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Is he? He's basically saying he wasn't surprised by the positive reactions as having supposedly overstuffed crowd pleasing fun action films work is pretty much Marvel's thing

Probably a decent amount of people consider Spider-Verse as No 1 but yeah hard to beat Spider-Man 2 in the long run

True I guess for me i was still apprehensive cause it had been primarily the Russo Brothers and M&M handling those duties since Civil War. But glad to see Watts and McKenna & Sommers seemingly handle it well.

Well originally in the Comic Con 2019 announcement Phase 4 was supposed to end with Thor: Love and Thunder so take that out and swap it with NWH it's the same amount of Phase 4 projects as initially announced

Which its why it's the best MCU Film

Glad early reactions are great so far. I'm been skeptical of this concept since Jamie Fox was announced by the trades so if it ends up working that's awesome to see. Also because I may or may not have already booked three showings of this film from Thursday to Sunday...

Still surprised by how he liked Endgame though

Have to wait for OW but holding T&A back worked judging from the presales. It'll just make WOM that much better. Regarding spoilers yeah trying to see this as Strange v Spidey would have been odd but I mean FFH did make $1.1B so it wouldn't have been a marketing disaster.

I'm not that bullish on Doctor Strange if you're referring to that but it'll be big.

I just want to relive those IW/Endgame days. NWH is the closest we'll get for a while.

Ah Frozen's run was legendary as a WDAS fan to finally see the studio finally be back on top was amazing. I think people were expecting around slightly higher Tangled numbers for it (which I prefer Tangled but different discussion). Make me hope the 30 day theatrical window for animated films before Disney+ isn't permanent. You'd miss out on a Frozen or Zootopia unexpected run.

Brief watch of the Spidey scenes in Civil War and remember why he was a scene stealer in that film. Homecoming is still really fun for me seeing Spider-Man in a more grounded setting is nice and honing in on Peter losing out on what he could have in high school for Spider-Man without having it bogged down by the weight of it all. I kinda dismissed this version of Aunt May but she has some really nice scenes in this one which I realise alot of the problems I have with the supporting cast of this Spider-Man other than MJ stem from FFH. Really wished we had a proper follow up to the final scene with May but those pesky Avengers films got in the way.

I'd be more excited for MOM but any leaks I've heard about make it seem pretty messy conversely any leaks have made me more excited for NWH even though I was against the concept.

Well we didn't know when In The Heights came out that it's OW would look understandable compared to WSS.

At the end of the day the real loss is the people in China who would have wanted to see these films in the cinemas.

So TASM 2 definitely the worst live action Spidey film so far but has some decent moments still. The end with Gwen does still have an emotional impact and I think what Andrew's Spidey does the best is the interactions with fellow NY people. With how the movie ends I'm actually more interested to see where Andrew's Spider-Man is at this stage of his life than Tobey's.

1. Spider-Man: No Way Home 2. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse 3. Mission Impossible 7 4. Lightyear 5. Matrix 4 6. Thor: Love and Thunder 7. The Batman 8. Avatar 2 9. Doctor Strange Multiverse of Madness 10. John Wick 4

TASM is fine on rewatch I just get bugged out by the ending when Peter breaks his promise to Captain Stacy at the end. Preferred if he keeps it then in the 2nd one they get back together. But yeah it's a weird one to watch it's trying to go for a less camp vibe than Raimi but still has ridiculous scenes like when Peter accesses a computer that happens to expose Lizard's entire plan. Garfield is good though clearly the best actor amongst all the live action Spideys and easily the best chemistry with the female lead in Emma Stone.

Same the Ragnarok score stands out amongst other MCU scores but Mothersbaugh did suffer heavily from COVID last year so maybe he's not able to score a project such as this. Hope Giacchino keeps some of the same themes though.

Do we think in the original July date this opens to $300M?

NGL a movie where Peter is being hunted by Kraven after FFH would have been awesome

Yeah the concept isn't something particularly unique like WandaVision, FATWS addressed important topics and was dealing with Cap's legacy and well Loki is no surprise.

Agreed loving the show but definitely feels like we need more than 2 episodes left. Hopefully this is one that gets a Season 2.

So Spider-Man 3 is...decent? Like obviously there are many problems (Venom, the amnesia plot for Harry Osborn) but I like how it explores Peter and MJ's relationship (again MJ by far is the character I have grown on the most with this rewatch). Sandman is a good antagonist but with how his character is left of after this film I'm curious how NWH will handle him. Definitely would have liked a Spider-Man 4 to see if Raimi could have made a movie on par with 1 and 2 but as far as an unplanned conclusion it's not a bad place to end the series.