I love Spider-Man. I think Spider-Man and Spider-Man 2 are the pinnacle of blockbuster/superhero cinema, I think TASM 2 is incredible, I even think Far From Home is great. I have a lot of fondness for all three of these Spider-Men. I should be the target audience for this, but obviously I'm not because I actually paid attention during all of those films.
The first time I watched this, most of my criticisms lay in how it treats the Raimi…
The only positive thing I can say about this movie is that it's slightly better at 2x speed. They're never bringing anything from this movie back, so it's literally worthless even within an MCU watch. (Yes, I know the celestial's in Brave New World, but they literally could've made any source of adamantium and it wouldn't have made a difference.)
Part of my Everything Canon to the MCU Watch
I really wanted to like this film. I'm a huge fan of Schoenbrun's debut We're All Going to the World's Fair and I love seeing trans directors being allowed to make explicitly trans films that get wide releases, but this just left such a bad taste in my mouth. It's not that I don't get it, in fact I practically lived this film. My deadname is Owen, I spent much of my childhood coping through media, my girl friends were…
Sweet, funny, tense, bloody Yakuza cinema with a trans positive message. This shouldn't work, this should be an absolute travesty, but it's shockingly fantastic. Amazing representation, well developed characters, great action, and all on an obviously low budget. While it certainly features many of the narrative and tonal tropes of mainstream Japanese cinema, it never suffers from it. If anything, facing it's existence as a queer film head-on makes adapting these tropes to trans issues one of it's greatest successes,…
