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

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1. 0:03[music]
2. 0:08>> Spider-Man Brand New Day is directed by
3. 0:10Destin Daniel Cretton, the man behind
4. 0:12Short Term 12, The Glass Castle,
5. 0:14Shang-Chi, and Just Mercy. This is the
6. 0:16first film in Tom Holland's franchise
7. 0:18that isn't directed by Jon Watts. Four
8. 0:20years have passed since the events of No
9. 0:22Way Home and Peter is now an adult
10. 0:24living entirely alone having voluntarily
11. 0:27erased himself from the lives and
12. 0:28memories of those he loves. But, as the
13. 0:31demands on him intensified, the pressure
14. 0:33sparks a surprising physical evolution
15. 0:35that threatens his existence even as a
16. 0:37strange new pattern of crimes gives rise
17. 0:40to one of the most powerful threats he
18. 0:42has ever faced. I've liked all of Tom
19. 0:44Holland's Spider-Man movies. Homecoming
20. 0:46and Far From Home were completely
21. 0:48enjoyable, but No Way Home was on a
22. 0:49whole 'nother level. That movie really
23. 0:52took the character of Spider-Man as
24. 0:53played by Tom Holland into places I
25. 0:55hadn't seen that iteration go before.
26. 0:57But, it also felt very final in a lot of
27. 0:59ways. Not just because of how good it
28. 1:01was, not just because it seemed to wrap
29. 1:03up storylines from previous Spider-Man
30. 1:06as well as his own, but it also left him
31. 1:08in a place where all of his
32. 1:09relationships were destroyed and he was
33. 1:11very much so on his own. So, for the
34. 1:12vast majority of Brand New Day,
35. 1:14Spider-Man is a solo adventurer. He's
36. 1:17out there on his own. He's feeling very
37. 1:20lonely and he's doing things mostly
38. 1:22alone. Occasionally, he does receive
39. 1:24help from people like Frank Castle, aka
40. 1:26The Punisher, played by Jon Bernthal.
41. 1:28And there's other heroes in this movie
42. 1:30that you may have seen on the poster or
43. 1:32in some of the trailers like Mark
44. 1:33Ruffalo as Bruce Banner. And there's
45. 1:35moments where these characters are
46. 1:37interacting with him and there's the
47. 1:38acknowledgement of the larger world at
48. 1:40play, but for the most part, Peter
49. 1:41Parker is alone here in a big city where
50. 1:45everyone admires him, but nobody knows
51. 1:47who he is.
52. 1:48Basically, he's Spider-Man. Spider-Man,
53. 1:52not Spider-Boy, not Peter Stark. This is
54. 1:55Peter Parker as Spider-Man as we know
55. 1:57and love him. He just isn't working for
56. 1:58J. Jonah Jameson and taking pictures
57. 2:00necessarily, but besides that, this
58. 2:02feels so much like Spider-Man to me.
59. 2:05Like the first act feels like a series
60. 2:06of Spider-Man comics where he's just
61. 2:08going up against various villains. It
62. 2:09didn't feel messy to me. It didn't feel
63. 2:11like they were trying to go for a
64. 2:12nostalgia bait. It felt very much so
65. 2:14like it belonged in the narrative, but I
66. 2:16love the idea of picking up with Peter
67. 2:18Parker now, all these years later, to
68. 2:21see what his life is like as Spider-Man
69. 2:23and feeling like I was in a series of
70. 2:25really fun Spider-Man comics. And the
71. 2:27thing that I was most worried about was
72. 2:28that they were going to take something
73. 2:30that had a really nice, complete ending,
74. 2:33bittersweet, but complete, and ruin it,
75. 2:36and just act like it didn't exist or it
76. 2:38never happened. And I'll avoid all plot
77. 2:40specifics cuz I am going to do a spoiler
78. 2:42review in a few days, but this movie
79. 2:44really appreciates the ending of the
80. 2:46last film. It doesn't try to just
81. 2:48dismantle it or or or pretend like it
82. 2:50didn't happen. And the value really is
83. 2:53in Peter's evolution as a person,
84. 2:55allowing him to mature, and putting him
85. 2:57up against things, not just physically,
86. 2:59but emotionally, that he's never dealt
87. 3:01with before. This is the best looking of
88. 3:03Tom Holland's Spider-Man films. The
89. 3:05cinematography is very, very good, and
90. 3:07there has been a lot of discussion
91. 3:08lately about the MCU films and how they
92. 3:11all kind of have a similar color
93. 3:13palette, and they all feel a certain
94. 3:15way. There's been a lot of discussion in
95. 3:17general about movies, period, today just
96. 3:20not looking as good as they used to. The
97. 3:22shadows in this movie are great. in the
98. 3:25film is vibrant and beautiful, and the
99. 3:27swinging scenes are wonderful. They're
100. 3:30probably some of the best I've seen
101. 3:32since Amazing Spider-Man 2, which is not
102. 3:34the best Spider-Man movie, but does have
103. 3:36some of the best swinging scenes. I
104. 3:38really want to talk about his suit. He
105. 3:40is described, I mean Tom Holland, as
106. 3:42sort of the best of the things that he
107. 3:44saw from Toby and the things he saw from
108. 3:46Andrew, because he just met these guys.
