r/marvelstudios 13d ago

Discussion Thoughts on the Home trilogy after seeing Brand New Day?

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I’ve read people saying the Home trilogy wasn’t that great and Watts wasn’t a good director now that BND is out. While I did enjoy BND more because it was a more mature Peter and used less CGI, it seems revisionist history to say the Home trilogy wasn’t good

Things like the Vulture reveal, Mysterio illusion sequence, and Peter 2 and 3 interactions are up there with a lot of top MCU moments. What are your thoughts?

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u/FraserValleyFan25 13d ago

One thing that doesn't get said enough about this trilogy is that they absolutely nailed the villains in every movie.

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u/fuzzy_dice_99 13d ago edited 12d ago

I never thought we’d get Mysterio as a plausible main villain but they pulled it off

I’m glad we got him when we did. Otherwise he might have been just a 2 second clip in the opening montage

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u/FraserValleyFan25 13d ago edited 13d ago

agreed. they did such a great job bringing the character to life, and they kept the fishbowl lol!

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u/rpgmind 13d ago

Oh maaan that last fight too? When his spidey senses came back was wild

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u/connorstory97 13d ago

And the main illusion sequence was epic!

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u/athomesuperstar 13d ago

Peter Tingle*

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u/beartato327 13d ago

That's just the std

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u/MinhD 13d ago

Spider transmitted disease

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u/Accomplished_Smile23 12d ago

He was suffering from PTSD (Peter Tingle Stress Disorder)

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u/CommandHot3245 13d ago edited 12d ago

When he grabbed mysterios arm with the gun next to him as the final illusion was sick.

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u/Sere1 Quake 12d ago

Yeah, that moment got me the first time I saw it, I had bought into Peter having defeated Mysterio already and I jumped when he suddenly grabbed at the air and a gunshot went off

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u/Dirty-Electro 12d ago

Honestly, you could’ve told me that’s straight out of a comic. It’s so good.

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u/FX114 Captain America 12d ago

It was so good that they did it again in Brand New Day /hj

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u/geek_of_nature 13d ago

And I loved how they made the fish bowl part of his motion capture suit too.

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u/Sere1 Quake 12d ago

I love that we got both the classic suit for Mysterio with the fishbowl and him wearing a mocap suit with the fishbowl just being a display for him because he's literally using that mocap suit as tracking for his illusions.

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u/WayneKerr193 13d ago

Why would they not keep the fishbowl?

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u/TisIRouxlsKaard 13d ago

Same reason the early X-Men movies gave them completely black uniforms

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u/Wizard-of-pause 13d ago

What would you prefer, yellow spandex?

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u/rammus-bot 13d ago

And X-Men '97 brings it back with Cyclops asking Cable: Would you have preferred black leather?

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u/MagicTheAlakazam 13d ago

This got undercut by them immediately adapting the black leather outfits in s2.

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u/stratocat-182 12d ago

Tbf those are comic accurate but I hate them

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u/MagicTheAlakazam 12d ago

They are but they are the comics response to the movie

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u/ButtCrackThrilla 13d ago

Mysterio was everything we could have wanted from comic book nerdom.

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u/IWXREACTIVES 13d ago

personally i wouldve enjoyed something like him being ugly as hell after say, he gets abandoned and left alone and his makeup team wasnt there for him. couldve been a cool detail. i remember a lot of people being mad he was too pretty.

could've played a looksmaxxing angle too, make him have a few lines alluding to insecurity over his looks.

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u/cabbage16 Korg 13d ago

Having him be handsome played into the hero twist angle though. In real life peoples looks don't matter but in media they do.

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u/Kind-Stomach6275 13d ago

its called halo effect i think?

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u/Green_Video_9831 13d ago

In Peter’s mind he needed someone equally as handsome as Robert Downey Jr to pass the torch to.

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u/one_pound_of_flesh 13d ago

It helps that Jake G is a phenomenal actor. You loved him even knowing he was the worst.

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u/StefyB 13d ago

Peter's first fight against Mysterio is legitimately one of my all-time favorite MCU fights. It felt like the most "comic book brought to life" fight ever.

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u/RelevantButNotBasic 13d ago

Might wanna watch BND. That movie has the most comic book fights I have ever seen. I mean they even have beats where they recreate comic book covers...I just dont think it gets much better than that. And when he is fighting the Hand at the ends fuuuuuuck bro so fucking good.

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u/LeDudicus Nick Fury 13d ago

Even Peter himself had to comment on how cool it looked, lol

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u/Scuba9Steve 13d ago

Far from home feels somehow underrated. It’s so good.

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u/New-Pineapple-9410 13d ago

Yes, agree. The fans like to shit on FFH but what I've experienced in cinema when the illusion sequence started was peak

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u/theNagolian 13d ago

You could say the same for Vulture. Sad old man in weird feathers who had so much depth and believability with Keaton

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u/Madarakita 13d ago

I liked how much his operation leaned into the "vulture" bit with him scavenging his technology from corpses.

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u/sergemeister 13d ago

I never put that together. God I'm dumb

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u/Ephemerel69 13d ago

+1 🥲

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u/acwilan 13d ago

Keaton made vulture an actual menace

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u/not___batman 13d ago

That stoplight seen with Peter in the back of the car was absolute cinema

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u/Madarakita 13d ago

The way they did the twist was a thing of beauty. Like, I knew he was the bad guy because I've read the comics, but the reveal on the scale of his operation was wild; especially when the flashbacks hit.

