Took the kids to see Spider-Man. Expected it to be bad but it was worse than I thought. These movies have no stakes at all, not even a whiff of suspense or narrative tension. Every problem is solved with miraculous technology or magic or some other deus ex machina device.
[spoilers] A supervillain from a previous film can be turned good with a contraption that a kid whips together in a lab out of scrap metal in three minutes. A wizard can fly in to brainwash the world if that helps. Multiverses and time warps are utilized if the narrative requires
A superhero can stop a train with one hand in one scene but then be knocked unconscious with a simple punch to the head in the next. The rules are rewritten depending on what the writers need for each scene. It’s lazy and boring. Fun for kids but this is shit filmmaking, folks.
Oh and developments of previous films can be casually erased and undone — like 20 years worth in this case — if it will help move the plot along or resolve a problem that the script writer was too dumb to resolve in a way that builds on what came before rather than erasing it
I expect all the low IQ responses justifying this because “it’s a comic book movie” or “it’s for kids,” but what I’m talking about is bad storytelling. There’s no excuse for bad storytelling. Especially when you have a gazillion dollars to hire the best writers, directors etc.
Also if the wizard can erase everyone’s memory then why didn’t he just erase their memory of what Mysterio said, or erase their memory of Mysterio entirely? That solves the problem in five minutes and we can be spared the whole pointless movie.
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