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lebateleur) wrote2019-07-14 03:13 pm
lebateleur) wrote2019-07-14 03:13 pm
In which I finally get around to seeing Spider-Man: Far From Home
It was pretty entertaining. (Despite the efforts of the three Dudebros who sat behind us, used their outdoor voices, and seemed to think everyone else in the theater was interested in their witty banter. Part of me was very tempted to ask them if this was their first time at the movies without Mom and Dad.)
The movie was about two hours but well-paced; there weren’t any parts that felt like they were dragging. The opening was funny and very, very true to high school AV club form. I know the movie is subtitled "Far From Home," but I wish it had spent more time with this setting, because I found it far more intriguing than the Travel Channel stuff that came after. A lot of Hollywood movie settings seem to be chosen because the cast and crew want junkets to ritzy locales, and S:FFH is no different—you could have replaced Venice, Prague, and London with any number of locations in North or Central America, or Africa, or anywhere else with minimal alterations to the script.
The romance and Peter’s awkwardness were both really sweetly done, and I liked that the script went with the “group of friends in distress” instead of “damsel in distress” angle, which it could just as easily have done. Gyllenhaal’s Mysterio was an entertaining adversary and the big reveal of his true intentions was pretty damn amusing. (And also the film’s only Gotcha! moment for me, because while Mysterio’s heel turn should be obvious even to viewers unfamiliar with the comics, they totally took me in with its setup. “Mysterio just shows up in Prague, defeats a massive elemental firebeast alongside a brand spanking new superhero, it’s all over the news, and yet somehow the two of them can just go sit in a bar and no one swarms them with questions or accolades or selfie requests?!
Joke was very much on me.
I also appreciated the careful buildup of Peter’s reluctance to be a superhero, because that was the only way his willingness to surrender the momento Stark bequeathed him could be believable.
The hallucinatory scenes were really good. I heard somewhere that they had to tone them down, in fact. If true, I hope we get to see the alternate versions on the DVD.
Sometimes I forget how these movies have always tied into current events, going all the way back to the original Iron Man, and I think S:FFH was no different. Or at least, it sure seems like they’re setting up a fake news/deep fake/what part of the news can you trust-angle in the next film.
We stuck around for both bonus scenes and I’m pretty sure I know how the next film will follow on to S:FFH.
The first bonus scene shows The Daily Bugle outing Peter as Spider-Man. The second shows that far from being in the thick of things, Nick Fury has been on holiday while two Skrull impersonated him and Maria Hill on Earth. It seems to me someone will probably have the bright idea—although not before The Daily Bugle’s allegation has caused a movie’s worth of headaches—that Peter could disprove this claim by showing up somewhere--either as Spider-Man or himself--alongside a Skrull disguised as his other persona. Maybe Peter is even "saved" by Spider-Man himself.
We shall see, in time, how close to the mark I am about this.
これで以上です。
The movie was about two hours but well-paced; there weren’t any parts that felt like they were dragging. The opening was funny and very, very true to high school AV club form. I know the movie is subtitled "Far From Home," but I wish it had spent more time with this setting, because I found it far more intriguing than the Travel Channel stuff that came after. A lot of Hollywood movie settings seem to be chosen because the cast and crew want junkets to ritzy locales, and S:FFH is no different—you could have replaced Venice, Prague, and London with any number of locations in North or Central America, or Africa, or anywhere else with minimal alterations to the script.
The romance and Peter’s awkwardness were both really sweetly done, and I liked that the script went with the “group of friends in distress” instead of “damsel in distress” angle, which it could just as easily have done. Gyllenhaal’s Mysterio was an entertaining adversary and the big reveal of his true intentions was pretty damn amusing. (And also the film’s only Gotcha! moment for me, because while Mysterio’s heel turn should be obvious even to viewers unfamiliar with the comics, they totally took me in with its setup. “Mysterio just shows up in Prague, defeats a massive elemental firebeast alongside a brand spanking new superhero, it’s all over the news, and yet somehow the two of them can just go sit in a bar and no one swarms them with questions or accolades or selfie requests?!
Joke was very much on me.
I also appreciated the careful buildup of Peter’s reluctance to be a superhero, because that was the only way his willingness to surrender the momento Stark bequeathed him could be believable.
The hallucinatory scenes were really good. I heard somewhere that they had to tone them down, in fact. If true, I hope we get to see the alternate versions on the DVD.
Sometimes I forget how these movies have always tied into current events, going all the way back to the original Iron Man, and I think S:FFH was no different. Or at least, it sure seems like they’re setting up a fake news/deep fake/what part of the news can you trust-angle in the next film.
We stuck around for both bonus scenes and I’m pretty sure I know how the next film will follow on to S:FFH.
The first bonus scene shows The Daily Bugle outing Peter as Spider-Man. The second shows that far from being in the thick of things, Nick Fury has been on holiday while two Skrull impersonated him and Maria Hill on Earth. It seems to me someone will probably have the bright idea—although not before The Daily Bugle’s allegation has caused a movie’s worth of headaches—that Peter could disprove this claim by showing up somewhere--either as Spider-Man or himself--alongside a Skrull disguised as his other persona. Maybe Peter is even "saved" by Spider-Man himself.
We shall see, in time, how close to the mark I am about this.
これで以上です。