Spider-Man: Far From Home (Jon Watts, July 2, 2019) Movie • Page 35

I thought this was highly entertaining and it delivered on what I wanted most out of it - awkward high schoolers being awkward high schoolers. This wasn’t Jake’s best acting but he took the spotlight in every scene that he was part of.

If the scene dealing with Peter trying to erase the photo on Brad’s phone was removed it would have benefitted the film. The entire scene was cringe.

 

Absolutely love this. A genuinely enjoyable romp with some visually stunning moments and those post credit scenes popped me like none other.

Spider-Man felt like he finally arrived as a proper superhero. He finally felt like a big deal during the end sequence and they’ve done an awesome job at putting him up there as one of the best and most important characters in this universe. Which was something I was worried about considering how big a set of shoes RDJ, Evans and SJ (I know she has her solo film, but I think she definitely done after that) have left.

And Tom Holland was born to play this role. Easily the best on screen version of Peter Parker there’s been.

 

was there a post credit scene or just a mid credit scene? if so what was it? it was after 1 am and i was sleepy

 

There was both.

 

what was it lol

 

This movie was really entertaining. Every scene with Mysterio was 10/10. I liked Peter a lot more in this than Homecoming. The action was good. The scene of Mysterio projecting illusions on Peter might be my favorite spider-man scene from any film. I don’t see how anyone could hate this unless they went in hating it.

 

1) JK Simmons as JJJ showing a clip of Mysterio revealing Spider-Man’s identity as Peter Parker and making it appear that he was the bad guy in the London attack.

2) Nick Fury and Hill were actually Talos and another Skrull while Fury was on vacation on a Skrull ship.

 

A couple things I liked, lots of yikes though too.

 

Aside from some cool effects for the illusions, why did this look so bland? Marvel has its issues but this didn’t even look like a Marvel movie either, is that because of Sony? For example, when he fields questions from reporters at that fundraiser in the beginning, it was laughably bad. Felt like an entirely different director too which was odd.

 

Agreed on this one

 

Venom looked really good, so I wouldn't put it on Sony.

 

I thought the scene where they had an adult woman tell a high schooler to remove their clothes was truly cinematic. I was inspired.

 

One of the dumbest scenes in the MCU

 

I’d say this might currently be my favorite SM film solely because of Mysterio

 

Kind of a mess, and not what I personally would've closed out phase 3 with, but I really enjoyed it. Tom, Zendaya, and Jake were great.

 

There was some talk about how this movie would deal with the effects of Thanos’ snap, but all it did was joke about it and then after like 35 minutes into the movie, apart from Tony Stark being dead, the Blip could have not have happened at all and nothing would be different

The basketball/band blip joke did make me laugh.

 

The basketball clip was terrible. Did the person who did not get snapped just happen to be recording from the same position and angle after five years?

 

I really don't care, tbh. I don't want explanations for how it all works. I just want good gags, & that's a good gag. *shrug*

 

What I really want, which they will NOT commit to, is for the next film to be Peter on the run from the authorities. Take loose inspiration from that "Back in Black" era between Civil War & One More Day (but not too much, lol), maybe even giving him the actual black costume we have yet to see anywhere in a film. Maybe even borrowing from that awesome Sensational Spider-Man Annual by Matt Fraction & Salvador Larroca:


I know that wouldn't make that much sense when SHIELD was on his side in this whole Mysterio thing, but whatever. Maybe SHIELD is limited in how much they can help Peter? These movies stretch narrative continuity all the time. Just do whatever will make an actually good movie.

And, who do I wanna see as the villain?

J. Jonah Jameson.

Specifically, take from the Ditko era, where Jonah was surprisingly villainous ('cause it was children's entertainment). Have him behind the creation of the Scorpion, & also a Spider-Slayer. Have it all culminate in a personal, dramatic confrontation between Peter & Jonah.

Will they ever do that? Of course not. They'll just continue turning Peter in Junior Iron Man, & it'll be super dull. But, if they did...

 

It’s nothing that will take me out of the movie. I just felt like it could have been handled better with a news report showing street cameras catching people reappear or something if they felt like there needed to be footage at all. A news anchor covering it would have worked.

Realistically, something like the snap would take decades to adjust to and I know the next 30 Marvel movies can’t and shouldn’t focus on people adapting to that.

 

Ok lets all CALM DOWN

 

The Spider-Man threads are always the best space for Marvel-related hot takes and I appreciate that even if I don't have any of my own.

 

Honestly don’t understand the random RDJ/Iron Man hate. He’s arguably had the best character arc and RDJ is a solid actor.

 

Only thing that irked me was probably my friends over hyping the movie “the post credits scene changes the MCU in a massive way forever!” I thought we were going multiverse or X-MEN but instead its Spider-Man: Civil War lol (which I have to believe is the next movie we see Spidey in?)

 

Mysterio was cool as hell tho