Spobler-Man: Get Me Home Now

*Sung in a beautiful falsetto voice “Spobler-Man, Spobler-Man, Can he swing from a web? Of course! Because he is Spobler-Man!! So I got around to seeing the new Spider-Man movie this Monday, Spider-Man: Brand New Day, and surprise surprise it was a great movie that I enjoyed very much. Does this mean that Marvel is back on top and out of their whatever phase of mid movies? No, it’s Spider-Man as long as they put out something competent it would be a box office hit. I do think this is a step in the right direction for the MCU. Besides regressing some characters like the Hulk, this film introduced some great ideas for the MCU. The overall timeline isn’t too important to the Spider-Man films. I haven’t even seen Spider-Man: No Way Home, and my enjoyment for this film wasn’t affected at all.

I’m by no means the biggest Spider-Man fan. I like the movies and games that he is in but when no new Spider-Man stuff is coming out I kind of forget about him. I don’t really care for the Spiderverse concept, but I do love the Spiderverse animated movies. To me Spider-Man is the best generic superhero, on the same level of Superman. He fights bad guys that have ridiculous outfits and names who do nothing but rob banks and take candy from babies. He’s a likeable guy that will go to any lengths to save lives because he’s that good a guy. I think this is what makes him so appealing. He is the ideal that so many people want to live up to. People want to believe that the average person will do heroic things in the heat of a bad moment, and it’s fun to think that. On the other hand he plays well into the power fantasy many people have. Spider-Man is ridiculously strong, crushing someone to death is well within his wheelhouse. So he’s always holding back, and that feels like many dudebros fantasies. I’m sure there is more than one person out there that just wants Spider-Man to go all out and inflict his full power upon humanity. But Spider-Man would never do that because he cares too much. Yet it still gives those envious of his power a fantasy to think about. 

This isn’t a Gerdy Gallows so I’m not going to review the film in depth but I’ll at least comment on what I really enjoyed about the film. I think the action was much cleaner shot than other Marvel movies. I could actually tell what was going on, and there were some really well done close up shots that gave us a view of Spider-Man we normally don’t get to see. The shot of his face when falling from far up heights helped humanize Spider-Man in a way I hadn’t felt before. I could feel his nerves as he made it closer to the ground, and it showed that he’s just as afraid of heights as us. There were several hallway shots that were nearly perfect, especially the scene where he is fighting the Hulk in the Damage Control building. The way the camera pulled away while twisting with Spider-Man made the action scene so fluid and fun to follow. Jean Grey being the main antagonist and the Punisher being along to help Spider-Man out helped show the theme of loneliness and all the extremes it can drive people too. Mark Ruffalo has always played a great Hulk, and his small role in this film was perfect. Overall, it was a wonderful film and I’m looking forward to watching it again when it comes out on digital. I shouldn’t be but this film has revived the long dead hope I had for Avenger’s: Doomsday. I’m still skeptical of that film but for now I’m looking forward to what is next in the MCU.