Man it’s been a while since a movie trailer properly gave me chills, but that’s what
I got from the long awaited Spider-Man No Way Home trailer.
Just a quick little reaction breakdown of my thoughts on what we saw here, no need for
a long intro, let’s just jump into it.
First of all, just wanna say, if you don’t think Marvel leaked the trailer themselves
or let someone leak it, you’re out of your mind.
They keep everything on top lockdown security but then coincidentally the day before they're
dropping their trailer a leaked version comes out that gets everyone talking about?
Yeah they definitely did it themselves, but anyway I tried to stay away from it.
I wanted to experience the trailer for the first time in nice and crisp HD and that’s
what I got to do.
Firstly as expected the film will deal with Peter Parker having his secret identity revealed,
whether or not it could be a good thing and him trying to live two different lives seem
to be themes that’ll be explored throughout, maybe he’ll end up realizing it could be
a good thing, but at the start he’s not too happy about as it’s affecting the people
he loves, and also it’s got him arrested and this is where I think we’ll that rumored
Charlie Cox cameo.
Which as I’ve said before, even with all the crazy stuff rumored for this movie, weirdly
would be one of the coolest things to see in here, Matt Murdock back in the MCU and
on the big screen.
Anyway I think we’ll get that, but then speaking of MCU cameos as it was reported
we’re getting Doctor Strange in this, with his extra gray hair now looking even more
like a comic book Doctor Strange.
Again, I love the idea of MCU movies teaming up seemingly random pairs of characters that
you wouldn’t have thought of together but it's just fun to see, and I especially love
Doctor Strange as a character who just pops up in other movies to help out, feels very
comic booky just I’ll go down the road and see if Doctor Strange can help me!
Also we get Wong back in here, let’s go, number 1 Wong fan here, he’s popping up
all over the place these days, hell yes.
So as a lot of people including me I believe?
I can’t even remember at this point theorized, Peter goes to Strange to help him with his
secret identity problem, something goes wrong and boom now we have a multiverse story.
Honestly after Loki I was thinking maybe that wouldn’t happen, all that Loki stuff would
be the catalyst for the multiverse story, but I guess this could be compounded into
it?
Like Strange messes with the multiverse, it leads to craziness in this movie, they fix
it, but then Strange is like I should look into this and he finds out about Loki and
Kang and runs into Wanda on the way, I don’t know something like that.
And then Scott Lang has something to do with it too, god damn I really can’t wait to
see how all this ties together.
But anyway, this multiverse stuff means 2 things, one, we get Spider-Man action in the
Doctor Strange type of folding in buildings setting, which is a pretty cool crossover
honestly, also getting him interacting with Strange’s powers on the train.
We’ve seen basically all the Spidey action you can think of so to spice it up with Strange’s
powers, very cool.
Plus we get the classic knocking someone's soul out of their body shot, also very cool
to see first with Hulk now with Spidey, and like with the Hulk it seems to tie into the
theme of the conflict between Peter the person and him being Spider-Man and living two lives
and all that.
But then the other effect of the multiverse stuff, as we kind of already knew but it's
now fully confirmed, the other Spider-Man movies’ characters are brought into the
MCU, and seemingly there’s no Pietro-esque weirdness here, these seem to be the actual
characters, with maybe a few changes as we’ll talk about.
But we get hints of Electro with these electricity shots, it’ll be yellow.
That's a change I’d say for the better, I think that’ll look cooler and hopefully
Jaime Foxx has a better design than this.
I’m not quite sure who's attacking Peter here but I’ve seen someone enhance it or
something and it appears to be the Lizard slashing out at him and then some force field
type thing protects him.
Of course we get the Willem Dafoe Goblin laugh and bomb, hell yes.
And then genuinely one of the coolest trailer moments I’ve seen in a long time, Alfred
Molina’s Doctor Octopus showing up and in classic Molina Octopus style going, “Hello
Peter.”
Just chills, such an awesome moment and perfect way to end the trailer and let people know,
hey this movie’s going to be crazy.
