Marvel Studios and Sony Pictures have released the first trailer for Spider-Man: Far From Home, starring Tom Holland (Peter Parker/Spider-Man) and Jake Gyllenhaal (Quentin Beck/Mysterio).
We also have the first official one-sheet in hi-res! Download it below!
Spider-Man: Far From Home is in theaters July 5.
Mehh… First one wasn’t bad, but this new series has far too much of an episodic feeling to it. It doesn’t feel particularly relevant or high stake. More like “just another day in the life of Spider-Man”. Raimi’s SM2 actually meant something, it explored the character, it had depth. This just feels really shallow. Fun? Sure, but really shallow and insignificant.
People are still gonna talk about Raimi’s SM2 years from now, whereas people will forget about this one in just a year.
It’s for kids
As opposed to Watchmen, Logan, & Deadpool?
Homecoming was the worst of all Spiderman movies
Man, you think 3 was better than Homecoming? I can’t get on board with that.
I think he’s adding extra weight to his hatred of the MCU. Which is strange that someone who shreds a franchise, yet still watches every single one.
I mean, you have to watch alot of them to have a valid argument to critique them, no? I have plenty of issues with the MCU, but it is not a blind hatred.
Depends. If you’re calling them “for kids, “comedies,” & bad, would you still need to watch the movies 20-something in? The “formula” people speak of is probably cemented by this point. If you were unhappy with the brand 5 years ago, you probably aren’t going to be happy with it now. Wasting time to watch movies going in you don’t like is a foolish waste of time.
I only needed to watch Amazing Spider-Man once to know this interpretation wasn’t for me. I’ve still never seen ASM2, despite stumbling upon it multiple times on FX.
I only saw BvS once and I knew this version of Batman (& Lex) wasn’t for me. Had they continued, I would’ve skipped them like I did with Aquaman, Suicide Squad, & JL.
I respectfully disagree. The Worlds of DC has too much variety for you to be able to judge it based off one movie. Now with the MCU, since they have the same people executive producers on every movie, they all follow the same formula. As for DC movies, you can make a super strong argument that Wonder Woman, Suicide Squad, and Aquaman are all different movies, because they all feel like different movies in terms of themes, visuals, and balance. Marvel movies didn’t all used to be the same, and so, I used to be able to walk into them in the earlier stage and say “Captain America felt totally different than Iron man in to me”. Now, you’re either watching GOTG or Ant-man. (I don’t count Spider-man movies of late, since they’re a collaboration between two major companies). In conclusion, while you can criticize an entire movie franchise by just watching one or two of them, I don’t believe you can fairly critique any one movie simply having seen one movie that’s linked to it in some way.
I have to disagree. Watching Civil War, Black Panther, & Doctor Strange wasn’t the same tones as GotGv2, Homecoming, or Antman & the Wasp.
Conversely, I think if they were going to establish a standard with a character in one movie, and you don’t care for that standard, you probably are never going to come around after 5 movies; even if they’re by different creators.
I also think if something doesn’t look appealing, you don’t have to see it to convince yourself otherwise. Suicide Squad, Aquaman, Shazam, Venom, the Spiderverse; all movies that don’t look interesting to me. I’ve skipped them. I also don’t criticize them either.
The problem is, that characters are rarely established by one single standard anymore. Spider-man acted differently in Homecoming than he does in the Avengers movies (he really plays dumb). I don’t know who was starting in Thor: Ragnarok, but it definitely wasn’t Thor. Not to mention, Batman lost much of his serious tone in JL. It goes to show you that characters can change as they appear in more movies, for better or worse. Yet I agree with you on your third point, I suppose you don’t have to watch a movie that you don’t think you’ll like to change your mind about it. Sometimes movies can surprise you however. So I usually like to give them the benefit of the doubt. I am quite wary of how over-hyped Marvel movies are nowadays though.
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could be their intention. I was under the impression that their plan here was for Holland to be Spiderman for the long haul and we would watch him grow up similar to Harry Potter. That being said, something about it does feel rather similar to the first one
Don’t the bulk of these films feel episodic? I recall watching X-2 and feeling like it was just the next issue in the story arc. The same with Raimi’s 2 Spider-man movies.
