#spider-man: no way home review

[indominusavenger]

I'm gonna come out and say it; No Way Home sucked. Sure, it had some good moments but in my opinion, it does not live up to the first two instalments of the trilogy. I liked the first part of the movie but as soon as I knew where the second part was going, I fell off that train pretty quickly.

Not only did it make MCU Spidey end up with the same tale as his two predecessors but it also undoes Peter's entire establishment in Marvel's overall franchise. What was the point of the last four movies putting him on the roster with Earth's MIGHTIEST Heroes if you were just going to take all that away and make it like he exists in a completely separate world from them? What was the point of the three cameos we had from RDJ, Samuel L. Jackson, and Benedict Cumberbatch in their iconic roles to show that interconnected universe as with every other MCU movie, only for that to be stripped away at the very last second? Might as well have been another one of Sony's solo ventures at making a series after TASM but it's not and that's why I HATE the uncertainty of Peter Parker's future in the MCU. However, given the current failing reality of the MCU with every new movie that comes out, I can already confirm it's nothing good. In fact, it probably would be best if progress stops altogether before Marvel really is stuck in the dust and just a part of a magnificent past with no legacy to carry on. (This is a side note but that is still a big issue for me anyways that I may expand upon later in another post. In the meantime, go watch all the video essays on YouTube, I'm sure you'll find many good ones.)

He had a unique story that fit into the overarching plot of the MCU and the premise he had was different from the previous Spideys which is what was so interesting about his character development. This Peter Parker had friends that weren't introduced before, or at least, they were more developed than in other series; he had a superhero as a mentor, not a scientist turned villain due to unfortunate circumstances; he had a guy in the chair who wasn't after him or turned villain because his father was one, he had two crushes that were friends, he was part of clubs and acted more teenage-like than the last two. He interacts with other heroes, joins the Avengers, fights THE villain, perishes, comes back, loses his mentor, and is still expected to keep on going.

For crying out loud, he was asked if he was going to be the next Iron Man but he knew he wasn't which is what Far From Home set out to show us. And to all those who called him Iron Man Jr. in Homecoming, I hope you know that you make no sense and I think Marvel did a wonderful job making him stand apart. He was a kid admiring one of his role models and now that he actually had a connection to him, of course he was going to want to be like his mentor but even Tony recognized that he wanted him to be more, not like him. This shows Iron Man himself had great respect for the young hero.

Now, moving onto No Way Home, two main things that annoy the heck out of me; Peter being forgotten (obviously) and Aunt May dying. I'll start with Aunt May's death. To be honest, it was a completely unnecessary death and it actually doesn't make sense for the purpose it had in the movie. The punchline "With great power comes great responsibility." loses its premise as soon as you recall Civil War's intro to Peter in the first place. Uncle Ben had already died, Peter was Spider-Man at this point, and remember what Peter told Tony when they met, why the older hero related to him so much? "When you can do the things that I can, but you don't... and then the bad things happen... they happen because of you." So he already learned that lesson on responsibility and by the time we get to No Way Home, this kid had learned lessons also involving the universe at large. Why are we rehashing Uncle Ben's offscreen death with Aunt May if Marvel literally stated that was overdone? Make that make sense. But oh, it was to make something big and dramatic happen in the movie because we needed to mOve aLoNg. Peter lost his parents, his uncle, and mentor; can you come up with something new other than parental figure losses? Why do TASM Peter and OG Peter still have their Aunt Mays and even if it was just a deleted scene, technically TASM Peter's dad? Huh, then what do you say there? Why did MCU Peter Parker have to lose ALL his parental figures?

Finally, the thing that probably broke most of us; Peter being wiped from everyone's memory. As I stated earlier, his entire existence within the MCU just vanishes, like that, in seconds. So......... what was the point of his existence up till now in the MCU? What was the point of his specific development and growth if he was just going to get forgotten? Why was he meticulously introduced at the height of the Avengers' conflict and then constantly involved with some other MCU hero/important character if he was going to be removed from that? If the Avengers were never a big deal, why make him a part of that at all and why were we still bringing them up at the climax of the film? For those who bring up the argument that he's supposed to be a solitary hero, well that was the worst way to have introduced him then, right? But Marvel chose that route, not any other. Which is why that decision still makes no sense to me. You put him in a world where he wasn't the only superhero and he was going to interact with other heroes which none of the other Spider-Men had and that already put him in a unique position. Why give him a background that was going to get swiped?

