First Thoughts on Spider-Man: Brand New Day – E185

It's clear from some of the, the early, like, marketing that we've, we've heard, especially, you know, in the wake of The Odyssey, that Tom Holland had a big say in how this movie was produced and the story and the scale of it, and it's very clear that Marvel dialed it in with this one.

Um, I remember early rumors that it was gonna be-- involve a lot of multiverse aspects, and it's clear that it-- that none of that stuff stuck, and that this is, like, a really pure Spider-Man story.

It does certainly involve characters like we, like we see in the mar- in the marketing, like The Punisher and The Hulk.

Uh, but even in the comics, Spider-Man's always interacting with other heroes on the street, and this one felt really incredibly grounded.

A really pure Spider-Man story, and Destin Daniel Cretton does a really good job with the action choreography, the swinging choreography, the camera work.

This is a breath of fresh air after we had three Spider-Man movies made by the same guy.

I love, I love those movies, but Jon Watts just does not move the camera in the same way that De- Destin Daniel Cretton does.

The story is also not incredibly...

It's, it's fan servicey, obviously, because it's a comic book movie, and it certainly hits some of those comic book splash panels, um, you know, like, like Marvel likes to do.

But at the same time, it doesn't give you everything that the fans probably wanted in a fan servicey sort of way.

Um, and in doing so, I think it made it a better movie.

I think fans of Spider-Man are gonna love this movie because of how just pure Spider-Man it is.

Um, Peter Parker is depressed, he's sad, and I know that's what [chuckles] a lot of Spider-Man fans want because I think Spider-Man is the hero of the people because he's down on his luck, and yet he always has the capacity to, to carry on.

Um, so he's just like us in a lot of ways, and much more so than, like, Tony Stark, who just happens to be a billionaire, and, like, that's not hardly relatable anymore.

And so bringing the story much closer to the ground is, I think, the right move.

People who like Marvel are gonna like this.

People who don't like Marvel movies I think would still like this 'cause it's just... it's a good movie.

It's, uh, got, it's got good heart in it and, um, it's definitely worth seeing.

And as much as it, it does a good job of, you know, doing what Marvel does, which is set up future IPs and future properties, it doesn't do it in a way that is, is, uh, hinders the story or takes away from the story at all.