What’s considered “high stakes” and for Peter specifically?
The story itself actually meant something in Peter’s life. It changed him forever. He grew.
With this film, I’m sure Peter will end up exactly the same way he started. Also, where’s Harry? Norman? Why is May fine with all of this? Where’s the relatable drama SM is known for? This really just doesn’t feel like Spider-Man at all. I’m sure the film’s gonna be fine, but I’d rather they took risks instead of releasing these safe corporate products.
Watching Spider-man & Homecoming relatively close together, there’s a definitive style difference. Although the cgi is head & shoulders in Homecoming, I still prefer Raimi’s vision & story.
I can’t assess where he starts & finishes in Far from Home until I see it. And character development could be subjective. I’ve debated with people that Steve Rogers has had the best character development through the 3 phases. Some have told me he hasn’t had any.
I’m fine with no Osbornes. They’ve been so heavy into the last 2 series, I’m good with their absence here. Especially Norman (he should’ve stayed dead in the books). With that family out, we kind of don’t know what we’re building toward here. I didn’t see ASM2, but wasn’t the moments we were waiting for in the last 2 series Harry & Norman’s deaths? I don’t really care for the possibility of a 3rd Spider-Man series using the goblins…unless it’s Hobgoblin.
I could accept May being okay with all of this if she actually had a presence. I wanted less school friends & more May in Homecoming. It looks as though there’ll be less May here too.
I see “high stakes” & “risks” a lot in criticizing the MCU. I’m just not certain what that means. Deaths? When everyone but Ben & the Waynes return from death in the books, does death really have a stake or risk?
Cap is my favorite avenger, and while he’s had development, I wouldn’t say he had the best. His core beliefs and behaviors has barely changed, if at all. Only thing that’s different is he’s learned to adapt to the new times, but that’s not really “character development”.
Tony and Thor changed FAR more. Heck, Thor alone in his first solo movie had more development and progression than Cap’s had in the entire MCU. Again, Cap is my favorite, but this stuff is hardly subjective.
I still want Osbornes. It’s like having a Batman series without Joker. It feels incomplete. Especially with Ned taking what should be Harry’s place. Who cares that they’ve been in the previous films? With that logic, there shouldn’t be an Aflred in Reeves’ Batman film because he’s been there every time. Some characters are just key to the SM mythos, Harry being one of them, and by extension his father. Besides, we haven’t actually seen a TRUE Goblin since 2002. I don’t count that knock-off 5 minute interjected travesty in TASM2. That wasn’t Goblin, any more than Ryan Reynolds was Deadpool in X-Men Origins: Wolverine.
Again, what I meant with high stakes, isn’t really on a physical or danger level, but in terms of plot. It actually mattered a great deal that Peter wanted to stop being SM in SM2. It’s something that he struggled with and regardless of the choice he’d make, it would affect the plot immensely. With Homecoming, everything just went by the motions. There was nothing truly unique or life-changing for Peter to deal with. It was just, like I said, “another episode in the life of Spider-Man”. You could probably skip this one and watch Homecoming to the inevitable 3rd one and you won’t miss out on anything.
I found Steve different from First Avenger to IW.
I disagree with the comparisons of Alfred & the Osbornes. Alfred & May, sure, but not the Osbornes. And I’ve never considered Norman to be Peter’s Joker. Since his comic book return, he’s essentially just become a poor man’s Lex Luthor.
7 movies in, I’m ready to see other Spidey foes.
Eh, I wouldn’t say nothing in Homecoming was life changing. It was a subpar attempt to give us a “with great power…” lesson.
is there a style difference? Because that was kind of my issue as well. I thought it just looked kind of samey(when compared to Homecoming). The tone, the characters, and I think they even used a song by the same band that was featured in Homecoming? Maybe its also because it feels too close together. I think for some big franchises, I prefer a 3 year gap between movies. Feels like I just saw Homecoming not long ago.
I thought part of the issue with Homecoming is that it felt like a dozen people wrote the script. Spider-man didn’t feel that way. And I’ve never been a John Hughes’ fan & that’s what Homecoming felt like. I thought it was weightless, whereas Spider-Man felt like each scene held depth to it.
