Aug. 4, 2026

Spider-Man: Brand New Day Review

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• 0:00:00 - Introduction
• 0:02:11 - Midnighter vs Spider-Man Noir duel results
• 0:04:43 - Who's Who?
• 0:09:52 - Spider-Man: Brand New Day Review
• 0:22:51 - Sign off
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This is a dyna Mic Network podcast.

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Hi, and welcome to the Dynamic Dual Podcast to Rotten Tomatoes,

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approved to show that reviews superhero films and series through

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the lens of the DC and Marvel fandoms. I'm Joseph

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and I'm his twin brother Johnny DC, and in this episode,

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we are going to review the latest Marvel Studios release,

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Spider Man Brand New Day. Right off the bat, I'm

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not looking forward to reviewing this.

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Like it was a good movie, but I had some

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issues for sure.

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But you are super, super harsh when it comes to

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Marvel films because of all the backstory you have from

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the comics. I feel like I don't give a shit.

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I just, you know, want to see if it's a

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good movie or not. But you compare it to everything,

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and it's like almost impossible for the movies to be

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as good as the comics. Well, I do feel like

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people who are fans of the comic, especially some of

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the characters in the movie, will like the film less

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than your typical general audience member. I think actually the

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general audience will really like Spiderman Brand New Day. I

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didn't really have that problem there, said, I am totally

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willing to shit all over this film?

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Why you don't get to only I get to two

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person podcast?

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Or is this a one person podcast?

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I'm just kidding.

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I actually liked the movie for the most part, and

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I think it would be really weird if you give

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it a rand score. Well, let's find out if I

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do or not when we get into the review. Before that,

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Thanks to Jane nine K. In our last episode, we

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did a review of Spider Noor, during which we discussed

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a lot of the characters in that show that appeared

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in the comic books. Then asked you, guys who you

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thought would make a good matchup for some of those characters.

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As always, our best response came from Devin Davis on Discord,

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who suggested the matchup of Midnighter from the Authority versus

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Spider Nor. Just a quick recap, Spider Man Nor was

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raised during the Great Depression by his Aunt Ma and

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uncle Ben, and he became a crime fighter after a

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mystical spider bite granted him all the powers of Spider Man,

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including strength, agility. While crawling, he has black organic webbing,

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spider sense, advanced healing, and also immunity to pain, which

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is kind of unique for that character. He also carries

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firearms and wears his uncle Ben's World War One airmnum,

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providing him light body armor. Such a cool character, like

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one of the coolest versions of Spider Man, hands down

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for sure.

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Yeah.

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Also cool is Midnighter, who is also a stealthy I

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don't know if you could classify them as noir, but

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you definitely could. He's the Batman of the wild Storm universe. Essentially,

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he was bioengineered for a secret Stormwatch Black Ops team,

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but went rogue with the hero Apollo before joining the Authority.

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He's a brutal vigilante and has enhanced strength, speed, reflexes, durability,

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rapid healing, and a combat computer implant that predicts how

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to counter and win any fight. We input their stats

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into our Monte Carlo simulator ran one thousand matches and

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have a winner for you, AJ nine K the results. Please, Hey,

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you are, sir, the winner of the matchup between Midnighter

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and Spider Man Noir is Midnighter. How how July one,

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five hundred and fifty nine of the one thousand simulated

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matches or fifty five point nine percent compared to Spider

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Man Nor, who won forty four point one percent, And

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really you were tit for tat Except in the skill

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of fighting. Midnight are dominated Spider Man Noir in that category. Yeah,

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I was gonna say, but Spider Man Nor is so

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much stronger, I mean barely. For what Spider Man Noir

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makes up for in strength, he loses an intellect, he loses.

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Spider Man Nor is so smart.

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I'm sorry.

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Does he have a computer for a brain? No?

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Okay, whatever, just more overpowered DC bullshit once again. Moving on,

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I have to say this has become my favorite segment

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of our new format. It kind of makes me miss

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the days when we used to speculate on the matches. Well,

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I gotta say I hate this segment of the new format,

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and I also hate you.

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Moving on.

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Okay, let's go ahead and give a quick breakdown of

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the comic book histories of the characters that appear in

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Spider Man Brand New Day in a segment called Who's Who.

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Of course, appearing in Spider Man Brand New Day is

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Spider Man aka Peter Parker, who is the orphaned son

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of Ci the Agents. He was raised by his aunt

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May and uncle Ben in Queens, New York. At age fifteen,

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he was bitten by a radioactive spider, which granted him

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incredible abilities. Initially using his powers for profit, Peter allowed

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a thief to escape, only to learn that the same

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man later killed his uncle Ben. The tragedy taught him

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that with great power comes great responsibility, leading him to

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become Spider Man.

