Come anticipate animated Miles Morales in SPIDER-MAN: INTO THE SPIDER-VERSE with me

Oh boy does that play out here too.

tbh I wish every remaining Marvel film would take a few notes

also I want a book of the art of this movie.

I thought it was weird that Miles' uncle kept calling himself "Biff" in the last act.

This was absolutely glorious to experience in a theater full of people who were too young to experience The Empire Strikes Back in first run

That's a damn good comparison! (When I saw it the other night there were a few teens down the row and they were definitely going through things at the end a bit.)

soooooooo good
seriously i can feel like i'm watching groundreaking animation history in real-time during these films

loved every frame of this, what an incredible, joyous extension of the events, themes and visuals of the first movie

the opening 10 mins or so on gwen’s earth are just astonishingly beautiful

I was confused about something (spoilers?) .....

So Miles lives in a world where there already is a Spider-man, but then he gets bit by a *different* radioactive spider that's been wandering around? Where did the other spider come from? Nbd, I loved this, just was a bit confused.

― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 16 December 2018 17:03 (four years ago) bookmarkflaglink

so the scene where gwen (and invisible miles) investigate the spot’s crime scene using only the word ‘shoot’ was def a reference to the scene in the wire where the bunk (and visible mcnutty) investigate a crime scene using only the word ‘fuck’, right?

a few more thoughts:

loved the spider-man 2099 flashbacks being in rick leonardi-vision

‘we call these events ASM-90s’ in reference to police captain deaths was my favourite of the many blink-and-you’ll-miss-‘em spidey nerd drops

ben reilly had me howling every time he showed up, absolutely perfect

DJP great call on the Empire allusion - that fits perfectly.

Even though there was a ton of exposition, they packaged it in an organic way that felt like fluid storytelling.

So much so that when Miles finds out he's in the wrong universe, you and Miles make the realization at the same time, but also recall the reason WHY it happened at the same time. Brief Chekhov's gun that worked exactly like it was supposed to but Miles, the other Soidermen, and the audience momentarily forget he got hit by a spider from Earth-42 so the machine was always going to send him to THAT universe

is there some significance to the three movies having the word 'Home', like names of storylines from the comics?

I think it comes down to the fact that Spider-Man was coming “home” by being incorporated into the MCU and made by Disney/Marvel’s studio, rather than a separate company. That would help explain why the first MCU-affiliated movie was subtitled “Homecoming”

Similar to Disney/Marvel getting the rights back to the FF and X-Men.

i’ll be honest i saw the story beat in neando’s spoiler tags coming as soon as miles decided on his course of action but it didn’t lessen the suspense of exactly how it was going to play out

and it was not a disappointment

Yea tbh I don't think it would have been for me either.

It's so character driven that the moments and interactions between everyone matter more than plot devices but the storytelling is game enough that that stuff works too.

I noticed something up was up when his mom's eyes were GREEN.

re: franchise name theming, it does seem (especially with hints in the latest installment) like they're teeing up for a potential "Home Alone in the Spider-Verse" crossover...

i enjoyed the confirmation that the one unshakable, foundational aspect of the spider-verse is that jk simmons is always, ALWAYS j jonah jameson

Honest question here -- who was Ziggy Marley's character again? (Seriously, he's in the cast list -- half thought he might be the bodega guy?)

he is!

And voiced by…Ziggy Marley! https://t.co/nqfVFkOMFY

— Phil Lord (@philiplord) May 28, 2023

Ha, excellent.

I had that excellent "realising at the same time" moment as well - My wife is smarter than me and pointed out that there's a big "World 42" graphic during the Go-Home machine's operation

ben reilly had me howling every time he showed up, absolutely perfect

And of course he's Andy Samberg

I want to believe they asked Bobbie Vylan to voice Hobie Brown.

anyone else completely oblivious like me and didn't realize this was two parts? My heart sank when I saw that "to be continued". (but honestly a sign of the movie's quality that 2h20m flew by so fast and that I so desperately wanted to see what happens next.) Like the first, a wonderful movie, and amazing to see on a big screen

There was press about it but I’d completely forgotten until after the movie ended

Man this is nuts, I feel like I’m the only person who very much knew this was the case going in.

