MCU’s Spider-Man Trilogy (with Jason Baxter)

Everyone Is Wrong

Happy Across the Spider-Verse Day! To celebrate, here's the second installment of Jason Baxter and I taking turns taking shots at cinematic Spider-Man trilogies. This time Jason traps the Marvel Cinematic Universe's Spider-Man films in his web and sucks their blood dry. We discuss the lack of ties to Spidey's comic origins, why the character works as an underdog and how Tony Stark undermines that, the movies' visual stylings (or lack there of), justified villans, the suspension of Mysterio disbelief, Peter becoming dumb in the third film, the clear comedic sensibility, and if Garfield (the cat, not Andrew) should join the Spider-Verse.