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Ultimatley fails to escape the vices which have made the MCU so uninspiring and sluggish for the last 6 years, everytime it feels like something really good is being built here there's always just a completley corny and superflous MCUism inserted. And its a shame because visually 80% of this movie is the best the MCU has looked since Infinity War and Creston taking the reigns from Jon Watthefuckamidoing really is an immediate improvement (we won't talk about that other 20% Hulk scene i'm looking at you). It's two narrative dependencies feel disjointed at times, but at other times they work really well together and some of the best scenes in the movie are when both narratives work in cohesion with eachother. Tom Holland is brilliant by far his best outing as the titular Spider-Man, Sadie Sink is really great aswell in what was a shocking role that I did not expect at all (maybe it was really obvious but im not on the twittersphere or keeping up to date with the MCU atm so I wouldn't really know) but it feels really distinct and like a fun and positive sort of spin for the franchise going forward. Overall it works but it's held back by its franchise.

Rejected by society, an attempt to reintegrate one's self into the world, what do we do when the soil we walk on and the air we breath rejects us and throws us out, why we try and salvage what's left we pick up the pieces, and when that fails? Well we go back to the society that accepts us, coz we want to be loved, we want to be accepeted, no one wants to be alone. I somewhat enjoyed Aronofsky's effort exploring decisions, regret, marginalization etc. Mickey Rourke and Marisa Tomei are brilliant, but the screenplay heavily relies on their wonderful performances, outside of their work nothing really stood out to me. Admirable but abit flat.

I appreciate the message its trying to portray, a thousand dreams crumpled and discarded by addiction, the hope of utopia makes the crushing reality even worse. Unfortunately I found this movie to be painfully repetitive and tedious, as the movies narrative spiraled, so did my sanity, the same camera motifs that get really tiring after 10 minutes, the themes which seem so brilliantly laid out in the opening act, seem discarded (ironic) much for the preference of Aronofsky's wanting to display his technical prowess.

Gareth Edward's The Creator (2023) name dropped atleast 20 times in this movie.