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Forbes' Scott Mendelson: The Film Doesn't Work


https://www.forbes.com/sites/scottmendelson/2017/06/29/review-spider-man-homecoming-turns-peter-parker-into-curious-george/#5ff9ef066d7e

"in a desire to highlight his youth and inexperience, the film turns Peter Parker into a dangerously incompetent would-be superhero. At its core, Spider-Man: Homecoming is 133 minutes of Peter Parker failing the "first do no harm" rule of super heroics."

"There is (unless I missed it) no reference to Peter's actual origin and the film stumbles by essentially making Parker's desire to be Spider-Man less about his guilt or even his willingness to help and more about impressing Tony Stark."

"we spend an entire movie watching this wet-behind-the-ears wallcrawler screw up repeatedly (while depending almost entirely on Tony's super-suit and its various toys) only with the promise that he'll be the competent and inspiring superhero in the next installment."

"maybe once it moves past treating Spider-Man as the world's worst superhero for the sake of cheap laughs while retrofitting his arc so that he's doing what he does for the approval of a cool adult, we'll be on solid footing."

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Haha I love that we have a shared sorta hatred for this movie

He hit the nail on the head. Yeah this spider man is less about being humble and more about bragging. "If you had just let me..." that was new spm yelling at Tony. No gratitude at all. Really just rubbed my the wrong way.

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