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As Spider Man, Peter balanced heroism.

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With personal hardship, at one point creating and drinking an

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experimental serum to remove his powers permanently. This caused him

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to mutate into a six armed man Spider, but he

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was eventually cured by his occasional foe, the Lizard. Peter

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married Mary Jane Watson, though they endured financial strain, the

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still birth of their daughter May, and repeated threats caused

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by his superhero life. They later sacrificed their marriage to

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Mefisto to restore Peter's secret identity to the world and

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save aunt May, though Peter and Mary Jane eventually found

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their way back to each other. Spider Man possessed a

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superhuman strength, speed, agility, red flexes, and durability. He can

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cling to walls, he can sense approaching danger through his

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spider sense, and he uses self designed webshooters to swing,

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restrain enemies, and fire buried web projectiles. Occasionally in the comics,

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he has also had organic webshooters.

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Also in the movie Is the Punisher.

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Frank Castle was the son of Sicilian immigrants, also from

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Queen's After leaving seminary because he could not forgive evil,

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he joined the Marines, trained in reconnaissance, ciper operations, airborne tactics,

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and underwater demolition, and served multiple tours in Vietnam When

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Frank returned home, his wife, Maria and their children were

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murdered in Central Park.

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After witnessing a mob execution.

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With police corruption preventing justice, Frank became the Punisher and

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began a one man war on organized crime. After finally

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dying after many decades, he was revived into the body of.

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His younger self and continued his campaign.

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The Punisher has no superhuman powers, but he's highly trained

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in hand to hand combat, knife fighting, firearms, explosives, military very, intelligence,

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recon infiltration, assassination, extraction, camouflage, stealth.

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And field medicine.

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He's an expert marksman with handguns, rifles, automatic weapons, shotguns, bows,

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and throwing knives, relying on strategy, preparation and his extensive arsenal.

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Also in Spider Man Brand New Day is the Hulk.

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Bruce Banner, a brilliant nuclear physicist traumatized by an abuse

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of childhood, was overseeing the test of his gamma bomb

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creation when a teenager wandered onto the blast site. Bruce

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pushed the kit to safety, but absorbed to the gamma

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radiation of the explosion that transformed him into the Hulk.

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Hunted by Army General Thunderbolt, Ross Bruce spent years seeking

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a cure, while the Hulk became both a feared menace

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and a reluctant hero, later helping found the Avengers. The

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Hulk possesses potentially limitless strength, durability, stamina, and healing, all

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of which increase with his anger. His base strength exceeds

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one hundred tons of lifting strength, and at extreme levels

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he can even cause earthquakes and emit powerful gamma energy.

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He can run at tremendous speed, leap hundreds of miles

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in a single bound, create shock waves with thunderclaps.

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His skin resists nearly all.

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Conventional weapons, and his regenerative abilities let him recover from

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otherwise fatal injuries. Also in Spider Man Brand New Day,

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briefly unfortunately, was the Scorpion. Macgargan was a morally flexible

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private investigator hired by j Jonah Jamison, the editor of

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The Daily Bugle, to uncover Peter Parker's connection to Spider Man.

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When Macgargan failed, Jamison paid doctor Farley Stillwell to fuse

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his DNA with that of a scorpion, one of the

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Spider's natural predators. The experiment granted Gargan superhuman abilities, but

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destabilized his mind, turning him into the violent Scorpion. Blaming

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Jamison for his transformation, Gargan became obsessed with killing him

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and repeatedly battled Spider Man. He later bonded with the

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Venom symbiote, served on Norman Osborne Stark Avengers as their

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version of Spider Man, and eventually returned to the Scorpion identity.

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Scorpion can lift roughly twenty.

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Tons, run about fifty miles per hour, cling to walls,

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and withstand small arms fire. His ten foot cybernetic tail

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can strike at one hundred miles per hour, lift heavy objects,

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launch them through the air, inject poison, and sometimes fire

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laser blasts or corrosive acid. There's another big character that

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appears in Spider Man Brand New Day who has a

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vast comic book backstory, but we're not going to get

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into that because that would be a spoiler and this

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is a non spoiler review. Is Metzger, the head of

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Damage Control from the comics. Metzger was an anti mutant

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activist within the comic books. He had no association with

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Damage Control, but his backstory wasn't very big. He was

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largely confined to an X Men's story arc called Children

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of the Atom, which is fantastic and I highly suggest

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everyone read it. But no, he's an anti mutant figurehead

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that was turned into the head of damage Control in

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this movie.

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Interesting.

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I don't know what that could possibly mean. But let's

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move on to our main event now, where we review

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the latest Marvel Studios film to hit theaters, spider Man

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Brand New Day.

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All Right.