Imagine that, making five blockbuster films that gave him a firm standing in the MCU at the peak of Phase 3 and then in his sixth film, his last standalone which is supposed to be his most shining moment, he gets the rug pulled out from underneath him to give him a blank slate? You might as well have thrown every script out from 2015 to 2019 including him before they were ever written or considered. It's the equivalent of undoing everything you just worked on in a school project that's worth 40% of your final grade. Think about that for a second. Marvel just undid 6 years of work and investment in a single character for them to go back to the beginning. Why didn't you just do that then from the start? You could have had more classic Spidey a long time ago by that train of thought (which I really didn't want because we already saw that twice and this Spidey was something fresh).

Anyways, thanks for reading. This is 2 years worth of disappointment and frustration put on the page.

[letterboxd-worth-a-damn]

[thekat-alystreview]

Movie Review - Spider-Man: No Way Home

Look, I love Marvel movies. Even when they frustrate me with weird plot choices, over-reliance on quips, or shaky logic, I still show up, popcorn in hand, ready for the ride. Spider-Man: No Way Home is no exception. I watched it when it first hit theaters, but at the time, I wasn’t as committed to reviewing things as I am now. So here we are, years after the hype has died down.

Listen, I know this was the cinematic event for a lot of people—whether they experienced it in a packed theater or on some sketchy pirating site that now knows way too much about their browsing habits. But relevance be damned, I’m writing about it now. And honestly? It’s a fun ride, but not particularly rewatchable. I didn’t not have fun watching it, but the more I thought about it afterward, the more I realized—this movie is kind of a mess. A really fun mess, sure, but a mess nonetheless.

The Plot: A House of Cards (Built on Peter’s Bad Decisions)

Let’s talk about the plot. Because wow, does this entire movie hinge on Peter Parker being aggressively, painfully dumb. This isn’t just “Peter makes mistakes because he’s a kid.” This is Peter deciding the very first solution to his college rejection problems should be a global-scale wizard brainwashing spell instead of, I don’t know, calling the admissions office. And then, rather than letting Doctor Strange do the spell correctly, he interrupts it mid-cast because he suddenly realizes he should’ve given it some parameters. Like, dude. Maybe plan ahead before attempting to rewrite reality?

And I get it—Peter is naive, idealistic, and believes in second chances. That’s core to his character. But there’s a difference between being hopeful and making choices that only exist to keep the plot moving. His decision to help the villains is great on paper, but taking superpowered criminals out of their nice, contained magic prisons and into his literal home? That’s not naïve. That’s just reckless. He knows at least two of them were actively committing acts of terrorism on a bridge not even 24 hours ago, but sure, let’s trust them in Aunt May’s apartment.

And yes, I’ve heard the counterarguments: “He’s a kid! He’s just trying to help!” But a dumb kid crashes their dad’s car trying to drift a corner too fast, they don’t attempt global mind-wiping magic and bring five dangerous criminals to their doorstep.

The Memory-Wipe Spell: The More You Think About It, the Less It Works

The ending spell is where my brain finally broke. So everyone forgets Peter Parker? Cool, fine. But does that mean he doesn’t have a birth certificate, a Social Security number, a bank account? If it’s just memory-based, does that mean physical records of him still exist but no one remembers who he is? If it wipes all evidence, is Peter Parker now legally a ghost? No ID, no school records, no way to exist in society?

And if the spell was powerful enough to bring Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield’s Spider-Men (and their villains) into the MCU, does that mean it also affected every Peter Parker in every universe? Did Tobey’s Peter lose Mary Jane? Did Andrew’s Peter just wake up one day and Gwen’s grave was blank? This movie is telling me Peter Parker broke the multiverse and somehow erased every version of himself from existence in one move. And they just… don’t address it.

Oh, and the spell time-traveled somehow, which they acknowledge but never explain. If it reached into the past, did that mean the other Spider-Men’s villains never became villains in the first place? The more you try to make sense of it, the more the logic collapses in on itself.

