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Spider-Man: Far From Home
2019 · Film · 129 min
Part of Spider-Man (MCU) Collection
Directed by Jon Watts
ActionAdventureScience Fiction
Peter Parker and his friends go on a summer trip to Europe. However, they will hardly be able to rest - Peter will have to agree to help Nick Fury uncover the mystery of creatures that cause natural disasters and destruction throughout the continent.
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Also, in "Spider-Man: Far From Home", a 2019 movie with a 160M budget, they go to "The Netherlands" which was shot in Chech Republic, and it looks like Prague but with tulips, with a Polish actor supposedly talking Dutch. And then Spider-Man gets arrested and thrown in a "Dutch" jail which does not look at all like a Dutch jail, but is obviously some middle-european building, which makes sense as "Amsterdam" was shot in Prague too
I'm somewhere in the middle. I'd like to see movies use HFR like some movies use the IMAX aspect ratio.
Imagine Spider-Man: Far From Home in 24 fps, except it transitions to 48 fps in the Mysterio illusion scenes. Granted, this would spoil some moments in the movie, so it's not the perfect example.
I wish Avatar: TWoW was entirely 48 fps, OR it handled transitions better, like keeping it consistent across entire scenes.
I would comment as follows.
Iron Man - sort novel for setting marvel tone but mostly banal action movie
Iron Man 2 - banal action movie
Thor - banal action movie
Captain America: The First Avenger - particularly banal action movie
Marvel's The Avengers - banal action movie
Iron Man 3 - banal action movie, sort of interesting to see protagonist suffering PTSD anxiety from being a superhero
Thor: The Dark World - banal action movie
Captain America: The Winter Soldier - first interesting take. Patriotism is not the same as government obedience. Real fight choreography approaching a soft john wick.
Guardians of the Galaxy - Early rock and roll aesthetic pretty interesting
Avengers: Age of Ultron - banal action movie, perhaps mcu lowpoint
Ant-Man - superhero heist movie, literally deconstructs larger than life superhero tropes. I think thumbs up
Captain America: Civil War - by this point doing the mcu's own thing, which is novel, but probably not interesting outside
Doctor Strange - banal action movie
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 - aesthetic still feels mostly fresh.
Spider-Man: Homecoming - super down to earth high school drama, frustrated working class villains suffering the fallout of superheroes, seems interesting to me
Thor: Ragnarok - great film, very genre savvy. Rare achievement to make godly strength brutes feel really engaging to watch. Taika Waititi is a genius.
Black Panther - pretty good. interesting aesthetic. directly addressing racial tensions.
Avengers: Infinity War & Endgame - Mostly fan service and not too surprising but honestly still novel.
Ant-Man and the Wasp - Ehhh I really don't remember
Captain Marvel - Beginning had some great hard sci fi imo. Thought the ending message of newly apotheosizied female not needing to prove herself to her evil male mentor was a solid take, whereas a classic "mano a mano" kind of showdown would be so typical of the genre
Spider-Man: Far From Home - Villain emphasizing themes of the power of deceptive media? heck yeah.
Wandavision - Really bizarre and interesting start. Unfortunately non-self-aware conclusion
Falcon and Winter Soldier - Active discussions of race and the problematic nature of superheroes being supremacists? Very good.
Loki - kind of a super cliche topic (time cops) that is also somehow really rare? eh.
honorable mentions for Logan and Deadpool for being just great; and the Amazing Spiderman for its excellent aesthetics despite terrible writing.
It's true.
But Google fails as well.
Most of the world population is not native english speaker.
Try "attore che recita la parte del giornalista in spiderman" (the actor that plays the journalist in spiderman) in Italian
- Spider-Man: Homecoming - Wikipedia (https://it.wikipedia.org)
- James Franco - Wikipedia (https://it.wikipedia.org)
- Spider-Man film: tutti gli attori | Popcorn Tv (https://popcorntv.it)
- Martin Sheen, dieci ruoli per scoprire un grande attore ... (https://www.consigli.it)
Or the simplified version "attore che fa il giornalista in spiderman" (same meaning as before, just more down to earth)
- J. Jonah Jameson - Wikipedia (https://it.wikipedia.org)
- J. Jonah Jameson - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org)
- Spider-Man: Far From Home, nel cast anche l'attore ... (https://tg24.sky.it)
Refining is still a very present need, it's simply that for common searches on common topics in english it's less so...
It's more or less the same in German, French, Spanish, Portuguese... I can't even imagine the results in languages like Arabic, Indonesian or Balinese.
Local, culture aware, search engines are the future, despite Google efforts, the generalist "one size fits all" search engine is not.
Something I've noticed in recent superhero movies is the idea that:
* For all the talk about "heart", superheroes are extraordinary by some aspect the rest of us can't expect to get
* Yet supervillains are often just normal people who got too pissed off. The villains in Iron Man, Iron Man 2, Iron Man 3, Spider Man: Far From Home, Captain America: Civil War, Ant-Man, etc are just people that got ticked off.
We have to count on others to be superheroes, but we're all one bad day from becoming supervillains.
> Yeah, I watched Spider-Man:Far From Home as well.
I haven't; what was in the movie?
> Projecting a hologram is one thing, projecting one while flying at 800km/hr is another.
Like I was saying: short-throw laser projectors (or rather, in this case, long-throw projectors, but same diff, tech-wise.) Have a missile vanguard blow through the airspace first, making the air turbulent and perhaps "doping" it with some dyes so that the vapor-trail blends back into the sky. Then fly out your penaids, have them assume static positions around the diffractive "canvas", and then start throwing emissions at the "canvas." Reorient some lasers a tiny little bit, and now it looks like you've got something glowy accelerating at Mach 6 along your "canvas." But it's not a violation of the laws of physics—it's just light (and RF, and IR, and...)
But my real argument wasn't meant to be a constructive proof about what properties penaids should be able to have. My point was that, given the tech that's cheap enough for any nation on earth to put into each and every counter-missile, if certain nations (ahem) want to retain air supremacy, they're going to want to develop something that can fool that sensor tech. The result would be the EW equivalent of a "deepfake": a decoy that fools cameras better than our eyes, feeding AI more discriminant than our brains. What hope do we humans have of telling such a decoy apart from a real UFO?
Spider-Man has been rebooted twice in live-action movies since the Raimi version. The last and current incarnation, starring Tom Holland, debuted in Spider-Man: Homecoming, which is getting a sequel this year (Spider-Man: Far From Home). The other reboot, starring Andrew Garfield in two movies, was eminently forgettable.
"Spider-Man into the Spider-Verse" is an alternate-reality version (where SM is a black/latino teenager) in animated form. Somewhat surprisingly, it's also qualitatively better than any live-action version to date. It will probably get a sequel, again in animated form, in the next few years.
No, I genuinely thought you were spoilering the upcoming Spider-Man Far From Home (where the guy is put to sleep by Nick Fury in trailers, but by the end of the movie, who knows?). The previous Spider-Man has the guy-in-chair joke, so...
I wouldn't be surprised to learn that he had already filmed one for Spider-Man: Far From Home, that one has wrapped production. It's a possibility that he may have some canned appearances meant for future movies as well, but I think FFH is the last one where they could have physically brought him onto the set.