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Spider-Man: Homecoming' anticipation thread
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Oh, right. Yes, the article says the Avengers movies take place between his sophomore and junior years, not freshman and sophomore. My apologies.
Might be, I honestly completely forgot he was ever involved with the X-Men movie.
That's been my impression as well.
I think they said in some of the pre-release interviews that it was just two or three months later.
Hey, she could just be playing her own corpse that Tony has stuck in a glass tube in his basement for all we know!
Seriously though, given what Gwyneth Paltrow has been getting into of late with her side business (basically trading off her celebrity to sell snake oil posing as health products) I'd much rather Marvel just not do business with her any longer, storytelling be damned.
And then he took back the "official-ness" of it shortly after.
https://www.gizmodo.com.au/2017/06/tom-holland-confirms-that-peter-parker-appeared-in-iron-man-2/
You mean whack-a-doodle stuff like this? IIRC, isn't she also anti-vax and a flat-Earther?
Good. I've never been a fan of that theory.
Just curious, but why not?
As fan theories go I always thought it was a fun, relatively harmless idea myself and that was before they introduced Peter as being a protege of sorts to Stark. After the fact it seems to help reinforce what Peter's character is about.
Just a little too much "small world syndrome" involved for my taste.
They should have worked out a deal with Marvel with all Spider-man characters. Sigh. Sony owns them, Marvel provides quality content, everyone benefits. RIGHT!?!?
But that's part of the character of the Marvel Universe, that interconnectedness among the characters. And it's fairly logical. One, the Stark Expo was held in Queens, where Peter lives. Two, Peter's always loved science, so he would've probably gone to the expo. Three, the kid had the chutzpah to stand up to that killer robot, even though any sensible person would've run away. If it had been just any kid in the movie, then the odds of it randomly being Peter Parker would've been pretty low. But the behavior of that particular kid was distinctive, which is why he was in that situation at all, and it was distinctive in a way that's consistent with the personality of the future Spider-Man, whether in terms of courage or in terms of Petey's perennial bad judgment and not knowing when to leave well enough alone. So that makes it less of a coincidence for that kid to be Peter.
Nice work if you can get it. And I don't see why Marvel should ignore her for future employment because she sells "snake oil", considering RDJ's own history of greed.
I see now that Hollywood will never closely adapt the original "Spider-man" titles . . . and I mean those when Peter Parker first became Spider-man in high school, just before he became involved with Betty Brandt. I also mean those same titles when he met Gwen Stacy, Harry Osborn and Mary Jane Watson after he started college at Empire State Univ. Pity. They were the best as far as I'm concerned.
Oh I don't know, Queens can't be that big, can it?
It's not so much the greed as it is what she's doing can actively hurt people. Granted these are mostly stupid people who take pseudoscience nonsense remedies in lieu of actual medicine for very real and potentially lethal conditions, but if we went around harming people because of their lack of intelligence...well these days the likely result is that you're going to get dogpiled by secret service agents. Point is, it's deeply unethical.
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I don't mind the idea of that kid being Peter, who likes science and the age works pretty well. Funny thing is though, that kid is actually a girl. Kiana Prudhont played her. So if they ever make this connection official, then Peter Parker's MCU debut was as a female. 
Alternate take: that was actually Spider-Gwen!I don't mind the idea of that kid being Peter, who likes science and the age works pretty well. Funny thing is though, that kid is actually a girl. Kiana Prudhont played her. So if they ever make this connection official, then Peter Parker's MCU debut was as a female.
RDJ's "Greed?" You mean recognizing what he is worth to Disney and negotiating an appropriate (if seemingly exorbitant to the average person) paycheck? No one is harmed by his giant paychecks. Disney makes slightly less money than they might otherwise but benefit from a sure-thing investment. Everybody wins, they all light cigars off burning piles of cash, the end.
Paltrow on the other end is just swindling naive and ignorant people out of money. The only winners are her and her bullshit artists.
Reviews are dropping this morning, currently at 94%.
Between Wonder Woman and Homecoming, this seems to be the summer for superhero movies that just have to work because of all that's riding on them, and that fortunately turn out to be extraordinarily well-received.
Although I gotta admit, all the talk about how Homecoming is like a John Hughes film doesn't do anything for me, because I never really watched any of his films (except Ferris Bueller once and, for some reason, Home Alone), so that's not a storytelling idiom that really means anything to me.
Although I gotta admit, all the talk about how Homecoming is like a John Hughes film doesn't do anything for me, because I never really watched any of his films (except Ferris Bueller once and, for some reason, Home Alone), so that's not a storytelling idiom that really means anything to me.
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