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Spider Man Brand New Day was directed by Destin Daniel

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Kretton and stars Tom Holland, Zendeia, Sadie Sink, John Burnenthal,

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Mark Ruffalo, and Tremel Tillman. It's the fourth film in

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the MCU Spider Man film series and the first without

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director John Watts, who directed the Homecoming, Far From Home

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and No Way Home trilogy, all of which were great

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Spider Man films in my opinion, with standout villains and

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great character growth for Peter Parker across all three. Brand

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New Day picks up where No Way Home ended, with

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Peter's identity forgotten by everyone he once knew.

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In the film, he.

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Copes with the isolation and the loss of his sense

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of self by diving into the role of Spider Man

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as he struggles to let over his form relationships and

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investigates the threat of this new telepathic villain. His stress

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triggers the further mutation of his powers. Along the way,

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he crosses paths with the Punisher, Black Widow, and the Hulk.

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It's a solid premise, really, this film so solid that, like,

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based on the marketing, I was pretty much convinced that

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this movie had the potential to be the greatest Spider

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Man film of all time. Like it certainly looked that

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way right.

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Oh.

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Cinematography wise, I would say it's definitely the best looking

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Spider Man film of all time.

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Absolutely.

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I think that's one of the best things to like

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about Spider Man Brand New Day is the feel of

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the film. Like the director, Dustin Daniel Krechtin, he takes

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the franchise in a visually distinct and tonally mature direction

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that makes I think the Spider Man Home Trilogy look

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like Saturday Morning cartoons comparatively. Like the grounded cinematography, the

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melancholic atmosphere, the musical score. Michael Gaccino came back to

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score this one with like a synth slash like ambient

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electronica vibe. Who was so fucking good. Like everything feels fresh,

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and that's probably one of the better things that I

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can say about the film. There are some camera shots

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here that had me holding my breath as he was swinging.

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Like For as much as the Amazing Spiderman franchise tried

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to capture that first person feel of swinging through New

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York City skyscrapers, it didn't get it right. This movie did,

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which is why I would recommend seeing it in theaters

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if you're going to go see it. I liked the

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amazing Spider Man swinging sequences that said this is better,

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and it kind of made me wish I would have

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seen it in three D, even though I hate three D.

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That would have been cool. That would have been cool.

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Another great thing to like about Brand New Day was

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the performances. You know, like Tom Holland has never been

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better in his performance as Peter Parker, and he's always

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been great. You know, he was a believable high school sophomore.

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He's a believable young savant living in Brooklyn. The emotional

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core of the film regarding his grief over losing everyone

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he loved, it's heart wrenching. You know, you feel it,

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and it's mature, and it even goes places you wouldn't

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necessarily expect. I think that is the best part of

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the film, is its mature heart. Oh absolutely, I cared

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more about Peter's relationship with MJ in this film than

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I did about the central villain conflict.

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Oh for sure.

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Like his emotional story arc is really the only arc

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in the movie that feels satisfying. I would say, like

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everything else, from the mutation angle to the main story

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involving the mysterious villain that all ranges from like half

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baked to full on infuriating. My overall disappointment in the

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film may be controversial, especially as I said before, with

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fans who aren't familiar with the comic books. And I

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want to give a quick disclaimer, like I'm gonna be

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speaking around the villain aspect of the film because the

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villain is a spoiler, So just bear with me. Yeah,

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when you said at the top of the episode that

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you weren't looking forward to doing this review, I totally understand.

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I don't understand why Marvel needs to have these massive

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spoilers because it doesn't need to be like they could

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have revealed the spoiler in the marketing, and I would

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have been even maybe more excited to see the film.

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I agree.

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I will say that the spoiler regarding the villain involves

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a well known character from the comic books that they

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straight up characteristics, and the villain is depicted as basically

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psychopathic doing some cruel and even genuinely demented ass shit

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when they have never been that extreme in the comic

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books outside of some external influence. The personality of the

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villain was wrong, The backstory was wrong, the power level

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at this stage was wrong. Even their actions based on

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their motivations were wrong. It was also wrong that Marvel

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seems to be in competition for how wrong can we

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get this particular character. There's no reason why they should

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have been the main antagonist in the Spider Man film,

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if only for Marvel to seemingly be trying to drum

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up excitement for future projects, which is totally unnecessary because

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the excitement already exists and the villain is outside the

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scope of what a street level Spider movie should have been.

