Spider-man: Brand new day
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Just back from this.
Entertaining and a good Marvel outing. But a bit too long (feels a bit like one of the later Harry Potter books: would have benefitted from a good sub-editor) and feels like it’s two scripts that have been meshed into one. Mark Ruffalo/the Hulk and Florence Pugh/ Black Widow could easily have been written out of the story to cut 45-60 mins. The cameos (or more in the case of Ruffalo) are fun but felt a bit indulgent. John Bernthal does a great shift as the Punisher though. Spidey shows new levels of both fighting skills and the level of beating capable of being taken by a superhero body. The villain of the piece is a bit of a “woah - how does that work?” piece well concealed by the misdirection in the trailer. The black eyes of Spidey seen in the trailer feels a a development that wasn’t fully resolved.
Entertaining and a good Marvel outing. But a bit too long (feels a bit like one of the later Harry Potter books: would have benefitted from a good sub-editor) and feels like it’s two scripts that have been meshed into one. Mark Ruffalo/the Hulk and Florence Pugh/ Black Widow could easily have been written out of the story to cut 45-60 mins. The cameos (or more in the case of Ruffalo) are fun but felt a bit indulgent. John Bernthal does a great shift as the Punisher though. Spidey shows new levels of both fighting skills and the level of beating capable of being taken by a superhero body. The villain of the piece is a bit of a “woah - how does that work?” piece well concealed by the misdirection in the trailer. The black eyes of Spidey seen in the trailer feels a a development that wasn’t fully resolved.
Edited by BlackTails on Thursday 30th July 23:54
HTP99 said:
Watched it yesterday, loved it, Hulk is brilliant and I love the darker side to Spiderman, however towards the end I did feel that it dragged a bit.
I echo this as well(watched it this afternoon), and It was too long for me by a long way, but I did enjoy the darker side of him as you say, and anything with the Hulk in ticks my boxes anyway for sure. Off topic, but why did David Banner's name get changed to Bruce Banner over the years by the way?
Steve vRS said:
I saw some of this being filmed in Glasgow last August so will be watching those scenes to see how they look on screen, versus what I saw in 'real life'!
The tank scene was filmed in Basingstoke... the old condemned AA headquarters.( Due for demolition... good old CGI).
Edited by Milkyway on Saturday 1st August 22:57
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