Spider-Man: Brand New Day - Movie Review — Transcript

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1. 0:00SPIDER-MAN'S
2. 0:01back in a fourth film, finally.
3. 0:03Technically speaking, Toby, Peter two
4. 0:06was in Spider-Man: No Way Home, and that
5. 0:08was the fourth appearance, but he was
6. 0:10still a guest in another Spider-Man's
7. 0:12movie, to be honest and fair. But Tom
8. 0:14Holland's Spider-Man's back for a brand
9. 0:16new day, in a brand new day. It is
10. 0:17indeed a brand new day, so let's talk
11. 0:19about it.
12. 0:20>> [music]
13. 0:25>> So Spider-Man: Brand New Day is a new
14. 0:27Spider-Man in the Tom Holland Spider-Man
15. 0:29continuity. And it does feel like a
16. 0:31brand new day. The previous films feel
17. 0:33like a very linked trilogy. A trilogy
18. 0:36prequel that existed to make Spider-Man
19. 0:38Spider-Man in Manhattan. To make him
20. 0:41Spider-Man as we know him, and now here
21. 0:43we are. It's been a couple years since
22. 0:44Doctor Strange and Peter Parker
23. 0:46collaborated to brainwash the entire
24. 0:48world into forgetting Peter Parker.
25. 0:50Doesn't mean he's not still pining for
26. 0:52his friends now, though. And he's having
27. 0:53some stuff going on with his powers.
28. 0:55This movie really does capitalize the
29. 0:58word spider and man. Spider, because his
30. 1:00powers are going on the fritz because of
31. 1:02his emotional state. Man, because
32. 1:04everyone thinks he's fine, but he's just
33. 1:06suffering the emotional weight in
34. 1:08silence. Now that a new threat looms, we
35. 1:09have a new Spider-Man movie. How vague
36. 1:12is this review going to be? There's a
37. 1:14whole thing
38. 1:15thing in this movie, otherwise known as
39. 1:18the plot of the film, that's wrapped in
40. 1:20spoilers, so I can't really talk about
41. 1:23it. This is going to be spoiler-free.
42. 1:24Spoiler talk video becoming later this
43. 1:26week, but until then, here are my very
44. 1:29vague Spider-Man thoughts. First of all,
45. 1:31right out the gate, Tom Holland is
46. 1:32carrying this movie as Peter Parker, as
47. 1:34Spider-Man. And he's in the zone, man.
48. 1:36He has this down. Every actor has
49. 1:39brought their own energy, their own
50. 1:40angle, their own thing to the role of
51. 1:42Peter Parker. This is a very emotionally
52. 1:45weighty
53. 1:47Yeah, that works.
54. 1:49I'm rolling with it. A story for Peter
55. 1:51Parker, and Tom Holland absolutely sells
56. 1:54it. It probably helps that he's not
57. 1:56going to space, or for the most part
58. 1:59dealing with the bigger MCU here. It's
59. 2:01very friendly neighborhood Spider-Man
60. 2:03here, otherwise known as why people love
61. 2:05Spider-Man in the first place. Cuz
62. 2:07that's what this film hits home is well,
63. 2:09it's Spider-Man's life. It's why people
64. 2:11connect with Spider-Man. Because we all
65. 2:13know deep down there's a difference
66. 2:14between the perception of someone
67. 2:17and the private weight they actually do
68. 2:19carry in their lives. If you feel like
69. 2:21you've seen those moments before in
70. 2:22Spider-Man, well, you have. In fact,
71. 2:24this movie's very close to the
72. 2:26inspiration of Raimi's Spider-Man.
73. 2:27Spider-Man feels a certain way, his
74. 2:29body's manifesting those feelings
75. 2:31physically. When he has questions, he
76. 2:33goes and talks to an iconic professor of
77. 2:35the world. Well, in Spider-Man 2, I
78. 2:36guess he went to a random doctor, but
79. 2:39later in Spider-Man 3, he went to Dr.
80. 2:40Connors. This time around, Bruce Banner.
81. 2:43This movie does run into
82. 2:45are these characters in it for a point
83. 2:48or are they in it specifically in this
84. 2:50case so the Hulk can be in here? Little
85. 2:52of both, definitely that second one. The
86. 2:53first act to the first half of this
87. 2:56movie, you can argue the entire movie is
88. 2:58this, but for me it was the first half
89. 3:00or so is the most Spider-Man feeling
90. 3:03Spider-Man film since Raimi's Spider-Man
91. 3:052. You got villains out there in
92. 3:07costumes. There's no real explanation as
93. 3:09to how they have their costumes or their
94. 3:11outfits. They're just they're out there.
95. 3:12I think that's an advantage that the
96. 3:14MCU's given Spider-Man. Also, the PS4
97. 3:17game. Time was, cinematically speaking,
98. 3:20you couldn't have a Spider-Man villain
99. 3:22just have their costume and be the
100. 3:24villain without a good explanation as to
101. 3:26how. Granted, Michael Mando was the
102. 3:28character in Spider-Man Homecoming, but
103. 3:30he wasn't Scorpion yet. Now he's
104. 3:32Scorpion, he has the tail, he has the
105. 3:33suit. Don't ask how. Don't question it,
106. 3:36just go with it. But you do go with it.
107. 3:38He's not in the movie that much. He is
108. 3:39in the movie far more than Tombstone is.
109. 3:42You know what really did work for me in
110. 3:43here? Frank Castle and Spider-Man.
111. 3:47Dude, they got great chemistry. That is
112. 3:49to say, Jon Bernthal and Tom Holland
113. 3:51have great chemistry. It felt like kind
114. 3:53of a comic book buddy dynamic at a point
115. 3:56and it works because Frank Castle and
116. 3:58Peter Parker have a very different
117. 4:00perspective
118. 4:01and ideology about criminal and how we
119. 4:04deal with them. That works. And as much
120. 4:06as there are characters in this movie
121. 4:07that aren't in the movie as much as I
122. 4:08thought they would be, Frank Castle's
123. 4:10actually in the movie more than I
124. 4:12thought he'd be and I'm glad he was. It
125. 4:14can be that the characters work because
126. 4:16the characters don't feel that they work
127. 4:19and that friction is what makes them
128. 4:20work. Yeah, they were great. Give me an
129. 4:22entire Frank Castle Spider-Man team-up
130. 4:24film in the future. As much as the
131. 4:26emotional moments as there's a lot of
132. 4:28emotional strain with Peter Parker and
133. 4:30his friends or his friends who don't
134. 4:31remember they were his friends, but he
135. 4:33does. That's the painful part. As much
136. 4:35as that does lead to some emotional
137. 4:37moments that do hit, I do feel
138. 4:40they probably could have trimmed some of
139. 4:41that and made this movie closer to 2
140. 4:44hours. 2 hours 25 minutes
141. 4:47probably didn't need to be that long.
142. 4:48There is a post-credit scene. Thing is,
143. 4:50it's not a mid-credit scene. It's a post
144. 4:53very end of the credits credit scene. Is
145. 4:56it worth the wait? Not if you want to
146. 4:57beat traffic. It does feel like an
147. 4:59afterthought. Some of the critics in the
148. 5:01auditorium, man, they all but booed I
149. 5:03did hear a couple boos. I kind of don't
150. 5:05blame them. They could have whipped this
151. 5:06thing up yesterday to put in the movie
152. 5:08and then sent it out to be on the new
153. 5:10digital prints and that's that. And I
154. 5:11believe the reference itself, if I'm
155. 5:13seeing it correctly, is really cool. But
156. 5:16you would be forgiven if you were like,
157. 5:17that put the mid in mid-credit scene.
158. 5:20Doesn't really make sense cuz it is a
159. 5:22post-credit scene. Whatever. As a thing
160. 5:24you really do feel in here that I liked
161. 5:26is that Spider-Man is this
162. 5:28optimistic, hopeful hero in New York
163. 5:31that people love. No J. Jonah Jameson in
164. 5:34this film. It's just all positive,
165. 5:35except for the emotional turmoil he's
166. 5:37dealing with, but in terms of the public
167. 5:39perception though, some things that
168. 5:41didn't really land for me are wrapped up
169. 5:44in spoilers.
170. 5:45So So, really talk about them right now.
171. 5:47But as for right now, I thought
172. 5:48Spider-Man: Brand New Day was a fun
173. 5:50Spider-Man movie. That vibe of the
174. 5:51friendly neighborhood Spider-Man that I
175. 5:53feel this movie does re-inject into
176. 5:56Spider-Man's world. It's a little too
177. 5:57long, but all in all, I had myself a
178. 5:59really good time with Spider-Man: Brand
179. 6:00New Day and no alcohol required. All
180. 6:02right, so Spider-Man: Brand New Day,
181. 6:03have you seen it? What did you think
182. 6:05about it? You haven't seen it yet, but
183. 6:06in a few days, that question won't feel
184. 6:08so weird cuz you might have at that
185. 6:10point. Or, what's your favorite
186. 6:12Spider-Man movie? Or, you can rank them.
187. 6:13It's always fun to do. Whatever it is,
188. 6:15whatever you think, comment below, let
189. 6:16me know. And as always, if you like what
190. 6:17you see here and you want to see more,
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192. 6:26>> [music]