Spiderman is one of my favourite superheros along with hulk. I'm a nerdy awkward geek who likes science and i love the idea of science helping the superhero shinanigans.
Marvel has made several remakes of spiderman movies and each seemed to have a different take on the character. Rightfully so since the comic itself which orignated in 1962 took several different origin stories and takes in different universes. I haven't read any of the comics and only watched a couple of the original cartoon so my review will definitely be biased.
Tom Holland is wildly known to follow the original character profile with a modern twist the best and his age and setting seems to be a factor in that. I loved the homecoming movie. It was filled with action, comedy and showed a great portrayal of spiderman dealing with his teenage problems. He had his charms that engaged the audience and i loved how his love interest was not the ditsy portrayed Maryjane.
But despite all this, my favourite spiderman was Tobey Maguire. I'm not even going to mention Andrew garfield, even though he did a pretty good job for his own spiderman universe. It's simply because of a very biased reason. His age. Toby's Peter started off as a university student juggling 2 jobs, one of being spiderman and the other of being a news paper photographer. If i was a teen, i know i would've loved Tom's spiderman better, but oh boy, Toby's spiderman felt real. His struggles resonated with mine. Juggling work and.. well.. depression in my case, and trying to stay afloat on all the bills, love life and friendship... i lived them all. Even the venom movie where Peter just gave up being spiderman and lived life reminded me of when i just gave up. His character was also in someway, more awkward and i loved it. He was the hero that represented us, the low life, awkward and weird people. Tom's character was seemingly meant to be awkward, but he had friends, a social life and in that circle he was normal, fitted in fine. He wasn't weirdly bullied, shunned out or put in a little bubble of his own thoughts, he had friends to excite with and talk with. The thing is, when we look at superheros we always try to see a little bit of us in them. To know that we can be at least a little bit like them. To be heros of ourselves and others. I tell myself to stay strong, smile, be nice and not kill myself because someone needs me. I get encouraged seeing that in superheros. They sacrifice their own lives to save another. I... i know it was definitely there for Tom's spiderman, but the introduction of his character was poor and i felt little of that. From the beginning it made it seem like he was more interested in saving people to be cool and be a part of the avengers. His whole goal throughout the movie was focused on him trying to get Tony Stark to include him in avengers for some larger gigs. Toby's spiderman was more self sacrificing. He had a job, university work and social life to maintain. But he took on a role to use his powers for good. I really liked that about Toby's spidy.
It was also nice how his character build up wasnt as sudden. I understand that in order to include spiderman in the new movies, his introduction had to be quick. His back story wasn't introduced properly and he had less character build up than Toby's. We never saw his uncle being killed because he acted selfish and we never saw why he built his persona. It all just made the character more unrelateable. I felt like i was watching just some bratty attention seeking teen who wanted to be in avengers because it was cool.
All in all, all spiderman takes were great. My preference of Toby is biased and i know it. But i do hope the next spiderman movie will include a lot more real life dilemas that the cartoon spiderman had the Homecoming movie
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