Film Spider-Man: Homecoming

[Hiatus]

It seems like the movie's gotten a decent amount of positive first reactions so far. This is good to see; I expected nothing less coming from Marvel.

 

[pkmin3033]

Well, let's be honest - Spiderman was the only good thing about Civil War. He made that brawl about 2/3 into the movie worth watching all by himself, so an entire movie with the same snappy dialogue is bound to be entertaining. Spiderman has always been the most light-hearted and generally human of Marvel's superheroes as well (although Deadpool is arguably more entertaining) so that should generally make good viewing material.

That aside, Homecoming does not have much to live up to, given that the only good Spiderman movie that has ever been made is Spiderman 2, and that was due almost solely to Alfred Molina's superb performance. The poor quality of the ironically-named Amazing Spiderman films would make almost anything look good by comparison.

It also doesn't appear to be an origin story. THANK GOD.

 

[Mab]

Please don't show his origin story. We've already seen it several times, we don't need to hear that stupid line about great responsibility. Besides the worry that they'll try and cram that in somehow, I'm really excited! The trailers look amazing. And yeah, it doesn't have too much to live up to haha.

 

[Hiatus]

Besides the worry that they'll try and cram that in somehow.

I could imagine a couple of ways, namely flashbacks and prequel.

 

[CidHazard]

The MCU's tone and overall philosophy, Fits The Spiderman mythos quite well so I'm coming in to it with high expectations.

Marvel's cultivated a cynical and hateful viewpoint in me after One more day... and I've hated the Spidey comics ever since. They made Peter into literally Tony Stark 2.0... I love Tony but god... Peter has his own appeal and being a Billionaire, Playboy, Philanthropist, A** Hole isn't it. Also Bring back Mary Jane dammit...

Anyway, The films has Tony as a mentor and sort off a big brother for Peter and that's neat. In the comics failed and betrayed Peter and got his Aunt killed and nearly put Mary Jane six feet under but hey... the MCU has been great with relationships and I know they won't s*** the bed with Tony and Peters relationship in the movie...

Still no Mary Jane tho... I don't know how to feel about that...

 

[Hiatus]

Something tells me there's a cameo of her, with us not knowing it is actually Mary Jane. She'll probably become main starting Homecoming 2.

 

[CidHazard]

Watching it later today... I'm going to watch it as objectively as I can...

Hope my history with the Spiderman character doesn't ruin the experience.

 

[CidHazard]

Best Spider-man movie ever...

I can't stop fangasming while watching the movie. They even perfectly adapted Iconic Spider-man scenes from the comics.

OMFGTHESUITISAMAZINGPETERREMINDSOFTHEULTIMATEVERSIONCROSSEDWITHTHE REGULARSPIDEYTHEVULTUREWASGREATTONYSTARKLIMITED AS HE WAS WAS GREAT!!! THE SUPORTINGCAST FANTASTICARGGGGG ~WHEEZE~

TLDR: Watch it its great.

 

[Hiatus]

Spoiler:

Who do we think might have bought Stark Tower? I understand many of us would want to go with Oscorp, but let's try exploring other options.

 

[Esper]

I didn't think it was possible, but they made a good Spider-Man movie.

Spoiler:

This movie was practically a comedy. Lots of funny scenes all over the place. That's how they should be making most of their superhero movies from here on out, I think. It was actually fun to watch.

The villain seemed like he'd be pretty dull from the trailers - I don't even know if he's from the comics originally or not - but he turned out to have a decent story and development that was actually relevant and tied into the rest of the story. Didn't see the reveal of him as Liz's father, though they were dropping hints all over the place.

 

[Hiatus]

Little over a month old, but I wanted to throw this in here. Fun guy!

 

[moon]

I just saw this yesterday and wow it was great! Just what a spider-man movie should always have been, not taking itself too seriously. Loved it!

 

[Mab]

Spoiler:

I really really liked this. Certainly one of my favorite MCU and probably superhero movies. It was a nice break from the huge-scale Marvel fights to see a small-scale hero and small-scale villain. It was also not at all serious and pretty funny - I really liked Stark's line "You're lucky this place has Wi-Fi kid, or you'd be toast.". My favorite scene overall might actually have been when Peter's in the car with Liz and The Vulture - that was such a tense scene and it was cool to see him gradually realize Spider-Man's identity from the clues Liz drops. It's a scene that was obviously very adapted from the Green Goblin realizing the same thing in Spider-Man 1, but that doesn't make it any less enjoyable.

My one issue isn't even really an issue with this movie, it's about how it fits into the larger Marvel context; this movie pretty much throws away the moral conflict of Civil War. Spider-Man to me seems way more like he'd be a Captain America ideology superhero from what this movie shows us of his personality. He's on Iron Man's side so Tony can give him the suit and later the Iron Spider armor as a test, but according to the laws governing superheroes - Socovia Accords or whatever they're called - the government should totally be arresting Peter, and Tony for helping him.