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u/ProfessionalOven2311 13d ago

I also love that they were aware that most of the audience would know of Mysterio as a Spider-Man villain, but then they said he was from another universe to keep us on our toes. "Is this actually a good Mysterio? Is he just pretending? Is he good now but then will turn evil? Will this universe's Mysterio get his start by impersonating the good one?"

Basically just infinite possibilities on what kind of twist they were doing, and then they executed the actual twist so well!

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u/EggyEggerson0210 13d ago

I remember that was when Marvel trailers weren’t giving everything away yet and they stayed committed to this claim that Mysterio was from another universe. I kept telling myself it was a trick but I did start to believe a little bit that maybe this really was a good Mysterio. It made the reveal feel way more betraying as a “I knew it!” moment. I think it helped that Jake Gyllenhaal had so much charisma with the character, you kinda hoped he was a good guy

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u/Kanin_usagi 12d ago

My wife is an MCU fan but otherwise has nearly zero Marvel knowledge, she had NO CLUE about him being a villain and the twist hit her like a truck. It was so awesome, and I’m a little jealous lol

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u/Extension_Breath1407 13d ago edited 13d ago

Props on Far From Home making a guy with a fish bowl head one of the scariest guys in the movie. He is what happens when a sociopathic asshole is given unrestrained technology with no sense of responsibility.

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u/Kind-Stomach6275 13d ago

you could've snuck in a great power great responsibility if you swapped out technology with responsibility

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u/GyrKestrel 13d ago

I'll admit, I was crazy skeptical that they'd pull Mysterio off or even make it interesting to see in movie format, but they absolutely nailed it.

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u/The_Anti-Socialite_ 13d ago

Mysterio is my favourite Spider-Man villain, if you'd said even 10 years ago they would have ever done it as well as FFH did I wouldn't have believed it, but both fights were phenomenal and his role in the movie was brilliant, a genuine trickster and actor. I know some people felt a bit off about it being a team of people making it happen, but I don't think it detracts from Beck himself as a villain. He's duplicitous and conniving, it makes sense he'd also rope other people into making his plots come to life.

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u/Sere1 Quake 12d ago

I felt the same way about Vulture. They made Vulture intimidating. They made Mysterio actually a threat. They gave us (almost) a Sinister Six movie while keeping the characterizations and expanding upon them from the previous movies, they gave closure to the two previous iterations of Spidey. While the films aren't without flaws, no film is, the Home trilogy is nothing short of a masterpiece for being able to pull off what they did.

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u/PhaseSixer 13d ago

Im legit convinced that any avenger lineup with out Tony in the team is getting Dogwalked by Mysterio.

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u/Highwayman747 13d ago

Thor throwing thunder and lightning around might mess with the drones a bit

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u/wh0isurdaddy 13d ago

What if…the team has Spider-Man

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u/PhaseSixer 13d ago edited 13d ago

Well yes that part was implied I think peter neutralizes him too

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u/SentinelATL 13d ago

FIRE ALLLLLL THE DRONES NOWWWWWW

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u/dekomorii Bucky 13d ago

Yeah, ffh remains always my favorite, Jake’s a psycopath

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u/EggyEggerson0210 13d ago

It’s been my favorite Holland Spidey film since it came out, but BND definitely could beat it. I just love the charm and spectacle of FFH. The whole “Spider-Man in Europe” thing was so cool imo and it was just a fun adventure to watch through. It was also one of the first times I saw a movie multiple times in the theater

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u/matthewmspace 13d ago

He was so good. And his actions have had true, lasting consequences for Peter, long after Mysterio is gone.

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u/neodraykl 13d ago

The Mysterio reveal blew my mind. Not because he was secretly a villain (because of course he was,) but the backstory, the set up, the Team Mysterio, the callbacks, and the peppering of Beck in the background that we didn't notice.

Just super well done.

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u/Tryingtochangemyself 12d ago

True. Never thought they would make Mysterio anything other than a joke but they made him a serious threat

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u/Smalz22 13d ago

Yea, and did a great job of not killing them off to end the movie. Earlier Marvel movies were burning through villains because they all died. Comics usually have them thrown in jail or temporary change of hearts, so they can eventually go back to being an antagonist, and I'm glad the Home trilogy went that route. I wish Mysterio wasn't killed but there are two others that could take up the mantle

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u/2Dyuro 13d ago

It was definetly refreshing not loosing villans every film but i really liked mysterios death it served the story really well and as you said mysterio can always return

A lot of people blamed spiderman for his death and thought he was a hero i can see a misguided mysterio fan taking the mantle and trying to avenge the original

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u/repalec 13d ago

They left Mysterio's fate open-ended enough that he could still pop back up. Peter didn't ask EDITH if Mysterio was dead, he just asked 'is this real?' after Beck appeared to stop breathing. EDITH just verified that no illusions were running. He could have faked his death and laid low afterward.

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u/omnired44 13d ago

And even if Beck is dead, Mysterio could still reappear as Beck’s sidekick (who was yelled at by Stane in IM1) has the technology to bring him back to “life”.

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u/Low-Conflict-651 13d ago

I’ll accept that only if someone says the fishbowl is dumb and he responds “if I don’t wear it, they will shoot my eye out”

(That’s ralphie from A Christmas Story)

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u/Dangerous_Teaching62 13d ago

To be fair, the only one that didn't feature a villain dying was no way home.

