Spider-Man Homecoming Review Spoilers

Hey you, welcome back to the channel. And guys, today we're gonna review Spider-Man: Homecoming. And guys, the movie's been out a little over a week now, and this will be a spoiler-filled review. So if you haven't seen the movie quite yet, it's always alright, come back after you've seen the movie, that way I don't spoil it for you. As we approach our second week, if you have seen the movie, sit down, let's talk about what we got in Spider-Man: Homecoming. So guys, you know, basically this Spider-Man follows up on the Spider-Man we know, Tom Holland from Captain America: Civil War. And as I had been saying in earlier videos, I think this Spider-Man had captured a lot of, um, you know, just that balance of what a lot of Spider-Man fans wanted Spider-Man to be. You know, we looked at the Tobey Maguire's character and the, in the Sam Raimi's version, uh, to kind of kickstart the franchise. I think, you know, we were still kind of stuck on the, the kind of emotional dark, brooding hero. That movie didn't really capture a lot of the, well, you know, the fun elements of Spider-Man. He was, uh, he was, you know, this troubled character. He's dealing with Uncle Ben's death. He dealt a lot with, uh, you know, the ups and downs of trying to balance his life between Spider-Man and Peter Parker. So we had a lot of that play out in the movie. And, uh, you know, with Andrew Garfield's character You know, they tried to get away from that, but they didn't really— a lot of people didn't feel like this character really captured the whole character of Spider-Man, the funny character of Spider-Man. Some people felt he just came off more like a jerk. But anyway, uh, some kind of way Tom Holland seemed to kind of fit this middle character and, uh, you know, some in the, the middle path, if you will. And that kind of started the work. We kind of start to see a version of Spider-Man I think a lot of people wanted to see. 15-year-old kid gets superpowers and, you know, he's having fun with, you know, being a superhero for the most part. I think this movie did a good job of tackling that. Now, unfortunately This movie for me had a lot of issues, uh, and I was kind of surprised at that. I was kind of surprised at some of the issues this Spider-Man movie had. You know, a lot of people were saying they thought it was the best Spider-Man movie they've seen. I don't, I don't know about that. It's the best, it's the best. It's a really good Spider-Man movie. It's definitely one of the best. I don't know if it's I don't— I wouldn't say it's the best. I would say it's, it's one of the best movies that had Spider-Man in it, but I, I don't think that this movie really carried itself fully as a Spider-Man movie. Or, and things— there are natural reasons, I think, why, uh, this might have happened, and we'll get into some of them a little bit. And some of it has to do with the age of the characters. You know, they chose to go with this very young Spider-Man, you know, like we've seen in some, uh, Spider-Man versions where he's still in high school with high school kids. You know, we know that. So, you know, when we're, we're dealing with high school kids and the, the look of this Spider-Man is, it's not like one of these Spider-Mans where they go and it's about high school and they got like 30, 40-year-olds playing, uh, high school characters, you know. No, these are like, looks like real high school, real teenage actors that they're using to play these parts. And so, you know, right there, uh, you know, we, we've gotta, you know, really, uh, look at it like what it is, you know, that these are kids, you know, uh, you know, uh, in acting roles, and they're going to be some limitations with that unless you just have this extraordinary young actor or actress like the like the young actress on Game of Thrones who plays Sansa Mormont. That's just a throwout to my Game of Thrones fans that's coming out tonight. But she's very young and she just has some type of thing where even though she's young, she's kind of wise beyond her years where she can really embody these characters. Now, you know, a lot of, you know, childhood actors, teenage actors just aren't going to be able to do that, understandably. Don't have those experiences to to pull from. So you're gonna get some limitations in that. You are gonna get— 'cause the reason I'm bringing that all out, guys, is some critics are saying that this movie wasn't really strong enough. The Tom Holland Spider-Man, it was really strong enough to carry this movie. And I think that has to do a lot with his age, and I don't think we can really hold him accountable for that as the script calls for you know, for people that young. Now with someone like Tom Holland, I think for him, probably being his