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First Spider-Man: Homecoming reactions
- Thread starter Biggest-Geek-Ever
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What's impressive is how Spider-Man Homecoming is really solid but only the third best comic movie this year behind Logan and Wonder Woman. And it'll likely drop to fourth or fifth.
Lol that always gets me for some reason.
broncobuster
Banned
No faith in Thor Ragnarok being great? And Kingsman 2 has tons of potential.
Caddywompus
Member
What's impressive is how Spider-Man Homecoming is really solid but only the third best comic movie this year behind Logan and Wonder Woman. And it'll likely drop to fourth or fifth.
If I flip the pizzas, Mr. Aziz will flip out...
Frozenprince
Banned
"The film skips the origin" oh thank fuck.
We've seen Uncle Ben die enough now.
We've seen Uncle Ben die enough now.
Yes. There should be a law passed to never film the origins of Spidey or Batman ever again. I don't want to see those fucking pearls hit the pavement in slow motion. Enough already.
Skipping it is genius. Thank you Kevin Feige!
One could say the film has some notable untold stories.
You think people would be tired of seeing it.
What if his death is the after-credits scene? D:
Bobby Roberts
Banned
Yes, its that risky, ambitious, truly ahead-of-its-time storytelling that superheroes are known and celebrated for throughout the decades.
It's why the most widely-recognized-to-be-legitimately-great superhero story is the one that utterly deconstructs the genre (and also the medium) because to lay bare the simple superficiality of the collective storytelling over 70+ years and ask its fans to really look at the collection of fetishes powering the machine of juvenile male power fantasy is the biggest actual risk you could take.
And since most people can't pay that risk off, and a lot of people are just fine indulging the satisfying mythological rewards that well-done superhero storytelling can provide, I'd put forth the notion that maybe "riskiness" is vastly overrated as a positive quality when it comes to these movies.
kunonabi
Member
I mean I can't stand the Raimi films but that list is all sorts of crazy. Then again, I consider ASM1 to be the best Spider-Man movie so I'm just as batty I suppose.
Glass Rebel
Member
bvs was really ahead of its time
Caddywompus
Member
broncobuster
Banned
Actual horseshit how the PS4 Spider-Man won't have the pizza and balloons.
Bobby Roberts
Banned
why you
Frozenprince
Banned
And when that story was adapted to film, it literally just became a juvenile male power fantasy. Complete with gratuitous TnA and an altered ending to delineate a "morally superior" side. And replacing the long, plodding, painful dialogue at the end with a WICKED SICK KUNG FU FIGHT.
Steve buscemi
Bobby Roberts
Banned
Frankie Muniz
Frozenprince
Banned
"It's not risky enough" has always been weird to me anyway.
Like, okay then, what the hell kind of "risk" do you want a movie about a guy who got super powers from a radioactive spider to take?
Make it a rated R horror comedy?
Like, okay then, what the hell kind of "risk" do you want a movie about a guy who got super powers from a radioactive spider to take?
Make it a rated R horror comedy?
broncobuster
Banned
When you put it that way, would you turn down an adaptation of Kraven's Last Hunt?
Sibersk Esto
Banned
Thank you
They want a bittersweet end, usually. You know, one where they day is saved and everything is fine from an outside perspective but the hero's life is fucked up in some way. It gives the drama a sense of lasting impact when everything isn't resolved by the end of the film. This doesn't work for every story, or even every superhero. I usually think this is a decent path for the 2nd film in a series instead of the 1st
Not liking his Spider-Man movies isn't slander.
Bobby Roberts
Banned
It's an interesting interpretation where the brave choice, the "risky" choice, is to make family-friendly concepts exclusionary to anyone in that family that isn't a male aged 15-54 so that people disinclined to step outside of themselves in order to enjoy entertainment not specifically aimed directly at them never have to do that.
And that's how it becomes "risky" to take Transformers and make it a five-movie, 15-hour piss-fetish murderporn series for jingoistic idiots who wanna fuck a hemi.
Frozenprince
Banned
As long as we know....
What's impressive is how Spider-Man Homecoming is really solid but only the third best comic movie this year behind Logan and Wonder Woman. And it'll likely drop to fourth or fifth.
Fun fact, that's Emily Deschanel from Bones.
It's, like, you guys keep making these great movies that critics and fans like. I wish they would take a risk for once and release a shitty movie.
Spidey will drive an Uber on the side and rent out his apartment on AirBnB though
Masterspeed
Member
Any word on the Stan Led cameo or after scene?
Frozenprince
Banned
I want one about J.J.'s issues with ED if he's not wearing a spider costume.
Have we ever seen Uncle Ben and Tony Stark in the same room together?
George Oscar Bluth II
Banned
Uncle Ben was actually a Tony Stark LMD.