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Films like Spider-Man.

Spider-Man (2002) reads as Warm, breathless, measured superhero / action, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured. Every film below is ranked by distance across the same twelve hand-scored axes — with what it keeps, and where it walks away. Not a genre dump.

Treasure Planet (2002) poster
1. Treasure Planet2002

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the documentary-plain realism — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Once Upon a Time in China and America (1997) poster
2. Once Upon a Time in China and America1997

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the grounded, familiar shape — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Steamboy (2004) poster
3. Steamboy2004

Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the grounded, familiar shape; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

Digimon Adventure: Our War Game (2000) poster
4. Digimon Adventure: Our War Game2000

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the documentary-plain realism — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Star Trek (2009) poster
5. Star Trek2009

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the documentary-plain realism; trades toward a world-sized stakes.

Atlantis: The Lost Empire (2001) poster
6. Atlantis: The Lost Empire2001

Keeps the documentary-plain realism; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

Jurassic Park (1993) poster
7. Jurassic Park1993

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the documentary-plain realism — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Willow (1988) poster
8. Willow1988

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the documentary-plain realism — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut (2006) poster
9. Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut2006

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the documentary-plain realism; trades toward a world-sized stakes.

The Dog, the General and the Birds (2003) poster
10. The Dog, the General and the Birds2003

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the grounded, familiar shape — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Krrish 3 (2013) poster
11. Krrish 32013

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the documentary-plain realism — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Jumanji (1995) poster
12. Jumanji1995

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the documentary-plain realism; trades toward a strange, dreamlike logic.

These are Spider-Man’s neighbours — where are yours?

Rate five posters and the same twelve axes read you — then tonight’s pick comes from your own centre of taste.

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