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[Krombopulos_Michael]

I like spider-man, but at this point Marvel movies are becoming so formulaic and stale. The best word to describe MCU movies at this point is "shallow" especially compared to movies like Logan. I really hope Marvel will soon take a risk and deviate from the "snarky superhero beats up bad guys for two hours with no thematic purpose" formula that we have seen over and over. Doesn't seem like this one deviates much unfortunately.

 

[Lifejumper]

But does it take RISKS?

 

[Primethius]

The less you get what you want, the more I get what I want.

So obviously this movie will be fantastic.

Yep!

 

[vaderise]

Jeremy rated it

Spoiler

Awesometacular.

What i really want to see is MovieBob's review. Guy is a huge fan of Spidey and Raimi movies.

 

[Kyne]

let's

fuckin'

go

 

[SpaceWolf]

Ehrlich is a great critic, one of my faves, but damn does he hate tentpoles and superhero flicks.

Ehrlich is a good reviewer who can be discerning when it comes to the MCU, although he's liked the last few.

Scott Mendelson is the real final boss.

 

[Kurdel]

I'm seeing youtube thumbnails of people doing the webshooting pose

god help me

Youtube was a mistake

 

[vio]

That... sounds exactly like a MCU movie.

dontknowhatiexpected.gif

 

[Yager]

It was ?

"Fun" in the same way that getting a tooth pulled is.

That's the funny part about that word being some negative. Most any good movie is fun. The Dark Knight trilogy was fun.



SS was the "hey, fellow kids" of movies trying to be fun.

Ergo, it didn't work.

Guys, guys, I know, I just wanna get that shit out of the way quickly so we can focus on the reviews for this movie alone.

Spoiler

Which of course won't happen

Spoiler

BvS was fun too.

 

[GAMEPROFF]

90 RT Score!

 

[MugiwaraCole]

Ok, now what's your reaction to this one:

He's gonna ignore this lol

 

[George Oscar Bluth II]

What is the signficance of this? Unusually low or unusually high?

Ehrlich is a great critic, one of my faves, but damn does he hate tentpoles and superhero flicks.

This here ^

 

[jon bones]

Ehrlich is a good reviewer who can be discerning when it comes to the MCU, although he's liked the last few.

Scott Mendelson is the real final boss.

what publication is he from?

 

[Loris146]

90 RT Score!

93 right now.

 

[Bronx-Man]

So it's another empty vanilla ass Marvel film. Thanks for letting me know.

You'll get your scowls and neck-snapping fill in 5 months, don't worry.

 

[Blader]

I like spider-man, but at this point Marvel movies are becoming so formulaic and stale. The best word to describe MCU movies at this point is "shallow" especially compared to movies like Logan. I really hope Marvel will soon take a risk and deviate from the "snarky superhero beats up bad guys for two hours with no thematic purpose" formula that we have seen over and over. Doesn't seem like this one deviates much unfortunately.

Logan works as well as it does because it has 17 years of history behind it and is deliberately written as the last Wolverine story (or at least, the last Hugh Jackman Wolverine story). It's pretty unrealistic to expect that of every superhero movie...especially one that's rebooting a franchise!

 

[Tobor]

While the Marvel Netflix series have touted their identity as “street-level heroes,” the Spider-Man of Spider-Man: Homecoming feels like a better realization of that promise. He’s still got superpowers, and he’s working against a powerful villain that can wreak havoc, but Watts always wants us to know that this Spider-Man lives among us. He’s not a billionaire or a demigod or a super soldier. He has superpowers, but he’s also visiting his local bodega and swinging through the suburbs. Homecoming is a movie that emphasizes the “neighborhood” part of “friendly neighborhood Spider-Man.”

Yesssssssssssss!!!!!!

 

[Baroquemantic]

Never had any doubt about this being great once the MCU deal was announced.

 

[MugiwaraCole]

A Justice League movie is gonna be the most disappointing comic book movie of the year, isn't it?

 

[DecoReturns]

You guys should just ignore Ahasverus.

Anyways. Should be a fun time at the movies and taking my sister for her birthday to watch it. She's a huge spider man fan.

 

[phanphare]

Yesssssssssssss!!!!!!

that's what I like to hear

 

[Yager]

You'll get your scowls and neck-snapping fill in 5 months, don't worry.

Can't fucking wait.

But seriously, why do people still get into arguments with Aha? He's a nice dude and FUN to read, don't take him too seriously.

 

[Slayven]

"It doesn't have dramatic worth, or a great story, or is remarkable in any sense.. but it's FUN, like, it has HUMOR which is so UNIQUE, 9/10 the future of super hero movies".

Give me a break. Spider-Man is one of those characters that have like lots of material to take inspiration from to make a legit great story, be it on high school or adult setting, you name it. But Disney genericness knows no bounds.

I'd rather have another Sony movie.

And sadly it didn't prove me wrong.

You really complaining that a Spiderman Movie has Fun, and Humor?

Am I taking crazy pills?

 

[vaderise]

Up to %94!

 

[Kouichi]

I never had any doubt in Marvel Studios. This is going to be the Spider-man movie I've always wanted.

 

[HStallion]

93 right now.

94 now

 

[Staf]

Seeing the word joyous to describe the movie in a review is enough to make me excited.

 

[Lifejumper]

Prob gonna settle mid 80s. Nice.

 

[MugiwaraCole]

94 now

Guys, pls. I'm already erect.

 

[Ahasverus]

Ok, now what's your reaction to this one:

I'd be dissapointed, but thankfully it did have very great story and dramatic depth. That wasn't the main takeaway of its reviews either. Most were calling it a triumph for the whole genre. This one is more like "it's another one, it's inoffensive, you'll laugh I guess?".

