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

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.)

(I know, I know, it was Silk Spectre, the Comedian, Dollar Bill, Hooded Justice, etc.)

the '70s incarnation of the Teen Titans operated out of Long Island

http://www.titanstower.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/GabrielsHorn_tt47p5.jpg

I think the 70s Defenders did too, wasn't that where Nighthawk's house was?

looking west to los angeles, it is still insane to me that they have not attempted a runaways movie, but looking at wikipedia apparently it's currently being made into a TV pilot, after a film version got lost in development hell around the time they decided to ramp up to the first Avengers movie.

AFAIK, it's past the pilot stage and was picked up by Hulu for a full series.

Hello.

My favorite scene in SPIDER-MAN: HOMECOMING shares something w/ my favorite scene in STAR TREK IV: THE VOYAGE HOME. https://t.co/U7Rs9cR1Pj

— Jordan Hoffman (@jhoffman) July 12, 2017

nice.

This movie is just a regular Easter basket.

http://io9.gizmodo.com/apparently-people-are-worshipping-the-norse-gods-again-1796887458

i loved that Kenneth Choi's Principal Morita = the same Jim Morita who was part of Cap's Howling Commandos in the first Captain America movie, hence the telegraphed war photo in his office etc

oh right! i noticed the war photo.

I didn't even think about that, since I've most recently seen him as Lewis in "Last Man on Earth."

I haven't seen the film but surely the principal would be at best his son? Assuming Marvel's World War Two still happened 70+ years ago, I mean.

ok fine his grandson then

KAREN

this was great

was thinking again today that this was probably the highest billing academic decathlon, possibly the nerdiest student competition outside of the science bowl, has ever had

lots of good times participating back in my high school days

Such a blast, incredibly slick and entertaining but also very human and relatable. Kudos for only having one large thing fall out of the sky during the climax. Shoe-in for best Spider-Man film, a contendor for best Marvel film - when done right, Spidey remains their most compelling character.

He's the only one I actually feel scared for during his adventures.

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

This was my GF's complaint too - she said she felt like she'd been babysitting for two hours.

it wasn't THAT pronounced, it's not like there was a scene where May walked in on Peter masturbating

well the final scene (which was the best part of the movie) basically was that

haha that scene was great

the man in the chair! with the headset!

Haha i totally forgot that bit