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dgwphotography Jul 08 2017 04:42 PM

Easily the most grounded of all of the Spider-Man movies, and the most enjoyable. It hit all of the right notes, from the opening theme, to the amount of humor, to keeping Robert Downey, Jr. from hogging the movie, to some really cool Easter eggs. I could go on and on. This movie went light on the action, and made up for it with a lot of heart. I liked this even more than Wonder Woman. Oh, and the funniest after credits scene ever.

Edgy MD Jul 15 2017 11:29 AM Re: Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017)

Yeah, this is very good. It gets Peter right, it gets Queens right, it gets teenagers right. Spider-Man, considering his long career as Marvel's top property, has a pretty weak rogues gallery. After The Green Goblin, you've got Doc Oc, Venom and ... a lot of jokers. But they've cycled through most them on the big screen already, and as they slide down, The Vulture is pretty much the highest profile remaining nemesis (goes all the way back to Amazing Spider Man #2), and he's just goofy. But they've given him a credible interpretation and backstory here, taking what's viable and reinventing the rest, and what they get is about the best they could have gotten. They've shed some of the key parts of Peter's life — Aunt May is now a middle-aged aunt, rather rather than an elderly great aunt; he lives in a walkup, rather than a little house — but they've restored some good stuff, like the internal conflicts of his high school set, and his Mets fandom is everywhere, if you look. I mostly like that they've put aside the notion that every superhero movie has to have a conflict that is a global existential threat. Spider-Man fights neighborhood crime, and that's great. And his nemesis in this movie is worse than that — he's an arms dealer — but we don't have to have the world on the line to care.

Edgy MD Jul 16 2017 06:27 PM Re: Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017)

Strange how parts of the film seemed to be aimed dead at me, with Peter getting ready to his homecoming dance to "Save It for Later" and then arriving at the dance and DJ is cranking "Space-Age Love Song." It would sort of be the temporal equivalent of me arriving at my own homecoming and the DJ blasting "Vaya con Dios" by Les Paul & Mary Ford. We middle-aged white dudes are apparently still a target market.

Vic Sage Jul 25 2017 12:15 PM Re: Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017)

i enjoyed it (shocking, i know). But they totally dispensed with the key emotional trauma that makes him spider-man... i.e., guilt. There is plenty of room for a friendly, neighborhood spider-man, all properly teenagery and such, but you can't divorce him from the reason he chose to be a hero. You don't have to dwell on it, or replay the uncle ben murder again, but some allusion to the emotional burden he carries, and the reason he's helping people instead of just wrestling for cash, is still necessary for a spider-man movie. And it's not here. That being said, the kid is good and Michael Keaton is terrific.

Benjamin Grimm Jul 25 2017 12:34 PM Re: Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017)

Vic Sage wrote: ...but some allusion to the emotional burden he carries, and the reason he's helping people instead of just wrestling for cash, is still necessary for a spider-man movie. And it's not here. That's an excellent point. Hopefully they'll touch on the great power/great responsibility thing in future films. It is a key part of who Spider-Man is and why he does what he does. But it was a very enjoyable movie nonetheless.