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Spider Man has the second best rouse gallery in all

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of comics. Exactly what the hell they cameoed so many

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different Spider Man villains in this movie, just in a montage,

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Like a lot of them could have been the main

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villain of this movie, including the sco Sorpion, who barely

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had any screen time. Instead, we got whatever the fuck

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this was. You know. I had a coworker who knew

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that I saw the movie, and he asked me, oh,

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is like Tombstone really cool in the movie, And I

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was like, he is in it for literally thirty seconds. Yeah,

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Scorpion is in it for like maybe three minutes. It's

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a shame what they did with the main villain arc

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in the story, especially considering that their conflict with Spidery

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could have been resolved with a single sentence. You know,

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it's like Batman Vus Superman all over again, Like none

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of these people know how to communicate with each other.

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I'm not happy with Marvel's choices. This film has a

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villain problem. It makes me wonder what the fuck has

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been happening behind the scenes with Marvel Brass, even like

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DC Studios, Like they've all been making some really dumb

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fucking decisions as of late. And I would say that

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the villain problem with this movie is right up there

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with Iron Man three's choice to make the Mandarin Trevor slattery.

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You know, at least they were able to eventually salvage

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that mistake. Hopefully this characterization of the villain doesn't take

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ten years to fix. I don't think it will. They'll

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find some path of redemption. Maybe it'll just always be

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awkward from here on out. Anyway, back to what I

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did like, I likes the characters minus the villain. I

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liked Spider Man in the movie. As I mentioned, Tom

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Holland a superb In the film, he goes full in

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on a Spider Man persona, somewhat abandoning Peter Parker due

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to his decision to protect the ones he loves. It's

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a reluctant choice because he misses his friends and MJ,

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and his arc follows him as he chooses whether to

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stick with that choice and do this all in isolation,

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or if he can balance being both Peter Parker and

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Spider Man, the latter persona becoming a metaphor really for

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the changes you experience as a young adult out on

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your own. There was also a message in here about

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how being different can feel lonely, but that people who

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do love you do it not because you're different, and

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that you shouldn't feel lonely. That message actually kind of

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put a nice little bow on all the themes within

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the film by the end of the movie, which somewhat

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salvaged the issues with the film, but only minorly. So

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how did you feel about the Spider Man costume film?

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Because I actually think it's the best one ever.

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I really liked it a lot.

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It felt much more practical and down to earth than

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his stark tech suits, you know, which he's always had

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while in the MCU. I don't know if it was

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better than the Amazing Spider Man two costume, but it

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was like right up there.

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It was, It was right up there.

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The one thing this had going over the Amazing Spider

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Man two costume was the goggles because they found a

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way to maintain like his expression with them, and I

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thought that was cool. For sure, that was part of

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a stark tech costume because prior to that he was

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using like actual goggles. But they're not outside the scope

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of what he could invent himself. Everything else on his

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suit didn't seem quite as high tech, like it was

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a nano tech suit. Like it wasn't no way home right, Yeah,

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which is nice. It would have been cool to see

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him with six arms, though, Dude, is that a spoiler

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because I want to talk about that. Probably I think

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it is a spoiler, so I would say tread carefully

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so in the marketing, what got me most excited to

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see this film was the Man Spider storyline because it's

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something that we've never seen on screen before. It's a

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storyline that they've never explored. I thought they were going

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to take it to its full extent. They didn't, and

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maybe they will in future films. I hope they do,

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because I would love to see that, But it was

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one of the things that really disappointed.

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Me about this film.

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What did you think of the Punisher in this movie,

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especially coming off the back of the One Last Kill

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special presentation we got a few months ago. Well, it

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made me miss that version of Frank. This felt like

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a very toned down version. Because of that, I kind

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of wish that there was more distance between those two projects. Yeah, totally,

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they were very different. I want to say that John

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Burnhal felt out of character in this movie. It was

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just the circumstances I think kind of lean more toward

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him being comedic relief, which I thought he actually did

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pretty well. I thought it was pretty interesting. How they

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used the character in this movie, and I think he's

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still capable of going back to that darker tone in

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his own projects, but it's nice to see how he

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can be adapted to play with the larger MCU here.

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What did you think of the Hulk?

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Hulk is cool? Really like the Hulk. I'm glad they

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found away to bring Savage Hulk back, which is not

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a spoiler because that was kind of alluded to in

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the marketing. It's my favorite version of the Hulk. Yeah,

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for sure, I think it was really clever how they

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figured out how to bring him back to I kind

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of wish he was the quote unquote Final Battle. Yeah,

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that would have been cool. That would have been cool.

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What did you think of Black Widow. I'm tired of her, honestly,

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Yelena below it that was a dumb scene. The inclusion

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did feel somewhat gratuitous. I think she was only included

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to kind of give an update on the status of

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the New Avengers and Peter's relationship with them.

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What did you think of MJ.

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I've never really cared for MJ in the past, Like

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I never really saw Michelle Zendia's character as the de

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facto MJ, and I've always kind of been waiting for

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