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Sep 9, 2020, 5 tweets

My youngest is watching Spider-Man: Far from Home as a reward for a hard day of online school and big plot hole becomes apparent on partial 3rd viewing: How does Mysterio know that Peter will be on a summer trip to Venice to set the plot in motion?

Also the whole fantasmagorical illusion sequence is kinda impossible for them to have whipped up in the 8 hours or so it takes Peter to get to Berlin.

Basically the movie doesn’t really make sense, doesn’t really move the story of Spider-man forward other than getting him and MJ together and setting up the big reveal in the final clip (which could have been done w any bad guy). It’s well written and acted and shot but empty.

I fear this is the future of Marvel movies — watchable but completely inane (as opposed to watchable and clever/original/gripping)

PS Spider-Man couldn’t survive getting hit by a moving train. Not clear Iron Man could.

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