So, I have to fully grok the Spiderman comics, and never will honestly, but, Peter's friend, reminds me a LOT of the kid from Miles Morales' Spiderman series? I mean, I think he had a big lego ball that he drops, which felt an awful lot like a scene straight out of that comic. Anyone else get that vibe? That they're pulling that sidekick over for this storyline?
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I couldn't really say. He seems more like every goofy comic relief sidekick, like they did in Antman.
Yeah but he looks a lot like the one from the Morales series. In that he's a chubby-ish kid of what looks like mixed ethnicity, and he seems to have a thing for legos, which that character did. And I think there was a scene, specifically when he learns his friend is Spiderman, that he drops his lego construction.
The material in the trailer looks fine. Maybe more Iron Man than I'd expect, but otherwise unsurprising. The editing however is so super damn generic at this point, it makes me want to claw my eyes out. Also that "homecoming" font... striking to say the least.
Just took a look at the cast list... Holland is supposed to be 15? Whut? At least give the guy a pizza-face! He doesn't look 15 at all. And of course some Disney Channel pop singer/actress is playing a character that's "very smart, very intellectual, always in her books." Good luck with that.
Just took a look at the cast list... Holland is supposed to be 15? Whut? At least give the guy a pizza-face! He doesn't look 15 at all. And of course some Disney Channel pop singer/actress is playing a character that's "very smart, very intellectual, always in her books." Good luck with that.
At least he and his penta-chin look like the sort of "losers" they're apparently trying to portray.Happyninja42 said:
They're merging Ned Leeds (a friend of Peter Parker and one of the many Hobgoblins) with Ganke, the best friend of Miles Morales. In appearance it looks like basically just Ganke with a new name however,Happyninja42 said:
You know except this time he already appeared in Civil War (and was great). It's going to be part of the MCU and it's unlikely any more reboots (except soft ones involving different actors) will happen because Sony and Marvel are playing nice with their toys.Cap said:
And it looks like they might actually get the character right.
He is the youngest Peter Parker has ever looked. While I agree he does not look 15 at all, he is completely believable as a teenager in high school.McElroy said:
Didn't impress me to be honest. It would seem they're in part doing the story about Iron Man training Peter outside of school to properly use his powers, which I'll admit is different from the usual Spider-Man storyline we've seen so far. During and after Doctor Strange however, I'm finding it difficult to get invested or engaged in any of Marvel's output anymore. Ragnarok won't change anything. Homecoming won't change anything. The stays quo Must. Stay. Put! It's all becoming more and more just white noise that doesn't register.
Comes with Holland actually being the youngest Parker out of the three, I'm guessing. Were he 18 years old (which is what I assumed with Spidey in Civil War) I'd buy it completely, but I'm willing to toss another guess and say they want to make a second Spider-Man movie set in high school before it's too late.Bob_McMillan said:
Sort of like comics in general then? I mean for decades they've been maintaining the status quo, even going so far as to rewrite all of their cosmology to reset stuff that was fucked over by various writers decade after decade. Not to mention individual writers undoing stuff the previous writer did because they wanted to use a character the last person killed off or whatever. So you know, it's not like this is anything different for the comic book genre. It's just now on the big screen instead of a comic book.bartholen said:
Eh, not really. Considering comics originated from the newspaper strip format, the unchanging status quo is basically written into the genes of any comic that originated from strips. Movies on the other hand didn't feature "to be continued..." at the bottom of the screen since their inception. This is one of the fundamental conflicts one runs into when adapting any medium into another, and why the interconnected universe as a film concept is ultimately unsustainable from a creative standpoint.Happyninja42 said:
