New SPIDER-MAN: HOMECOMING posters...

[emeraldknight47]

Despite all of the hullabaloo going on about the new JL trailer, just to give SONY/MARVEL STUDIOS equal time, here are the three posters they've just released for the new MCU-based Spider-Man movie. Just to let everyone know that I'm really NOT a MARVEL snob, I pretty much HATE all three of these images.

Whereas the JL posters are dark and a bit lacking in a sensahuma, I think the design team behind these went a little too far in the opposite direction and gave us some of the most juvenile and poorly conceived SPIDER-MAN movie posters of all time. I get that Spidey is a teen-ager (I've only known that since I was, oh, let's see---five), but the teen-aged Spider-Man I knew was a loner, never an Avenger, certainly NOT Tony Stark's *****(rhymes with "witch," but I can't type it here) or his freakin' lap dog, nor was he ever a slackabout wearing a crappy jacket and listening to headphones. This is Spidey IN the MCU and, if these posters are ANY indication, I'm gonna hate this P.O.S. waaaay more than the JUSTICE LEAGUE. These posters indicate to me that the "Disneyfication" of Spider-Man is very nearly complete; can it be long before the rest of the MCU and the Marvel Universe, in general, suffers the same fate...


Spidey having to hang on to the top of the sign like a common construction worker? Not MY Spidey...



Spidey hanging around on Avengers Tower looking like a faithful cocker spaniel who's just dropped his cell phone (and, again, gripping the sign rather than "clinging" to it)? Nope, not MY Spidey, either...



Spidey being a typical millennial slacker? Just add a stupid backwards or sideways baseball cap. Definitely NOT NOT NOT MY Spidey...

Sam Raimi---where are you?!?

[sprytel]

Is this sarcasm? It's so hard to tell tone on the internetz...

[Hedji]

I can't help but love this Spidey. It's the Romita eyes. So faithful to Romita's look.

[MIB41]

I agree. I think Marvel has reduced Spider-man to almost a sidekick for the Avengers. I have no problem with Spider-man sharing the same cinematic universe with the Avengers as he would in the comics. But to weave his visual identity as the iconic Spider-man as originating through the eyes of Tony Stark is really taking a bit too much creative license for the sake of keeping the universe...eh...tidy. Having Stark as his pseudo-mentor is really demeaning to the Parker character well past how he was originally written. It's especially irritating to see the Avengers Tower in EVERY poster shot. Yes, he finally has the Romita eyes and I'm all for that, but that's about where it ends too in terms of the classic Spider-man.

[Hector]

I dig his look...but hate that Spidey is Stark's pet project...good grief...

[emeraldknight47]

Like everyone else who first saw Spidey in the CIVIL WAR trailer (a movie I have not yet screened), I was tickled poopless by the (finally) Romita animated eyes on Spidey, I just HATE the fact that those (I presume) and everything else on the Spidey suit is basically Stark tech. Peter Parker, as written by Stan Lee, Roy Thomas, Len Wein and pretty much every other writer has a genius-level intellect, not on Reed Richards level, but definitely on par with Stark, just not so much in the fields of technology and cybernetics/cyberengineering. For that reason alone, Stark's additions to the Spidey suit should have been a few minor tweaks, at best. And ENOUGH with shoving Stark and Avengers Tower down our throats; why not just replace it with a big, metal phallus and make Parker gay and in love with Stark?

P.S. Absolutely ZERO sarcasm on my part regarding this post.

[jwyblejr]

There's already a Deadpool spoof of the third poster on Facebook.

[thunderbolt]

As long as there are no scenes of Peter Parker strutting down the avenue to the tune of Staying Alive I'll be ok with this.

[Earth 2 Chris]

I like them. There have been 5 previous Spider-Man films. This one has a different flavor, partially out of necessity, and partially because Marvel had to pay some coin to workout a deal with Sony to get Spidey in their films. So they integrated him in a way that was essential to the ongoing storyline. It made sense.

I think we're going to see Spidey step out of Tony's shadow in this one, and maybe possibly move over to more of Cap's way of thinking in the next Avengers movies. The sign mentioning Brooklyn may be a nod to that.

Chris

[Bruce Banner]

Psyched for this. It's by far the best Spidey movie suit so far, and I'm looking forward to seeing how Marvel Studios handles the character in his standalone pictures.

[Hector]

As long as there are no scenes of Peter Parker strutting down the avenue to the tune of Staying Alive I'll be ok with this.

Amen to that...

[Hedji]

I'm so psyched for this, actually.

Best suit
Actor is potentially best
He was awesome in Civil War
SONY was messing it up, big time anyway

More, please.


I mean, if the biggest complaint of integrating him into the well established MCU is that he is too affiliated with Stark... can you imagine being told as a kid, that these two guys were gonna be in a major movie together?

[Bruce Banner]

Yeah... at least they didn't go with the Iron Spider suit. Not yet, anyway.