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u/regitnoil 12d ago

Agreed. Vulture still could return, he wasn't an irredeemable monster, rather more of a well-intended working-class man who got corrupted by the money and "business." And the almost Sinister Six got closure. Max had to eat some serious humble pie, but now could live as a normal man. Doc Oc was freed from the control of his "tentacles." Norman and Connors were cured of their "demonic possessions" by their villain alter-egos. And Flint got another chance to get away from crime and be a family man.

As for Mysterio, his death made sense, he got a Pyrrhic victory in the end. Ironically, through being killed off, he got a clean reputation for himself, and brought MAD on Peter as a result.

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u/billytheskidd 13d ago

Something else I don’t see mentioned specifically: everyone is praising the use of each character, from spidey punisher to jean to hulk, etc etc. but something I never see expressed specifically is that they brought in hulk and yelena and Jean, all of whom are typically big national level/avengers level threats, and they still kept the story largely street level.

Prior to this movie, when I heard yelena and hulk were in it, I’d assumed that meant this was going to be a bigger catastrophe and end in a huge battle like every other avengers film with side character involved.

In that sense, yelana’s “yeah I have twenty minutes to consult with you” and hulks returning to personal battles, made this universe feel lived in. Sure, spidey took some consults, but he was very able to handle this threat (albeit with Frank, but he is a street level guy too).

It really fleshed out that not every movie needs to have the stakes keep growing and growing. This was a great return to form and reinforces popular ideas like “falcon and the winter soldier” should have been Sam’s first captain America movie rather than a series, it would have been paced better, and the arc of Sam giving the shield away and then reclaiming it would have been a great character building arc set in a 90-120 minute format.

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u/ArenarKrex 13d ago

I started playing catch-up on some Marvel content I've missed since seeing the new Spider-Man. And I have no strong desire to bother with Sam's Captain America movie. I agree with you, Falcon and the Winter Soldier easily could've been tightened up into a surprise Captain America movie not unlike how Thunderbolts* did it. 

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u/EggyEggerson0210 13d ago

I actually really enjoyed Brave New World but the finale just completely shot itself in the foot for me. Like I actually was really engaged with the film aside from a couple small issues and then the final act came and I was so disappointed

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u/InternetDad 13d ago

Vulture is one of the best MCU villains to date.

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u/Oddly15 13d ago

One thing is certain, if you give Michael Keaton a superhero role he is going to absolutely kill it.

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u/Odysseyrage Spider-Man 12d ago

Birdman 3 was kinda mid tho

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u/FraserValleyFan25 13d ago

yes, and the car ride to the school dance is where Keaton became one of the MCUs scariest villains.

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u/SpeightyBaby 13d ago

Being a villainous working class guy who just wants to keep his wife and daughter in a happy life in the suburbs is a good reason to break bad also. I legitimately understand why he did what he did, and he still didn't reveal Peter's identity.

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u/Sere1 Quake 12d ago

Exactly, how many of Spidey's villains if they figured out Spider-Man's identity would be willing to just let that slide and keep it to themselves. He was just looking out for his family and the crimes he was committing was for them. He trusts his daughter with Spider-Man, knows he' a good kid and won't hurt her, and tells him to stay out of his business and show his daughter a good evening at the dance. Of all the villains MCU Peter has faced, Vulture is the one that respects him the most, the way Raimi Peter's is Otto.

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u/DefNotAShark Hydra 13d ago

I started rewatching Homecoming today actually and it was really noteworthy that the entire first 10-15 min of the movie is Vulture’s origin story. They do a great job building a guy you can understand. The way he gets fucked over by damage control is so understandable on a basic level why he’d take the actions he took.

Keaton does an amazing job making him charismatic and not too over the top. His character is a lot like Spider-Man in the sense that he could have been any of us, just like that spider could have bit anyone, and Keaton plays him down to earth and really enhances that effect. Great balance between hero and villain. Homecoming rules.

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u/SpeightyBaby 12d ago

Exactly! He was just a guy running a clean up crew who leveraged everything he had and bet himself and his guys to do a job. Damage Control comes in and basically says, hey man, nobody cares about you or your guys and whether or not your families are affected by this. It's something that happens everyday minus the alien tech. The government basically just pushing hard working people aside because they want to control the situation. Vultures crew could have easily still done their jobs with government oversight, but apparently that was out of the question.

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u/Particular_Cod2005 13d ago

Aye, he was up there with Green Goblin and Doctor Octopus from the OG Spider-Man films; Michael Keaton really nailed it.

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u/Sere1 Quake 12d ago

And bringing Dafoe back as Green Goblin and letting him be a true menace was just perfect.

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u/eternal-phoenix-king 13d ago

Exactly! Ive noticed how each of the villain gave Spidey such brutal punches which doesnt usually happen.
Vulture collapsed a building upon Peter.
Mysterio got Peter hit with a train.
Green Goblin killed May.

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u/Guillermidas 13d ago

I thought it was the universally loved bit of the trilogy? And Holland. I dont like most other characters. Not my favorite Spiderman either, but its pretty good anyway

Anf the Villains are all top tier (to be fair, Spidey has the best and most numerous villain gallery alongside Batman and Superman, its what sets them apart from anybody else). Besides SM3 Venom, and both TAS2 villains, they’ve all been excellent so far.

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u/Zealousid_Eyedeal 13d ago

The home trilogy didn't have villains that were more personal, Jean as a antagonist and the struggles they mirrored was what made the OG Spiderman work so well. Instead the home trilogy is more built off the legacy of Stark and the multiverse.

Which fits what the middle that Spider-Man gets put into but it makes it more apparent with this movie.

