With Marvel's Ant-man and the wasp in theaters as of a day ago and today being the 1st anniversary of Spider-Man Homecoming, it is a very good time for me to blog about this. I've wanted to write this review since the movie first came out, but I just had many other things that I was caught up with on this blog. I have done several other Spider-Man related posts, but never a full talk. I will say right away that Spider-Man is one of my favorite superheroes and Spider-Man Homecoming is one of my favorite, if not my #1 favorite of all the Spider-Man movies. The fact that it is in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, finally, probably has something to do with that, but it maybe wouldn't as much if it wasn't so well incorporated.
Recently, there has been some good news and bad news regarding Spider-Man. The bad news is that Spider-Man co-creator Steve Ditko has recently died. This is just really sad and it's making me realize even more, how many of my people are dying. The good news is that the sequel to Spider-Man Homecoming has had a title reveal and is Spider-Man: Far From Home and it's into production.
In 2016, Spider-Man was revealed for Captain America: Civil War. I will admit that I wasn't initially shocked by the reveal or his costume generally. I was somewhat expecting the iron spider suit, which came back as a variation later. But, Spider-Man was probably my favorite part of that movie. The fight scene with him is so epic and one of the best marvel fights because of that. He wasn't in the movie that much, but it really showed Peter Parker as a character in he is a kid and is also a rad new Spider-man, but he wasn't an avenger yet.
Homecoming thoughts
I just will go over a few of my favorite parts of the movie. I already expressed how much I love Spider-Man Homecoming. So here's it.
At the beginning of the movie is one of my favorite scenes, with Tony Stark and Peter Parker in Tony's car. Peter expects to be a full avenger and go on many more missions and Tony all out rejects him. Then you have a funny moment of what Peter perceives as a hug, but Tony is really getting the car door. It greatly sets up the plot for the movie an the relationship with Tony and Peter.
That brings me to the characters of the film. As I mentioned, Tony Stark, Iron Man is great and the titular character Spider-Man, also being Peter Parker, Tom Holland is great as both a feat that hasn't been fully achieved by another Spider-Man film. The villain of the movie, Vulture is in my opinion the best villain in the MCU movies since Loki up to this point last year and really paved the way for the likes of Kilmonger and Thanos. The acting from his character performed by Michael Keaton is great and really shows his arc as a villain and character for Adrian Tombs. Donald Glover as Aaron Davis, the future prowler character was great and he would be a great live-action villain for when Miles Morales comes to the universe. Of course that character was involved with the alien weapons that were illegal in Homecoming, buying from the Vulture's people. This leads me to a great message this movie has, that is about weapon trading and profiteering. It just shows what's up with the military and the complex.
One of the biggest merits of this Spider-Man movie was the great humor that honestly surpasses most other Spider-Man and Marvel movies in my opinion. Some other things that I really like are the music and soundtrack. As well as a neat factor, pointed out from a video by Nerdsync and Hass is that most movies would put a color filter of orange and blue over the movie to make the color look good, but throughout the film it can end up bland. And this is a factor in most movies, it's also present in Spider-Man Homecoming, but what they do is with the red suit and the green colors from vulture are also amped up so you get a contrast when they are on screen to make it pop out.
Since the previous five Spider-Man movies were almost entirely made by Sony. The homecoming to Marvel and the MCU was a big deal for Spider-Man, who is arguably the most iconic superhero. But to argue that would only to be arguing with the dollar signs. Sony for the most part didn't do a very good job with the Amazing Spider-Man movies after the conclusion of the Sam Raimi trilogy. Problems with the "tasm" movies were sinister six set-up, stupid romances, not representing Spider-Man well, and not representing Peter Parker well. One thing I will give those movies, is after reading the graphic novel, Marvels, which for a portion focuses on the deaths of Captain and Gwen Stacy is how reminiscent the films are of that story arc. That said it isn't executed well at all, because in the first movie Peter promises Gwen's dad not to be around her in his dying breath, seeming to want to stick to that and then he turns around and stalks her in the next movie which leads to her terribly dealt-with death.
Spider-Man homecoming, though totally turns those movies on their heads with aspects like the title Homecoming and the Spider-Man cartoon theme playing with the Marvel Studios opening credits, really show that Marvel is glad that Spider-Man is away from Sony, for him to be done right.
This year Spider-Man was in Avengers Infinity war and although we don't find out the aftermath of his identity being revealed to Aunt May, we find out a lot of info and have some major events occur. Of course he fully gets the Iron Spider suit that I mentioned earlier, also seen at the end of Homecoming. My favorite overall moment in Infinity War was when Tony Stark declares Spider-Man to be an Avenger and his reaction just because of how cool it was and the payoff from Spider-Man Homecoming, showing what you can get from developing Spider-Man in this world. I won't say much else, but Iron Man and his relationship evolves in a really nice way.
What do Thor and Spider-Man have in common?
They're both swingers, only one swings a hammer and one swings spider-webs.
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Color filter video: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MF-hhzm0Dvg
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