<The Twerk Avenger>
- It would be no doubt sexist of me to say anything negative about this show, so instead I'll sing my praise over this beautiful sequence of filmography. Completely genuine over here.
Never in my life have I seen such a perfect interpretation of female inequality. You can easily determine just how much each of these upstanding citizens have been through with the incessant cat-calling and disproportionate ogling of their physical assets. Those asshole white dudes who completely disregard their infallible intelligence and feminine wiles are just exacerbating the true injustices in the world.
Even without any verbal dialog, their asses speak volumes about the current state of the industry. With every jiggle they represent a thematic issue within the world that needs to be addressed and dealt with. They recognize that the general public is too focused on the wrong aspects of society, so they wiggle their butts up and down as a sign of distress and the hope that you'll listen to their very real warnings about our future. Only through twerking can we begin to see real and significant change for the better.
WALL-E wishes it could have such effective non-verbal dialog as this single scene does.
I fucking hate that song for real though, baby shark quality imo
<Men Out of Time>
- Arnim Zola could have been a more influential presence, but ultimately I'm just glad we got at least this one sequence of him being a maniacal genius. I suspect we'll see more of him in the future considering he's essentially a computer program now, and it'd be silly if he didn't include some backup mainframe for his mind to retreat to after the main complex was destroyed by his own volition.
Aside from that, this scene added some neat intrigue to the plot of the film. I'm not really sure that it led to anything substantial, as it was mostly just there for exposition. But hell, you need some expositional dumps at times, and there's a right way or an uninspired generic way to do it. Thankfully MCU leans towards the right way.
<Spider-Man Avengeance>
- First and foremost, Tom Holland was born to play Spider-Man. Look at the stance he immediately takes as he faces Goblin. Anyone else would look like a fool leaning down like that before a fight. Tommy boy looks legit threatening. But at the same time you can see the hesitance and remorse that he's feeling.
Admittedly that just may be me projecting, either way you can't deny that he carries the spirit of Spidey. And it's even more apparent with T-Spider and A-Spider around to hype him up. Respectively Tobey represents Peter Parker while Andrew provides a more entertaining Spider-Man. Tom combines both equally to provide a well-rounded character who realistically struggles with his dual identities.
Even more crazy is that Tom Spidey has a much more integral confrontation with Green Goblin than Tobey Spidey did. Old aunt May was injured, but she survived perfectly fine afterward, and if honesty was a factor Tobey wouldn't have lost his best friend and girlfriend at the same time. Harry just needed to know his father was a villain, and MJ was in danger no matter what so denying her love while still trying to be her best friend is just... dumb.
I also feel like a broken record when I mention how Willem Dafoe stole the show, but come on. He did. I remember being slightly disappointed at first when he destroyed his mask, only to find out firsthand how perfect he is for such a demented character. No manufactured mask could ever even come close to compete with how terrifying this man can appear with just his facial expressions. It's almost a retroactive crime to cover up such a magnificent performance with a silly looking gremlin helmet.
Sorry I have a lot of opinions about this movie, but this should only be about the scene in question. Needless to say it's fantastic. T-Spidey is working through his very understandable desire to carry out vengeance while simultaneously struggling with his understanding of justice, notably the idea of "great power is great responsibility". I don't care what anybody says, this important lesson being vocalized by aunt May (instead of Ben) and then reinforced by the previous Spider-Mans is transcendent storytelling. With all of the writing inconsistencies it's downright unreal that this movie ended up being one of the greatest of all time.
Also Tobey preventing Goblin from being impaled on his own glider again is nothing if not poetic justice.