NS: Spider-Man: No Way Home discussion

[cyberghostface]

So this little film came out today. Anyone see it yet? Some spoilery thoughts.

It would be a bigger surprise if they weren’t in it but nevertheless… Tobey and Andrew are back. They’re both fun to watch and they have great chemistry with Tom. Tobey’s the definitive Peter Parker in my eyes and while I thought the TASM films were a misfire it was nice to see Andrew again as the film gives his version of the character some closure.

The villains… well, Willem Dafoe and Alfred Molina were the only ones given much to do (Dafoe was clearly having a lot of fun). Jamie Foxx might as well not even be the same character in TASM2. Lizard and Sandman were both CGI throughout; the latter briefly used archive footage of Thomas Haden Church from Spider-Man 3 so I don’t think Church was even involved here.

It’s generally a lot of a fanservice but that’s not necessarily a bad thing.

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[deepspaceartist]

• I also guess this answers the Uncle Ben question. It seems he never existed in the MCU.

I think it's no so much that Ben didn't exist, there's enough references to him that he definitely did, but that MCU Ben died in such a way that Peter didn't feel directly responsible for causing it. Like MCU Ben died in a car accident or had a heart attack or some other way that isn't 'shot by a criminal Peter decided not to stop'.