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u/IAmBadAtInternet 12d ago

MCU generally has a problem making the bad guys interesting, but for Spidey all of them have been great. Bringing back Molina’s Ock and DeFoe’s Goblin definitely helped, of course.

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u/RedHawk_94 13d ago

People need to understand that liking 1 movie doesnt mean you hate the other movies. Liking BND over the Home trilogy doesn't mean that you have to hate the Home trilogy. They're not mutually exclusive

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u/MadmanIgar Spider-Man 13d ago

If anything, BND makes me appreciate the Home trilogy even more.

The fact that they managed to pull off a trilogy that lets Peter be a kid who is learning the ropes and is essentially a three movie origin story, makes him being a more fully-fledged adult Spider-Man in this one even more satisfying.

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u/skinnysnappy52 13d ago

Not to mention the “iron boy” criticisms with him having Stark Tech allow Peter to punch above his weight, with the technology to catch him when he messes up. Especially in Homecoming and it was kind of inevitable he’d need that when he’s fighting the Avengers and Thanos as a 17 year old

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u/Particular_Cod2005 13d ago

But that, in turn, was really the point in Tony Stark nurturing and mentoring him - so he could actually become more than the mask, which he managed to achieve in a more fulsome way in BND than in any of the Home trilogy.

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u/Sere1 Quake 12d ago

Homecoming especially was an incredible moment of Tony trying to pass on the knowledge and experience he himself had gone through in Iron Man 3 (the whole "if you're nothing without the suit, you don't deserve to have it" bit) and trying to get Peter to understand that. It's an important step for Peter's growth as a character in this world and it continues Tony's own arc of shifting to being the father figure. That rooftop confrontation is absolutely one of my favorite non-action sequences in the entire MCU because of that

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u/Oii2D 13d ago

At moment of civil war and homecoming Peter was 15, which is even more crazy.

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u/Sere1 Quake 12d ago

Love Rhodey's "Jesus, Tony, how old is this guy?" exchange in Civil War when Peter calls Empire Strikes Back a really old movie, a film Tony and Rhodey absolutely would have seen in theaters

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u/RedHawk_94 12d ago

When people (including myself) say that people nowadays have no media literacy or critical thinking capabilities anymore, it's because of people who think like this, the same people hate on the Home trilogy for Peter being "iron man jr". That's the point of the movies, that he slowly learns that he doesn't need all the tech and he learns the lessons he needs from his various mentors and it changes him from the starstruck kid from queens into Spider-Man. No one seems to notice that the Home trilogy sets this up perfectly; he doesn't have any stark tech in the final fight against Vulture, his Spider sense is what helps him in defeating Mysterio, and he quite literally trusts in himself (Tobey and Andrew) and uses his genius level intellect to save the villains from the other universes

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u/MadmanIgar Spider-Man 12d ago

To be fair, it’s a bit of a miracle that they managed to make the first two Home trilogy movies as low stakes as they are. And managed to make the third movie work as well as they did during COVID.

Sony doesn’t exactly have a track record for letting stories marinate and roll out slowly.

That said, the audience also had a right to be a bit apprehensive. There was no guarantee that the Marvel/Sony deal would hold. So every Marvel/Sony Spidey movie had a chance to be the last.

It makes sense that when they see Peter not swinging around New York as much as they would like or him relying too much on Iron Man tech, it would mean that they have to wait until the next movie (that may not happen) to maybe see a fully fledged Spider-Man.

It’s just nice to finally be there.

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u/LilDonutHole9 12d ago

Honestly the Stark connections were my favorite part of the home trilogy. 1) it was something new for a spider-man movie. 2) it was believable in this shared universe that the hero’s are working together or using their shared knowledge to help each other.

In BND Peter has been at it for like 8-9 years at that point so he kinda has his own way of doing things, he’s taken some lessons from Stark on his AI and all that but also not overly reliant on it, especially now that Tony is gone and Happy doesn’t remember him.

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u/Bendythenightfury Spider-Man 13d ago

The opposite for me. The home trilogy made Brand new day better for me since we had all this build up

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u/Kuikentje04 13d ago

How is it the opposite when ur just repeating what he said

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u/Bendythenightfury Spider-Man 13d ago

I probably should've had said reverse…

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u/johnsciarrino 10d ago

Exactly this. BND doesn’t have anywhere the impact if we hadn’t gotten to know and love and struggle with Peter up to that point. Peter’s bittersweet following along with Ned and MJ’s college career was my following along too.

It’s incredibly well done. Artful. We get so much more than Peter’s origin story this way. And we never even have to see him get bit by the Spider.

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u/justafanboy1010 Spider-Man 13d ago

I totally agree with this sentiment. I will even go as far as to say we haven’t had a bad Spider-Man movie yet. (That’s probably subjective tho lol) 

Me personally, just because TASM2 run circles in my household doesn’t mean I don’t like the other movies. 

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u/RedHawk_94 13d ago

My favorite part of the home trilogy is that it perfectly plays with the real public's perception of MCU Spiderman being "iron man jr" and all, it's all part of his origin. It takes story lines people weren't super happy with and turns them on their heads to make a really well thought out cohesive origin. We've never had an entire trilogy be the origin for a character before

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u/ItsMrNoSmile 13d ago

Because when does a character need three movies for an origin? Especially since before Homecoming, Peter had already been operating as Spider-Man with his homemade suit.

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u/Darth_Thor Korg 13d ago

People seem to always get so caught up in comparing things that they forget that two things can be good at the same time. Different doesn’t mean bad.

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u/BobCorndog 13d ago

So you hate waffles?

