Spiderman: Homecoming (sorry Spider-Man SERIOUSLY what is this spelling)
I will be frank there is no serious analysis going on under the cut, mostly strings of words and punctuation marks:
Okay so. THAT WAS SO MUCH FUN. Tom Holland was fantastic! I loved MJ and wish she had about one thousand more lines in the movie because she was so great! I loved Peter and Ned! And everyone being high school decathlon nerds! And Liz (who was also great and ten times more forgiving than Peter deserved and I loved that about her) being captain of the team! The Spiderman theme song in the beginning! Peter being just such a nice friendly neighborhood Spiderman helping old ladies and leaving notes on stolen bikes in the beginning!
And ahhh okay let me just flail for a moment for all of the MCU bones flung in there.
-SO MUCH TONY
-TONY AND PEPPER GETTING BACK TOGETHER
-THROWBACKS TO THE BATTLE OF NEW YORK AND HOW THAT AFFECTED REGULAR PEOPLE
-CAPTAIN AMERICA MANDATORY PSAS EVEN THOUGH HE'S A WAR CRIMINAL
-CAPTAIN AMERICA KNOWS YOUR BODY IS CHANGING BOYS AND GIRLS COME TALK TO HIM ABOUT IT
-The Cap post-credit scene hahaha
-TONY BUILDING CAP A NEW SHIELD FOR WHENEVER I GUESS
-WEIRD TIMELINE RETCONS!!!
-TONY *SOLD* AVENGERS TOWER? IS THAT WHAT ACTUALLY HAPPENED THERE? DID HE SELL IT TO PEPPER BECAUSE I DAMN HOPE HE DID (OR MAYBE HE SOLD IT TO T'CHALLA?? wtf)
-NEW AND IMPROVED AVENGERS FACILITY! It had BETTER HAVE PENTHOUSES FOR ALL OF THE WAR CRIMINAL AVENGERS TONY, I T H A D B E T T E R
And also apparently, from this article which is mostly about easter egg villains that I don't care about, but 1) the throwback to this Spiderman cover is super cool, and 2) the school principal is played by Jim Morita's actor playing Jim Morita's grandson!!! oh yeah and 3) Karen is apparently voiced by Jennifer Connely who is married to Paul Bettany which is awesome.
ALSO
Have I mentioned that Tom Holland is just SUPER ADORABLE and I love everything he did with this character and am a little sad his face was covered for like half the film, and ALSO I'm sad Donald Glover's character is canonically 33 years old because I desperately wanted to ship them he was so great in that second scene (which redeemed his practical nonexistence in his first scene).
ALSO
I enjoyed this movie so much but MAN was it a mindfuck to see this Tony when I had JUST FINISHED READING the latest part of
dira's slavefic AU which has one of the most caring and nurturing Tonys I have ever read, and then seeing Tony being Iron Man 1-level douchebag here again. NOT EVEN Iron Man 1, cause he was great for at least half that movie... not quite as bad as Iron Man 2-douche level but MAN, Tony, HOW CAN YOU FUCK THIS UP SO BADLY. I really loved Tony in Iron Man 3 and REALLY liked him in Civil War, child-soldier-recruitment and Bucky-murder-attempt aside, and I thought he'd done a bit more growing at this point, but man. TONY. THIS IS A 15-YEAR-OLD KID YOU'RE MENTORING. BE FUCKING BETTER.
I did like the acknowledgement that he was basically Howard Starking this kid, which probably hurts, and I hope Tony feels like shit about, but man. Learn to be better, Tony. And I'm choosing to ignore the fact that you made the "wear something skimpy" Aunt May joke, seriously. The only good thing about this is that hopefully Tony can get all of his terrible mentoring practice out of the way so that when Riri Williams shows up one day he will not actually fuck up this bad.
(ALSO oh man just imagine HOW MUCH BONDING Tony and Bruce can do now over having genius crimefighting teenaged wards, and AHHHH just how much bonding PETER AND DICK GRAYSON AND/OR TIM DRAKE can do over their TERRIBLE SUPERHERO FATHER FIGURES it would be THE BEST.)
(quick fic rec if you have never read Superbros!, the tale of friendship between Tony Stark and Bruce Wayne, feel free to do so now it is delightful.)
I'm probably missing a lot but at least I got that out of my system. Fic incorporating this new canon into the MCU, I AM WAITING FOR YOU.
Last thing - I will just say it was a delightful experience watching this movie in the US. I know academically that US audiences are more engaged, especially in comedies/superhero films (from what I've heard), and this turned out to be SO TRUE here. I watched this in a full house theater, and there was not just laughter at various jokes, but sighs and gasps and excited rustling when the movie warranted it, and it was so much fun. The only experience I've had like that in Israel was watching Wonder Woman on opening night, which had the audience erupting in spontaneous applause multiple times, which was super gratifying and basically never happens in Israel.
