Great film and probably challenges for the top spot in the MCU for me. Will need to see it again to make sure.
I can't stress how refreshing it was to have a grounded, street level super hero flick again, without a giant monster/alien or a big colorful CGI fest with city-wide destruction at the end.
There were so many small things about living in a world with super heroes that they tackled, both from the criminals and Spidey's POV. They answered a bunch of "what would happen if" questions for me, and spent a lot of time fleshing out stuff that comic book movies, especially Spider-man films, tend to skim through. It really felt like someone watched all of the Spidey films, jotted down what wasn't covered, and said lets build a film around that, rather than trying to hit big moment after big moment. The small moments were really fun to watch, like how boring and uneventful it can be as as street level hero, especially in the New York of 2017, that's nowhere hear as crime ridden as the 80s. I always felt like going around looking for crime might be really hard, and they touched on that, even to the point of Spidey fukking up by looking into what wasn't there.
I don't watch the Netflix shows so I have no idea how much they touch on it, but I loved the core business of The Vulture, and how it's seen as small time stuff by the heavy hitters in the Avengers, and that is what makes the criminals feel comfortable enough to work in that small bubble.
I'm not a Spider-man purist like many in here, so I also enjoyed how much he got his ass kicked and failed. He's still a kid, he's still learning, he's overconfident at times, and he's afraid at times. It made almost mundane moments for him exciting to watch, like scaling something really tall. I even liked how Tony had his stamp all over him, which I know many Spidey fans hate. But for me, it all made his little moments of heroism more enjoyable, as well as at least two of the decisions he makes towards the end that highlight who he is without Tony's help. Tony, and the world of the MCU, was really implemented well overall.
I also was really feeling Michael Keaton's performance. He felt like a blue collar version of Walter White, with a motivation I could fukk with that wasn't about world destruction. And just focusing on the action, his suit was devastating in a way I didn't expect. All of the villains really packed a punch, which again was refreshing to see since I was expecting them to be pushovers because they weren't giant aliens with magic powers. So yeah, they really nailed the villain(s) this time around.
School stuff was dope, Aunt May stuff was dope, Donald Glover, dope, Hannibal Burress, dope, Karren, dope. Dope shyt left and right, really.
On first watch, I'm feeling a very enthusiastic 9/10.
It wasn't built by sla..
thats pretty shaky.
