TDS Time Machine | Out at the Movies with Frank DeCaro

**SPEAKER_1** (0:00)
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**SPEAKER_3** (2:00)
You're listening to Comedy Central.

**Frank DeCaro** (2:29)
The first big movie of the summer is here, And it's got legs, literally.
Director Sam Raimi's friendly neighborhood blockbuster Spider-Man has all the fun of a Marvel comic book without the stigma that comes with actually reading one. In this record-busting big-budget epic, nerdy Tobey Maguire plays nerdy Peter Parker, a shutterbug who gets bitten by a genetically altered spider on a class trip to the genetically altered spider place. And that spider bite causes some massive swelling.

**SPEAKER_6** (2:59)
Peter?

**Frank DeCaro** (3:00)
Yeah?

**SPEAKER_6** (3:01)
Are you all right?

**SPEAKER_7** (3:02)
Uh, I'm fine.

**Frank DeCaro** (3:06)
Along with a spidey six-pack, Peter gets super speed, strength, the ability to sling webs, and a certain tingling he's never felt before. Pretty soon, like any teenager, he's leaving his sticky residue all over town and growing hair on his palm.
And he's not the only one who gets a makeover. Willem Dafoe starts out as billionaire industrialist Norman Osborn, but give him the wrong can of Mountain Dew and all hell breaks loose.

**SPEAKER_8** (3:35)
Give me the promoclora paracene.

**Frank DeCaro** (3:37)
Not the promoclora paracene! Osborn Spritzer transforms him into a green goblin named Green Goblin, a super villain bent on destroying that human post-it note, Spider-Man. This armored bitch is like Margaret Hamilton on steroids.
Of course, no spider is complete without a little Miss Muffet to sit down beside. In Spider-Man, Kirsten Dunst puts the rack in a rack-nib as love interest Mary Jane Watson.

**SPEAKER_5** (4:02)
He saved my life twice, and I've never even seen his face.

**Frank DeCaro** (4:05)
Eventually, she does get the kiss of the Spider-Man, but he's a superhero, and superheroes never put out on the first movie.
So, Mary Jane never gets to find out whether Peter is an eancy-weancy spider or a daddy longlegs. Luckily, a sequel is already in the works.

**SPEAKER_5** (4:22)
It's not the right time to talk about it.

**Frank DeCaro** (4:24)
The bottom line, this bottom loved it. Back to you, Jon, my marvelous comic.
Friends, Romans, Countrymen, lend me your rears. With my toga in a bunch and my popcorn uneaten, I wholeheartedly bring you the first big movie of the summer, Gladiator, or what I call a hunky thing happened on the way to the forum. In Ridley Scott's epic throwback to the golden era of gay recruiting films, like Ben Hur, Russell Crowe plays Maximus, a general who becomes a slave, who becomes a gladiator, who becomes a permanent fixture in my fantasy life.

**SPEAKER_6** (5:03)
I'm a slave. What possible difference can I make?

**Frank DeCaro** (5:07)
What difference? I haven't thought about Matt Damon for a week.
Now, Maximus has made a mortal enemy of the backed up Commodus, played by Joaquin Phoenix. Not only did his father, Marcus Aurelius, name him after a toilet, he tried to give a crown that was rightfully his to Maximus.