Aunt May’s Death: A Moment That Didn’t Land

Maybe I’m a little heartless, but I laughed at Aunt May’s death scene. Not because I enjoyed it, but because they did the most cliché thing imaginable. You know the trope—character gets stabbed just right, insists they’re fine, only to dramatically look at their hand and reveal blood. And then boom, death. It’s like a QuickTime event in a video game. The actual emotional weight is there, though. Tom Holland sells the hell out of his grief, and I liked that it visibly changed him. But because it happens right before the climax, we don’t really get to sit with Peter’s pain before we’re off to Spider-Trio Fun Time™.

The Best Part? Willem Dafoe

If this movie has a saving grace, it’s Willem Dafoe. Every single second he’s on screen is gold. The man didn’t just step back into his Green Goblin role—he devoured it. He was unhinged, unpredictable, and genuinely terrifying in a way MCU villains often aren’t. The rest of the villains did solid work too, but let’s be real, Sandman and Lizard were basically set dressing.

MCU Spider-Man and His Lack of Villains

It’s almost impressive that after three movies, Tom Holland’s Spider-Man still doesn’t have a proper rogues’ gallery. The first two movies gave him Iron Man villains, and this one just handed him villains from the other Spider-Men. The fact that his trilogy ends with him losing every single connection to the larger MCU makes it feel like this whole journey was just a long-winded way to hit the reset button. And honestly? That kinda sucks.

The Verdict

No Way Home isn’t a bad movie. It’s fun in the moment, full of nostalgia, and has some truly great performances. But it’s also a structural mess, held together by fanservice and a deep love for previous Spider-Man films rather than a strong story of its own. It’s like a greatest hits album—something you enjoy while it’s playing but don’t feel the need to revisit.

It does deserve credit for being the only live-action Spider-Man film to juggle multiple villains well. But when you compare it to Spider-Verse, which pulled off the same premise with airtight storytelling, it’s hard not to see the cracks. This film is less about Tom Holland’s Peter Parker and more about celebrating Tobey and Andrew’s movies. And if that’s what you wanted? Then No Way Home delivers. But as an actual standalone Spider-Man film? It left me wishing for more.

[myjondaleh]

New episode of the vibranium shield, in the hand of Falcon

[thatgeekwiththeclipons]

Happy 60th Birthday to Academy Award Winning actress Marisa Tomei! ^__^

[macks-mechas]

Today's review: Marvel Legends Deluxe No Way Home Green Goblin!

I may be a bit biased as the Green Goblin was always my favourite Spider-man villain, not to mention Willem Dafoe is my favourite incarnation of the character. But I think even with those aside this is a fantastic figure that is filled with detail, articulation and comes with all the accessories one could expect from the character and more!

Firstly I'll talk about the glider. Unlike the previous Marvel Legends Green Goblin (which I have since given away) this glider is much bigger and have way more articulate joints to it. Each wing features two pivot points, one of which is a ratchet joint, and the foot plates are fitted into their slots by pegs which both then peg into the bottom of the feet and have a foot latch as well. This allows the plates to rotate and rock side to side, allowing for some really nice poses when on the glider. It is, as can be seen, much bigger than the sky stick used by New Goblin in Spider-man 3.

The figure itself is absolutely covered in sculpted detail. The botched repairs to his armour have all been properly coloured and worn to show the haste of the patch job and the new weapons on his arms have been fully painted and don't hinder the figure's movements at all. The headsculpt is a striking likeness of Willem Dafoe, right down to the gap tooth.

Accessories are more than I expected for even a deluxe figure. The Goblin has his glider, a pumpkin bomb (the right size for once), the separating footplates, his goggles, an optional hood and an optional Green Goblin mask head (mine is very stiff and I have only managed to successfully get it on once, but given how hard it was to remove I opted not to try again).

The Green Goblin has some amazing articulation, although some joints are quite stiff. Much like my other Marvel Legends figures I found that the central torso ball joint was really tight and the same for at least one joint on each arm and leg. Although, as a plus, none of these are pin joints that will rust over time. I've been able to pull off most poses from the screenshots I had, even managing to stand the figure with Peter Parker wrapped around him punching his face. I would say that he would benefit from a foot rotation joint for the glider and butterfly joints in the shoulders, but otherwise the articulation is spot on.

I give Green Goblin 10/10 - I absolutely love this figure and it was definitely worth the Deluxe price point!

[panosatthemovies]

Spider-Man: No Way Home is the epic conclusion to the third Spider-Man franchise and the one that ingeniously takes advantage of the fact that we all know there have been way too many Spider-Man franchises in the span of just one movie-going generation. So the script cleverly creates a dent in the multi-verse that somehow brings all the baddies from the previous films to fight Tom Holland's Spider-Man, even though they've been defeated to death by Tobey Maguire's and Andrew Garfield's earlier incarnations of the comic-book hero. Who can help Spider-Man best with such an entangled problem? Avoiding spoilers for anyone who managed to overlook them during the last two years, this turns out to be a live-action celebration of the concept first seen in the excellent Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse while also managing to be moving in uniting heroes and fans of the whole franchise together. The action sequences are great, and the cast of this third reboot, by putting aside the past, finally owns the right to play these iconic heroes. Spider-Man himself goes through an existential crisis resulting in a sacrifice similar to Daniel Craig's James Bond, which was inspired by Nolan's Batman treatment in the first place. So, you see, all our heroes have become too serious in the end, proving they all belong in the much larger multi-verse we otherwise call "culture."

B+

Trailer: https://youtu.be/JfVOs4VSpmA

[curfewplugs]

never before in my life seen someone else who hates spiderman no way home until now o7

So nice hearing from you flicker! I would love to know why you also hate it o7 and if your reasons are at all similar to mine!

You've given me the opportunity so now it's takedown time...

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I truly believe that movie must have been conceived of by a gravely unwell person. It's the only explanation for why it interjects itself into all these sociopolitical conversations and casually resigns itself to their most conceivably destitute logical ends. (Like! It can't possibly take that many steps to string together a multiverse plot??)

It's really important that we introduce the idea of restorative/transformative justice in a Marvel property. How about with the tracksuit crooks, where we have a whole thread going on about how an indigenous man joined them to provide for his deaf child, and died on the job (in the television show airing concurrently with this movie)? Nah, we'll bring back Willem Dafoe's Green Goblin and explore that theme with a hammy cartoon supervillain. Willem Dafoe's Green Goblin. And it's not even like this idea of redemption is diluted and it's the hero's own flawed understanding, it's this weird omnipresent virtue that the characters have to aspire to, spearheaded by the hero's aunt. And she will put her faith in this comically surface-level understanding of restorative justice above her nephew's safety (she knows he's spider-man by the way). BUT she is killed midway through, so before we can even contemplate how shitty of a parent she is, the film tells us she is a martyr and we need to treat her guidance with even more reverence. But what interest would a billion dollar movie have in wanting to make transformative justice seem like an inherently silly idea?

Quickly, two other things in this vein: The concept that Alex Jones/his in-universe allegory JJJ would be blaring on the biggest screen in Times Square. I have to ask why make this comparison unless it's to say something, and what is it saying? Shut up if you're upset about him having a platform because at least he's not broadcasted on like 18 huge screens for all the world to see, like in this hypothetical universe? And Dr. Strange with his world-upending powers, even though he briefly considers the consequences if the spell were to go wrong, he is ultimately rash and precarious and it spirals out of control... okay we're getting somewhere, it's starting to resonate as some kind of analogy, maybe... and oops he's just portrayed as this goofy spell-master and not a kind of villain in his own right.

And then there's the aura the thing as a whole gives off. We know the production and vfx on this were rushed to get it done on time—and that's far from uncommon these days, unfortunately—but there's something about this film in particular where you can feel the sleepless nights, the crusty dry eyes, the oatmeal brain... oozing out from every frame. Watching it made me feel like I worked on it tirelessly and that I shouldn't look at it any more for my own sanity. 

So the whole amalgamation to me is a misanthropic display that really is unlike anything I've seen in entertainment media. This isn't insipid run-of-the-mill studio crap, it's studio bile that is so thick and disgusting that it asserts its place in spacetime and asks you to consider how we got here. I find it so profoundly un-human it takes on a macabre quality. Forget horror movies!

This movie existing and being a crossover event with all the Spider-men? That's fine, even exciting. But the way it turned out, I cannot stomach it on an almost guttural level.

[jasonsutekh]

Spider-Man No Way Home (2021)

After his identity is revealed to the world Peter asks Doctor Strange for help but an erroneous spell causes villains from other universe to invade and wreak havock.

