I just got to see the film today. Seems a bit late in the game to try and call out that much in the way of specifics that have almost all already been discussed in here, but just to hit a few highlights:
I'm emphatically not a fan of the Raimi films and while I liked the ASM films more, they still obviously had major issues so I was actually a bit worried about the film leaning too much on them for my taste, but it wasn't an issue at all. All the guys worked together really well. I loved Holland's Peter getting to learn about all the villains his other selves/variants have faced and to just kind of workshop with Maguire and Garfield what being Spider-man even means and what the really important things are. I even enjoyed Tobey Maguire in this movie, since much of what I always hated about his Peter Parker is kind of negated by the fact that he's now a much older, chiller guy who comes across more as a teacher/counselor than some screenwriter's extremely cringey idea of what a 'true nerd' is. (And I loved Garfield's comment about his youth pastor outfit .
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I loved that it was, at the end of the day, really Tom Holland's film. I loved that Aunt May was just as important to his journey in this movie as the flashier, more bankable multiverse characters. I loved that the whole thing was ultimately about saving the bad guys rather than destroying them. And I loved the ending with all that he gave up in order to fix his selfish mistake from the beginning of the film, though I do agree with my wife that it was not cool of him to unilaterally go back on his promise to MJ and Ned that he'd tell them everything. Not in any way unbelievable for him, though, and definitely a worthwhile and interesting choice for the story to explore, so I wouldn't change it at all.
Suffice it to say I really enjoyed the film. It isn't my favorite spider film - that title still belongs to Spider-man Homecoming - but it is the second Spider-man film that I genuinely loved without any reservations, and it's not that far behind Homecoming, either. Even after spending hours reading this thread (and some other stuff) I still haven't seen a single complaint or supposed plot hole that really bothers me or resonates with me at all, so it's just a fantastic film all told.
In the end I rated it an A+ which certainly makes it top tier MCU for me, and that's good enough to just squeak into my top five MCU films. Though if you count all MCU projects (films and series), WandaVision would knock it back off that list. But that's just because that top five selection is getting *really* difficult at this point.
I'm emphatically not a fan of the Raimi films and while I liked the ASM films more, they still obviously had major issues so I was actually a bit worried about the film leaning too much on them for my taste, but it wasn't an issue at all. All the guys worked together really well. I loved Holland's Peter getting to learn about all the villains his other selves/variants have faced and to just kind of workshop with Maguire and Garfield what being Spider-man even means and what the really important things are. I even enjoyed Tobey Maguire in this movie, since much of what I always hated about his Peter Parker is kind of negated by the fact that he's now a much older, chiller guy who comes across more as a teacher/counselor than some screenwriter's extremely cringey idea of what a 'true nerd' is. (And I loved Garfield's comment about his youth pastor outfit .
)I loved that it was, at the end of the day, really Tom Holland's film. I loved that Aunt May was just as important to his journey in this movie as the flashier, more bankable multiverse characters. I loved that the whole thing was ultimately about saving the bad guys rather than destroying them. And I loved the ending with all that he gave up in order to fix his selfish mistake from the beginning of the film, though I do agree with my wife that it was not cool of him to unilaterally go back on his promise to MJ and Ned that he'd tell them everything. Not in any way unbelievable for him, though, and definitely a worthwhile and interesting choice for the story to explore, so I wouldn't change it at all.
Suffice it to say I really enjoyed the film. It isn't my favorite spider film - that title still belongs to Spider-man Homecoming - but it is the second Spider-man film that I genuinely loved without any reservations, and it's not that far behind Homecoming, either. Even after spending hours reading this thread (and some other stuff) I still haven't seen a single complaint or supposed plot hole that really bothers me or resonates with me at all, so it's just a fantastic film all told.
In the end I rated it an A+ which certainly makes it top tier MCU for me, and that's good enough to just squeak into my top five MCU films. Though if you count all MCU projects (films and series), WandaVision would knock it back off that list. But that's just because that top five selection is getting *really* difficult at this point.
