Tbf they could very easily bring Maguire back again after the last movie. Have him in a trailer and throw up a "From the Director of Spider-Man and Spider-Man 2" and I'm there day one.
Tbf they could very easily bring Maguire back again after the last movie. Have him in a trailer and throw up a "From the Director of Spider-Man and Spider-Man 2" and I'm there day one.
The Harry storyline is weirdly rushed to its conclusion after two movies of setup and it's very clear that there's much less interest within the script in the symbiote stuff than the Sandman stuff (all of which is genuinely great).
I don't think even Tobey Maguire wants that given how bored he appeared in No Way Home.Tbf they could very easily bring Maguire back again after the last movie. Have him in a trailer and throw up a "From the Director of Spider-Man and Spider-Man 2" and I'm there day one.
The issue was more the script than anything else. The actual directing was great.
The issue was more the script than anything else. The actual directing was great.
The big problem with these last few Marvel films is they keep attempting to escalate off of Endgame and backdoor new characters instead of giving them their own films or using the shows to get them in. Giving Kamala and Hawkeye their own shows was exactly how you do it: you gotta let us get attached to these characters before you make them the next big thing.
The big example of this was Quantumania. The issue with that movie was that it had none of what made Ant-Man and Ant-Man and the Wasp great. The supporting cast was gone, the heist movie framework vanished, they recast the cute little girl and replaced her with, essentially, a totally new character. Quantumania felt more like it should have been an Avengers movie than an Ant-Man film. Scott didn't really have much of an emotional struggle in the film and neither did Hope. They're the title characters and they felt almost like side-characters.
I'm just saying, if I'm going to an Ant-Man movie then I have certain expectations and none of them were met. Doctor Strange kinda had a lot of the same issues, the only difference was it felt like they tried to at least patch them up at the last minute.You can summarize all this by just saying this
Bob Chapek Era.
I'm just saying, if I'm going to an Ant-Man movie then I have certain expectations and none of them were met. Doctor Strange kinda had a lot of the same issues, the only difference was it felt like they tried to at least patch them up at the last minute.
They just kept trying to squeeze in multiverse shenanigans into all of them. It kinda worked for Spider-Man as a result of a combination of nostalgia and that it was basically just a Sinister Six movie in all but name. That said, I really do think that could have been better if it really had just been a Sinister Six movie without the multiverse shenanigans. I kinda wanted them to bring back Vulture because he's really been the most interesting bad guy they've had in a minute, the changes they made to him were inspired and would have made for an interesting narrative.Phase 4 was rough overall. Its lunacy how the Marvel hype train is just not the same anymore. However, I have faith with power once again restored, Marvel will see quality starting with DP3.
They just kept trying to squeeze in multiverse shenanigans into all of them. It kinda worked for Spider-Man as a result of a combination of nostalgia and that it was basically just a Sinister Six movie in all but name. That said, I really do think that could have been better if it really had just been a Sinister Six movie without the multiverse shenanigans. I kinda wanted them to bring back Vulture because he's really been the most interesting bad guy they've had in a minute, the changes they made to him were inspired and would have made for an interesting narrative.
The sustainable fusion project being a miniature sun is a relatively minor science gaffe compared toAnd Raimi's Spider-Man films are, despite the miniature sun stuff, still the most grounded of the Spider-Man movies.
Fuck no and the dogshit opinions that want this lol this whole place is fkn bizarro verse.
Lol, it would be so absurd, but I'd love it so much XD XD
Even back in the day, me and my friends were pretty convinced that Campbell's character was going to be revealed to be Quentin Beck at some point. His arc across all 3 movies just felt too much like pieces being laid down leading up to that reveal/turn lol
And I think Raimi or someone eventually confirmed quite a while later that that may have been the plan? Perhaps him not being the main antagonist of the movie, but he'd pop up as Mysterio at some point as a running gag with Campbell's cameos. I could be wrong though lol
You're not wrong, the storyboards that have been released for SM4 actually show him as Mysterio
I think he would've been a minor character though, not one of the main villains (which iirc was Vulture, Black Cat, and maybe Lizard)You're not wrong, the storyboards that have been released for SM4 actually show him as Mysterio
Spider-Man 3 is a bad movie, even Raimi disowns it. And unlike the SW prequels you can't even attempt the "at least he had a VISION" rehab thing that every bad 00s movie is now getting because the thing was heavily compromised by the studio!
And ironically I think that movie is let down more by what Raimi wanted to do with it than Avi Arad — the Sandman and Harry plots are both really ill-conceived and never work well enough to justify the decision to retcon Uncle Ben's murder or having James Franco play amnesiac for an hour. The funny thing is, while the symbiote/Venom stuff is undercooked and plainly not to Raimi's interest, it actually feels more germane to the story the movie wants to tell.
All that said — I really dug his work on MoM (which feels like more of a Raimi movie than any of his Spideys) and would be down for seeing him do another Marvel thing.
I think he would've been a minor character though, not one of the main villains (which iirc was Vulture, Black Cat, and maybe Lizard)
Are a lot of people here under the impression that Raimi wrote Dr. Strange 2?
Multiverse of Madness is my second favorite MCU movie, but I want Raimi to make a third Strange, so I'd rather he not get on Spidey duty for the next decade. He can do Secret Wars though. (Also if he wants to do another Spider-Man, they should just let him and Tobey make a fourth one and make all the money. The MCU can handle the competition)
Plus, Holland's take on Spider-Man should get to define its own visual identity, not just crib from the Tobey trilogy's. I really like the D&D guys for this, that movie was excellent and the action is exactly what this type of movie needs. Plus this is kinda their Spidey, they understand his character and humor.
Favreau... sure. He's been in sell-out mode for ages so I wouldn't expect anything different than Jon Watts (which I didn't hate btw)
The comparison with Garfield in that movie was jarring.Tobey doesn't want to do another one. He barely wanted to be in NWH.
Madam Web and Dark Phoenix are even more egregious lol. Everyone in those movies give "we really don't want to be here"-vibes.It's rare that you see a more blatantly "I'm just here for a paycheck" performance that actually made it into the final edit. Usually that kind of halfass gets cut out in editing, reshoots and ADR.
Garfield clearly took his cameo really seriously, Maguire just did not give a shit.
Madam Web and Dark Phoenix are even more egregious lol. Everyone in those movies give "we really don't want to be here"-vibes.
It probably had more to do with Garfield being a much better actor and finally not having garbage material to work with compared to the TASM movies.Tobey knows he's there as a victory lap since basically everybody loves him as Spidey/Peter, Garfield had more to prove
Maybe, let's find out. And let us hope they put a decent writer too.The writing let that movie down. The direction was the best part about it.