The irony of the MCU (and probably all comic stuff) is the more knowledge you have the less you'll enjoy it unless you set a very low bar.
I don't have that history with the comics so ignorance is bliss, but I still don't expect much. Dumb fun, really.
NWH was fun for meta reasons and drawing on cinematic history rather than comic history, so it will be interesting if they can draw people in with this one.
Actually, as a comic fan, I really appreciated NWH.
-Norman ditches that stupid mask, and just gets to be sinister and threatening. The first Maguire movie, he couldn't feel that way too much, because no way were MJ or Aunt May dying in the very first film, Dafoe's performances was still excellent but he was limited in his threat level due how he was utilized.
This film, he goes all out, that fight in the hallway with Holland's Peter is brutal, with him just slamming poor Peter everywhere relentlessly. Even when Peter gains the upper hand….by holding nothing back and fighting with the intent to kill, Norman/Green Goblin still manages to be sinister.
GG: Poor Peter, too weak to send me home to die.
Peter: No, I just want to kill you myself.
GG (gives a wicked smile): Atta boy.
-Electro is given a much better design, and his motivation is less over-the-top compared to his portrayal in ASM 2
-Doctor Octopus is too fantastic a villain to be limited to one film. Even if he basically repeats his arc from the second Maguire film, seeing Alfred Molina in the role again was perfection
-Peter ditches the fancy tech suits and now has his traditional style of suit (since the tech suits are in the comics, I wouldn't mind them in the Avengers films for him to use, but not in the solo Spidey films)
-Maguire Peter has maintained his relationship with MJ and grown and matured. As the Spider-verse films' Peter B. Parker and the new Ultimate universe's Peter in the comics have shown, this is what comic fans want for the main comic universe Peter, to be with MJ again and truly grow, but editorial hates the idea of the main comic universe Peter growing past his late 20's and settling down, ever since Joe Quesada, who was Marvel's editor-in-chief at the time, forced the infamous One More Day storyline that killed Peter and MJ's marriage
-more J.K Simmons as J. Jonah Jameson. Even the film's haters can't deny that we should never turn down more of Simmons in that role
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clarky 's vitriolic posts it isn't all that negative.
