Spider-Man: Far From Home

friedshrimp said:
If there's no mention of Uncle Ben it would be sad but not surprising tho.
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Its not explicitly stated, but I've always been under the assumption (and approval) that we didn't need to be shown Uncle Ben's death. Peter talks about his motivation with an approximation( if not outright quotation, I'm not sure been a while) of WGPCGR. Spiderman is fairly well known, and we've had his live action origin twice in the last twenty years, I'm fine with us accepting Spider-Man into the MCU with out depicting it.
 
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Gwen was the only good thing about the Amazing films, so I get that. Plus MJ used the party girl thing to hide her abuse victim issues which is probably not something Disneymarvel is going to want to go into.

So clearly it's time for Betty Brant or Felicia Hardy to shine. Or hell, an entirely new character. Maybe even one like Michelle. Just don't fucking call her MJ, that's retarded.
 
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Your Weird Fetish said:
Gwen was the only good thing about the Amazing films, so I get that. Plus MJ used the party girl thing to hide her abuse victim issues which is probably not something Disneymarvel is going to want to go into.

So clearly it's time for Betty Brant or Felicia Hardy to shine. Or hell, an entirely new character. Maybe even one like Michelle. Just don't fucking call her MJ, that's exceptional.
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Sssh, shhh - don't tell them they have to make something original. That's (probably) hate speech, just like how telling people to learn how to code is sexist.

But yeah, I'd prefer them doing something new. At least keep their hands off of Felicia Hardy, if only I know they would more than likely devolve a leather-clad sexpot like Black Cat into some 400-pound fat-n-proud cat lady.
 
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Saw it yesterday with no expectations or spoilers going in, and was very pleasantly surprised. A couple of wobbly bits, but over all it was a very solid, fun movie, and only solidifies in my head Tom Holland's role as Spidey. I cannot imagine anyone else playing that role anymore.

Incidentally, there are two credit sequences. The first is fucking epic, and I highly recommend to anyone to stay and watch.

The second is so awkward, badly written and unconvincing that I am certain it was done by an entirely different creative team. I found it so shit it actually mildly soured the rest of the movie for me. I won't spoil it for anyone interested, but I will say it heavily references a certain god woman that everyone here just fucking loves.
 
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A Useless Fish said:
Saw it yesterday with no expectations or spoilers going in, and was very pleasantly surprised. A couple of wobbly bits, but over all it was a very solid, fun movie, and only solidifies in my head Tom Holland's role as Spidey. I cannot imagine anyone else playing that role anymore.

Incidentally, there are two credit sequences. The first is fucking epic, and I highly recommend to anyone to stay and watch.

The second is so awkward, badly written and unconvincing that I am certain it was done by an entirely different creative team. I found it so shit it actually mildly soured the rest of the movie for me. I won't spoil it for anyone interested, but I will say it heavily references a certain god woman that everyone here just fucking loves.
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I just went to see them online (my legs were really hurting by the end of the movie so I had to go) and first one is good, second one is utterly bullshit and reetarded
 
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a guy on cinematic universe's podcast, with a straight face, said he wants Peter to die in 2021, and have Miles replace him right away.
 
ArthurMorgan said:
a guy on cinematic universe's podcast, with a straight face, said he wants Peter to die in 2021, and have Miles replace him right away.
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It's like nobody learned anything from when Ben Reilly nearly killed Spider-Man as a franchise in the 90s.

There's a reason Miles and Gwen have been relegated to Peter's sidekicks in the new cartoon.
 
gobbogobb said:
To be fair miles is probably the only other Spider-Man apart from Peter that could hold his own franchise.
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wow that fukkin diss to The Emissary of Hell, Supaidaaman!
 
Tom Holland really is so much better as Spider-man than anyone else who's played the part. He fits into the role so well, I'm actually jealous of him, and I don't even wanna be an actor.

The movie was excellent. Thank Christ Sony's not left alone to fuck the franchise into the ground anymore.

My heart skipped a beat seeing JK Simmons brought back. Unlike Maguire and Garfield, he actually did get everything right about the character; and they figured out a way to give him a new career that made logical sense for the 21st Century, allowed him to keep his purpose in the story, and which established him as a bigger polyp in Spider-man's asshole than ever before. It's like the exact opposite of how Lucasfilm handled Luke Skywalker.

