I spent a
great deal of time before Spider-Man Homecoming came out declaring loudly why I
was going to hate this film. Some will say that I was over the top and overly
dramatic with my opinion and blew things way out of proportion and you would
not be wrong. I think initial anger at a trailer will never lead you to your
true opinion and I often tell people that I rewatch films multiple times solely
because I know my opinions will change on a film the more times I view it.
Having
watched the film now I can honestly say I’m not going to tell you it’s a bad
film simply because that is untrue. You can go into a film and force yourself
to hate it but that isn’t going to give you an unbiased view of it. Though I
had many pre-viewing ramblings about the film and its issues I can tell you
that the reasons I knew I was going to be unsatisfied with the final product
are true even after watching it.
I predicted
that my problems with the film were going to be that they stuck Spider-Man in
High school again and that they were also making him a pseudo-sidekick to Iron
Man. Very much so, these two things stick out as a problem, yet despite these plot
points I will still tell you that this is a wonderful film and you should go
see it. In fact in my opinion there was really only 1 terrible scene in the
whole feature.
They end up
recreating a scene from Ferris Bueller’s
Day Off then show the actual scene they are copying on someone’s TV before
continuing to copy the scene. I feel like you just don’t need to show your
reference work in-movie and it struck me as a bad idea. (I’m getting off topic,
hold on)
I think what
I’m experiencing for the first time is that this is no longer my era. I had my
Spider-Man growing up. He was and still is my favorite hero. He was a college
student who was working multiple jobs just trying to make ends meet and not
succeeding very often. As with many long lived superhero figures they go through
different times and ages. The Spider-Man I read as a kid, his time has passed. Maybe
Spider-Man needs to be a High schooler again; maybe he does need to be Iron Man’s
apprentice. I don’t know, I’ll never tell you I understand kids these days.
Somewhere
out there is a kid who is watching this film and is excited to see his version
of Spider-Man up on the big screen. I can’t
fault a film for not giving me my version amongst the hundreds of versions
that are already out there. There are a lot of things I actually really like about this film and really enjoyed getting to see.
I’ve had a lot of people tell me lately that I’m never
satisfied or happy with films or television and I tell them that can’t be true because I love film so much. Yet I haven’t put out a review in a really long time and it
was mostly because I found myself really unsatisfied with movies lately. I wasn’t
finding my muse to talk about them. I think I need to really change my
perspective on how I view films and go about reviewing them. (Hence the reason
for a long-winded speech instead of the usual fanfare)
I probably
would have previously given a poor review based on it missing what I want out
of a Spider-Man film but I don’t think that is fair. Out of sheer irony I
realized I was becoming J. Jonah Jameson, calling this Spider-Man a menace. This is a very good film and you
should go watch it. I think it’s great that Marvel and Sony were able to make a
deal to get this film green lit. I don’t think we would have gotten another
solid Spider-Man out of Sony without it and I'm excited to see what becomes of the property in the future.
I’m not sure when my next review will
be but I hope that it will be a shorter timelaspe than this last one.
Thanks for
reading.
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