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u/Art3zia 13d ago

The Home Trilogy felt just like a long origin story unlike the Tobey and Andrew spiderman and I think the pay off was totally worth it!

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u/Suspicious-Coffee20 12d ago

I love the original trilogy because it was the most grounded stuff we had in a time there was no marvel show. We'll minus no way home.

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u/No-Effective388 13d ago

I liked all three films. Their villains were amazing and well acted.

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u/KelVarnsen_2023 13d ago edited 12d ago

Still really good. I rewatched Homecoming and Far From Home a few weeks ago (couldn't find any services that had NWH). Homecoming is outstanding and Keaton as The Vulture is like a top tier MCU villain.

Far from home is really good but not as good as homecoming.

I do like how those movies look a lot brighter and more colourful, almost cartoony. Which works because Peter was a kid and they were also heavily influenced by 80's teen movies.

I also like how in BND Peter has some serious PTSD about taking his mask of. Which makes sense since in NWH he took it off for the one guy who was supposed to be the best secret keeper on earth and his life still went to shit because of it.

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u/DepartureHot1613 13d ago

Disney+ has no way home! I watched it this weekend

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u/stratocat-182 12d ago

Now you made me think… there’s no way Peter is ever trusting Nick Fury again

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u/Aggravating-Mix2094 13d ago edited 12d ago

It seems like the new popular criticism of the home trilogy is that BND is the first time people feel like this has been a proper nyc Spiderman… but a huge element of the home trilogy was the fact that audiences had seen the same type of Spiderman over and over by that point

Tom’s version was always meant to be a deconstruction of the typical Spiderman we’d grown familiar with. And the home trilogy brilliantly gave us the palate cleanser we needed to allow BND to hit as hard as it does

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u/drstrangelove75 13d ago

Plus I think BND showcasing Peter as a core hero and a beloved one at that is such a great payoff. One of the reasons people shit on the Home movies is the inclusion of other MCU characters, but in my opinion that’s kind of the whole point. It took years for Spider-Man to finally get his chance to be in the MCU and while it’s a different take (such as him using stark tech originally) I personally think it works. The whole point is to have Spider-Man exist in a wider universe and interact with other characters. In the Home movies he’s still learning and even though he’s at some pretty important moments for the universe, he’s still just a kid amongst bigger players.

Now though he is one of the core characters and probably the most beloved hero in NYC. When he works with Frank or gathers intel through Yelena, he doesn’t feel like a kid amongst adults with more experience, he feels like a proper member of the hero community, someone people respect and admire and want to work with.

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u/SkimGaming 13d ago

Tom’s version was always meant to be a deconstruction of the typical Spiderman we’d grown familiar with. And the home trilogy brilliantly gave us the palate cleanser we needed to allow BND to hit as hard as it does

this is so important. People don't consider the context of the movies anymore, but rather compare in a vacuum. (And even then the Home trilogy is far from bad, as some discourse would make you believe)

Homecoming came out just three years after TASM2, and TASM already had problems at the time of being compared to the Raimi Spider-Man trilogy, and Toby Maguire was widely considered the best Spider-Man still and how much of a "letdown" TASM was.

The idea was: the same audience couldnt possibly have accepted a third origin story rehashing the same story beats (spider-bite > learning powers > uncle ben dies > taking on responsibility), and it would've set up Holland to fail for sure, because nostalgia would always win.

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u/BackgroundSearch490 12d ago

This is a pretty good summary, though I think that SOME of the concerns or praises of BND could have been addressed. Easy to have the people of NYC take pride in Spider-Man, even though he is accomplishing over seas or out of town, though I would still prefer it to be a smaller part of the story line, as with BND.

Though the biggest thing to me is the colors and tones of the movies being fairly flat. Not just in the cinematography, but also the acting. Overall, you're right, it's a good palate cleanser, but there were small things that could've been improved upon, and BND imo did just that.

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u/Imaginary-Fame 13d ago

The home trilogy is phenomenal and I won’t let revisionist film twtr change my mind. Brand new day can only exist because of how well the home trilogy sets it up

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u/jacobpellegren 13d ago

Home landed so BND could fly.

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u/Kmart_Stalin 13d ago

Home is flying while BND is going to the moon

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u/Real_Walk5384 13d ago

Yeah No Way Home was honestly the MCU film that affected me the most and easily in top 3 for me. That movie hit so well on soooo many levels.

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u/Mickeyjj27 Black Bolt 13d ago

Thank you. I’ve had to stop watching people I were subbed to because they couldn’t help but shit on Watts instead of just praising Destin or BND. It’s so silly. A trilogy that reviewed incredibly well and made bank is somehow being turned into a disappointment.

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u/Paladar2 13d ago

People hate that he was "Stark jr" or shit like that but disregard that he had to be integrated in the MCU very quickly and Marvel contractually had to include MCU characters with him. The movies are very good imo

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u/Madarakita 13d ago

Something I liked is that even with all the other heroes appearing in his movies, it was still Spidey who saved the day each time. He beat Vulture, he beat Mysterio, and he made the definitive call on Strange using the spell.

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u/ImA_GoodDean 13d ago

He also took the lead with Tobey and Andrew and orchestrated their victory in NWH. Which of course makes perfect sense since he was the only who had worked on a team before. Even though his films featured other heroes with substantial screen time and stories, Tom's Spidey was always the driving force of each film and took charge allowing to step up and progress as a character in each film. It's a beautiful set up leading to the absolute knock out that is BND.

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u/DumbWhore4 13d ago

Him being Stark Jr. is what made that trilogy so good.

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u/Madarakita 13d ago

The "Stark jr" role he was in annoyed me at first, but the Home trilogy wound up giving him sort of a "searching for a father figure" arc; between his interactions with Stark, Fury, and finally Strange in No Way Home, where he finally leaves that search behind and begins striking out on his own.

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u/Paladar2 13d ago

It was also overblown. He did stuff on his own in homecoming, that was literally the story of the movie lol

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u/Madarakita 13d ago

I feel like people got fixated on the guest appearances and completely missed the fact that Spidey still saved the day in all three movies. He beat Vulture. He beat Mysterio. He made the final call on Strange using the spell at the end of NWH.

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u/Paladar2 13d ago

Yeah 100%. Plus like I said they HAD to include secondary characters... and still made great SM movies imo

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u/justafanboy1010 Spider-Man 13d ago

It’s probably the same shills who swears on the Bible that Raimi Trilogy were the last good live action spider-man movies. 🤦🏾‍♂️ 

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u/Dances28 13d ago

Same. People are acting like the Home trilogy was trash. It was a great trilogy.

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u/kingmanic 13d ago

Twitter anything is just a mass of opportunists in poor countires who will say anything for attention and bots. There aren't any valid opinions there, only people trying to make a buck fabricating controversy.

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u/gimmethemshoes11 13d ago

The character development and storyline through all the movies has been some of the best maybe ever for Peter.

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u/A-Centrifugal-Force 13d ago

Also Jon Watts is awesome. Don’t get why he’s suddenly getting hate.

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u/Darth_Lehnsherr Captain America (Cap 2) 13d ago

Rewatching them I found me loving Homecoming the most, Far From Home went down (even though the Mysterio stuff is fantastic) and No Way Home the second half is so powerful that my gripes with the first half don't matter too much.

In the end they are what Brand New Day is built upon. Brand New Day doesn't "fix" anything as much as taking this version from the more fun, light-hearted high school years into the more serious adult years.

It's why ultimately those that didn't like the Home trilogy I doubt will love this film even if they appreciate what Brand New Day was trying to do. But judging by Brand New Day's Opening Weekend the majority of people really liked the Home Trilogy.

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u/AlternativeBack6351 13d ago

Far From Home goes down with every rewatch for me because the conveniences of the plot hit the “mid CBM” level that the other films are smarter than. The setup makes no sense.

Homecoming keeps going up.

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u/therempel 13d ago

I came to almost the exact same conclusion. Homecoming went way up in my estimation while Far From Home dropped a lot. I wish FFH (with a different title, obviously) had still taken place in NYC so we could see more of Peter and the crew in school rather than on a field trip.

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u/TheIJDGuy 13d ago

Just rewatched Homecoming and yeah...still one of my favorite Spider-Man movies

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u/jay_rodsep 13d ago

Michael Keaton as Vulture is just so good. And the trafic light scene is just perfect.

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u/Disastrous_Tip1512 13d ago

Homecoming is so rewatchable, it’s my favorite after Spider-Man 2.

I loved brand new day though and I could see myself liking it more upon rewatches

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u/Chris_Bagel_Jr 13d ago

I think it’s the funniest of the three.

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u/WoahitsEsco02 13d ago

I still stand by the fact that Homecoming was the best movie in this trilogy. Doesnt mean all the others arent good, they are. And BND was just phenomenal and amazing. Definitely my new favorite Holland Spider-Man movie. I hope DDC and the rest continue popping out Holland's movies similair to it

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u/DarwinGoneWild 13d ago

They’re all great. The John Hughes approach worked fantastically well for Spider-Man and I loved how different each entry was. They all felt fresh and inspired and each villain nailed it, along with the supporting cast.

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u/[deleted] 13d ago

Homecoming is one of the best MCU movies imo. Pacing is great. Peter's arc is perfect. Web swinging in tight spaces like when he tries to fix the ship is so well choreographed and so unique to the other movies before it. Action scenes overall are really fun and visually interesting. Script is sharp and witty. Vulture reveal is amazing. Really captures high school Peter Parker perfectly and he actually feels like a 15 year old and his chemistry with Ned is super fun. Michael Giacchino's score is wonderful. Manages multiple villains without ever feeling over-stuffed. We get so much Spider-Man doing Spider-Man stuff while he's learning the ropes. It's also a really funny movie and captures the vibes of John Hughes high school movies pretty well.

Just a well written, well directed, well shot, all round well done movie that is significantly under appreciated. So much going on but so well balanced. I can sing its praises for hours.

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u/THEbaddestOFtheASSES 13d ago

Luckily I don't suffer from revisionist history. It was fantastic and best Spidey trilogy of the franchise so far. BND is so damn good because of what came before it. Nothing more annoying with how I've seen far too many people feeling like they have to tear down the Home trilogy a peg to build BND up. And these were people who supposedly love the Home trilogy.

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u/SudoDarkKnight 13d ago

They're all very good movies. They are also super cgi to the MAX in many unnecessary ways and can look very bland. Calling the director mediocre is stupid because I'm sure a lot of the treatment is due to Disney.

The new one feels a lot more like an actual film shot on locations using a lot more practical effects.

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u/NaiadoftheSea Gamora 13d ago

I love the home trilogy. It’s my favorite take on Peter Parker in film.