age and playing that character and seemed to really fit that demographic, I think he did probably as best a job as could be reasonably expected. So I, I can't— I wouldn't take off points for that. That wasn't such the, the, the, the problem with the film, but I do think that The way that this film was done, things that the people found more enjoyable were the connections to the Avengers, the Iron Man scenes, and we get a lot of that. We get a lot of assistance from, you know, that, you know, from, from, from that, you know, area. And, uh, you know, Marvel has done a good job of incorporating all these very various elements into their standalone movies and grouping them together to where they tell an overall story. But I think that's— they're going a little too intricate with it. Like, even in the scenes here with Vulture, Adrian Toomes, you know, a lot of things that caused him to become the Vulture have to do with— have to do a lot with what happened in the attack in New York. He's finding a lot of this— he's trying to clean up with a construction contract and and make money to support his family is the idea. And the government steps in because they want to quarantine that area. They don't want him obviously collecting alien technology and all that, so they gotta shut his contract off. And apparently the government doesn't reimburse you or pay you or anything like that. You know, which is— I didn't know it worked like that. I would have thought, you know, that the government would have been a little bit more reasonable in a situation like that to at least try to, you to take care of that, but apparently not. Apparently he took the risk and that's all on him. But anyway guys, so they got that in, so this is what creates the Vulture as we know him. So they got that all mixed up in there, very intricate details. I just don't think, I think Marvel's just getting a little too intricate with tying up all the loose ends and connecting it to the story. Is every villain somehow connected or spawned from these events? You know, all I'm saying is I don't think every event has to be part of just this one story. And that kind of goes back into some of the problems I had with the film, that for me it did just feel like another Avengers movie with Spider-Man in it. And, you know, I think this Spider-Man is set up to be— I don't, I don't think he really needs standalone films. I think how they did him in Captain America: Civil War, I really don't think he needs his own movie. Because as we looked at this movie, and as this movie told the story story, you really didn't get a lot of origin story about this Spider-Man. You didn't get any really specific details about this Spider movie. You know, the movie just assumed that the two Spider-Man movies and reboots— and if you don't know who Spider-Man is by now, all these reboots in this short period of time, uh, you know, then, uh, and all these Spider-Man movies, uh, you're just out of luck, you know. And so, uh, but based on that, because we already knew, you who Spider-Man was. I don't think he needs to really have his own movies because this Spider-Man has been set up so much to be part of the, uh, Marvel, you know, universe, and to be part of, uh, the Avengers team, or related to the Avengers team, that, uh, I think they just could, uh, you know, just drag them along like they did Hawkeye and Vision. You know, they didn't get their own standalone films. You know, not everybody needs to get their standalone films. I think the Spider-Man story's probably been told and told enough. Another issue was, you know, Spider-Man, he, uh, you know, he basically, uh, um, and I'm losing my point of reference with this film, and that's another— oh, I'm sorry, I was going to say that Spider-Man, I, I think this— it was— we were so this— the expectations were so high with this film that, you know, it was going to be hard for this Spider-Man to just please everybody anyway. And don't get me wrong, guys, this was an entertaining movie. It was a good movie. But I just think that it wasn't a— nothing about this movie really said a lot about Spider-Man to me. I didn't really I didn't really— the character Spider-Man, I, I liked more of the Tony Stark parts. I like more of the overall story parts with this Spider-Man than just a Spider-Man story, right? You know, even his suit, you know, this suit is greatly inspired, you know, it has Stark technology. It's, uh, you know, it's very Tony Stark-ish because Tony Stark made the suit, and because it's an AI, it's part of the suit now. The Spider-Man suit's a character of its own. So now you got this weird thing going on where you got a Spider-Man suit that's a main character along with Tom Holland. And you know, so that's just, you know, that's just kind of making it more impersonal