Spider-Man Homecoming - Not The Warmest Welcome Home

Spider-Man Homecoming - Not The Warmest Welcome Home Jun 5, 2017 14:33:34 GMT

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Post by Atom(ica) Discord on Jun 5, 2017 14:33:34 GMT

Jun 5, 2017 2:27:40 GMT ArArArchStanton said:

Jun 5, 2017 1:42:23 GMT Atom(ica) Discord said:

It seems that the widespread consensus, sight unseen, for Spider-Man Homecoming is that that this new approach is a turn-off. Most of the complaints I am hearing and reading revolve around the coming of age story, the presence of Iron Man and a marketing campaign that shows too much skin.

In the face of that, I have to ask the naysayers this: What in God's name did you want to see in a new Spider-Man movie that hasn't been covered thoroughly by the previous franchises? My guess is stuff featuring clones, Carnage or the Sinister Six - none of which I am interested in.

For me, Homecoming is going to mix the best of two genres I love - the super-hero origin and a coming of age story.

Sigh... In any event, for those of you who don't mind serious spoilers, enjoy these gifts from Atomica:SaveSaveSaveSaveSaveSaveSaveSave

Since when is that the "widespread consensus"?

The film is directly about a street level hero taking on people who are involved with cleaning up the destruction from Avengers conflicts, and the widespread consensus is that it's looking just fine.

Find me one person on this board besides you and me who doesn't have at least one issue with Spider-Man Homecoming based on the marketing. It's the same on all of the other boards I frequent as well. A lot of "fans" would seem to prefer Spider-Man be a solo character who is disconnected from the Marvel Universe. This attitude baffles me considering that the Fantastic Four appears in issue number 1 of the Amazing Spider-Man, Doctor Doom was in issue number 5, the Human Torch was in issue number 8, Daredevil was in issue number 16 and so on and so on...

People hate the new tech in the suit but, look at the cover of Amazing Spider-Man number 22. Every tech-gag seen in the Homecoming trailers was actually a thing from the comic books (sans the heaters).

I get that people don't like Tony influencing Peter. That's actually the only aspect of Homecoming I'm even moderately concerned about. Peter did learn most of the essential lessons about being a Super-Hero on his own. However, I don't think it's beyond reason to think that he might want to be a part of something bigger than himself at first (i.e., the Avengers).

People are entitled to their own opinion but, I feel like a lot of this bitching and moaning is coming from a place of complete ignorance and conditioning brought on by Sony's previous entries in the franchise. I'm sincerely trying to understand their point of view.SaveSave