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Spider-Man: Far From Home

I don't know which made my pee-pee harder: When Peter said "I think Nick Fury just hijacked our school trip" or when I realized the Big Bad was an amaze-a-balls looking Mysterio.
 
I just realized: this, like Captain Marvel, takes place before Infinity War. So no need to explain how all we are is not dust in the wind. ;)
 
^^Don't be greedy. You don't get any more Spider-Man until you finish the Spider-Man that's on your plate, young man. There are starving children in Africa who would be grateful to have any Spider-Man at all!
 
I’ve seen it!

It was quite a heartwarming tale on the whole. Lots of twists and turns (some predictable but in a satisfying way) and a lot of development in Peter’s circumstances. Good action scenes and some nice development of supporting characters. And the set up for the next movie is intriguing.

Tom Holland would make a great Marty McFly should they remake Back to the Future for some reason.
 
I saw it today, thought it was really good. It improved on all the areas where I had problems with Homecoming (which was pretty good, but I had some problems!) For example I was a bit worried about how it would integrate the larger MCU into a Spider-Man story. Homecoming turned into an Iron Man movie for a couple of scenes, but this one always felt like a (MCU) Spider-Man movie (not as individual as the Raimi movies but you wouldn't mistake it for Iron Man 4 or anything.) I found Happy a bit annoying in Homecoming but he was actually good here. All the "Blip" stuff was actually done really well at it kept the same tone as the rest of the movie. Starting with the crappy highschool tribute to the dead Avengers was a really smart move. And they even touched on the more serious side of it a little with May doing a benefit for displaced people and that teacher talking about having a funeral for his wife who'd actually just ran out on him.

Action scenes were much improved from Homecoming too: no fight scenes on a cloaked airplane at night! The scene where Myseterio beat up Spider-Man with illusions was amazing, one of the best comic book action scenes the MCU has done.

Tom Holland and Future Presidemt of Earth Zendaya were great at the teenage awkwardness. Ned and Betty were funny with their weird romance. Gyllenhaal made a very good villain, I liked that he wasn't crazy or have anything really sympathetic about him, he was just a good old fashioned asshole supervillain.

I liked that it was a story about "fake news" but nobody ever said the overused phrase "fake news" at any point. Bringing J.K. Simmons back is fanservice, sure (and it sure serviced this fan!) but turning him into an Alex Jones-like figure was a great twist on the character.

I wonder if someone noticed that they'd written Nick Fury slightly out of character (he seemed too harsh to Peter and incompetent) so came up with the Skrull twist after the credits to explain it? That would be a clecer solution!

MINOR COMPLAINTS: May didn't do much. Mysterio dying is disappinting (but if they really wanted to I'm sure they could bring him back.) Maria Hill being a Skrull too means she hasn't really done anything since Agoe of Ultron four years ago (and all she did there was shoot one Ultron drone.) There's been too many MCU villains with a personal grudge against Tony Startk, though Mysterio was probably the best of them so it's not a huge complaint.

It was good I liked it.
 
Yes I found this film to be a good follow-up to Homecoming, which was also good. Jake Gyllenhaal was probably the standout, and the (although somewhat obvious) turn in his character was really good. It was good that they actually had some follow-up on how messed up the events of Infinity War and Endgame actually were, even if it's a massive coincidence that all the main characters in these films all got snapped out of existence so they're all the same age.

I guess they had the Skrull twist because they wanted Nick Fury to get fooled by Mysterio for the whole film but then someone said "We can't have Nick Fury look stupid, but also Samuel L. Jackson sells tickets" so hey it was just a fake Nick Fury.

Overall I liked it and it was fun and probably more enjoyable than Homecoming??? Maybe.



But boy do these films have a fucked up relationship of Tony Stark. Like, everyone in this film (apart from Mysterio and his gang) hero worships Tony Stark to an insane degree, but also this film says that, hey, actually, Tony Stark developed a worldwide drone network that can instantly kill literally any human being just by looking at them. And then gives it to a teenager.

That sort of weapon is what supervillains make! It's literally what Hydra were making in The Winter Solider! One of the main themes of these films is that Peter is trying to be like "Tony Start but better", but a good way to show that would have been him destroying EDITH at the end of the film, as one person having that much power is insane and it's actually kind of fucked up that Tony Start would build something like that in the first place, but they just never really bring it up and instead treat it as a joke that Peter almost kills a classmate via drone strike because Tony Stark gave him that power.

This is also combined with the fact that, like the first film, the villain has actually legitimate reasons to be mad at Tony Stark which the film never actually properly addresses or comments on. Like Mysterio and a whole bunch of other people are mad at Tony Stark for doing some really shitty things and all Spider-Man (and therefore, the film) can say in response is "DON'T KILL PEOPLE, IT'S BAD TO KILL PEOPLE".

Basically it's really weird that Tony Stark is essentially the biggest villain of the MCU and no one ever really notices or addresses it except for on an extremely surface level.
 
Yeah well Erik Selvig's got his own tv show now.

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Finally saw it today.

So May got snapped and came back to someone else living in her apartment.

Did the new owners wonder why there was a bunch of spiderman suits there?
 
I might watch this tonight. I really enjoyed Homecoming. Thanks whoever is responsible between Sony and Marvel for fucking up what looks like it would have been a well-deserved trilogy.
 
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