‘Spider-Man 2’ remains a superhero movie milestone that gives hope to Sam Raimi’s ‘Doctor Strange’

Sam Raimi has confirmed that he will re-adapt a comic in ‘Doctor Strange: In the multiverse of Madness’, which was called to be the first horror movie in the Marvel Kinematic Universe. And it is that the director of ‘Infernal Possession’ (Evil Dead, 1981) had abandoned his beloved Spider-Man after the tepid third part. But first, he achieved what is today one of the few superhero films that can be considered a masterpiece of its genre: ‘Spider-Man 2’ (2004).

The doubts remain after the departure of Scott Derrickson, who did see the sequel to his film as a genuine horror film, but the statements of Kevin Feige, stating that it would be an adventure film, with “Some intense scenes”, I foresaw what ended up happening. Derrickson left the project due to creative differences to be replaced by Raimi, which despite its horror film heritage, is more likely to deliver lighter work, in which his humor and comic book visual inventiveness soften the darker vision planned.

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the largest gold mine in Europe is in Asturias and it is a nightmare for its neighbors

There are 487 gold deposits in Asturias and the Romans knew it. They knew it so well that the easiest way to find an accumulation of minerals is to look at the map of the left mining remains. One of them was in Tapia de Casariego, on the shores of the Cantabrian Sea.

There, under the guise of an idyllic Asturian town, hides what is possibly the largest gold mine in Europe. 300,000 kilos of gold that are the object of desire of the mining industry of half the world and the nightmare of the inhabitants of the region.

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