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They set the "villain" up as an irredeemable monster, toying with her victims via their memories. Then they revealed that actually she's just a foster kid fighting the system, so it's OK. I guess we're supposed to believe nobody was killed or seriously injured during one of Jean's many rampages, (except for the lady cop who was in the car Spidey flipped, and Spidey himself), but it sure as hell wasn't for lack of trying. There are plenty of ways to do a good villain fakeout, but this movie didn't seem interested in any of them.

Speaking of the flipped car, they also really dropped the ball on Peter's whole spider DNA thing. "Mechanical web shooters do not work with biological web shooters." OK, why? And how do you know that? Could we maybe see *some* of the journey from "I need to wear this inhibitor, because otherwise my head hurts and I can't see clearly" to "no, actually, this thing that was the source of my problems is now my secret weapon"? Perhaps Peter should give Bruce some advice on how to intregrate the monster inside you with your normal self, because he seemed to have figured it out without much trouble.

Another thing they couldn't quite connect the dots with was the Aunt May memory. The speech they had her give wasn't relevant enough to Peter to believe that he'd still have a memory of it, and it wasn't relevant enough to Jean to believe it would soothe her. That whole part of the story was just the writers trying to manufacture stakes, and doing a shitty job of it.

Speaking of shitty, I also found it funny how they made Frank say some variation of "shit" every other word, just to drive home the point that he's the edgy one. Oh, and I just remembered how hard my eyes rolled at the V-Max reveal.

Other than that it was fine.

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It was well done and Holland was good, but far too sullen of a tone for a Spidey film for me.

And really mixed feelings about introducing Jean Grey this way (though Sadie Sink was excellent)

Enjoyed Punisher, thought the Hulk stuff was unnecessary fluff.

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It was well done and Holland was good, but far too sullen of a tone for a Spidey film for me.

And really mixed feelings about introducing Jean Grey this way (though Sadie Sink was excellent)

Enjoyed Punisher, thought the Hulk stuff was unnecessary fluff.

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It was well done and Holland was good, but far too sullen of a tone for a Spidey film for me.

And really mixed feelings about introducing Jean Grey this way (though Sadie Sink was excellent)

Enjoyed Punisher, thought the Hulk stuff was unnecessary fluff.

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It was well done and Holland was good, but far too sullen of a tone for a Spidey film for me.

And really mixed feelings about introducing Jean Grey this way (though Sadie Sink was excellent)

Enjoyed Punisher, thought the Hulk stuff was unnecessary fluff.

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They did a great job incorporating the various characters (Punisher, Hulk, Yelena) in a way that didn't feel like just gratuitous cameos.

And introducing Jean as a bad guy before she joins the X-Men will definitely set up for the anti-mutant stuff down the road. I expect Metzger/the department of damage control to lead that effort, with the inhibitor that Spidey designed playing a big part. And I'm sure his guilt over designing that will play into his own story(ies) in the future.

Regarding the post credits scene...I wonder if it's gonna be bringing in one of the previous spider men (Tobey or Andrew) or if they're gonna introduce Miles Morales.

One thing that they glossed over...Banner figured out how to be smart hulk, but now he can't anymore?

And as for the X-men I also saw that they've cast Samara Weaving as Emma Frost