109. 3:48And it really is. It looks like it has
110. 3:50that red reflective sheen of Toby
111. 3:53Maguire's suit and it looks like the
112. 3:55blue has that sort of shiny feel that
113. 3:57Andrew's suit had and he's got his
114. 4:00expressive eye pieces and it really is
115. 4:02the best of all three of them but you
116. 4:04can tell that it's a fabric suit. You
117. 4:05can see it moving when he's swinging.
118. 4:07You can even see behind his eye pieces
119. 4:09sometimes. It is easily up there in the
120. 4:12top two Spider-Man suits. I feel like
121. 4:15Amazing Spider-Man 2 suit is perfect. Of
122. 4:18course Toby's suit is goated forever.
123. 4:20The black Spidey suit is one of the best
124. 4:22I've ever seen and this is easily the
125. 4:24best thing that Tom Holland has ever
126. 4:26been dressed in for a Spider-Man movie.
127. 4:27I love his look in this movie and he's
128. 4:29in the suit like all the time. He's
129. 4:32constantly talking to authority figures
130. 4:35while fully suited and I was very
131. 4:37pleased with how good he looks in this
132. 4:38movie. Creton has proved himself as a
133. 4:40very very good director of fight
134. 4:42sequences. The stuff in Shang-Chi which
135. 4:44was lens by Bill Pope of course
136. 4:47brilliant cinematographer in his own
137. 4:48right who also lens the Spider-Man
138. 4:51movie, probably the best Spider-Man
139. 4:52movie, Spider-Man 2. This director is
140. 4:54good at fight scenes is what I'm saying
141. 4:56and they are very very good here. They
142. 4:58are excellent. There's a fantastic one
143. 5:00with the hand where he does some stuff
144. 5:03that is straight out of that PS4 game
145. 5:05and what I loved about the evolution of
146. 5:07what he's going through in this movie
147. 5:09which again I will avoid too many plot
148. 5:11specifics but the trailers do show that
149. 5:13he's spinning organic webs and he's
150. 5:15waking up covered in webbing and he
151. 5:17doesn't know what's going on and it's
152. 5:18affecting him.
153. 5:20There's a scene where it's affecting him
154. 5:22and he's supposed to be doing things
155. 5:24slightly out of control and he straight
156. 5:26up does a move from one of the PS4 games
157. 5:28and I'm like, yeah, I always kind of
158. 5:30thought that Spider-Man was
159. 5:31unnecessarily violent but being such a
160. 5:33fan of the PS4 and the PS5 game like I
161. 5:36love those games and this movie does
162. 5:38feel like it exists in that space, has
163. 5:41some of the stuff I love from Garfield's
164. 5:43movies and some of the stuff I love from
165. 5:44Maguire's movies in regards to tone. It
166. 5:47really understands what works best about
167. 5:49other Spider iterations we've had
168. 5:51already.
169. 5:52Throwing all of that out of the window,
170. 5:53like avoiding like oh, it's this and
171. 5:56this and this and comparisons.
172. 5:58This is a very strong dramatic piece of
173. 6:00work. Holland is fantastic in his scenes
174. 6:03with Zendaya and she's great, too.
175. 6:06The fact that there is this history that
176. 6:08we know about and he knows about, but
177. 6:10she doesn't know about creates all of
178. 6:11this tension in these scenes that is
179. 6:13handled really, really well. I loved his
180. 6:16back and forth with Punisher. Bernthal
181. 6:18is fantastic. And we'll talk about the
182. 6:21villain later, but not now.
183. 6:24Really enjoyed it.
184. 6:26Uh yeah, I'm not going to say anything
185. 6:28else.
186. 6:29You guys know that Bruce Banner's in
187. 6:30this movie. He's on one of the posters.
188. 6:33Leads to
189. 6:34really, really good, satisfying scene.
190. 6:36Very fandom scene. Liked it lot as fan.
191. 6:40Fan liked scene good. Can't talk about
192. 6:43it. We'll mention it later. Good things
193. 6:46happened. I enjoyed it. I was skeptical
194. 6:48going in because the last one ended well
195. 6:49and it felt complete, but this is a
196. 6:51really good continuation of what Tom
197. 6:53Holland has brought to this character
198. 6:55and the story really respects that. And
199. 6:57you can tell that they did not just make
200. 6:59another Spider-Man movie. This is one of
201. 7:00my favorite MCU films in recent years.
202. 7:03The MCU has been on a bit of a downslide
203. 7:05lately, so that's not saying a lot, but
204. 7:08this is one of their better movies. I
205. 7:10really appreciated this film, had a
206. 7:12great time with it. I can't wait to see
207. 7:13it again and I will talk about a lot of
208. 7:15other things in a spoiler review in a
209. 7:17few days. But if you're a Spider-Man
210. 7:19fan, I think you can rest assured this
211. 7:20is a good time at the movies. Guys,
212. 7:22thank you so much as always for
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