The bad:
The villain. I mean, this is the killer for me. He is a generic beardy guy, and is generically a villain because... shrug? Why is he bad? Why is he SO bad? HOW is he bad? He appears to be a single guy with Corvette money who has like one contract lackey and is charming enough to get his way maybe but... weak. Super duper week, do not care and if you want to complain about writing, this is where all the bad writing went. "Those girls cannot exist! They will try to destroy me!" Etc.
Mediocre: Too much handholding, as with almost all movies in the last 20 years or so. We get exposition, flashbacks, cuts to the bad guys doing their thing when The Character Doesn't Know That. This would have been stronger if it had skipped the entire 1970s exposition and done it all in that halfway thru the movie time when they show half of it anyway.
Everything else: Good!
I liked the fight scenes, I liked how the confusing precognition matches how the character perceives it, I like how a bunch of what is happening is not explained right away for a change.
I... guess, that a lot of the hate is weird Spiderman fanbois and anyone who hates girls (esp three teen girls, some POC) in their comfortably cheeto-dust covered Comic Book Guy world.
Mediocre: Too much handholding, as with almost all movies in the last 20 years or so. We get exposition, flashbacks, cuts to the bad guys doing their thing when The Character Doesn't Know That. This would have been stronger if it had skipped the entire 1970s exposition and done it all in that halfway thru the movie time when they show half of it anyway.
Everything else: Good!
I liked the fight scenes, I liked how the confusing precognition matches how the character perceives it, I like how a bunch of what is happening is not explained right away for a change.
I... guess, that a lot of the hate is weird Spiderman fanbois and anyone who hates girls (esp three teen girls, some POC) in their comfortably cheeto-dust covered Comic Book Guy world.
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