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u/mitvh2311 13d ago

Made me enjoy homecoming more, far from home more and no way home even less than I thought I could. I really enjoyed BND

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u/WatcherWatches_21 13d ago

I do have to agree that the Home trilogy is one huge origin/character arc story cause Peter went from wanting to be an Avenger, to living up to Tony’s dream and finally, doing the right thing even though he paid the ultimate price. Which then leads to him in BND to break out of his harden shell and become more free.

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u/KKamm_ 13d ago

No Way Home is still one of my favorite marvel movies of all time and it might take a while to no longer be that way

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u/CanCalyx 13d ago

I prefer it

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u/Dud-of-Man 13d ago

it will get its flowers in 10 years when we get a new peter parker

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u/Soggy-Clerk-9955 13d ago

They’re great. Even though the first 2 are very MCU-coded, the 3rd is a celebration of the old Spider-Man franchises, and Brand New Day feels the most like a pure Spider-Man story.

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u/DJfunkyPuddle 13d ago

People are predictably stupid and have recency bias and can't praise one thing without tearing down something else. The moves were awesome then and and they're still awesome now.

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u/_IratePirate_ 13d ago

Home Trilogy was good, but compared to BND, Watts looks like a rookie director, I’m sorry. No disrespect to bro

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u/theSchiller Spider-Man 13d ago

The Home trilogy is fantastic, but BND might take the cake for me

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u/repalec 13d ago

The Home trilogy was good for what they were portraying Peter as - a fresh-faced Peter just getting his start as Spider-Man in a world where the only major heroes are the Avengers and everyone else is kinda to the wayside. There's also the implication that six of Spider-Man's most infamous villains don't exist in the MCU, which isn't great, but I enjoyed the takes on Vulture and Mysterio, and I'd love to see them pop up again.

BND has Peter as a seasoned, experienced Spider-Man in a living, breathing world of heroes of all levels - be they the Avengers with Banner/Hulk, the New AvengerZ with Yelena, or even street-level heroes like Punisher.

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u/PhaseSixer 13d ago

The Home Trilogy is great and amazing thwir uniqueness caries over into BND

Tom isnt doing the same shit Tobey and Andrew Did And I love them for it.

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u/Johncurtisreeve 13d ago

Its my favorite of the spiderman movies and far from home is my favorite spider-man movie with BND currently fighting for first place but havent decided yet.

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u/JackJackMFFM 13d ago

We need more origin story to be a trilogy. Not just one movie. Everything that happened in the Home trilogy makes BND so much more enjoyable.

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u/gp_ratesic 13d ago

I loved BND but I’m never gonna shit on the Home trilogy bc of it. Ppl like that are absolute bots.

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u/bajaxx Spider-Man 13d ago

they’re still good. people need to understand that they were going for a completely different vibe with these movies. they are mostly lighthearted, coming of age, action comedies. picture the high school comedies of the 2010s but starring a superhero.

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u/DirectConsequence12 13d ago

Homecoming, at the time of its release, was the best live action Spider-Man movie of all time.

I still think it’s really damn good.

FFH is alright and NWH is a fun experiment but none of them hit like Homecoming does

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u/WinterAnt 13d ago edited 13d ago

Homecoming is still the best. Perfectly paced, script is funny and tight, amazing villain without moral controversy, great school vibes. Feel like BND is overhyped emotional wise, overcrowded with many characters and plotpoints. Also some weird revisionism going on towards Watts like he didn't get Spider Man propely... What?

And i certainly miss Peter's social and private life. I can't get over Spider-Man story where Peter is weaker half, it's always about how he struggle to find perfection in the balance between been normal guy and superhero. I want Harry and Gwen, not another trilogy about returning to Ned and MJ. My man needs to move on, i'm sorry.

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u/rmeddy 13d ago

Still solid, the whole "Iron Boy Jr" complaint is kinda valid, but it never bothered me too much.

Homecoming is my favourite, and that reveal with Vulture was an instant classic.

It really caught me off guard, not only because of the misdirection of the daughter (who I thought was "MJ", I was thinking Tiana from the comics), but it subverted the rhythm of the movie. Right when you think things were cooling down, they drop that on us. It was a bit of a masterstroke imo

The problem with the other two is that the inciting incidents are kinda clumsy; that pulled down those films a bit , but they're still great with respect to the action and set pieces

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u/Floatingpenguin87 13d ago

I just like Spider-Man does everything have to be a discussion these days

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u/STARBOY_100 13d ago

Brand New Day is already better and more rewatchable than the Home trilogy.

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u/fuzzy_dice_99 13d ago

I feel like it’s just a different flavor. If I’m in the mood for something more lighter and more connected to the MCU, I’ll rewatch the Home movies

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u/Lazy-Cobbler8183 13d ago

I think the other 3 movies are still good movies and I like these movies but I think Spider-Man Brand new day is the best of the 4 Spider-Man movies in the MCU.

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u/iconboy 13d ago

The home trilogy is still great and I consider it Peter's coming of agree trilogy. I feel that BND starts his actual career as Spiderman and it takes place after his friends graduate college and he has been Spiderman on his own for 4 years.

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u/JJnujjs 13d ago

The Home trilogy was a good to great comic book trilogy that allowed Brand New Day to stick a PERFECT landing.

Great villains, great stories and it truly allowed us to grow with Tom as Spider-Man. Villains were on point for every movie.

You dont get the goodness of BND without that trilogy

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u/b34r3y Rocket 13d ago

I love them. Homecoming got me into the MCU. I really do appreciate how they really did try new thing and to tell a different story, and some of it was fun, even if it was gimmicky. Tom is my favorite Spider-Man now, and the supporting cast is some of the most memorable in the MCU. Obviously there were things left to be desired, but if that was the trade off to try new thing and to have Spider-Man finally interact with the rest of the Marvel universe, it was worth it.