I honestly forgot there was a second post-credits scene. Captain Marvel is by far the least interesting thing in the MCU, and bringing any version of the character so late into Phase Three would've been a mistake even if they cast someone more interesting than Brie Larson: like Jessica Alba, Hayden Christensen, Kristen Stewart, Taylor Lautner, whatever the most recent hooker to sleep with Michael Bay was, or an inatimate carbon rod.

Instead, they went with an even worse idea, and retroactively added Captain Marvel to the continuity. Where the fuck was she when every prior existential threat to humanity happened in the movies? Sodomizing Amy Pascal with a strapon? Howard the Fucking Duck could've done the same shit Brie Larson did in Endgame without making the story dumber!
 
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UnKillFill said:
You addressed my secondary question, but ignored my more pressing question... If "Your friendly neighborhood Spiderman" just so happened to show up in Europe, (at a time where he is nowhere to be found in New York) While Peter Parker's high school class also happens to be in a class trip in Europe... People would totally figure out who he was.
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Exactly this was addressed in the movie, and in the best way they could've.

All of Peter's classmates are suspicious of him by the beginning of the movie, and the suspicions only grow stronger with the trip. MJ manages to score some evidence damning enough to confront Peter halfway through the movie (and she's not the only classmate who does something like this), but the evidence also ends up being proof of a far more damning plot by Mysterio to make himself the most popular superhero on the planet at the cost of thousands of massacred civilians.

Jake Gyllenhaal was great in this. Outside a small number of exceptions such as Old Man Logan, Mysterio's been a joke of a villain. Far From Home makes him extremely believable and dangerous, and the credit for that goes to Gyllenhaal. He gives just the right touch to Mysterio's con persona, to the point where you could buy his act had you not been previously aware the character was a villain in prior Marvel material; which Peter wouldn't be, so he doesn't come across like a fool for trusting the bastard.

Given that he trusted the flagrantly evil Curt Connors and Harry Osbourne in the Webb movies like a total Goddamn sap, it was a breath of fresh air.

What I liked best was how Mysterio figured out how to get his revenge on Spidey even after being thwarted and killed. The Daily Bugle is clearly disreputable, but the footage makes Peter look so bad, a large chunk of people'll now have a meaningful reason to hate him, and every single one of those people now knows his secret identity.

They should bring back Black Cat in the next movie. Whether or not Peter ends up with MJ in the end of their MCU storylines, things working out between the two of 'em, especially after Peter had his secret identity revealed to the entire world, is way too straightforward for high-school students to be capable of. Black Cat'd have way more in common with Peter, especially now that so many people'll be convinced he's an international terrorist.
 
Truthspeaker said:
Jake Gyllenhaal was great in this. Outside a small number of exceptions such as Old Man Logan, Mysterio's been a joke of a villain.
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C'mon bro. Most of Spider-Man's rogues gallery are hoods and bankrobbers. They're not world-class villains, no, but they're not jokes either. It really a detriment to the character that so many of Spider-Man's villains have been turned into scheming puppetmasters over the years (Mysterio, Chameleon, Dr. Octopus, Green Goblin, etc.).
 
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_blank_ said:
because she's supposed o be some kind of super genius (because of course she is)
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lolwhat? How did you come to that conclusion? She figured out Peter was Spider-Man the exact same way Vulture did and picked up a projector that fell on the ground because it had web on it. Those were the two "smartest" thing she did and is otherwise on par with the rest of Peter's classmates.
 
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ArthurMorgan said:
a guy on cinematic universe's podcast, with a straight face, said he wants Peter to die in 2021, and have Miles replace him right away.
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If they're going to have another long-term 10 or 15 year plan, I could see them eventually transitioning Peter Parker into taking over part of Stark Industries (I expect more "surprise" provisions in Tony's will to keep coming into effect) and bringing Miles in as the new "street-level" Spider-Man.

Spider-Man and Ironman are their most popular properties and they have a path to keep churning out movies involving them for a very long time using Miles and Peter's Stark connection.
 
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