Spider-Man: Far From Home
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andrasteBrief, non-spoilery assessment: really good fun! Holland remains a wonderful Peter Parker and his European vacation is always entertaining to watch.
- Was glad that they settled the conversation Selena and I were having about what happened to May during the snap. On the one hand, this is much less angsty than her spending five years thinking Peter was dead. On the other: oh no, their apartment! Lovely to see her helping other people who were also displaced. I still want to see more about the tangled implications of the Snap or the Blip or whatever they're calling it - inheritance law has to be a nightmare about now.
- Thoughtful of the Gauntlet to make sure Peter, Ned, MJ, Betty and Flash are all still sixteen. Was entertained by Brad's subplot.
- Gosh, this was a pretty movie. Maybe not as visually striking as Doctor Strange, but between Mysterio's special effects and the many gorgeous shots of various European locations, it's easily one of the nicest MCU films to look at.
- I love that Ned spontaneously invented an entire imaginary European Spider-Man rip-off in the middle of all this. I guess people are going to be wondering whatever happened to Night Monkey forever now.
- Loved the Hydro-Man Easter egg! If Morris Bench ever shows up in New York after this, Peter is going to be trying to find the drones while he indignantly explains that he is a real supervillain, thank you very much.
- I would not have expected that the thing to finally get me to shed a tear over Tony Stark's death would be Peter putting his arm into that hologram, but it was. Not that his death and funeral scenes in Endgame weren't sad, but they felt so appropriate for the film and the character that I felt more satisfied than upset. But give me Peter not realising how much like Tony and Happy having feelings about it and suddenly the screen is all blurry.
- And on a completely different emotional note, I love the fact that the thing Happy knows about Peter that nobody else would is 'you rented an adult film in Germany and I did you a solid by not telling anyone.'
- I enjoyed Gyllenhall's performance as Mysterio a lot. He's just plausible enough while playing hero that I could believe that Peter believed him. (And to be fair to Peter, it's not like his story was actually more implausible than 'he's from space. He's here to steal a necklace from a wizard.') I also love that in this universe he has a good excuse for the fish-bowl helmet, even though he eventually learns why it's a dumb idea to wear glass near your face and then make people want to hit you.
- I did, however, have serious issues believing that FURY bought Beck's story, and spent the entire film waiting for the other shoe to drop. Needless to say, I was not disappointed in the end. It is indeed embarrassing that Talos, of all people, did not figure this one out on his own.
- I totally ship Peter's neurotic teachers with each other. I mean, Mr. Harrington's wife pretended to be blipped and ran off with some guy from her hiking group, obviously the only thing to do is seek consolation elsewhere. (Mr. Harrington is extremely amusing to me, in part because I had an actual high school teacher with that name. I think mine would have been a lot calmer in a crisis, although to be fair none of our excursion disasters ever involved an actual supervillain.)
- I am certainly interested to see where we are going with that other cliffhanger! Pleased that J. Jonah finally exists and glad that he has a pretty good reason to believe that Spider-Man is a menace, at least initially. I wonder if the next film is going to pick up right after this one?
- Reasons to love inter-connected nature of the MCU: the random underling Obadiah Stane yelled at way back when eventually survives long enough to get a name, work as an underling for another supervillain and ruin Peter Parker's life. Perfect.
- Was glad that they settled the conversation Selena and I were having about what happened to May during the snap. On the one hand, this is much less angsty than her spending five years thinking Peter was dead. On the other: oh no, their apartment! Lovely to see her helping other people who were also displaced. I still want to see more about the tangled implications of the Snap or the Blip or whatever they're calling it - inheritance law has to be a nightmare about now.
- Thoughtful of the Gauntlet to make sure Peter, Ned, MJ, Betty and Flash are all still sixteen. Was entertained by Brad's subplot.
- Gosh, this was a pretty movie. Maybe not as visually striking as Doctor Strange, but between Mysterio's special effects and the many gorgeous shots of various European locations, it's easily one of the nicest MCU films to look at.
- I love that Ned spontaneously invented an entire imaginary European Spider-Man rip-off in the middle of all this. I guess people are going to be wondering whatever happened to Night Monkey forever now.
- Loved the Hydro-Man Easter egg! If Morris Bench ever shows up in New York after this, Peter is going to be trying to find the drones while he indignantly explains that he is a real supervillain, thank you very much.
- I would not have expected that the thing to finally get me to shed a tear over Tony Stark's death would be Peter putting his arm into that hologram, but it was. Not that his death and funeral scenes in Endgame weren't sad, but they felt so appropriate for the film and the character that I felt more satisfied than upset. But give me Peter not realising how much like Tony and Happy having feelings about it and suddenly the screen is all blurry.
- And on a completely different emotional note, I love the fact that the thing Happy knows about Peter that nobody else would is 'you rented an adult film in Germany and I did you a solid by not telling anyone.'
- I enjoyed Gyllenhall's performance as Mysterio a lot. He's just plausible enough while playing hero that I could believe that Peter believed him. (And to be fair to Peter, it's not like his story was actually more implausible than 'he's from space. He's here to steal a necklace from a wizard.') I also love that in this universe he has a good excuse for the fish-bowl helmet, even though he eventually learns why it's a dumb idea to wear glass near your face and then make people want to hit you.
- I did, however, have serious issues believing that FURY bought Beck's story, and spent the entire film waiting for the other shoe to drop. Needless to say, I was not disappointed in the end. It is indeed embarrassing that Talos, of all people, did not figure this one out on his own.
- I totally ship Peter's neurotic teachers with each other. I mean, Mr. Harrington's wife pretended to be blipped and ran off with some guy from her hiking group, obviously the only thing to do is seek consolation elsewhere. (Mr. Harrington is extremely amusing to me, in part because I had an actual high school teacher with that name. I think mine would have been a lot calmer in a crisis, although to be fair none of our excursion disasters ever involved an actual supervillain.)
- I am certainly interested to see where we are going with that other cliffhanger! Pleased that J. Jonah finally exists and glad that he has a pretty good reason to believe that Spider-Man is a menace, at least initially. I wonder if the next film is going to pick up right after this one?
- Reasons to love inter-connected nature of the MCU: the random underling Obadiah Stane yelled at way back when eventually survives long enough to get a name, work as an underling for another supervillain and ruin Peter Parker's life. Perfect.
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Date: 2019-07-13 01:53 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2019-07-14 12:17 am (UTC)Thank you!
Being Spider-Man is hard in every universe. (Just ask the entire cast of Into the Spider-Verse ...)