Spider-Man: No Way Home

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Loved it. Even if the thing everyone knows is happening doesn't happen for as long as I hoped and the thing I feared wouldn't happen did. If I say any more I'll spoil it but naked Jamie Foxx was a nice surprise.
 
Loved this.

Can someone please explain why the line “I’m something of a scientist myself” got such a big reaction?
 
That'll be a reference to this, which like everything else from the Raimi trilogy has been memed into oblivion by this point:
 
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Enjoyed it a lot, though it did have a positively Return of the King-esque number of false endings.

Garfield was my highlight, there was just something very joyous about him camping it up and getting to belatedly end his Spiderman days (presumably) on a nice little grace note after his own films were so famously hated.
 
This won me over eventually. I was a bit annoyed in the beginning by the amount of call back but it builds into something decent. A good closer to the trilogy but I preferred the first 2.
 
Actually now that I thought about it, I’m downgrading it to a 7

the main premise of the movie is just bad. Why is Dr. Strange doing any of this? It makes no sense. It’s nonsensical and that’s why I didn’t enjoy the first half. They dazzle you with a bit of spectacle in the end so you forget but that first half was just bad.
 
Enjoyed it, but not shit the bed amazing like some have been saying. Far too much multiverse, not enough jokes. I’m not a massive fan of Doctor Strange anyway simply because all that “mirrorverse” OTT CGI whatever the hell that is always draws me out of any story and bores me quite a bit.

I think it’s aiming for a slightly younger crowd who were kids when the Raimi films were out, because I have no particular love for those. Tobey Maguire still has the same vile effect on me too. I can’t even tell you what it is but he’s one of my all time least favourite actors.
 
Ellie said:
Like a proper idiot, today I’ve been mentally recasting the 2002 Spider-Man to make it tolerable. Either Joseph Gordon Levitt or Adam Brody would have made them 100% better.
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Adam Brody would have been brilliant. My mate's an absolute Spider-Man loon and he loves Tom Holland in the role, I think Garfield and Maguire were that bit too old and worldly.
 
I really wanted a Miles Morales cameo or at least when the other Spider-Men turned up to recreate the pointing Spider-Man meme. Something of a missed opportunity.

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Well this was an experience. Too much to unpack. I laughed and cried. The premise itself and the plot had some holes in it but my god did this pack an emotional punch. Bring on Dr Strange 2.
 
Opened with just shy of £32 million in the UK and $340 million in the US and just over $600 million worldwide. Insane numbers given the circumstances. :o
 
I had completely moved away from superhero movies etc but ended up watching this after succumbing to my offspring's pressure and I ended up LOVING IT!
Perhaps the addition of Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield played a part in this (although I never watch the Andrew Garfield Spider-Man movies) and the scenes where the 3 of them are together were great!
 
Well this was a disappointment. Nowhere near as good as the raves or the box office suggested, it was all rather tepid and at times even dull.

And another THREE films with Tom Holland and Zendaya? KEEP EM.
 
I actually agree with him for a change.

Wasn’t one of the major criticisms of Spider-Man 3 in 2007 that it had lost its focus with too many villains? How is this any different?
 
The villains were BY THE BY and I didn't care about them at all really. Also the plot is...questionable

I did find the 3x stuff EXTREMELY fun and great and joyous though
 
dUb Actually said:
The villains were BY THE BY and I didn't care about them at all really. Also the plot is...questionable

I did find the 3x stuff EXTREMELY fun and great and joyous though
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I enjoy current superhero films mostly for the comedy element rather than any actual plots. I found that part to be a bit like one of the overlong SNL sketches that was funny for 20 seconds, but seriously needed to be cut down.
 
I saw this today, it was very enjoyable! Willem Dafoe totally stole the show, what a queen of death :disco: I hope they don't introduce a new MCU version of the Goblin later, because how could anyone ever compare?
 
