I saw Spider-Man: No Way Home yesterday and thoroughly enjoyed it. It was great to see villains from the other Spider-Man franchises return to challenge the MCU's Peter Parker. The first half doesn't have a lot of action and some characters make some pretty stupid decisions, but all of that is forgiven as it sets up an incredible second half. I can only imagine how much more I would have enjoyed the movie if so many plot points had not been revealed in advance by a scoop hungry internet. The best part of the movie for me were the final few minutes, I love where Spider-Man is left and I really look forward to where he goes in the movies from here.
Absolutely Incredible, Get them all on Disney plus?
ReplyDeleteLooks like the plot for the next movie is right here.
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I plan to see it and THE KING'S MAN on 12/22/21. The closest thing you can get to a double feature, in my neck of the woods, what with the nearest drive-in theater now closed for the winter.*
ReplyDelete*And, yes, Mr. Greenwade, I remember that old joke about the young couple who froze to death waiting to see that particular film!
"Crawl In The Family" I love it!
ReplyDeleteMakes me wonder if the Chief Bad Buy is headquartered on Archie Bunker Hill?
Fun cover, Ross! I don't recognize the Spidey in the upper right corner, though.
ReplyDeleteI saw Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse on Thursday, and I consider it to be the second best MCU movie so far, behind only Black Panther. In fact, I'm making plans to do something that I've never, ever done before: go see the movie in the theater for a second time.
There are a couple of plot points and one (very minor) disappointment that I'd love to discuss, but I'll wait until after the end of the year (at least) to give others a chance to see it. However, I will mention, for those who haven't, that watching at least the first and fourth episodes of What If...? can put a very different perspective on the post-credit scene.
One thing that was shown in the trailers is how the special effect of "dimensional tears in space-time" is identical to what was used in Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse. I'm not wondering if the same thing will be used in future Marvel projects from Disney, such as Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness or the second seasons of Loki and What If...?
I also hope that the expansion of the Marvel Multiverse will mean that we won't have to wait too long before we get something with the Exiles. They already have two great cast members to start with, in Jamie Chung and Anya Taylor-Joy.
@Cary: Um... I don't remember that joke.
@BG: There almost as many versions of that joke as there are "fly-in-the-soup" jokes. The most recent version is from NCIS, where Ducky Mallard (in giving the cause-of-death to Gibbs) said "I'd have had more difficulty determining why a teenage couple froze to death while waiting to see a drive-in movie entitled 'Closed For The Winter.' "
ReplyDelete@Cary: Ah! I think I may have come across that joke long ago, and just not remembered it.
ReplyDeleteSpeaking of families, Ross: here's another long-lost set of siblings you can depict. The Hoods (Robin & Little Red Riding)!
ReplyDelete@Bob: The Spidey in the top right corner is a punk rocker version of Hobart "The Prowler" Brown.
ReplyDelete@Cary: Thanks! I still really don't know the character, but now I'm about as close as I can be from online info.
ReplyDelete@Ross: Like Spider-Man, Batman has had and met a plethora of alternate selves (though admittedly not nearly as many as Spidey). Maybe at some point you could combine those two sets for a cover. (If it's for a 100-page Special, I think it'd be especially interesting to match the vampire Batman with Man-Spider!)
As in, Webster Weaver the 'Mazing Man-Spider? Or Dr. Octopussycat o' Nine Tails the Superior Man-Spider?
ReplyDelete@Bob: Or Vampire-Batman (from "Red Rain") vs. Blade!
ReplyDelete@Ross: your initial description is 100% correct. The first thirty minutes were awful. Especially the banter intended-as-humorous-but-failing-miserably-at-same!
ReplyDeleteOnly when the bad guys started arriving did things start to improve, plot-and-action wise. Indeed, they were the closest thing this Spider-fan has yet seen to a silver screen version of the Sinister Six!
I will not spoil anything further.
@Carycomic: Thanks for that much, at least.
ReplyDelete@Anonymous: I also saw a matinee of the THE KING'S MAN, today! Action-packed from beginning to end. And not a cringe-worthy joke anywhere en route.
ReplyDeleteI wonder what would happen if Spider-Ham met the Big Bad Wolf from Disney's "3 Little Pigs" cartoons?
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