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TopicYour favorite Spider-Man movie so far?
Citrus_
07/18/19 12:08:10 AM
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Personally it's very hard for me to pick a favourite.

The Raimi trilogy is solid, campy, emotional, and just all around fun.
Could it be nostalgia? I don't believe so. I remember watching these as a kid and thinking all the peter parker scenes were boring as hell. Revisiting them on occasion I found myself enjoying them more and more. Special mention to Danny Elfman who's score in my opinion set the bar for superhero music to this very day.
Yes, that includes the third one. Sam did what he could under immense studio pressure to shove Venom in there, but for what screentime he (and the surrounding subplot) had, it was done well. Of course more screentime would be appreciated, but I'm easily impressed (to a point). Christopher Young did a great job holding up the score in the place of Elfman while adding his own spin for themes like Sandman's one.

The Webb films were different, yes. Subjected to considerably worse studio pressure, it's hard not to ignore Sony's effect on future projects, especially in the second one. I've watched these the least, so my memory is a little fuzzy.
What can be praised about these are the special effects and the music. TASM2 has quite possibly the best CGI costume Spidey's ever had, with realistic cloth sim and true muscle deformation. From a technical standpoint it's top of the line. But with conflicting subplots and bad story pacing, especially in the second one, these movies suffer. Marc Webb did what he could, and what works in these films work great. I would've loved to see TASM3, but I probably wouldn't see it in theaters.

Now the MCU films I believe are the most different and jarring of the lot. How do you re-design a beloved character for the third time? How do you pull it off? I think these questions were answered with this incarnation of Spidey. Jon Watts and the Russo Brothers set Spidey apart from the rest by giving him Iron Man as his Uncle Ben. His friend Ned is an amalgamation of a couple of characters, one that Miles Morales interacts with. MJ is a person of color. Both of the movie villains' motivations are strictly because of something Iron Man has done.
Controversial changes? Hell yes. Some would say "who cares", including myself, but it took a few watches to come to terms with it. They seem jarring at first, reading articles and stuff, but stripping them away and watching these films they just fit so well within the context of the MCU. These movies really benefit from being a part of a wider franchise, and are satisfying in their own right. However, this is not the definitive Spider-Man, yet. With the nature of the MCU, this candle hasn't begun to burn out.

I have next to no complaints about Into The Spider-Verse. It's got everything you want Spidey to be, while adding it's own refreshing take on characters you know. Fun fact, this even includes Olivia Octavius. If you've played Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions you've fought a female Doc Ock before.
ITSV deserves every bit of praise it gets. Visually ground-breaking and page-turning.
The only complaint I have is Kingpin. I know it's not about him, the backstory makes sense and is understandable. But he wasn't really that threatening as a character to me.

I'm gonna have to go with Spider-Man 2, ITSV behind it by a hair's width, followed by Far From Home, also by a hair's width. They're everything I've wanted from a spidey movie, being different while
staying as close as they can to their comic counterparts.
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