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COBsus of Nazareth said:
I saw this today, it was very enjoyable! Willem Dafoe totally stole the show, what a queen of death :disco: I hope they don't introduce a new MCU version of the Goblin later, because how could anyone ever compare?
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Did they de-age him like they did with Alfred? He looked almost exactly the same as he did in the first one.
 
Really not that amazing, but a decent watch. The nostalgia factor carried a lot of it I think. And LOL at the thought of Hollywood preaching to us about "villains deserve a second chance too!"

I was hoping we'd see Kirsten Dunst. I love Zendaya though.
 
Ellie said:
I’m not a massive fan of Doctor Strange anyway simply because all that “mirrorverse” OTT CGI whatever the hell that is always draws me out of any story and bores me quite a bit.
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oh agree 100% on this point. So glad he wasn’t in a lot of the film.
Really enjoyed this good mix of action, humour and the emotional bits. Loved the fact that it was really May who drive the entire films plot and made it more interesting than the standard must fight baddies and save the world was an interesting twist
 
Diddy said:
I’m really excited by this, I love the contrived and totally unnecessary effort to tie up the various reboots and make some narrative sense out of it :disco:

basically I’m weird about unfinished business so this feels good. Probably a bad idea despite this
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This DID indeed feel very good. I’m going to process it all and read your comments first
 
A TRIUMPH!

It was everything I didn't realise I wanted from a Spiderman film. The premise didn't feel contrived at all, it's not like the multiverse is a new concept and using the secret identity was sort of a neat way to pluck those particular people out. I DID wonder WHY on Earth at the end...
Peter didn't just ask Strange to wipe everyone's memory that Peter was Spiderman, rather than all knowledge that he existed - and he wasn't exactly in a rush to remind everyone like he promised, why couldn't he have told Happy when he was at the grave? That was the only bit where I didn't understand the logic, and presumably that was only to set up something later, and left the film on a bit of a sour note, despite how many thin-lipped smiles he gave himself in the epilogue.

We didn't get the Spiderman 3 melee, I think because all the baddies and Spidermans didn't have their own plotlines happening, just their stories as a group, a bit like Suicide Squad.

I thought the writing was GREAT too, lots of good laughs and comic timing throughout. A really strong core cast too, Peter, MJ and Ned have good chemistry, Peter Peter and Peter also felt like their original characters and were great together, and the baddies too. I see what people meant about "not Hollywood rehabilitating baddies..." but I didn't feel like that, mainly because their respective movies did a good job of fleshing them out - some of them victims of circumstance, others of bad choices - I don't think any of them were fundamentally evil people from the jump.

I do wonder what was supposed to happen after they go back, were they literally about to be smushed - in which case these redemptions would be rather pointless :D
Anyway they really cured some ass (:D) as far as the double reboots went, I felt we could not only check in on the Spidermans after their stories, but also give the characters and the audience some closure on them.

I cry at movies a lot these days, but weirdly I didn't when QoL Aunt May took a dirt nap, but I did when his friends found him, and the Spidermans gave their advice. I guess I'm in a minority for generally liking all three Peters, and I appreciated how Tobey and Andrew could jump back into those characters. Tobey was always a squirmy shy nerd, and Andrew was always a bit of a prick (I want him to crack my back though).

ANNIEWAYS I really loved it and I want someone to loon out with me because I'm sure I've missed a lot

And also how tacky was putting a Captain America shield on the Statue of Liberty? :D
 
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I wonder if the ending was a way to get MJ and Ned out the way for contractual reasons? But they certainly teased Ned’s involvement in the Strange series. Is Zendaya too big for this now?

I hope not, she really found a good character in this movie
 
I think it was more to give Sony an 'out' to do their own films with Holland that didn't have any MCU stuff in them, but now they've confirmed another trilogy under the co-production deal so who knows what'll happen :o
 
Diddy said:
I wonder if the ending was a way to get MJ and Ned out the way for contractual reasons? But they certainly teased Ned’s involvement in the Strange series. Is Zendaya too big for this now?

I hope not, she really found a good character in this movie
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In the comics Ned
becomes Hobgoblin
so keeping him in the series makes sense
 
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