I also like the change-up with Flash Thompson as a character; the jerk jock is archiac as hell, so making him an intellectual rival was inspired (love the way Marc Bernardin put it, he’s a “Bully of privilege”). Plus it makes more sense that they would run in the same social circle.

Yeah, this is, impressively, the smuggest, most wannabe hipster write-up yet. Homecoming is much closer to being one of the best MCU films than “from the worst.”

Yes, thank you! It some ways it’s a very basic hero thing - risking your life to save the bad guy is sort of Heroism 101. But maybe that’s why that moment works so well - Spider-Man rushing into the flames to save the life of someone who was trying to kill him is a very earnest, unapologetically pure moment of…

Man, Homecoming was just so much better than a second attempt at a reboot has any right to be. A lot of MCU movies are great in the moment but feel more rickety after you’ve had time to think about them, but Homecoming is sort of the opposite: a lot of fun as you watch it, and then when I thought back on it later I…

largely non-memorable aerial acrobatics...its frequently lackluster action sequences

This movie really nailed Spider-Man, and the young, just staring out, high school Spider-Man. Peter Parker just wants to do right, and it’s hard work. The “moment” could just as well have been his day-in-the-life scene trying to help out around town, and getting it right maybe only 60% of the time, and his only reward…

My defining moment for this film is Spider-Man going out of his way to save Vulture’s life after their final confrontation. To me, that’s Peter Parker, a guy who would risk his life to save someone who was just trying to kill him.

The use of Cat Stevens’ “Father and Son” really works to a degree even beyond that of the other well-chosen musical moments in both films.

I love how the first movie ends by telling us that Yondu kept Quill instead of returning him to his father...and the sequel show us that this kidnapping was, inarguably, the noblest thing he’d ever done.  The movie shows us that Yondu wasn’t a *good* dad, but he knew he was the only parent Quill was going to have, and…

You know, they changed Dumbledore actors after two movies ... just saying.

I loved the fact that the end battle boiled down to a fallout between two friends.

Both villain plans in BvS and Civil War rely on implausible turn of events that said villains would have no way of foreseeing.

This is why Civil War worked so well and Batman V Superman fell so damn hard. Civil War made everything personal. The fights between Cap and Iron Man felt so real and destroying because they were friends, they had a personal edge to them. We cared about these characters and the bond they had built up over the…

Luis and Darcy would be fantastic.

I love the supporting characters in Ant-Man. Judy Greer is criminally underused (as with all things Greerish, even Archer), but Cassie Lang is seriously awesome.

Yeah this was a bizarre choice, to choose GotG as the film from which to pull the “boring villain” example from, when the movie far better represents how absurdly out-there Marvel was willing to go in their source material and resulting films. Any scene showing how crazy and crazy-funny the movie is would have been a…

I’m not sure this scene is the best “one that says something about the MCU as an ongoing blockbuster phenomenon.”Granted, I don’t have as much of a problem with MCU villains as this site does, but wouldn’t the credits sequence of Quill dancing to “Come and Get Your Love”, or virtually any of the cosmic/space…

Oh my God. I haven’t seen The Butcher Boy since I saw her on Broadway in Medea — but I think Medea, in which she murders children, was less unsettling than The Butcher Boy, so I didn’t know she was in that movie. I’ll never be able to rewatch that. 

Or, Father from The Avengers (1998), which wasn’t as bad as people remember, but still wasn’t good.

Black Dahlia was a pretty awful movie; but I still remember Shaw’s scene as a crazy relative exposed in all her corruption in the middle of the night. She upstaged everything else.