735386, But that's my problem. We hardly get those stakes either.
Posted by Frank Longo, Sun Jul-07-19 11:51 PM
>The stakes are always gonna be him holding down a
>life more than it is defeating a villain.
First of all, over half the film is dedicated to the villain. So those scenes *need* personal stakes. And we don't have them.
Second, the Peter/MJ conflict also, outside of *maybe* the opera scene, doesn't really have earnest emotional stakes imo. It's a lot of jokey sitcom shtick, which I'm cool with... but nothing compared to the personal stakes of Spidey 2, or Into the Spider-Verse... or even Spidey: Homecoming tbh.
It's content to just be fun and jokey throughout. Which is fine. But I prefer more earnest engagement personally.
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