our food is poison, the surveillance state put a flock/axon camera in every corner, a data center in every backyard, prices are out control, our military depleted its ammo and burned billions in iran for israel
america has always had tremendous potential. we are squandering it.
Across The Spider-Verse is about a “spider society” that treats Miles like an outsider because he doesn’t abide by the “canon events” that they deemed every Spider-Man has to go through, it is the most on the nose metaphor for toxic fans and people still don’t understand it 😭
This game's story is so good but i literally can't go back to it after SM2's gameplay. But i never wanna replay SM2 because the story is garbage so i just end up playing none of them
You know what. I am just going say something controversial.... I got more of a rivalry between Willem Dafoe's Green Goblin and Tom Holland's Spider-Man then I did him and Tobey Maguire's version.
This is what I mean when I say so much of Spider-Man discourse is driven by people wanting adaptations of the Raimi movies, rather than adaptations of the comics
MCU Spidey:
- made Vulture cool
- got Mysterio right & had him reveal Spidey’s secret identity
- had Raimi’s Goblin kill Aunt May, making him MCU Spidey’s greatest villain
- launched mutants and gave Jean more of a backstory than Fox ever did
They’re doing fine.
I think my favorite scene in the movie was when Peter innocently told MJ that it was the most fun time he'd had years later after only a few minutes of chatting with Ned while building Lego together.
I think it was a small and sweet truth about living an isolated and introverted life. Even if it was only a tiny moment it personally touched me the most and my heart melted in the cinema
Ideal mcu Spider-Man 5:
- black cat fling
- gang war (tombstone, hammerhead, Silvermane, kingpin)
- big Jean DeWolff role
- black suit (from sw) but doesn’t suspect anything yet
- daredevil
- MJ relationship still on hold, has her own thing going on
- Ned is investigator
There’s this moment in Spider-Man: Brand New Day where Spider-Man admits and apologizes for something he unwittingly did while a person was under mind-control. It’s really stuck with me. It’s the act of a good person. I hope every kid takes that with them. That’s my Peter Parker.
My honest review: it’s a good movie on its own, but a bad Spider-Man movie. I’m very disappointed with this film and with the MCU’s take on Spidey in general. Once again they didn’t give me the Spider-Man I wanted to see. Yes, we finally get better swinging and improved visuals, and Peter feels more like his comic-book counterpart - but they turned this into more of an X-Men setup than a Spider-Man movie.
What I wanted: Harry, Gwen, Black Cat, maybe Kingpin. Actual Spider-Man villains as the main threat. Maybe even a proper mention of Uncle Ben.
What I got: Jean Grey and an obscure X-Men villain who appeared in only a handful of issues as the main antagonists.
It all feels like setup for another franchise. And they should’ve moved on from Ned and maybe even MJ, bringing them back makes it feel like the series can’t evolve. Overall, very disappointing.