OH MY GOD THE GHOSTBUSTERS FROZEN EMPIRE TRAILER DROPPED! IT LOOKS SO AMAZING!
Just some quick thoughts:
I want Callie to deck Dickless in the face. Make your daddy proud.
THEY'RE ALL BACK! MY SPENGLERS!
"Overruled." "Sustained. "... Thank you." I hope we see more of Gary bonding with Trevor in this film because just this little piece makes me smile.
Ray is in his element here.
LUCKY'S HERE!!!!!!!!!!!
I can't wait to meet Lars (and I really hope nothing bad happens to him)
LET MY RAY INFODUMP!
WINSTON! PETER! OH MY GOD!
JANINE! JANINE! JANINE!
"Melnitz in uniform!" We love it. She somehow looks so cute and so badass.
We're back in the library!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I love our little Spenglerson moment, they're just so cute! (I'm still crossing my fingers for that baby)
Wait a minute...
FUCKING SLIMER! HE'S BACK!
Poor Trevor...
Anyway, I already have so many ideas for what I want to do when I get to this point in my Cathleen Lives AU. And funny thing, I was thinking about how I want to rewatch the series before this movie came out, and how we probably weren't getting the full trailer until the Super Bowl last night!
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Sure, some of the dialogue was stunted, but I guess they have to overexplain concepts in superhero movies if it involves anything beyond skybeams and blowing stuff up. Gotta make the MCU bros understand, I guess.
I'm still confused about why Sims' dialogue wasn't synced up right most of the time, but his voice was just weird already so it didn't make much of a difference.
Dakota Johnson was fine, but Sydney Sweeney was the real standout among the main four for me. Aside from being one of my celebrity crushes, I thought her performance was very subtle, and a change from much of the more sexualized roles she is known for.
Adam Scott as Ben Parker was really cool. The line about "all the fun and none of the responsibility" followed up by Cassie's "that's what he thinks" was very clever. While obviously hinting at Peter Parker's responsibility as Spider-Man and Ben's famous words to him, it also references the responsibility that Ben has to protect Peter, which gives greater weight to why Ben understands responsibility so well.
I won't say Ben stole the show, because he wasn't in it enough to do that and it would take away from the leading ladies. It took a little bit to warm up to them, but it also took them a bit to warm up to each other, so that's kinda the point. These are four strangers who were just forced into a crazy situation, and they don't really know who to trust or who to like. But they actually have some character growth and learn to open up to each other.
I kinda wish there was more of the actual Spider-Women, but this movie isn't about that, it's about Cassie becoming Madame Web. It's not a Spider-Women movie, it's a movie about the women who become Spiders.
The marketing for this movie was weird. Like the trailer was intriguing (at least to me) but everything else seemed off. "Made by AI" maybe, but the movie itself is unique in its concept to be a human original. I think we need to stop blaming ChatGPT and start blaming studio interference.
Anyway, don't listen to me or anyone else about this movie, or any movie. If it looks interesting to you, go see it. If you have an open mind about movies, chances are you'll find something you like.
Wow, this post is way longer than I thought it'd be. Thanks for reading this far, if you did 😊