with Tom Holland being Spider-Man, I thought. So I, I, I, another thing that happens through the film when Tony Stark takes the suit, I kind of like that. I kind of liked him taking the suit and then Spider-Man kind of going off on his own and using his own abilities, coming into his own Spider-Man, not this manufactured Spider-Man that was created by the Avengers or Tony Stark. And I wish they kept it that way. I wish, you know, he would have just, you know, kept his, you know, this made-up suit he did and not use the Tony Stark suit, because everything with the Avengers and Tony Stark, it just made it just another Avengers movie, right? If that makes sense. It just really took away from the, you know, from the it being a standalone movie. And what I'm saying is, if it's not going to be a standalone movie where he can just— we can just really focus on him and not have Tony Stark come in every 5 minutes or something to do with the Avengers happen every 5 minutes, you know, then it's worth having a standalone movie. If you're not going to do that then I would say then just have Spider-Man appear in Avengers movies like what we saw in Captain America: Civil War. But, you know, so the good parts about the film I want to talk about now. And again, guys, this is not a rant that it's a bad movie. I know a lot of people are saying this is the best Spider-Man movie of them all. I'm not prepared to say that. I think that— I think this is the— was the best type of story to tell about Spider-Man. Uh, like I said, I thought the early Sam Raimi movies dealt into a too much emotional brooding Spider-Man. Um, and so what— that's the only thing I think that kind of took people off. You know, at points it was kind of gloomy. It was kind of, uh, in the first Spider-Man, it just reminds you of all these other troubled hero movies, right? You know, the Banes and all these dark heroes who go through a lot of issues and a lot of problems. Whereas I've always kind of looked at Spider-Man as a more look on the bright side character. And, you know, the earlier Spider-Mans did capture some elements of that, but then, you know, there are a lot of emotional roller coasters, you know, through the Spider-Man movies that, you know, I don't think, you know, was appropriate. You know, but anyway, we got into Vulture, who I like. You know, I like Michael Keaton. I knew Michael Keaton was going to be great in this film, and I really liked his scenes. I wanted to see a lot more Michael Keaton scenes, and it was. You know, I felt like Michael Keaton and Robert Downey Jr. really carried this movie. You know, that's really how I felt about it. The thing about the Michael Keaton scenes that were good was he basically wasn't this very one-dimensional bad guy. You know, you really kind of understood his situation in that, you know, he wasn't— he didn't start off as a bad guy. He was basically like, hey, you know, the rich people are always sticking it to us. And a lot of critics have said that, oh, we don't know why the Vulture was so, you know, upset that he was just, you know, angry and going after Spider-Man and doing all this stuff. And his family looked pretty well off, and his motivations didn't seem very much in line with, you know, why he was a bad guy. But I disagree with that. I think Michael Keaton, you know, pretty much honed in pretty good on that in the scenes where he was saying basically that, you know, the rich people have always been sticking it to guys like him, you know, working-class guys like him coming in and destroying things, making weapons, you know, as he gave reference to even Tony Stark, you know, making a fortune off of being an arms dealer. And, you know, after he's made his fortune doing that, now he can kind of sit back and play holier-than-thou and try to make the world right after he's created so much trouble in the world. And so I kinda understood Adrian Toomes' philosophy about the entire thing, and I understood a lot of his motivations. Now, I do agree, we get this big reveal in the movie, and this was like my favorite— this definitely was my favorite parts of the movie, where you get— we get to find out that Adrian Toomes is the father of Liz, or Spider-Man's love interest, right? We get the— we got to see all that, and it was like this shocker that I wasn't prepared for, that, uh, wasn't tipped off for. And that, I really like that. That got me. I kind of felt this edge-of-the-seat moment, this kind of scary moment of how Adrian Toomes was figuring out, uh, that Peter Parker was Spider-Man. Like they always do in Spider-Man movies, he's like the easiest character to figure out his identity for some reason. But it was just how he did the scene, how he was able to quickly put the pieces together and analyze that this guy's a Spider-Man, he's