Vinnie's post x2

Also can't tell if there's a Douglas Adams reference happening there or not.

i assumed that it was - not sure if it has any grounding in the comics

I read no press going in but I knew at around the 100 minute mark that they clearly weren't going to resolve this in one.

This is gonna be the first best picture Oscar winner I'll have outright skipped since Lord of the Rings.

for shame!

Last best picture winner I saw was No Country for Old Men.

Now there's a movie that could've used an animation sequence, maybe when he was outrunning the dog.

Is this chill enough for a six year old?

i took my eight year old and she loved it but a) it is long and she was getting pretty antsy by the end, especially because 2) there are a lot of long scenes that are basically just conversations about family relationships. however it is visually stimulating enough that the kid might be able to push through the talkiness

it is fairly mature but more emotionally mature than in terms of violence/sex/whatever (it's very tame on those levels - obviously there's fighting but no blood or anything too upsetting)

Man this is nuts, I feel like I’m the only person who very much knew this was the case going in.

You literally warned us in this thread in 2021! We have no excuse

Haha well there you go.

i took my daughter who turns five next week (who loves the first movie) and she was pretty enraptured by the visuals until about 30 mins from the end when she started getting a bit wriggly

i didn’t realise how long it was going in tbf, i might have thought twice otherwise

the art style when it's gwen and her dad was just astonishing

the action bits were outstanding obviously although there are so many of them, and they are so overwhelming, that i kind of can't remember any of it? like going on a great, terrifying rollercoaster, you can't even remember what happened two minutes after you get off

loved miles' mom

didn't really like the dads who can't let their kids spread their wings and be who they are yadayada i'm just beyond tired with this stuff

miles totally forgot about the cake, i guess we'll get that in pt 3

but obviously right up there with pt 1 in a separate league of their own several continents above any other comic book movie ever made obv

Also loved that the along with the obvious footage from the first two Spiderman movie series, the third one was represented by Donald Glover as the Prowler, who of course that's who he is in Homecoming

My plan to solve my 8 year old getting squirmy is to bring a second 8 year old but I don’t know if the effects cancel or amplify yet.

I hope your kid enjoys it but I know mine would be crazier with a friend there haha. incidentally in my theater in Vietnam there was a squirmy 5-6 year old who kept walking around and complaining during the movie, probably amplified by the fact that they took him to an English audio screening instead of a Vietnamese dubbed. I felt really bad for him

When my wife took our kid to see Spider-Man 3, back in 2007, he ran around the theater the whole time pretending to shoot webs and jump and climb, imitating Spider-Man in the movie. He wasn't loud about it, so as a 3-year-old, he got a pass from all the other theater-goers, I guess? I think that sounds like the ideal standard for superhero movies, and maybe there should be kids-only screenings that explicitly allow for it.

I got pretty fidgety around the last twenty minutes or so tbh. Dropped my ice cream and everything.

Damn I just love this story.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/07/movies/spider-man-across-the-spider-verse-lego.html

the art style when it's gwen and her dad was just astonishing

yeah the way the watercolours in the background start running like tears and the colours evolve as the conversation progresses was just breathtaking

i was so bowled over by the visuals in gwen's sequence at the start of the movie that i was faintly disappointed for the first couple of minutes of miles' story that it only looked gorgeous instead of revolutionary

ned's nytimes story is amazing, that kid is incredibly talented

I thought this movie was great, every frame full of greatness, but it was a little too long, especially given the way it ends. Or doesn't (which took me by surprise). Also tired of this multiverse stuff, but that's a bit shaking fist at sky at this point.