I loved it. There was so much to love that I loved so much of it. I had only minor quibbles that my brain is focusing on for some dumb reason (Alfred Molina's ever-changing wig, Lizard and Sandman felt very ancillary but that's also fair as their characters felt ancillary, Ned doing magic and opening portals reminded me of The Flash's Cisco going from tech best friend to best friend who also has latent portal powers,
not getting Spider-Man 2's landlord for an insane final cameo), but like... there's 99% more things my brain just got sheer joy from that it's all... it's all just a giant tornado of moments I can't latch onto long without jumping to something else I loved.
Favorite sweetest moments OTTOMH:
- Andrew Garfield saving MJ
- "The power of the sun... in the palm of my hand." Just... ugh, with Happy Hogan at the end, too, it's insane that with all the Spider-Man history in here, like, how crazy different a universe this is because of Stark and his arc reactor. And fixing the chip and bringing back Otto? Loved.
- Pretty much everything with the three Peters, especially talking about Uncle Ben.
Favorite hardest moments OTTOMH:
- Giving us, the audience,an Uncle Ben moment. Like, that's the first time ever we had an attachment to one of the most important people in Peter's life and can feel that rawness more than a guy set up to introduce the mantra and pass away in the first thirty minutes.
- The heaviness of that Spider-Sense before Dafoe's turn. We knew things would go to shit soon, but just the way that was portrayed and all that followed... oh man.
- The freaking bandage. Such a small thing, but so important to Peter.
- The backstab.
- Did I mention Garfield saving MJ?
Favorite funniest moments:
- Pretty much everything with the three Peters, especially how Peter shot web
- Sandman and Electro comparing notes
- Spider-Man overriding Doc Ock's arms the first time
- Pretty much anytime the villains interacted in the cells
Favorite nostalgia/fanservice moments:
- Lizard and Spider-Man fighting in the lab after going through the portal felt quickly reminiscent of the Stan Lee Amazing Spider-Man cameo, just enough of a familiarity without a direct homage.
- Just the cast itself, Molina/Dafoe/Garfield/McGuire kiiiilled it. That goblin laugh.
- C'mon. I don't care that it was a simple cameo.
CHARLIE COX
Two silly things of note while they're on my mind:
- Doctor Strange never asks to be called doctor for good reason (unlike Osborn and Octavius): he is still a shitty-ass arrogant doctor. This whole thing could've been avoided if he told Spider-Man the risks and potential side-effects of the procedure before he started a live operation on his patient.
- Flash Thompson helped MJ and Ned get into MIT, and Spider-Man didn't even come swing him to school for two weeks or call him his best friend. After seeing his terrible blonde hair, I wouldn't be surprised if
Venom Flash Thompson became a thing... especially with the jokes about Peter's best friend trying to kill him and dying in his arms...