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

never trust any guy who willingly goes by the name “Mysterio” and wears a fishbowl on his head

the portrayal of high school kids on a school trip was pretty great!

I was having flashbacks to a high school orchestra trip where a couple of my classmates seemingly coupled up only to act like nothing happened when they returned. And they were two seats away from each other in the cello section!

realllly good. like the first one the cuteness of the teen humor just works so well

into the spideverse is on netflix and truly blew me away. a very deserving film, of any accolade.

This was really, really good. These Spidey movies seem to actually get the best villains aside from the Thor movies.

This was great. The fight sequences were fantastic.

I thought this was ok. They handled the villain really well, especially in the marketing and promotion, which had people double guessing the misdirection. The only thing I didn't like that much about the fight scenes is that they seemed very much like set pieces. As in literally set on and limited to one specific chunk of set, which I always find kind of cheap and cheesy.

Haha, whoops, looks like I picked the wrong credit sequence to blow off!

I do have a few questions, once more people see this and pop into the thread.

Oh we know

this was fun!

This is a good and fun movie

Post-credits sequence is spoiled by the credits - my wife and I were like “hey, when did they play The Specials?” and wait-for-it, ta-da.

lol i had the same reaction
tbf though it was guaranteed that there would be something after the final credits, endgame must be the only one out of the 23 movies that didn't do it, right? (And then they added some deleted scenes on recent runs)

MJ is a great character. Her reaction to webslinging was priceless and perfect.

Zendaya's the best

I liked this much more than I was expecting to.

this was fun! every Marvel movie is exactly as good as every other Marvel movie basically, B+

The mid- and post- credits bits are even better when contrasted with Homecoming, though

i don't even remember homecoming's end credits scenes

these seemed like the most substantive ones from a marvel movie in some time. also interesting to see jk simmons back playing a character from Raimi Spiderfilms

the homecoming end-credits was captain america making fun of you for waiting around for an end-credits scene

the other one was Michael Keaton in person not revealing Peter's identity, setting up his return in a future sequel and a little more interesting now

in prison

also can i say the #flashmob joke was so bad and groanworthy i almost loved it

we were talking about end credits scenes once and a guy I used to work with was like "oh you mean a Skeletor?" we were like what??

apparently there's an end credits scene in the old Masters of the Universe movie where Skeletor appears and says I'll get you next time He-Man ah hahaha so him and his friends started calling end credit scenes Skeletors so I think about that every time I see one

Apparently there is some sort of Fantastic Four easter egg in this?

Seems like a stretch to me

https://movieweb.com/spider-man-far-from-home-fantastic-four-easter-egg/

It's a reference to this being the final movie of Phase 3.

Just saw this- tons of fun. It was a nice capper to Endgame and Mysterio was one of the better baddies they've had in a while. Overall looked pretty nice too. After Spider-Verse I thought this would look rather poor, but they managed to take the right inspiration from it instead. The kids had a lot of charm - I actually could have gone for even more of them fucking around on the trip at the expense of some of the web-slinging.

this was fun! every Marvel movie is exactly as good as every other Marvel movie basically, B+

this was really fun, love all the teen stuff, glad someone is making fun colorful teen movies --- kinda old-fashioned in a way, like we arrive in different world cities and get little travelogue shots of them, instead of just an aerial shot and a typewriter font announcing "PRAGUE.". all the supporting players are good, the jokes are frequent and funny, and it moves along pretty quick.

however i hated all the nick fury stuff, and about 50% of the references to "tony." also this is like the eighth one of these movies about a super-powerful spy-on-anyone, kill-anyone-on-earth drone system. did tony not get around to watching The Winter Soldier, or what? anyway spider-man going overseas should be a great excuse to get away from all that and just let him be spider-man doing spider-man stuff. the concluding scenes worsen this dramatically imo - no spoilers but the status quo being set up for the next one seems to really close off a down-the-middle spider-man movie. maybe we'll have to just count on a miles morales sequel for that.

also "the blip" explanation for what happened in Endgame made noooo sense to me...not that i want this to feel even more burdened by the other movies but it was distractingly confusing. i guess they're just never going to really deal in any way with how weird that situation was/is. even in Endgame it was like one scene of paul rudd visiting a memorial, and next thing we see it's hulk signing autographs for happy children in a diner, like.... there was still a functioning economy....? they still have diners?? such a great bizarre scifi premise, or even a classic comic book way to create an alternate timeline and meet alternate versions of characters or w/e, just totally jerked around for plot purposes and disposed of.

The blip stuff made no sense to me and was barely explored, to the extent that they didn't really need to bring it up at all.

What I loved about this movie is a) the villain's crazy explanation for who he is and where he's come from is totally accepted as fact, because at this point in this world of time travel and alien invasions and Spider-man multi-verses, why not? and b) even though everyone expects the villain to be a/the villain, this movie had some serious misdirection mojo working, in that at least to me the villain's reveal as a villain *still* came as something of a surprise.

And as far as "huh?" questions for me go, I don't have many for this one! Except this: the EDITH glasses are so attuned they even know what his classmates are texting to one another in real time, you'd think they'd have an alert for "danger: disgruntled unstable former Stark employee who helped design my tech!"

Mysterio was one of the better baddies they've had in a while...

anyone with any knowledge of spiderman comics already knows this.

Fun flick, saw it today. BETTER THAN THE FIRST

That's what I was saying, even though everybody knows who the villain is I thought they still handled it well.

It’s really interesting to me that both of the MCU Spider-Man movies have Peter dealing with his own shortcomings while dealing with the results of Stark’s shortcomings. Stark is such a big shot he has no time to notice all the supervillains he enables in his wake, and Parker is a fucking teenager compelled to fight them, more or less a draftee.

You could probably write a good length piece on how both of these movies are really about the unavoidable collateral damage that results from every arms race in human history.

I mean, when he says “Avengers-level” He literally means “hundreds of people are dying all over the place rn”

You could probably write a good length piece on how both of these movies are really about the unavoidable collateral damage that results from every arms race in human history.

Or maybe the psychology of *being* the weapon.

Or how I only post stuff like that after four of those really good IPAs that look like pulp-free orange juice

NEIPAs?

NEIPAs should be the hero *and* villain of the next Spider-man movie.

_Spider-Man: Frat Beer Bust_

Maybe he can “blip” to 21 and discover getting smashed as his big second-act fuckup

anyone with any knowledge of spiderman comics already knows this.

once again, really impressed with how they make a goofy-ass Sinister Six villain both both legitimately threatening and also credibly-motivated to e.g. put a fishbowl on his head

what makes these great teen movies: NEVER trust the adults

I'm tired of Spider-Man being beholden to the MCU Iron Man legacy junk but I did chortle when they revealed what the acronym EDITH stood for

That was my favorite joke in the movie

I'm tired of Spider-Man being beholden to the MCU Iron Man legacy junk

Oh, I'm fine with the MCU stuff, just him being Iron Man's little buddy/surrogate/heir thing is what I was finding tiring

spoiler zone here, but having yet another major character be directly linked to Tony Stark was a little much