Anticipating Spider-Man: Homecoming (and then presumably Spider-Man: Prom)

Says he loves movies...

I think more than anything else the advertising for this seems to be "this is exactly what you'd expect" - wisecracking iron man and wife-eyed kid, if you liked the 10 minutes in Civil War then you'll like this. Some weird frisson at seeing Michael Keaton do this after Birdman is about the only thing?

So reviews ran for the last few Marvel movies in high profile places like the Times a week before opening day?

And yeah, there is an audience for Spider-man in the sense that there will always be an audience for spectacle. But wasn't the point of Sony going to Marvel that the last couple of Spider-man movies showed ... maybe there isn't as much of an audience as people thought? I guess we'll see!

the fact that the first fanboy reactions contained even mild criticisms indicates to me that this is going to be a total nothing

both of the last two did well but not well enough. ASM2 actually made pretty good money but it had a big drop in its second weekend, the reviews were bad and it was obvious the public was not feeling a surge of spideymania. sony must have been looking at the numbers for the raimi trilogy, which all did really well - the public loves spidey, so we're totally in shape to do avengers-level business as a kickoff for some whole stupid spidey-verse bullshit. in that sense, yeah, not as much of an audience as people thought. but there's no reason a good spider-man movie that makes people feel good and have fun wouldn't be a successful film.

this does look kinda fun and i do really like tom holland in the role but jeez even a spider-man dork like me thinks six movies and three spider-men in 16 years is pushing it a bit

Pretty close to a rave review in The Guardian (opens in the UK today)

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/jun/29/spider-man-homecoming-review-tom-holland

still think not going with miles morales this time out was a mistake tbh

http://i166.photobucket.com/albums/u120/kingkonggodzilla/e00f3af2-ff76-4f56-8b87-c96b3d6fd2cd_zpsajnhydwd.jpg

rumor has it that this film will have Spiderman performing the "cannonball dookie"

I am still back on "wife-eyed kid"

<punches his phone>

They need to make a movie that's like Spider-Man on the Loose or something. Just follows Spider-Man around a slow day where he fucks off and messes with people.

That was like half of Spiderman 3

I would take SM3 over any MUC movie tbh

*MCU

xxp I'm talking a little different than Spider-Man 3. More like Spider-Man's chain smoking on a dirty couch for 20 minutes. Or he becomes a subway panhandler, or he gets stoned and he uses his spider web to steal some guy's sandwich and soda.

I would take SM3 over any MUC movie tbh

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I know challops are a part of ILX but c'mon

http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/spider-man-steal-drugs-east-harlem-pharmacy-article-1.3108603

Looks like someone's already making this movie, but for real

That version of Spider-Man needs to team up with the Hamburglar who was riding around Harlem throwing half-eaten burgers at people a few years ago. They'd probably have some pretty cool adventures.

SM3 is kind of a fun watch in a what the hell were they thinking way. It's infinitely preferable to the two Amazing Spider-Man movies anyway

they made too many movies too quickly is the main answer for why idgaf.

I assume the Venom movie will scratch your itch for 'spiderman-as-asshole' films?

I aint scratchin spidy's asshole

very happy with this movie
but i loved COP CAR so I kinda expected to

this was fun. kept appropriately low key instead of Extinction Level Event. though there were two beats that felt like the first Maguire Spidy.

madew $15M in previews last night, yeah they give those numbers now

i long for death

THIS is what makes you want to give up?

no, that was really Walter Mondale

Ah, the memories.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OysiLuJjHtY

This was a Very Good Spider-Man Movie!

Easily the most entertaining of these Marvel flicks in a long time.

yeah, this was excellent. we've gotten 3 excellent comic book movies this year: Logan, Wonder Woman, and this. And the common thread through all of those is that they are more grounded in the human element than these films often are. This is by far the best Spiderman movie so far (I like the first mcguire movie and the first garfield movie well enough but this beats them, even if I like holland himself a little less than either of those guys).

and going back to the top message: yes it's good to see a lot of diversity in this cast. everyone from the best friend to the principal in the school. hoping zendaya gets more to do in the next one (which I assume she will, since it's dropped that she goes by MJ at the end of the film).

also: this was written by the youngest kid from Freaks and Geeks! and it shows.

heh yup. always love seeing Martin Starr too

This was quite fun, enjoyed the last shot and the varied cast, wish Bokeem had something bigger tho

I was kind of hoping the Steve Rogers PSAs would start becoming suspiciously specific until they started directly addressing Parker

Weird seeing 80s Batman as a Spider-Man antagonist, they even briefly silhouetted his wingsuit against the moon

Montage of attempted neighbourhood crime-stopping just leading to loads of awkwardly ambiguous situations was great, except for the Stan Lee bit, when will he die, jesus

A little cruel there, considering his wife just died the other day.

I loved this. Leaned into the teenage Spidey really hard & i enjoyed the lighter tone
Keaton was great as always

Mr Veg found it disappointing but I think he just found the teen-ness annoying more than anything

I didn't care for the Spider-suit A.I. giving Peter romantic advice, but otherwise, pretty delightful. I enjoyed Ned's big moment toward the end very much. And it was great to see John Francis Daley's name in the credits at the end.

One other complaint: not enough music by Peter's fellow Queens natives the Ramones.

in addition to what everyone has said so far, A+ for making second-tier spidey baddies seem both legitimately threatening and sufficiently sympathetic to create real stakes and drama

the whole vulture reboot idea was pretty clever imo
also i liked the mixing of the characters and names of comic book characters clearly just to mess with us

rogermexico otm

I thought this was pretty smart and pretty amusingly self-aware. Loved that Martin Starr and Hannibal Burress get to play teachers, liked the "new" Aunt May, liked the casting across the board, really. Didn't really like Tony Stark, who kept popping up like a celebrity video game assistant. ("You're doing great so far, now all we have to do is blow off those doors!"). I thought this was a nice balance of "Ant-man" (waaaaaaay too light) and darker stuff (but not toooo dark). It felt like the right one of these movies at the right time, and also felt the most traditionally sequel-y, too, in that so much of it dealt with the direct repercussions of the two Avengers movies. Or at least the notion that these giant battles leave behind tons of dangerous tech. I really do hope they do some sort of Damage Control show, it'd be fun.

Smaller local stakes so scaled down appropriately, though even my daughter wondered about all the other heroes and villains throwing buses at each other across NYC. "Why is it always New York?" she asked. "Don't they have superheroes in other cities?" I should tell her about Squirrel Girl.

she's had more books in NY at this point, though

Btw, this might be the third Marvel movie so far to reference another Disney property. In Age of Ultron, Ultron sings the "Got No Strings" song from "Pinocchio," in "Civil War" Spider-man references "Empire Strikes Back" when he takes down Ant-man, and in this one Spidey and his friend are working on the Lego Death Star. I don't mind these characters living in our collective pop culture world, tbh, adds nice beats to scenes. Just an interesting effect of the merger of all these ubiquitous geek properties.

Disney do own the entirity of pop culture now tbf.

lol "our pop culture"

self aware corporate synergy

It's true. Nobody would have grown up liking Lego, Star Wars or Spider-Man if it weren't for the Disney Corporation.

Has there ever been a Long Island superhero team?

It occurred to me after watching this that in Civil War (and in the beginning of this movie), Tony Stark refers to Peter Parker as "Underoos," which makes me wonder what was on Underoos in the MCU timeline of the 70s. (The original line of Underoos, from 1977, was Superman, Batman, Shazam, Wonder Woman, Supergirl, Spider-Man, and Captain America.)