okay so no spoiler tags needed anymore right? just got back from a showing of this and i thought it was pretty good:
from the get go ever since tom holland was cast, to seeing him in cap3, to this movie, i just can't be part of the bandwagon believing that he's the best spiderman/peter parker or the best choice. there's just too many things that don't sit well with me; yeah i know he's young, sounds young, looks young, but he's not as young as his character; in hollywood that doesn't matter but i also think hollywood has been casting 20~ year olds as teenagers for so long that they forgot what actual teenagers look like. and it doesn't help that the actor's age becomes more conspicuous when there are extras walking around that look much, much younger who actually are the right age.
also, if they're trying to go "harry potter" with the new spiderman they already messed up.for them to do "harry potter", they'd have to do a wide casting call from actual 14-15 year olds, from queens NY. they didn't do either, they picked a young character who looks the part enough and had acting chops before, and 4 years older than the character. that's still an age range that kids change fast. if the argument then becomes "exactly. kids grow unpredictably so they didn't want to cast a 14 year and him growing too tall would make him unfit for our vision" - well then just don't do a high school peter. just do a college aged peter because the young, vulnerable superhero trope still fits there. but whatever.
as for the rest of the cast; marisa tomei while an incredible actress just didn't seem right for the role to me. her age was an added gag they started with cap3 and continued with this movie and the whole "peter parker is much younger here so so is she" doesn't mean anything to me because i've seen takes of a spiderman in the early years of high school with a still elderly looking aunt may. joan allen would've definitely looked and played the character better. there wasn't much exposition with her either and maybe because i've never really been that close to my dad as I was to my mom that I was hoping to see more out of their relationship. this is what i enjoyed the most out of the amazing spiderman movies.
onto ned leeds, this guy doesn't look like a high school freshman or a sophomore to me and as for the character I thought he was funny but i'm not sure why they took away harry osborn as peter's best friend. it's kinda the same role they play.
flash thompson...this character along with the "
" was reinvented; i'll get to MJ later but i wasn't a fan of this interpretation of the character. aside from peter parker, it really does look like all of the supporting cast was reinvented for this spiderman story, and that's fine if that's the vision that they had, but i'm not a fan of how they handled flash. i don't mind the casting, but i mind the characterization. this guy is supposed to be on some academic decathlon but he is also a DJ calling peter penis parker was all some weird shit. i'd rather they just made an original character to be a rival to peter, instead of making flash an academic rival to peter as opposed to the jock.
umm...the vulture i thought was pretty cool. i'm not too familiar with the character so although some of his arc wasn't all that convincing and others have said spiderman didn't really "beat" him i thought he was a good enough villain for a first film in another reboot. i thought the twist at the end with him and Liz was kinda cool, I didn't see it coming and what not but I don't think it was completely necessary to have done it that way but whatever the movie went on.
saving the best thoughts for last...michelle! probably my favorite character and favorite parts of the movies. when i was watching her in the trailers i thought she was just gonna be annoying but i think she stole pretty much every scene she was in. i hope we get to see more of this character in the future. the ONE thing that bothers me about this character, just appearance wise if the "
" is more than just a reminder, is the fact that she didn't have red hair. unless of course her story will develop just like peter's and her character goes through arcs which eventually get her to decide to dye her hair red then it's all good.
overall...back before 2015 I just wanted to finally hear sony shaking disney's hands over spiderman. i thought i would be way more excited to see a spiderman film finally set in the MCU but I think this movie has been a mental note to me that comic book movies in general just doesn't hype me up like it used to. i have too many high expectations for this shit. but it doesn't matter what I think coz these movies will continue to break records and make billions of dollars.