Finally took my ass to the theatres to see Spider-Man Brand New Day.
After seeing so many different opinions and spoilers online and an overwhelming amount of posts saying how “mid” the movie was…
I still went in feeling as excited as I did when the trailer dropped, but also in the back of my mind, I asked myself:
Have I seen too much?
Maybe all the posts were just a marketing ploy by Sony or people trying to have a cool different take, but “mid” is not how I would describe this movie at all.
We live in an age where everybody’s become a film critic. I mean hell, I am writing a blog about a film right now. I don’t consider myself a film critic as of yet, but I go see what I’m excited to watch.
No, the movie didn’t disappoint.
I actually couldn’t believe how good the movie was while I was watching it.
Spider-man Brand New Day was…Almost Perfect?
Spider-Man: Brand New Day, for me, was a ten out of ten.
I want to give it a nine out of ten.
I want to give it an eight out of ten because sure, there are some things that could have been done better..
But in the age of superhero fatigue—where I made myself ewatch Superman to get a balanced take after not being the hottest fan of it the first go around (or at least overly negative about it)—I am not mad at this movie at all.
I think the tone of the film would have worked a little bit better towards the fall, just on some vibe shit.
But I just love how they had elements from what we knew happened in movies prior.
Canon, Cameos, and Continuity
I already knew, and this is where the spoilers begin: I knew Tombstone wasn’t going to be in there more than a couple minutes, and it wasn’t even that long.
Scorpion’s character was utilized sparingly but it was enough Scorpion for me to be satisfied with Scorpion having been in the movie.
To be honest, I didn’t do a lot of research on the Hand, nor did I know a lot about on Jean Grey before seeing the movie, but neither disappointed.
I honestly thought they were both included in a way that I wasn’t expecting when anticipating what the movie was going to be beforehand.
We got the reference to Tobey Maguire’s Spider-Man, when Tom starts getting organic webbing, and we got Peter’s memory of Aunt May. And I just thought it was woven together very thoughtfully; it didn’t seem like anything was out of place.
The Hulk
Enter Doctor Bruce Banner, as the Hulk, in this film. I absolutely loved his inclusion of the Hulk. I didn’t watch She-Hulk. I really liked Thor: Ragnarok, and the Hulk’s inclusion in the MCU as a whole has been okay, but I’ve never been a huge fan of the Hulk–at least not the same way as I am with Batman or Spider-Man.
Still, seeing him on the big screen with Spider-Man in this movie was really cool.
Though I do have one gripe and that is when Spider-Man’s talking about mutations with Bruce Banner and he’s like, “Well what if I only wanted to keep the good parts and not the bad parts?” and Bruce replies with, “Well, how would you know what parts are good or bad?” And that would have been fine if we hadn’t just gotten in Avengers: Endgame, a suppressed Hulk with a smart Banner.
So I found that to be kind of hypocritical of Doctor Banner, because he already did find a way to keep only the quote-unquote good parts.
But I am not mad at the retcon, if that’s what it is or my own negligence of Marvel media in Phase Four or whenever this little change happened. I am sure the social media bros will correct me on this take, anyways.
Growing Up with Peter Parker
The difference between this Spider-Man and the past Spider-Men are just simply the fact that we’ve gotten to grow up with these characters a little bit, or not even a little bit, a lot of bit.
From Civil War to now, we’ve seen a young Peter Parker grow into a Peter Parker that stretches before a fight against the Hand.
We’ve seen Ned Leeds and Mary Jane go through a hell of a lot with Peter Parker, and in this movie we see that they go through college without Peter Parker. And it was just a wonderful film.
I absolutely love Zendaya and Tom on screen together, as an on-screen couple and a real-life couple.
It’s almost like breaking the fourth wall.
And I just find it extremely cool that they even are still together, doing these roles together.
The only thing that I found myself missing in the movie, which we won’t ever get with this Spider-Man, would have been the memory in Peter’s mind being with Uncle Ben instead of with Aunt May.
I know, I know…it doesn’t really make sense because we’ve seen this Peter with Aunt May and haven’t even been introduced to Uncle Ben with Tom’s Peter Parker.
I’m just a fan of when Uncle Ben steps in with the words of wisdom to carry a story…kind of like he did in Spectacular Spider-Man when Peter was battling the Venom Symbiote.
But that’s a minor nitpick that I can live without. The way they did it makes complete sense.
Final Thoughts
I can’t finish this article without talking about the organic webbing, which was absolutely amazing to watch unfold.
And I love how Peter finally embraces who he is and almost answers the question from “Brand New Day” or at least the dilemma of him living two lives.
Now he’s an amalgamated superhero who completely accepts his mutant genes.
He’s fully embraced himself by the end of the movie, and I love to see it.
So, what did you guys think of the movie? Did you like it, love it, hate it? Let me know in the comments.
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