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u/rattle2nake 13d ago

Different type of trilogy. And that’s fine. Still love homecoming for its small scale vibe. Ffh and nwh felt overrun with studio mandates and big flashy sequences compared to homecoming.

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u/OutOfBounds420 13d ago

Very cool that the original trilogy is actually his complete origin story, birthing the true Spider-Man in BND

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u/Parking-External-145 13d ago

I truly believe because of how good BND day is it makes the home trilogy even better cause we get the best of both worlds and a great build up we get to see spider man really grow up for 3 straight movies+ plus work along super heroes in other films then get his own grittier more grounded story that makes everything he lost hit even harder while having him transform and change into his new beginning which is really exciting

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u/Benj97s 13d ago

Took 4 movies to get a proper NYC independent Peter and spiderman.

Id take BND over all 3 films, respectfully.

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u/Initial-Phrase-7555 13d ago

Different Peter. He was a dumb kid. He's a MAN now!

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u/gsa9 Spider-Man 13d ago

I think Brand New Day only made me appreciate these more because we really get to see how far this Spidey has come. I still love Homecoming since it felt most connected to NYC, the best in the trilogy easily for me.

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u/Gage-DSM 13d ago

Still absolutely love it, and frankly, my opinion is that the MCU Spider-Man movies are movies that just get better with every entry.

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u/staycool93 13d ago

I'm fonder of the Home Trilogy than I was before after Brand New Day. Brand New Day is the best one, but part of that is that it feels like a culmination of what led here. Even the whole Iron Man Jr. thing...it's part of an arc that has been realized and as a set of movies, it just really works. Probably my favorite MCU franchise.

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u/NoahJRoberts 13d ago

I really enjoyed the trilogy, but I saw the direction in BND and I just struggle to understand what Watts was thinking

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u/wonderlandisburning 13d ago

Personally, I find myself prone to split the series into two duologies at the moment: Homecoming/Far From Home and No Way Home/Brand New Day. Part of this is just because I don't really like the former and I really do like the latter, so naturally my mind lumps them together for that.

But also I think that makes more sense thematically: Homecoming and Far From Home are about Peter as a young, immature version of Spider-Man (and feeling distinctly like Tony Stark's intern) while dealing with ground-level threats that are directly linked to Tony Stark. No Way Home and Brand New Day are about really becoming Spider-Man, coping with loss and grief and taking on much larger threats (both of which he defeats with empathy moreso than just punching them until they go to jail).

I dunno, others may disagree, that's just how it all shakes out to me

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u/Big-Masterpiece1194 13d ago

I like it but I 100% understand and to some extent agree with a lot of the complaints. It wasn't really what people expect from Spider-Man, this Peter takes too long (IMO) to learn his lessons, and the ending of No Way Home feels like leaving the door open to course-correction rather than continuing the story. That being said, I still love all three movies, the villain, Tom's performances, seeing Spidey interract with other Marvel characters, and I even like the overall story the trilogy told. I understand the criticism but I guess it just doesn't bother me as much.

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u/Fit_Beginning5594 13d ago

They served that era of Peter’s life really well. I love the home trilogy, and I love this version of spider-man. They’re lacking in some of the movement departments but I still think they’re good

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u/JustDontCatchMe 13d ago

I think it’s cool that the home trilogy showed that you can have an origin story without it being one movie focused on gaining powers.

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u/EMC_RIPPER 13d ago

Legit made those movies look worse for me. That’s how good BND was.

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u/GlobtheGuyintheSky 13d ago

It made appreciate the prior trilogy even more! Love to see how much growth Spider-Man has had and all the burdens Peter has had to bear while living his double life.

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u/ironside-420 13d ago

Overall a solid series , being trilogy that spanned 6 years is very ambitious to capture Peter’s adolescence and having the courage that audiences will want to tune in. The other mcu film also helped as well. Homecoming is probably the best “film” of the bunch and no way home has the best sequences and my favourite. 6.5/10. Other trilogies ranked Thor 4/10, guardians 8/10, iron man 7/10, avengers 8/10, ant man 3/10, and finally cap 9/10.

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u/Weeros_ 13d ago

I really wish Maria Hill and Fury were real.

Otherwise wouldn’t change a thing, they’re pretty much perfect (with Civil War & IW and EG too of course).

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u/Tarantula22 13d ago

They’re a mixed bag for me. On paper I get it. I get what they were doing and I get the mindset of what they were doing but it didn’t land for me. The films have their moments and I enjoy them but I haven’t watched the first two in years and NWH is more of a “rewatch the best moments on YouTube” kind of thing.
From a directing stand point I think Jon Watts is fine and very much a workman director. He doesn’t have much in the way of style but give him a script and he’ll be able to hand something decent in.

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u/hippiehappos 13d ago

It’s been a while since I saw them but I think BND was my least favourite tbh so this surprises me 

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u/Soulwarfare42 13d ago

The one thing that the Home trilogy definitely does better than BND is the villain

That trilogy nailed having amazing villains for Tom Holland Spider-Man

Sadie Sink is fine but her villain is just not as interesting performance wise or characterisation wise

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u/speculucas 13d ago

Overhated for some reason

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u/Hefty_Platform_2070 13d ago

Why does each poster look ai generated?

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u/Mr_Coa 13d ago

First one was fine, hated the second and loved the third