Its so bad, its bad for movie standards, its bad for marvel standards. Its such a giant mess, almost every aspect of it just doesnt work.
To start you have every single character quipping like the producers watched it with a timer in one hand. Its like a mandated every 60 second quip break, and every single character needs to get in on it. Theres actually a couple funny lines but wow they would land a lot better if this wasnt so constant.
Then you have the weird meme masculinity with the three spider men? “Hey bro, I love you” “no bro, you have to value yourself bro” like just stop. Save it for one scene or something, read a book any book.
The CGI is bottom of the barrel, its really scraping it. Lighting problems, proportions being way off, cartoon trucks suddenly being in screen, whole thing just looks awful. You cant possibly exaggerate how bad this movie looks, it has no visual soul at all.
It also suffers from video game writing, which is something Ive been noticing more and more in modern movies. Spider man shows up at Dr Stranges and he says “heres your quest spidey! I made you a wrist thing to go collect 6 bad guys, good luck!” Later in the film spider man unpacks a machine in his apartment that “can basically just build anything” dang thats convenient. Build a script.
Anyways I hated it, anyone who feels the need to defend these movies is 12. Theres no other explanation, I cannot believe adults are paying for these movies. I cannot believe this is our art culture from now until climate change wipes us out. 6 years from now theres going to be 1 movie that gets made a year, and itll make 9 billion dollars and cost 12 million to make because theyll use slave cgi assistants on every shot and people on twitter will tell you to shut your brain off.
Eh, the cgi only went full garbo with the lizard, and I assumed that was trying to emulate the early 2010’s style. And green goblin with his awful new costume. Other than that, not too bad, although outclassed often by Sam Raimi spider-man. I also found it interesting the big fight on the statue of liberty was pretty similar to the last fight with sandman and venom from spider-man three. That plus the recycled villains kinda indicated Disney new Sam Raimi movies were better and they should just copy them. Also the idea of fixing the villains was very neoliberal. But I liked seeing the actors reprise their roles, so can’t complain much.
Also bugged me that dr strange was like “this is all your fault” when he did not explain what the spell would do or how it worked, just went right into it and got mad peter didn’t like it that way. It makes sense for his character, he’s really bad at thinking things through(literally started his movie texting while driving going 100 mph on a winding road during a storm), but the fact no one else says “hey you aren’t at fault this guy should have gotten informed consent” irked me.
Isn’t it kind of a thing for Spiderman where the villains are redeemable?
Of his big three baddies (Green Goblin, Doc Ock, and Venom) all of them get redemption arcs in various stories, also Black Cat, The Lizard, Prowler, Kraven, Silver Sable, Rocket Racer, I’m pretty sure I read an Electro redemption arc, that weird doctor dude with the bo-staff, uhhhh I’m starting to run out of spiderman villains off the top of my head at this point but I’m pretty sure redeeming the villain is not new territory for spiderman and you could even see this as a return to form