Your Friendly Neighborhood Eddie-Mom
You know what the problem with Spider-Man is? Not enough Spider-Man. It's true; I just hadn't noticed it before. See, Eddie has lots of Spidey stuff, so I thought we'd try the movie, since it's less likely to make me want to gouge my eyes out and stuff them in my ears than watching most kids' shows. I was aware, of course, that some time elapses in the movie before Peter becomes Spidey, but I did not realize until this viewing how little time he actually spends in his costume. It's not much, and Eddie didn't care much about the rest of the movie. Plot, and all. He's not into that sort of thing.
AND then there was the Green Goblin. I have seen this movie plenty of times, but not since becoming a mommy. So here we sat, watching the movie when the Goblin shows up and my reaction (inside my head) is "AHHHHHHH!!!! That thing is scary!!!" It's hideous, really - big scary teeth, shiny dead gold eyes (see below). It occurs to me that I am a horrible mother, exposing my impressionable young boy to this terrifying creature, who is still on screen blowing things up. I start to say something along the lines of "Ooooh, bad guy, don't worry, Spider-Man is coming." When Eddie points at him and says, in a nice matter-of-fact voice "Green". Totally unfazed, just noting the color just like: "Look, Mommy. He's green." Soon enough Spidey showed up and drove off the Goblin, saved the girl, blah blah blah. As soon as the action stopped, Eddie turned around, made the sign for "more" and said "M-yan" which is what he calls Spider-Man.
I couldn't fast forward fast enough for his taste. He's got no patience, this one, and he's in trouble, I think, because he'll not see good role modeling of it here. I try to have patience, but that's tiring.
I'm going to see if Spider-Man 2 has more Spider-Man in it. There's the whole section where he decides to just be Peter Parker, so I don't know. If not, I'll have to decide which is more annoying, the Doodlebops or skipping through M-yan.
It's not easy being green.
AND then there was the Green Goblin. I have seen this movie plenty of times, but not since becoming a mommy. So here we sat, watching the movie when the Goblin shows up and my reaction (inside my head) is "AHHHHHHH!!!! That thing is scary!!!" It's hideous, really - big scary teeth, shiny dead gold eyes (see below). It occurs to me that I am a horrible mother, exposing my impressionable young boy to this terrifying creature, who is still on screen blowing things up. I start to say something along the lines of "Ooooh, bad guy, don't worry, Spider-Man is coming." When Eddie points at him and says, in a nice matter-of-fact voice "Green". Totally unfazed, just noting the color just like: "Look, Mommy. He's green." Soon enough Spidey showed up and drove off the Goblin, saved the girl, blah blah blah. As soon as the action stopped, Eddie turned around, made the sign for "more" and said "M-yan" which is what he calls Spider-Man.
I couldn't fast forward fast enough for his taste. He's got no patience, this one, and he's in trouble, I think, because he'll not see good role modeling of it here. I try to have patience, but that's tiring.
I'm going to see if Spider-Man 2 has more Spider-Man in it. There's the whole section where he decides to just be Peter Parker, so I don't know. If not, I'll have to decide which is more annoying, the Doodlebops or skipping through M-yan.
It's not easy being green.
posted by Jami @ 4/15/2007 10:26:00 PM
5 Comments:
At 9:09 AM,
Unknown said…
I've always contended the Spiderman films aren't really kid fare. Doesn't the Green Goblin get impaled on his floating flying thing in the end?
Stick with the Doodlebops, but definitely wear some earplugs...
At 3:09 PM,
Jami said…
Yes,these films are definitely for the grown-up comic book geeks, but I'd hoped it might be okay since he really wouldn't follow most of it. The Green Goblin does die in the manner you mentioned, but to Eddie, it was just theend of the fight, not even a little frightening or disturbing.
I hate the 'Bops. Sooo much.
At 6:40 PM,
Paperback Writer said…
I think it's fine that he watches Spiderman. (Yeah, you can tell what kind of mom I'll be.)
I don't remember if Spider Man 2 has more Spider Man in it. I don't think so.
By the way, when Spider Man 3 comes out are you up for going to see it?
At 6:23 PM,
Liz said…
Neither of them have enough S-man. The Doodlebops are trying to kill us, though. Higglytown Heros? They Might Be Giants sings the song! Or how about some good old Spidey cartoons? They have tons of the man in them.
At 11:48 PM,
Jami said…
PW - Absolutely. If you paint the Spidey mask on your face when we go, I'll buy your popcorn. Don't worry, we won't be taking Eddie to the theatre.
EDW - We had the same idea for the cartoon, I have TiVo looking for some now. I tried to get Eddie into Higgleytown, he's not down with it yet. We also have the TMBG dvd for kids, but it's still a little old for him.
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