about the comic event, from which this movie was named, and I'm pretty luke warm towards Miles' character in the comics. I knew I was going to like the movie, but seeing it blew my expectations out of the window. It evoked a since of engrossing wonder that I haven't felt since seeing the Raimi films as a small child. It manifested the raw entertainment of the best Spider-Man comics just as those old films seemed to do. Before I grew cynical, desensitized and overexposed to the superhero genre.
And I did order the 'Art of' book, which is something I never do.