Spider-Man: Far From Home (Jon Watts, July 2, 2019) Movie • Page 34

Honestly, I didn't hate this. It was mostly fine, I guess. My pretty full theater laughed a lot, & I found myself chuckling along at times. I dunno. It's all just, whatever.

Why are they so unsure what to do with this character, though?

Mysterio was such a waste. There was exactly one good sequence with the character, which was very good, making great use of illusion & confusion, but it just reminded me of what could've been.

MJ was the best part of this film. You know what would've been dope? If balancing Peter's feelings for her w/ hero-ing, instead of the Tony Stark stuff, had been the focus. You know, like in ASM2, & in SM2? It's not repetitive to be faithful to what works about the character. They can go back to high school, which is percentage wise a small piece of the mythos, but more iconic dynamics are overdone? But, clearly they bored of high school immediately anyways.

Oh. Right. MJ. I love her. A reinvention that actually feels very faithful to why the character works in the comics. I'd personally really like if they took a cue from Zendaya & let her have red hair, even though she's "Michelle," not "Mary Jane" (I wouldn't have had the thought or cared had she not done it herself on the press tour), but whatever, either way, love her. Deserves a better film.

I didn't want the aftermath of the snap addressed anywhere going forward, tbh, but the gags here from that were fun.

Why wasn't the 60s theme that was in Homecoming, & this one's trailers, in this film?

I do like the red & black he ended with a lot, but I'm still tired of that level of tech & have something else I'd wanna see next.

I still don't get why the mid credit scene is what it is. Why bring back JK as JJJ, only to make him look like that? Why are we revealing his identity? Why don't they know what to do with this character?

Gonna buy the home release & see the next one 'cause I'm obsessed, but I'm not happy about it. Spider-Verse's sequel & spinoff, Venom 2, & even Morbius are more compelling franchises right now than this "main" Spider-Man series, but whatever.

 

I mean, have either of these films understood "with great power comes great responsibility"?

It's almost as if leaving out Uncle Ben is still following this franchise, leaving it like that Biblical image of a foundationless house built on shifting sands.

 

Yes

 

Maybe they should bring in Gerry Conway & Brian Michael Bendis. And, maybe also Phil Lord & Chris Miller. Have them write the story for the next one. They'll know what to do.

 

So the JB Smoove part was probably originally written for Hannibal Burress to reprise his character, right? They're both great.

 

He's somewhat Alex Jones influenced in the PS4 game and that's a good JJJ.

 

I just watched a compilation of the best JK Simmons scenes from the first movies and damn I forgot how hilarious he was.

So, since it's the 4th of July tomorrow, my boss will sometimes send an email for everyone to go home early around 2 the day before the holiday. Crossing my fingers that it happens and then I might go for a matinee to see this :P. I'm sure I'll be fine to watch it a second time with my girlfriend on Friday. I'm just too impatient!

 

More high school news clips.

 

Far From Home has now boosted up to 94% on RT, tying Spider-Man 2.

 

Wasn’t IM2 partially due to Howard Stark being a dick as well? Family of dicks.

 

Tony may be lowkey one of the biggest villains of the MCU lol

 

Well duh, Thanos was the true protagonist of the MCU

 

can someone explain to me the (back)story between flash and his missing mother?

 

THE NIGHT MONKEY

 

Tony sucks.

 

Tony is alright from Civil War to Endgame although he still holds a grudge against Cap which is a large reason that Thanos succeeded.

 

I dunno, I thought that early scene in Endgame where he goes off on Cap was great and he had a lot of points.

 

I will not have tony slander

 

he sucks and RDJ was annoying in the role

 

It is funny how dead set these Spider-Man movies are on making a case for Tony being an awful mess of a person, while also being more interested in making Iron Man movies than Spider-Man movies.

 

RDJ and Iron Man were undercut by the MCU machine at basically every turn around after Whedon’s first Avengers/Iron Man 3. He’s a top tier actor and the character is unquestionably the richest and most dramatized in the MCU but when you have like 6 different directors and 12 different writers and the producers overseeing it all, all trying to tell the same story of one character over 11 years or whatever while staying beholden to each other, the process is inherently flawed.

The MCU is not good storytelling. It contains singular films of great storytelling, but as a whole it is a mess if you try to track a character like Iron Man’s arc beat by beat (and they’re fucking Peter Parker up pretty bad)

 

I don't think that there was great singular story telling in IM3 or Civil War, and I blame a lot of that on Tony

Haven't seen IM2 because of how poorly it was received, so I'm guessing that didn't have a great story either

 

Weird choice in this movie: Peter’s spidey-sense apparently isn’t working? But he doesn’t care? And at a crucial, climactic action scene he breathes deep and closes his eyes to “trust” his spidey-sense and everything works epically, like he’s overcome something and it plays as a triumphant moment, except... it didn’t matter in the rest of the movie at all?

This movie is bad at being a movie

 

Seeing this in fifteen minutes!

I started the day by watching a couple episodes of CW's Supergirl. Within the past hour I've seen two guys in Batman-logo shirts in two different places. The universes are battling.

 

I live for MCU fan’s favorite critic Richard Brody namedropping the Lizzie Maguire Movie as a better European set Disney film than this

Review: “Spider-Man: Far from Home” Presents the Illusion of a Good Movie