Spider-Man: Brand New Day

Decent direction?! In MY spider man movie??

Yeah suprisingly this looks decent. I mean it doesn't look great but there is a hint of an actual person behind the film. It can look like spider man lotus a few times but I'll take this over jon watts pussy ass.

I think its still missing a few things to reach greatness but i think its the first good live action spider man in like 20 years. I think sometimes a lot of the sidecharacters feel useless like jon berthal's punisher. He is fine but after that punisher special, which, is one of the worst things the mcu has done i'll take anything with his character even if he adds nothing of value like the massive bum that he is.

I like new hulk action even tho i kinda hate this version of hulk. Bruce is actually a decent character but hulk is a character in of itself and i think he is much more then the one note mindless beast that they portray him as and if anything, in various iteration or most of them besides his cinematic efforts has shown him with some intelligence.

Its no suprise who Sadie sink played, I think her character fits into Peter's arc of loss and moving on. I think she could've had a bit more scenes because I kinda hate the fake ass mystery shit. All in all brand new day, while not reaching actual greatness is direction the character needed from the beginning.

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Much like Peter Parker's agony, I am in agony trying to decide where Spider-Man Brand New Day lands in my MCU movie ranking.

The thing I love most about the Tom Holland Spider-Man movies has always been the coming of age stuff: the Peter/MJ/Ned friendship, my girl BETTY BRANT, the teachers, Flash, all of that. That stuff is (mostly) GONE! They (technically) aren't kids anymore! They are young adults, and Peter is (understandably) DEPRESSED.

So overall, yeah, this is not as much of a GOOD TIME as Michael Keaton driving to the prom, being charmed by Jake Gyllenhaal, or doing the pointing meme with Toby Maguire and Andrew Garfield, and that is okay. The screentime balance between the various characters and their plotlines is solid, and the Peter/Frank relationship is a new and fun dynamic. I am glad they didn't go wild with the multiverse or do anything wacky. Also I will compliment them on almost all of the trailer footage being in the first half hour, so they spoiled very little.

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