BRAND NEW DAY
(2026 dir. Destin Daniel Cretton) Date Seen: August 6 2026
As an action movie, this was a huge step up from DD Cretton’s last Marvel outing YÁNGZǏ & THE QUEST FOR GOLDEN TREASURE, + I dug the darker lighting and the way Peter’s erased personal life occasionally approached the existential devastation of something like Shining Girls. But man, in its latter half this movie goes overkill on those unearned catharsis scenes! Every other emotional beat hitting the record scratch so somebody can deliver a soap-opera speech full of the mushy vague platitudes.. I guess if you dig cornball sentimentality you'll lap that up -- but i felt like genuine sentiment wasn't within. Even that grocery store scene in THE FLASH (2023) carried immense weight & longing compared to these. & it didn't have the benefit of prior films for context about that specific love.
also: this is not a dig at BRAND NEW DAY's narrative details, but i do wish one of these things will eventually visually depict the "Neogenic Nightmare" Peter goes through on the old animated series! That Man-Spider thing scared us to death as kids. But I fear maybe ol' Sony has become a little too namby-pamby now to try anything like that. When it comes to superhero/supervillain stuff, they're almost like the Rod & Todd Flanders of movie studios.. (Look at what they did to Carnage.. "Look how they massacred my boy" - Corleone voice)
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