This is Spider-Man we're talking about. The cream of the crop. If your Spider-Man movie isn't a show stopper you're doing it wrong.

 

[andymcc]

So it's another empty vanilla ass Marvel film. Thanks for letting me know.

Every time you post in any thread, someone should counter each post with your old, goofy-ass "DAMAGED" joker avatar.

 

[Discotheque]

I like spider-man, but at this point Marvel movies are becoming so formulaic and stale. The best word to describe MCU movies at this point is "shallow" especially compared to movies like Logan. I really hope Marvel will soon take a risk and deviate from the "snarky superhero beats up bad guys for two hours with no thematic purpose" formula that we have seen over and over. Doesn't seem like this one deviates much unfortunately.

Yeah it's hard for me to get excited about any of them. Even BP after that fire trailer I'm not overly hyped for.

But despite the all too similar feeling I get out of every mcu movie, some of the good ones are pretty enjoyable in theaters. Plus Spider-Man is always dope. Even the shitty Andrew Garfield movies had a few brief moments of the main character which I really liked.

 

[jmood88]

I like spider-man, but at this point Marvel movies are becoming so formulaic and stale. The best word to describe MCU movies at this point is "shallow" especially compared to movies like Logan. I really hope Marvel will soon take a risk and deviate from the "snarky superhero beats up bad guys for two hours with no thematic purpose" formula that we have seen over and over. Doesn't seem like this one deviates much unfortunately.

You'd think after all the other superhero movie failures and missed attempts at creating shared universes that people would understand if it was really as easy as having a formula that guaranteed critical and commercial success, that every studio would be doing it by now.

 

[demosthenes]

It only has like 15 reviews on RT posted, the % is going to shift a lot in the next hour :lol

Glad it's reviewing well.

 

[marrec]

You really complaining that a Spiderman Movie has Fun, and Humor?

Am I taking crazy pills?

We need Ben Reilly in the MCU!!

 

[Ahasverus]

You'd think after all the other superhero movie failures and missed attempts to create shared universes that people would understand if it was really as easy as having a formula that guaranteed critical and commercial success, that every studio would be doing it by now.

"Why can't every soda company make Coca Cola"?

You really complaining that a Spiderman Movie has Fun, and Humor?

Am I taking crazy pills?

You more than anyone else knows that Spider-Man didn't go big because of its humor alone, but because those jokes were used in great stories that made use of some of the best developed characters in the medium.

 

[MugiwaraCole]

You'd think after all the other superhero movie failures and missed attempts to create shared universes that people would understand if it was really as easy as having a formula that guaranteed critical and commercial success, that every studio would be doing it by now.

Hell, DCEU went "formulaic".

It was just the wrong formula. Which they adjusted a tad for Wonder Woman. Here's hoping.

But yeah, not sure what anyone was expecting here. This has always looked like the definitive Spider-Man film. That's what it's reviewing like too.

 

[IHaveIce]

It still shows up as 90 for me?

 

[BoogieWoogie]

For people saying that a "Spider-Man movie being fun is a bad thing", there's a movie for you. It's called Amazing Spider-Man 2.

 

[phanphare]

I'd be dissapointed, but thankfully it did have very great story and dramatic depth. That wasn't the main takeaway of its reviews either. Most were calling it a triumph for the whole genre. This one is more like "it's another one, it's inoffensive, you'll laugh I guess?".

This is Spider-Man we're talking about. The cream of the crop. If your Spider-Man movie isn't a show stopper you're doing it wrong.

so you acknowledge that it's a Spider Man movie yet your disappointment somehow stems from it being s Spider Man movie

huh

 

[jwk94]

Seems to me like people are complaining that the movie just seems fun. You can have a fun movie with a great story, characters, villains, etc, but that review doesn't really tell us that.

 

[Yager]

You really complaining that a Spiderman Movie has Fun, and Humor?

Am I taking crazy pills?

You know he's not complaining about that. Don't feed him man.

 

[Sibersk Esto]

Seems to me like people are complaining that the movie just seems fun. You can have a fun movie with a great story, characters, villains, etc, but that review doesn't really tell us that.

The reviews are saying that though?

 

[SpaceWolf]

Never had any doubt about this being great once the MCU deal was announced.

If this is genuinely good, I'll definitely be hugely relieved. A lot of what I'd been seeing from the film in the marketing was concerning me...and as a huge Spider-Man fan (my favourite Marvel character), it would definitely have been dissapointing if Marvel bungled their first crack at the webslinger in some way.

Of course, I was always going to see it the instant it came out here in the UK, but to know this is a genuinely good Spider-Man movie would be a huge relief. Now I just have to worry about whether it'll be "Doctor Strange" good ("fun", but ultimately utterly forgettable) or a higher level of quality entirely.

 

[marrec]

For people saying that a "Spider-Man movie being fun is a bad thing", there's a movie for you. It's called Amazing Spider-Man 2.

They're probably big fans of Raimi's Spider-Man 3, so dark and edgy with a real depth you know?

 

[Beren the Empty-Handed]

I'm pumped for this.

 

[Yager]

Guys, pls. I'm already erect.

95 NOW!

 

[DeathoftheEndless]

Seems to me like people are complaining that the movie just seems fun. You can have a fun movie with a great story, characters, villains, etc, but that review doesn't really tell us that.

Yeah, it does. You need to read more than just the blurb.

 

[Slayven]

We need Ben Reilly in the MCU!!

Still too fun and humor, we need Kaine

 

[Corpsepyre]

But does it take RISKS?

Apparently not according to Stuckmann.