The Rise & Fall of the Spider-Man Franchise

[nacho]

Did you watch Homecoming?

I stopped watching after the 12th reboot within 3 years.

[RottingCorpse]

That's fair.

[RottingCorpse]

I think... I think I'm getting old.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9Mv98Gr5pY

[nacho]

Haha... Wow, indeed. Poor Tom Hardy. Venom is getting ruthlessly panned. Maybe... Some of my take away from these tweets is that it might be Deadpool-esque.

https://www.gamesradar.com/catwoman-level-bad-the-first-reactions-to-venom-are-in-and-ooft/

[RottingCorpse]

Have you heard the Russian bot Lady Gaga rumor? That Lady Gaga fans are spamming Tiwtter with bad reviews so people will see A Star is Born instead of Venom? We live in a weird world.

In other news, this looks like fun:

https://youtu.be/tg52up16eq0

[nacho]

I wouldn't put that past Lady gaga, actually..

[RottingCorpse]

Man, that Spider Verse movie might be one of the best superhero movies ever made. I wasn't expecting that. At all.

[nacho]

Man, that Spider Verse movie might be one of the best superhero movies ever made. I wasn't expecting that. At all.

Everyone is raving about it. Guess I'll have to put it on the rotation...

[RottingCorpse]

My initial thought was that after Into the Spider-Verse, this falls a little flat by going back to the Marvel status quo of bloat. But on second viewing, I think the "school trip to Europe so I can't be Spider-Man" angle is kind of clever... though have we not learned from villain bloat here?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYYtuKyMtY8

[nacho]

Yeah. Marvel should try the Doctor Who method and take a year or two off.

[monkey!]

How many fucking Spider-Man movies do we need?

[nacho]

How many fucking Spider-Man movies do we need?

It's actually a little alarming when you factor in all the cancelled films:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spider-Man_in_film

This has to be the most schizophrenic Marvel property. It's like a team of monkeys has been trying to get it right since the mid-70s (which, by the way, remain my favorite installments in the franchise...)

[RottingCorpse]

I like the 70s live action films as well, but that's almost certainly nostalgia at work.

Tom Holland is fine but the whole well is soured by all the reboots.

[monkey!]

We only needed Emma Stone.

[nacho]

We only needed Emma Stone.

We always need Emma Stone.