dating my daughter, and, uh, he's like, excuse me, baby, go ahead on into the, uh, your homecoming dance that, you know, you know, he threatens, uh, Peter Parker. He's like, I'm gonna kill you, I'm gonna kill you, you know. And it's that kind of— I don't know what kind of accent that is, uh, Michael Keaton has in that film. Is it like, uh, is it like New York, or is it like a mix of Boston or something? You know, but I liked it, and it's just very intimidating at parts. But you know, some people have argued that what happened with, you know, Michael Keaton's family is if you looked at, I think her name is Gabrielle Garvey, Garcelle, Garcelle, I forget her name. She used to play on the Jamie Foxx Show, and she's done a lot of other movies. Beautiful woman. Uh, but she plays his wife, and, uh, right, their family looked very ideal, you know. It didn't look like any problems were going on. Some people said, well, he didn't— uh, Vulture really didn't have any motivation to do all this stuff. He had a great family. But I, I don't necessarily think that necessarily needs to be the case because we've seen many cases where the, the wife and the kids and the family life looks great and it looks, uh, wonderful and the patriarch of the family, you know, he's going through hell to keep that family afloat and they don't even know what's going on. You know, he's holding back all the negative things from them and sheltering them from it. So although they think they're living a good life, they aren't. You know, I think we got to see some things like that play out in the Bernie Sanders case. I'm sorry, not the Bernie Sanders. I'm sorry, Bernie, you're the direct opposite of this guy, the Bernie Madoff, the Bernie Madoff case. But anyway, guys, so people complained about that. But again, I thought everything with the Vulture was spot on. I thought all that worked quite well. And we do get to see Peter Parker coming to his own. And, you know, I don't— it maybe it was, it was to Tom Holland's supporting cast, you know, his— these are very young kids, you know. We had Zendaya And Zendaya, you know her to be a pretty, pretty, you know, much a childhood actor. It could be due to the writing and stuff, but I— here's what I think. I think if given the proper writing, both Tom Holland and Zendaya, they could have really done some great acting in this film, you know, even though I know they're playing childhood actors and there's a lot of comedy in it. You know, they could have done some scenes where they were kind of wise beyond their youth, like rarely, but does happen in some cases how young people are. But what I also like about the film, I do like it's a film as well that I can take my family to. You know, your family's one of these films you can take your family to see, and you, you know, you don't got your family sitting up there going through, you know, a lot of very adult mature violence things like that. So, uh, it really fits that demographic of a lot of these 13-year-olds, 17-year-olds, and, you know, that you want to take to see a superhero movie, but you don't always want all this killing and adult themes and all of that. So, uh, like that part, you know, like that part of the film as well. You know, all in all, I thought it was a good film. You know, is it— the expectations was high So, you know, because my expectations were so high, it was a lot of stuff, you know, that it just wasn't gonna live up to anyway. So I have to just kind of, you know, put that out there. But I don't— I wouldn't say this was the best Spider-Man film, you know. I think I still have to go with Spider-Man 2 at this point. I think Spider-Man 2 would be the best Spider-Man film, and this may fall somewhere behind it. I also, I don't know if I want to see any more of these Spider-Man movies, these Spider-Man Homecoming movies. It's not against, you know, the actors in the movie, but I want to see them just now. We've had an introduction to them. We pretty much understand the direction and where they're going. Now I understand the character. Now let's just have him team up with the Avengers from time to time in these movies, put him in Infinity Wars and all that. That'd be awesome. That's really all I need to see now. So guys, that's my, that's my review, you know, of Spider-Man: Homecoming. Thought it was a good film, thought it was a good Avengers film, thought it was a good Marvel film. Didn't think it was a super great Spider-Man film. I think it was just a— I don't think it was a lot, you know. But guys, anyway, that's my review. Tell me what you think, if you really liked it, if you really thought it was the best. Guys, if you like content like this, don't forget to like and subscribe. If you're on Steemit, don't forget to upvote. And until next time, guys, take care.