I went and re-watched Homecoming after seeing this and they're both good, but Homecoming definitely superior. I had forgotten how menacing Keaton was. Still, the cast went a long way for me, and I found them more fun- maybe more relaxed as an ensemble- to watch this time around.
― the public eating of beans (Sparkle Motion), Monday, 15 July 2019 20:33 (four years ago) link
I mean the cast in Far from Home vs Homecoming
― the public eating of beans (Sparkle Motion), Monday, 15 July 2019 20:34 (four years ago) link
The car ride Peter takes with Keaton in Homecoming is probably the best moment of suspense filmmaking in this entire enterprise.
― Good morning, how are you, I'm (Doctor Casino), Monday, 15 July 2019 20:45 (four years ago) link
totally! I love keaton's speech - the way it's delivered and staged.
― the public eating of beans (Sparkle Motion), Monday, 15 July 2019 21:17 (four years ago) link
Ahahahahahahahaa
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/adambvary/spider-man-leaving-mcu-tom-holland-marvel-studios
― FUCK YOUR POTATO (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 20 August 2019 21:26 (four years ago) link
Good luck with yr fucken Morbius movie you absolute nutsacks.
― Amply Drizzled with Pure Luxury (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 20 August 2019 21:58 (four years ago) link
I’m sure they’ll pony up the dough
― the public eating of beans (Sparkle Motion), Wednesday, 21 August 2019 01:32 (four years ago) link
spider-man has died
― ciderpress, Wednesday, 21 August 2019 01:49 (four years ago) link
Of dysentery
― FUCK YOUR POTATO (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 21 August 2019 02:12 (four years ago) link
SONY letting Disney figure Spider-Man out for them and then walking away with Disney's ideas and not paying them for it – well, every writer, director, and animator in LA can see why that's funny, is all I'm saying.— Ben Schwartz !¡!¡ (@benschwartz_) August 21, 2019
― Simon H., Wednesday, 21 August 2019 03:25 (four years ago) link
Do u really think Sony has wrapped its head around the formula, tho, because...I'm not convinced.
― Amply Drizzled with Pure Luxury (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 21 August 2019 03:38 (four years ago) link
Venom >>>> basically all the MCU stuff I've seen tbh
― Simon H., Wednesday, 21 August 2019 03:40 (four years ago) link
i mean, no, but i respect where you're coming from on that one. it's a terrible movie but an extraordinary viewing experience.
― Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Wednesday, 21 August 2019 03:51 (four years ago) link
the latter negates the former imho
― Simon H., Wednesday, 21 August 2019 04:04 (four years ago) link
absolutely! file under "i loved this, i want to see it again, and i wouldn't recommend it to anyone"
― Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Wednesday, 21 August 2019 04:27 (four years ago) link
Venom was 40 minutes of entertainment and the rest was...a thing
― FUCK YOUR POTATO (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 21 August 2019 05:30 (four years ago) link
Venom was a barely passable airplane movie. At least I could make out what Hardy was saying most of the time in it.
― the public eating of beans (Sparkle Motion), Wednesday, 21 August 2019 05:32 (four years ago) link
Oi u in pieces bruh
― FUCK YOUR POTATO (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 21 August 2019 05:38 (four years ago) link
Simon, what percentage of the impetus for seeing Venom in the first place was the puckish, premeditated thrill of disseminating the notion that a widely-panned film was better than the entire MCU slate? 40%? 60?
― Amply Drizzled with Pure Luxury (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 21 August 2019 11:38 (four years ago) link
Venom was decent
― brigadier pudding (DJP), Wednesday, 21 August 2019 12:32 (four years ago) link
[Venom was a barely passable airplane movie. At least I could make out what Hardy was saying most of the time in it.]
^^^ Of the three leads, Riz Ahmed was the only watchable actor. Hardy's mumbled New York accent and constant "OMYGOD WHAT'S HAPPENING!?" made me yearn for Nic Cage's nuanced Johnny Blaze. Michelle Williams was low-key and seemed tranquilized. The FX were decent enough.
― the body of a spider... (scampering alpaca), Wednesday, 21 August 2019 13:11 (four years ago) link
Problem was Upgrade was the same movie but 300 times better
― FUCK YOUR POTATO (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 21 August 2019 13:36 (four years ago) link
sony pretty much made my favourite superhero movie ever with multiverse and one of my top 5 videogames ever with the ps4 spidey
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 21 August 2019 14:21 (four years ago) link
Upgrade, featuring Other Tom Hardy, was great.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 21 August 2019 14:32 (four years ago) link
Oh I way preferred venom to upgrade
― Simon H., Wednesday, 21 August 2019 14:45 (four years ago) link
God I hate Disney bootlickers on Twitter
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 21 August 2019 14:51 (four years ago) link
uh, no percent. I heard it was batshit and endearingly dumb and it was. also, Riz-as-Musk getting owned was pretty cathartic
― Simon H., Wednesday, 21 August 2019 15:02 (four years ago) link
MCU has backed itself into a corner with the entire “important people solving important problems” shtick and has jettisoned a lot of what makes comic books fun.
