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Dope trailer.
You know, I have a huge gripe with the way MCU handled Spidey.
Homecoming treated him as Tony Stark’s bumbling sidekick. A shame, too, because Tom Holland isn’t half bad and Michael Keaton’s Vulture was amazing (and God knows the MCU needs good villains). And I still hope we get to see the Scorpion in action.
Far From Home made him an agent of SHIELD in all but name, and a fairly ineffective one at that. Also gave him a swarm of killer drones because plot device. Jake Gyllenhaal’s Mysterio was a pretty effective antagonist actually, but of course Tony Stark had to be involved somehow.
And now he’ll be the guys who screws up a Dr. Strange spell, Sorcerer’s Apprentice style. Really?
Which leads me into a larger point: before the MCU, Spider-Man was probably the most widely recognizable Marvel character. He does not need to be hitched to Tony Stark to be a viable movie.
Raimi’s movies did just fine because they grasped the essence of the character — the hardworking, salt-of-the-Earth, well-meaning working-class loser kid from Queens who fumbles his way through work, study, family and superheroics.
(The casting did help. Maguire, Dunst, Dafoe, Molina, Simmons, those movies are crawling — pardon the pun — with good talent.)
Now what we get is Tony Stark’s intern/heir. And all because Marvel’s executives are now Disney executives, and traded their maverick attitudes that carved out an empire into the same old risk-averse Hollywood exec bullshit.
As if goddamn Spider-Man was too much of a risk to stand on its own feet.
Fuck that shit.
You know, I have a huge gripe with the way MCU handled Spidey.
Fuck that shit.
Yes I'm one of those weirdoes who LOVES the Tobey MacGuire spidey films.
I love those films, too, of course... but Holland is by far my favorite Peter Parker.I never heard that as being weird. All of my friends and coworkers who express having a favorite Spider-Man all agree on MacGuire..Or McGuire, as we always thought it was spelled.
Qualitatively I do not see much of a difference between the Raimi Spidermans (Spidermen???) and the new ones. I think they each add something that the other was missing, but also are not complete themselves. The Amazing Spiderman was trash though. Absolute garbage.
It was just such a low effort movie.Yeah I turned Amazing Spiderman off about a half hour in, which I usually don't do. I was just not engaged at all but I couldn't put my finger on way outside of toxic mediocrity.
I think that's overreaching.You know, I have a huge gripe with the way MCU handled Spidey.
Which leads me into a larger point: before the MCU, Spider-Man was probably the most widely recognizable Marvel character. He does not need to be hitched to Tony Stark to be a viable movie.
Raimi’s movies did just fine because they grasped the essence of the character — the hardworking, salt-of-the-Earth, well-meaning working-class loser kid from Queens who fumbles his way through work, study, family and superheroics.
Now what we get is Tony Stark’s intern/heir. And all because Marvel’s executives are now Disney executives, and traded their maverick attitudes that carved out an empire into the same old risk-averse Hollywood exec bullshit.
The one thing I am worried about is that all the pent-up expectation might lead to some disappointment.355 million views in 24 hours.
Yeah I turned Amazing Spiderman off about a half hour in, which I usually don't do. I was just not engaged at all but I couldn't put my finger on way outside of toxic mediocrity.
Have you seen the Magicians? She plays the librarian, a recurring character.No Mageina Tovah?
No reason for me to watch.
That would be Twitter working as intended; if you want Marvel/Disney to sit up and listen, you’ll have to cut into the box office and merchandise sales numbers… and good luck with that.Well, Peter does say in the trailer “I can’t do this alone” meaning....
It’s wise in this day and age not to upset the fan base too much otherwise they’ll overrun Marvel’s Twitter.
Have you seen the Magicians? She plays the librarian, a recurring character.
I wasn't even aware of that, class! And I see it has Stephen Graham.Hearing good things about Venom 2. At this point just another superhero movie ian't going go do it for me.
Venom was definitely not a superhero movie. It's got super powered people in it, and while Venom does good things, he's not a hero. Plus Woody Harrelson's character is much like his character from Natural Born Killers in many respects, just tone down a little.Hearing good things about Venom 2. At this point just another superhero movie ain't going to do it for me.