Based on the trailer, the plot seems to be basically every Viking related TV show/movie/video game I’ve ever seen smashed together. But it has Ana Taylor Joy so I’m definitely seeing it.

Even if they tried to cast someone else, who wants that job?

Grounding Toomes in a very real setting helped sell him as the villain so much. When you see him as the leader of a gang of crooks, he’s menacing; when you see him as Liz’s suburban dad, he’s terrifying.

Imagine Michael Keaton threatening Tobey Maguire in a car-ride to the prom. You’d expect Tobey’s Peter to say, “You’ll be hearing from my attorney, sir!”

Also... his motivations are consistent! He tries to break off the fight midway because he sees the thing he wants to steal and that’s more important to him than (muah hah hah hah) beating Spider-Man.

80s Connelly, 90s Connelly, 00s Connelly, 10s Connelly, 20s Connelly.... that woman just gets better by the decade.

I really, really like that he doesn’t die at the end - he has a showdown with Spider-Man, and Spider-Man carries him away from it. None of the other movies captured the idea that Spider-Man deliberately pulls his punches.

Characters behaving stupidly isn’t the same thing as the plot being stupid.

I feel like Spiderman’s native aesthetic is close to anime (or animation in general), in the sense that he has such a sense of movement that live action versions feel plodding. The Sam Raimi movies feel too heavy to do the character justice, and they also don’t capture the playfulness of the character very well - They…

Spider-Man 2 may be arguably the best movie, but I still like Tom Holland as the best Spiderman. He seems most like a typical teenager.

AMS was wrong to retell the origin story, but there’s no way it’s worse than AMS2. Haven’t seen the most recent one, but the first two Tom Holland ones should be ahead of the first Raimi Spiderman, even if it’s the more important film.

This is such a lily white man thing to say. 

It’s an underappreciated miracle that Homecoming — a film with something like 67 credited screenwriters and an equally long list of corporate sponsors, product placements and continuity-maintaining requirements for both the MCU and Sony’s off-brand Venom-verse pictures managed to be, by and large, really quite good.

2002 is my favorite one too.

The Garfield ones were ... okay.

Much as I originally liked 1 & 2, and thought Maguire was good, for me those just don’t hold up. Yeah, there were, very few wisecracks; at one time he calls the Green Goblin “Gobby” during a fight and it’s jarring since it wasn’t a thing we’d gotten from him before. Also I really really hated the organic web thing.…

The latter is probably a better movie, but if I were to pick a Spider-Man movie to watch on a whim I’d reach for 3 first.

The “What’s up Danger” scene is a thing of pure, unadulterated beauty.

3 is a glorious fiasco while ASM is a bland, workmanlike rehash of a movie that came out only ten years before. The latter is probably a better movie, but if I were to pick a Spider-Man movie to watch on a whim I’d reach for 3 first.

I’d put Homecoming ahead of Spider-Man 1—if nothing else we need to recognize that Holland is immensely more suited for the role than the already-pushing-30-at-the-time Maguire—but it’s hard to argue with Spider-Verse and Spider-Man 2 as the top two. Now I'd just like a spin-off sitcom about the misadventures of Jake…