*icon does not reflect my reaction the movie but is the only teenaged-superhero icon I have*
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Okay so. THAT WAS SO MUCH FUN. Tom Holland was fantastic! I loved MJ and wish she had about one thousand more lines in the movie because she was so great! I loved Peter and Ned! And everyone being high school decathlon nerds! And Liz (who was also great and ten times more forgiving than Peter deserved and I loved that about her) being captain of the team! The Spiderman theme song in the beginning! Peter being just such a nice friendly neighborhood Spiderman helping old ladies and leaving notes on stolen bikes in the beginning!
And ahhh okay let me just flail for a moment for all of the MCU bones flung in there.
-SO MUCH TONY
-TONY AND PEPPER GETTING BACK TOGETHER
-THROWBACKS TO THE BATTLE OF NEW YORK AND HOW THAT AFFECTED REGULAR PEOPLE
-CAPTAIN AMERICA MANDATORY PSAS EVEN THOUGH HE'S A WAR CRIMINAL
-CAPTAIN AMERICA KNOWS YOUR BODY IS CHANGING BOYS AND GIRLS COME TALK TO HIM ABOUT IT
-The Cap post-credit scene hahaha
-TONY BUILDING CAP A NEW SHIELD FOR WHENEVER I GUESS
-WEIRD TIMELINE RETCONS!!!
-TONY *SOLD* AVENGERS TOWER? IS THAT WHAT ACTUALLY HAPPENED THERE? DID HE SELL IT TO PEPPER BECAUSE I DAMN HOPE HE DID (OR MAYBE HE SOLD IT TO T'CHALLA?? wtf)
-NEW AND IMPROVED AVENGERS FACILITY! It had BETTER HAVE PENTHOUSES FOR ALL OF THE WAR CRIMINAL AVENGERS TONY, I T H A D B E T T E R
And also apparently, from this article which is mostly about easter egg villains that I don't care about, but 1) the throwback to this Spiderman cover is super cool, and 2) the school principal is played by Jim Morita's actor playing Jim Morita's grandson!!! oh yeah and 3) Karen is apparently voiced by Jennifer Connely who is married to Paul Bettany which is awesome.
ALSO
Have I mentioned that Tom Holland is just SUPER ADORABLE and I love everything he did with this character and am a little sad his face was covered for like half the film, and ALSO I'm sad Donald Glover's character is canonically 33 years old because I desperately wanted to ship them he was so great in that second scene (which redeemed his practical nonexistence in his first scene).
ALSO
I enjoyed this movie so much but MAN was it a mindfuck to see this Tony when I had JUST FINISHED READING the latest part of
dira's slavefic AU which has one of the most caring and nurturing Tonys I have ever read, and then seeing Tony being Iron Man 1-level douchebag here again. NOT EVEN Iron Man 1, cause he was great for at least half that movie... not quite as bad as Iron Man 2-douche level but MAN, Tony, HOW CAN YOU FUCK THIS UP SO BADLY. I really loved Tony in Iron Man 3 and REALLY liked him in Civil War, child-soldier-recruitment and Bucky-murder-attempt aside, and I thought he'd done a bit more growing at this point, but man. TONY. THIS IS A 15-YEAR-OLD KID YOU'RE MENTORING. BE FUCKING BETTER.
I did like the acknowledgement that he was basically Howard Starking this kid, which probably hurts, and I hope Tony feels like shit about, but man. Learn to be better, Tony. And I'm choosing to ignore the fact that you made the "wear something skimpy" Aunt May joke, seriously. The only good thing about this is that hopefully Tony can get all of his terrible mentoring practice out of the way so that when Riri Williams shows up one day he will not actually fuck up this bad.
(ALSO oh man just imagine HOW MUCH BONDING Tony and Bruce can do now over having genius crimefighting teenaged wards, and AHHHH just how much bonding PETER AND DICK GRAYSON AND/OR TIM DRAKE can do over their TERRIBLE SUPERHERO FATHER FIGURES it would be THE BEST.)
(quick fic rec if you have never read Superbros!, the tale of friendship between Tony Stark and Bruce Wayne, feel free to do so now it is delightful.)
I'm probably missing a lot but at least I got that out of my system. Fic incorporating this new canon into the MCU, I AM WAITING FOR YOU.
Last thing - I will just say it was a delightful experience watching this movie in the US. I know academically that US audiences are more engaged, especially in comedies/superhero films (from what I've heard), and this turned out to be SO TRUE here. I watched this in a full house theater, and there was not just laughter at various jokes, but sighs and gasps and excited rustling when the movie warranted it, and it was so much fun. The only experience I've had like that in Israel was watching Wonder Woman on opening night, which had the audience erupting in spontaneous applause multiple times, which was super gratifying and basically never happens in Israel.
*icon does not reflect my reaction the movie but is the only teenaged-superhero icon I have*
comments on Dreamwidth.