“the vast majority are self-made. A study by Ernst & Young found that nearly 90% of millionaires are likewise self-made.”

So we’re calling features on the evolution of underlying themes in a cornerstone pop culture property “term papers?”

Idk, you’re drawing parallels to the exact reason why people want to defund the police. Cool that you think they deserve a good punching but let’s figure out how they got there. People think the homeless are despicable despite situation and circumstance.

I truly believe there would be less crime if police funding went…

Are you really disappointed that someone took the time to publish substantial ideas on a cultural phenomenon, instead of another hot take on the Kanye/Davidson feud?

Everyone remembers his scene in the speedo in Casino Royale and he fills out a tux nicely, but Daniel Craig -- and I say this with love and admiration -- has the face of a bouncer at a Brixton nightclub.

*cough* Jeremy Renner *cough*

Another example of a mediocre white guy being allowed to fail upwards, perhaps?

The fact that it was just yellow cake with chocolate icing is a beautifully heartbreaking detail

You’re right, Spider-verse’s animation pops in a way that you don’t see typically in Pixar’s house style. In fact, Pixar’s style really doesn’t change a whole lot from film to film other than things getting more detailed, but they don’t really play around with it as much as they could, at least not until Incredibles 2’…

I think what puts Spider-verse over the top for me is just how invested in the visual potential of animation it is. All the stuff with Kirby dots, framerate fiddling, mixing 3d and cell shading with purely 2d-graphics, making depth with vector graphics rather than simulating focus depth, are all extremely interesting…

The best part of the “chocolate cake” scene is that it kicked off an incredibly long and surprisingly intense message board debate (I believe it was on imdb) as to whether yellow cake with chocolate frosting was or was not “chocolate cake”. 

No way on this earth is it better than Spider-Verse, though, and I’d even say it falls behind Homecoming on the list to boot.

This. The best way to make me disregard any of your other opinions is to tell me you think SM2 was the best of the MacGuire films, much less the best of the Spider-Man movies. It was a mess, Molina chewed the scenery painfully, and the plot resolution was the stupidest plan in the history of bad superhero film science.…

Thank you! I saw spider man 2 in the theater and was completely at sea as to why everyone thought it was so good. It’s... fine? I actually re-watched with my kids about a month ago, and it hasn’t aged well. It’s a solid 5/10.

It’s not even close, as much as I hold Spider-Man 2 dear (I still think I'll like it better than Holland's latest), Spider-Verse is exceptional on like 20 different levels.

At this point, Spider-Man 2 is benefitting from the 90s-kid nostalgia bubble that Space Jam - a truly horrible mess of IP exploitation - has enjoyed. I always felt that Tobey Maguire was the weak link in every one of the Raimi movies, and while I love Molina’s Doc Ock I thought the movie was more like someone doing a…

I didn't hate it, but there was a really weird scene where the landlord's daughter gave Peter some cake. So any time that movie is brought up, all I can think about is what's the deal with the cake.

Hm. I still vouch for The Incredibles as best superhero movie ever, but the case can certainly be made for Spider-verse. And that says something obvious about how animation is really the better medium for superhero stores than live-action. See also: Batman: The Animated Series and the Justice League series.

Everybody loves Spider-Man 2; it’s routinely in the discussion of all-time great superhero movies, and I hate it. I thought it was disappointing when I saw it theatrically, and I’ve since re-watched it after a box office champs post here — it still stinks! There are things it does well: it’s really sincere about the…

In my opinion Into The Spider-verse is the best by far, and quite possibly the best superhero movie ever made.  Great story and visually stunning, but above all just a joyous love letter for the source material that really gets at a spirit that none of the live action ones can touch.