It’s always fun to see a culmination of several films, especially since this links various reboots together and answers questions thought to have been resolved or left open a while ago. It’s really great that they kept the original actors from the earlier installments and referenced so many of their original story lines.

Having so many characters falls into a hazard of having little time to expand on them properly aside from brief lines of explanation or connection. There wasn’t so much mention of Harry Osbourne considering it’d have been relevant to Norman, and also Amazing Peter should have asked to take some of the goblin cure back with him to cure his Harry.

Some gravitas was given to the narrative both personal and larger scale to motivate the characters into meddling with magic and then setting up the character for future movies. It’d be pretty depressing if this run of the franchise was left there but the cannonical multiverse means that there could be further ones from any of the actors if the studios were of a mind for it.

This was the installment of the latest Spider-Man movies that had the least comedy, possibly because there were so many sad stories to tie up. The end scene with Venom made little sense since that version of it and the host shouldn’t have had any knowledge of Spider-man and so shouldn’t have been brought across universes.

8/10 -It’s certainly worthy of very high praise!-

-The film is set right after the second new-franchise film from 2019, which technically makes the year 2024 since 5 years were skipped after the re-snap.

-After the film premiered it was revealed that the lead and love interest actors were dating, completing the third in the sequence of Spiderman actors to have dated their female co-stars.

-Some actors were digitally de-aged in order to resemble their appearances in the earlier installments of the joint franchises.

[timaeuslover001]

I just saw the dumbest comment about somebody talking about the overuse of VFX in the no way home film and that movie had a lot of issues and the VFX was one of them and how poorly done it was because none of that stuff would look even remotely real, but he tried to compare it to the prequel films in Star Wars saying that George Lucas overdid it with those films as well, and clearly he forgot that in the prequel films, they were interacting with so many different environments let alone races that could not be made practically.

They would be broke if they tried to make those costumes by hand and then it could’ve been done because so many of their body types and sizes were just different.

We saw a handful of alien races in sequel films: chewy, Jabba , Admiral Akbar, the cantina peopel for 5 minutes and the Ewoks and the sand dudes in Tatooine.

 and then most of those costumes were people with just head attachments or we didn’t really get a good look at their faces.

We saw MAINLY HUMANS THE WHOLE TIME!!!

The prequel films had so many different unique aliens with so many different sizes and colors and shapes that you could’ve practically done it without being completely broke.

And so many different environmental that they probably didn’t have access to practically. And this was exploration of the Republic in the bigger galaxy beyond what was shown in the sequel films.

 so yeah VFX was George Lucas’s best friend and they still look 10 times better than whatever we saw in the Spider-Man films by Disney.

[hemantjimin]

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My Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021) movie review!

[thatgeekwiththeclipons]

Happy 24th Birthday to actress Angourie Rice! ^__^

[the-sky-queen]

I watched No Way Home yesterday and I am screaming. AHHHHHH!!! Review time! :D

This is the moment I waited for. For the longest time, I was content to have only watched the Tobey Maguire movies. As far as I was concerned, he was the best Spider-Man. But the mere existence of No Way Home inspired me to watch everything else. I really wanted to watch this crossover.

It took a while, but it was so worth it!!! Even after all this, I can't quite say which Spider is my favorite. They're all so good!

So, the actual movie. I loved it so much!! The beginning bits are good, but it really picks up when Doc Ock comes in. He is for sure my favorite Spider-Man villain and seeing him was the BEST! Also, hearing a bit of Electro's theme when he came in made me really happy. A real highlight for me though was seeing all the different villains interact with each other. They were just kinda hanging out and it made me laugh when one of them said something funny.

But the BEST part was obviously the the different Spider-Men teaming up. I loved all their scenes together, especially the one right before the big battle. It's so quiet and they just have a conversation! It's nice. They really are like brothers.

Seeing Andrew catch MJ though???!!!! I'm so proud of him! It's gonna be okay, buddy. It's gonna be okay.

The end made me really sad. I'm glad Tom got to say goodbye to Ned and MJ, but seeing them not know who he is afterwards really hurts. I was begging through the screen for him to just tell them who he is, but he didn't, so I was sad.

Overall, really really good movie!! 10/10. Would recommend and would definitely watch again. ❤️❤️❤️❤️