Having 2 years in between sequels doesn’t bother me. If they filmed 5 movies in the series & released them 1 a year for 5 consecutive years (provided they’re connected), I’m good with that.
Well, thank god for Spider-Man PS4 and Into The Spider-Verse for not butchering the character and his mythos.
Jesus, can MCU Spiderman get any worse? There’s nothing aside from his name that tells me this character is the Peter Parker everyone knows and loves.
Don’t worry… I think Sony’s deal with Disney ends after this film, so no more MCU spide-man
honestly ANOTHER reboot would be lame imo. They need to just stick it out. I can’t help but feel like, THIS time people are gonna start getting annoyed by the reboots.
The current deal. Will Sony look to rock the boat with a break from the MCU? Especially with Disney getting Fox?
That is what i always say, mcu spiderman/parker does not resemble the character at all
how so? Just curious
There’s nothing about this Spidey remotely close to Peter from the comics. He has no real issues. He’s financially fine, he has friends, he’s good looking, nothing he does has any consequence on anything and his life is way too good. That’s not Spidey. He’s Iron man Jr in a spidey suit. He didn’t have to build anything. His suit was given, his shooters where given. Everything is given.
Although I agree with many of your points (I’d throw in his dialogue as well), technically, he did build his webshooters & made a suit.
He built one of his old useless shooters and made a shitty hoodie. That’s cool. That’s a great first step but they completely fucked his character after that.
His old shooters were useless?
I think making him Stark’s (and putting him in the movie) protege undercut the character. It reminded me of Stan Lee talking about the concept of Spider-man. Typically teenage heroes were sidekicks, so he wanted to change that.
Homecoming basically reversed that back to an Iron-sidekick.
I think they pulled too much away from May being his anchor after Ben died to focus more on his friends. Plus, Ben & his death became a footnote. The ASM never used the line “with great power comes great responsibility”. Homecoming went a step further by not using Ben.
I mean useless compared to the variety of shooting modes he has now. Obviously they aren’t completely useless. But next to what he has now they seem like a kids toy.
I actually preferred the webshooters that only fired webbing with the different settings. The “21 different choices” seemed ridiculous.
I agree completely. There’s nothing interesting about being given everything. It’s lazy.
That’s actually why I thought the best part was when he took on Toomes with just his homemade gear. It felt the most like Spidey.
Exactly, when he had to rely on his wit and skills alone it felt like Spiderman. But that’s 15 minutes of a movie. And by the end he literally gets everything back.
This series has the most deeply mediocre cinematographer
Looks great! Can’t wait!
I’m confused, what’s this about?
Ain’t they dead?
This makes no cents.
Occurred 2 weeks before IW?
It’s after IW2. It don’t matter.
still disappointed with the Jake Gyllenhaal casting. I wanted him as a batman villain so badly. I think it would have fit his caliber a bit more as well.
Mysterio!
(On a different note, it’s just now hitting me how poorly cast Spider-man’s supporting characters are)
im confused. Is that blonde girl supposed to be Gwen? She looks familiar but I can’t remember if she was in Homecoming or not. And I thought I kept hearing that Gwen was supposed to be in this.
I believe that’s Betty Brant. She looks like the student broadcaster identified as ‘Betty Brant’ on their school’s TV news show.
“He’s like Ironman and Thor rolled into one”
No, he’s more like a poor man’s Dr.Strange, who’s a poor man’s Dr.Fate.
I really like this version of spiderman in civil war and infinity war. Homecoming…I did enjoy it in the theatres but I find it hard to rewatch. As other commenters below have noted…this spidey has very little emotional depth. The scene in Homecoming where he sees his reflection in the puddle was a few seconds long and served as the emotional arc of the film. The tech is all thanks to Tony so his own ingenuity has been glossed over… idk, I’m just underwhelmed by Homecoming. And tbh this trailer had moments that reminded me of SM3 when sandman got huge. I’ll see it, probably twice in the theatre, regardless. But after all the hype of finally getting spiderman into the MCU, I find him much more effective as a supporting character amongst the ensemble of other superheroes. Hopefully whatever this Mysterio twist (clearly they’re setting him up to be duped by Mysterio’s true intentions) will provide actual emotional depth.