November 17, 2021

Spider-Man: No Way Home trailer

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One month before the movie, it’s here! And no sign of Tobey or Andrew, though the last scene rather heavily hints at them.

I’m… not sure what I think. I guess my thoughts here still stand. I’ve also seen a lot of people take umbrage at the Doc Ock “What’s your ACTUAL name” joke and I’m not a fan of it either, partly because it’s a rip-off of a much better joke from Spider-Man 2 and partly because, this tweet says it best-

marvel is so incredibly ashamed of its own source material that it shoehorned in this awful gag making fun of a character name that had already been accepted by audiences half a decade before the MCU even existed https://t.co/awA6mxsW0i pic.twitter.com/m8euXK110b

— John DiLillo (@JohnDiLillo) November 17, 2021

But I’ve probably have completely overlooked it if the MCU wasn’t doing it all the time, you know? Almost all the movies (save Black Panther) are very, “Ha ha! You’re not taking this comic book stuff SERIOUSLY are you?” before immediately asking us to take it seriously. And that really grates after a while.

This whole movie is still shaping up to be a tour of Spider-Man’s greatest hits (Ock! Goblin! Lizard! Woman plummeting to near-certain death!) rather than a story in itself, and I’m not really sure what I think about that either.