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December 17, 2021, 1:50 am

Today I went to see Spider-Man No Way Home with a school group. It started at 10:30 pm and ended at 1:00.

It was nuts.

It was absolutely bananas.

Let’s go over the plot points. If you’re a time traveller from the past reading this, stop reading because it’s definitely worth waiting for!

Matt Murdoch is Peter’s lawyer, but he’s a good lawyer so they don’t even go to court. Aunt May died which was MCU Peter Parker’s Uncle Ben moment. She was killed by Green Goblin from Tobey’s universe and even says, “With great power comes great responsibility.” Also, Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield do show up! Ned can use magic and uses Dr. Strange’s sling ring to make portals, but unfortunately, I did not feel they did that to connect with anything in the future for Ned.

Besides all of these moments, there were many redemptive arcs from so many years ago that were so heartwarming and heartbreaking at the same time. My favourite of these moments was when MCU’s MJ falls off the Statue of Liberty and MCU Spiderman fails to catch her with the framing of the shot almost exactly like when Gwen Stacy died. We all thought she was about to die. But then Andrew Garfield’s Spider-Man jumps into the frame and saves her!

Like Dude! He does the thing he failed to do! He saves someone else’s Gwen Stacy!

Other than that there were cool moments like Spider-Man’s fighting style which paid homage to the Avengers. I’m not exactly sure if it was every Avenger which will be remedied with a supplementary viewing, but I know that he for sure pays homage to Black Widow and Capitain America.

First is Black Widow. There is a move she uses in Civil War where she is kind of backwards piggy-backed on Bucky and hits his head with her arms in a downward motion which Peter uses against the Green Goblin. It may not be exact, but the sentiment is there. In addition, there were two Captain America fighting style homages I could find, one from Avengers: Age of Ultron and one from Civil War/Falcon and the Winter Soldier. It’s where Captain America raises his shield above his head and uses it like a guillotine in a strong downward motion, which Peter tries to use on the Green Goblin as revenge for killing Aunt May. This is the move that ends Steve and Tony’s friendship and ends Walmart: Captain America’s career. It would also have ended Peter’s legacy as a hero if it weren’t for Tobey’s Spider-Man stepping in.

This also felt like a nod to Ironman’s rage-blind and revenge-fueled fight with Cap and Bucky when he found out that Bucky killed his parents. Just as Tony was getting revenge for his parents, Peter was getting revenge for the only person he had left in his life that was like a parent to him.

It was incredibly sad to watch and it cut all the more deeper because of how many parallels there were to the Iron-Man death scene as well as the fact that we were made to stare into Aunt May’s lifeless eyes for a very long time as Peter was brutalized by the Police.

However, the sadness did not last too long because it was clear that this was Peter’s true Uncle Ben Moment, not Tony Stark.

So, where does the movie end us?

Peter Parker is now on his own. Aunt May is dead, nobody remembers him (so while Mj and Ned get into MIT, he doesn’t), he rents a small apartment, and he prepares to take the GED exam in order to be able to get a career for himself I guess. He doesn’t have any Stark tech anymore with Happy Hogan arrested and Stark industries probably under new management, so he makes his own suit which looks a little jank to be honest, but it suits him better as the friendly neighbourhood Spider-Man than the flashy Stark suit.

I doubt we will be seeing Spider-Man in the MCU again with literally nobody knowing him, not even Dr. Strange. He might get a few cameos here and there in some of the Disney+ shows or something, but I doubt much more. That’s fine though. After watching this movie it’s clear that it was all just one big coming-of-age arc where Peter finally becomes a true Spider-Man and goes off to do friendly neighbourhood Spider-Man things, not fight giant purple aliens both on earth and in space.

All in all, the movie was phenomenally fantastic and was literally a life-changing experience. I am glad I stayed up this late to watch it. Every single epic reveal had the entire theatre clapping and cheering, the Aunt May death scene had us shocked to silence, and the end credits gave us the start of the MCU’s Venom. The clapping and cheering sometimes made it hard to hear the exact dialogue, but that’s okay! We, as watchers of the film, need the validation from our surroundings and also just need to express our joy and excitement. This was, unfortunately, missing at my theatre experience for Endgame, and while the movie itself was awesome, the theatre was kind of dead and it definitely was not as fulfilling as today.

It was also just a very feel-good movie with the various Spider-Men interacting with each other in nerdy and quirky ways, in a unique way that only Spider-Men could. It was clear to see that the actors had very good chemistry and rapport with each other too, and some scenes like the back-cracking scene where Andrew cracks Tobey’s back felt very natural as if it were improvised or unscripted.

It was also just an awesome way to thank and reward the fans for their viewership and love for the franchise. They even gave Avi Arad – who worked on the 2002 Spider-Man, the 2012 Amazing Spider-Man, and the 2018 Into the Spiderverse – a personal shoutout in the end credits as being something along the lines of, “The first true believer,” or something like that.

The thing is, something like this with Spider-Men can never happen again. It just cannot be topped! What are they gonna have all 4 Spider-Men with a few using walkers in 50 years? I don’t think so. That’s why I’m glad I was at one of the very first viewings of this movie. It was a historical event.

I’m also glad because immediately after we exited the doors there were multiple people shouting with each other about the major plot points of the movie out near the doors of the theatre spoiling it for every passer-by.