I mean I really enjoy the Raimi films but I’m not like a superfan, I can imagine the
hardcore superfans are losing their minds over this, but I am a pretty big fan and I
watched them multiple times growing up, and like godamn I was just thinking I watched
Spider-Man 2 with my mom as a kid, I showed her this trailer and she thought it was awesome,
she’s hip to all the MCU stuff anyway but it was just so cool that it had that kind
of nostalgia factor to it I guess, like I didn't expect to feel that nostalgic seeing
that but I love Spider-Man 2 and Molina’s Doc Ock is probably my favorite Spidey villain,
and just to see that crossover is so cool on so many levels.
Again, been a while since I had that Infinity War trailer moment where I watch a trailer
and I’m just really hyped up and I wanna show people and talk to people about it, like
don’t get me wrong Shang-Chi and Eternals look really interesting as well, but having
that big MCU superhero movie feel like with other epic MCU event movies, like characters
you know and big crossovers and big reveals, it just felt so good to see again, especially
given it's been so long since we’ve been back to this part of the MCU cinematically.
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And it also just felt cool to see Tom Holland’s Spidey again, I’m a huge fan of Homecoming
and enjoyed Far From Home a lot, I’m a big fan of Holland’s Spider-Man and the piece
of the MCU associated with him, so it was also cool to hear the MCU Spidey theme throughout
this, also not that we get a lot of it here but this still seems to have that Jon Watts
Spidey movie fun and charm to it.
There is a slight concern that this movie will be so crazy reveal focused and having
awesome moments that it won’t have time for a satisfying or emotional character arc
to tie it all together, like I don’t want it to just be cool reveals for 2 hours you
gotta have something underlying to ground it emotionally, but I trust the team behind
this to do that, they haven’t really given me a reason to think
they wouldn't do that.
Also I’ve written a note here that just says, how does Tom Holland still look so young?
Seriously, it’s been over 5 years since Civil War, how does he still look like a high
school kid?
Anyway, Some other miscellaneous details, we’re
getting the Iron Spider suit here, cool, the new black and gold suit, presumably will be
used versus Electro, maybe more than that but that’s what we see in the trailer.
Happy’s back hell yes, love to see it, wasn’t sure if he’d been in this so that’s great.
This movie’s gonna have such a crazy cast, let’s actually think who could be in this.
We’re getting Green Goblin, Dock Ock, Lizard it seems, Electro, I feel pretty confident
in saying Maguire and Garfield are gonna be in this, Dunst and Stone could be in it, I
think we might get Sandman, I doubt we’ll see Venom cuz of the other Venom-verse going
on, and I doubt we’ll see either Harry Osbournes.
But otherwise, yeah it’s pretty much open, anyone can come back from those films!
So cool.
Maybe even Paul Giamatti in his iconic role as the Rhino, who knows.
We could have a Sinister Six situation here, if we have Goblin Octopus Lizard Electro Sandman
and maybe Vulture comes back from the MCU which I think has been rumored?
Who knows.
For people complaining we didn't see Maguire and Garfield in this by the way, I mean come
on do you wanna see everything before the movie comes out?
Won’t that be way cooler if you see it in the movie without it being in the trailers?
I think they may tease it but we won’t flat out see them, I hope not cuz I’d rather
see that for the first time in the actual movie.
Also just wanna say, I can’t really put my finger on why, but despite this dealing
with multiverse stuff and that sort of craziness, it still feels quite accessible and not too
complicated and sort of falling in on itself, like I felt Loki sort of ended up going down
which I’ll talk about in a future video by the way, if the MCU is getting too complicated
for a mainstream audience, but this even with it's multiverse story seems very easy to understand
and get behind and not having to over explain itself, and hey it's just a trailer but that's
also something I like.
Just a great premise for a movie, again we've seen so much of what you can do with Spider-Man,
why not spice it up and give us a crazy crossover movie, all those reboots will now be worth
it, can you imagine seeing Maguire Garfield and Holland interacting?
Imagine telling someone that 8 years ago, that the MCU would get Spider-Man back, and
then there’d be a crossover film with all the other Spider-Men.
It's crazy, I love it so much.
So those were my thoughts on the Spider-Man No Way Home trailer, loved it, fully hyped,
let’s go.
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