The Venom movie had some slapstick moments and dumb humor bits that didn’t quite land but having a character that didn’t spend the whole movie deathly afraid of losing control, because he never had it, was a nice departure. The motorcycle chase was actual fun.
― untuned mass damper (mh), Wednesday, 21 August 2019 17:26 (four years ago) link
I categorically disagree with this.
― brigadier pudding (DJP), Wednesday, 21 August 2019 17:27 (four years ago) link
Among the things I find fun in comic books:
- banter- heroes facing near-insurmountable odds- villains who operate off of deception rather than strength- reality-bending events- normal people stepping up to impossible tasks
MCU has all of this in spades, IMO
― brigadier pudding (DJP), Wednesday, 21 August 2019 17:30 (four years ago) link
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, August 21, 2019 10:51 AM (two hours ago)
wait til they find out why Spiderman isn't public domain despite being nearly 60 yrs old
― rob, Wednesday, 21 August 2019 17:51 (four years ago) link
I appreciate all of those things as well, but I need a healthy dose of joy and wonder
Unfortunately, my writing skills leave a lot to be desired so my Ghost Rider script where a number of background characters are heard to exclaim, “holy shit, that guy’s head is on fire!” is yet to be produced
― untuned mass damper (mh), Wednesday, 21 August 2019 17:51 (four years ago) link
For joy and wonder, hoping the MCU folds in the FF soon and has a Kirby-esque exploration of the Negative Zone, Blastaar, Annihilus, etc. Would be a nice precursor for the next 22 films culminating in an Annihilation Wave.
― the body of a spider... (scampering alpaca), Wednesday, 21 August 2019 17:57 (four years ago) link
rob with the key point there: most everything kirby and ub iwerks and co touched should absolutely be in the public hands by now. that it's not is one of the main reasons why we're in this weird nostalgia culture ouroboros in the first place.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 21 August 2019 19:56 (four years ago) link
^^^
also
Stan Lee's daughter sides with Sony over #SpiderMan dispute, says no one could have treated her father "worse than Marvel and Disney's executives:"https://t.co/YlQbWOv8HA pic.twitter.com/GlBdyazD7I— Comicbook.com (@ComicBook) August 22, 2019
― Simon H., Thursday, 22 August 2019 18:59 (four years ago) link
real high-quality witness there
― quelle sprocket damage (sic), Thursday, 22 August 2019 19:15 (four years ago) link
Eh, stories about her own relationship with her father haven't exactly been glowing.
ha, xpost
― Dez Tekken (Old Lunch), Thursday, 22 August 2019 19:18 (four years ago) link
is she the one that was accused of elder abuse?
― akm, Thursday, 22 August 2019 20:25 (four years ago) link
They only had one daughter. (There were many accusations of elder abuse against a variety of parties, though.)
― quelle sprocket damage (sic), Thursday, 22 August 2019 20:36 (four years ago) link
(One living daughter, I should clarify - another died three days after birth, so was not accused of committing elder abuse at the age of 69.)
― quelle sprocket damage (sic), Thursday, 22 August 2019 20:39 (four years ago) link
nice
― Simon H., Thursday, 22 August 2019 20:40 (four years ago) link
This was terrible -- depressingly terrible, i.e. hundreds of millions spent on third-rate video game effects.
And Jake wasn't nude.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 27 October 2019 13:18 (four years ago) link
Why don't you use some of those graphics to make a Jake nood video
Deepfake!
― When I am afraid, I put my toast in you (Neanderthal), Sunday, 27 October 2019 13:22 (four years ago) link
The awkward high school comedy was the best, and a couple of Jake's scenes with Hollnad (i.e. the bar scene in Italy) had real charm, but, oy, that last third.
I do not like Shouty Jake -- the Jake of Nightcrawler, although I can see the connection between the two characters: on-the-spectrum tech bro who can't handle being thwarted.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 27 October 2019 13:34 (four years ago) link
The high school comedy was much better in the first film, though. I do like that there is a real focus on high school comedy in this series, but no, this was not a good film.
― Frederik B, Sunday, 27 October 2019 15:06 (four years ago) link
Far From Home doesn’t get enough credit for the soundtrack imo.
― sound of scampo talk to me (El Tomboto), Tuesday, 11 August 2020 01:17 (three years ago) link
The Official Trailer for the third of these, with everyone that we'd heard about and a few more.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYzbalQ6Lg8
They are sending Tom Holland out to fight armed with the same joke as three and a half years ago, though ("oh, we're using our made-up names?")
― Andrew Farrell, Wednesday, 17 November 2021 10:41 (two years ago) link
I truly love the sleuthing of Brazilian twitter that has convinced people characters were digitally removed from this (or a version of) the trailer to keep some surprises. And I believe it, too!
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 17 November 2021 14:40 (two years ago) link
Hah. Probably true though - they do things like that all the time! Most obvious I can remember was that thing with the eye in Thor: Ragnarok's trailer, and more recently a costume change in Black Widow's trailer to not spoil a last act surprise.
― Nhex, Wednesday, 17 November 2021 14:48 (two years ago) link
pretty much everything about this movie smacks of desperation???
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Wednesday, 17 November 2021 14:50 (two years ago) link