Spider-Man: Brand New Day (2026)

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Really enjoyed this. I would say it's definitely the most comic booky of all the Holland Spider-man films. I almost want to say it's my favorite of the 4. Nice transition to an older Peter Parker now too. The Punisher was used well and there are some definite great action/fight scenes. Really interested in how the X-Men will be formed with how they intro'd Jean as well.
 
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I think it probably does fall a bit short of the record, but still quite amazing, especially without IMAX.


Thats fucking silly. Also explains why I cant find a ticket in a decent screening till next weekend lol.

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But why does Zendaya keep being casted in stuff.

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Her generation thinks she is hot as fuck.

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Eh. Women say shes hot, but women literally said Michelle Obama was pretty. (I know this sounds insane but really, its a widely held opinion among women). Volumes have been written on this phenomenon. They arent saying shes hot because they think shes hot.

Beta Gen Z males say they agree because thats what beta Gen Z males do - they agree with what their women say.

Zendayas popularity is a creation of the same system that produces high fashion: make something to appeal to women and gay men and weak peoples need for social acceptance will do the rest.
 

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Saw it today with the wife and kid. We all loved it, it's a really solid movie, great "villain", good performances. I liked the Holland Spiderman movies fine, but so far my favorite had been the first one (love Keaton as Vulture), I was kinda meh about 2 with Mysterio, and 3 was kinda blah if you remove the nostalgia factor from having the 3 Spideys in the film plus Doc Ock and Goblin.

This one though might be my 2nd favorite, perhaps my favorite of the 4. The action scenes were awesome, my son has been playing Spiderman on PS5 lately and the fights looked just straight out of that, but in a good way. The movie took its time to breathe a bit too, which was nice.

Really recommend it in theaters for the Spider-POV moments and the crazy angles they used during some of the web-slinging, it was pretty awesome.
 
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Haus

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OK, So the wife and I saw this today.

First take, this is the first movie I can remember seeing since covid where the theater was honest to goodness FULL. As in people even sitting in the cheaper seats down front. And this was a 10am showing.

I honestly think it's the best of the Holland Spiderman films. I saw complaints about how it felt like "two stories in one" but to be honest most of the great Spiderman arcs have two threads, one where it's Peter's personal situation/issues and one with a bad guy to overcome. This movie , IMHO, hit that stride really well with the "I'm changing" story arc involving Peter personally and the "have to stop the big bad". A couple details, I'll spoiler for the overly sensitive....

  • Peter arc - Even though the movie is called Brand new Day, it was IMHO more a spin on the comics "evolve or die" arc. Done decently, only gripe is with a couple minor plot devices he uses. Banner is supposed to be a tier above Peter in terms of intellect/capabilities, yet somehow Petey home brews a micro size , more versatile, inhibitor in his apartment? Also, I get him having some tech, assuming maybe he kept ahold of a few Stark goodies, but I think his tech level might still be a tad high for "street level". The power up realization at the end was good enough and explained enough in the "balancing the mental issues and the physical ones align" direction. Enough "super feely Petey" scenes that a certain someone near me MIGHT have been crying a little.... But they're not misplaced and played well and purposefully
  • Main "bad guy" arc - Solid and IMHO a decent way to introduce the character. Since we see her leaving town at the end I assume the bus is heading to upstate NY, and we all know what school is up there. Peter solving the problem by being Peter instead of Spiderman was a nice touch.
  • Hulk - Still no real explanation to me about why we had perfectly controlled Professor Hulk in Endgame, then apparently still to some degree in She Hulk (although he had the inhibitor), and now relies on the inhibitor?
  • Yelena - I have not really loved the character yet, but in this movie she was honestly entertaining and serves the role she fills well. Ms Pugh needs to either hone in that accent or ditch it. (It's not RFD sounding like Nandor level bed, but not great)
  • Punisher - Honestly liked this iteration/feel more than the second Punisher season on netflix. Looked like Bernthal was enjoying being Frank more in this as well. Chemistry was solid between him and Holland. Wouldn't argue against more Spidey/Punisher content.
  • MJ & Ned - Felt inconsistent with how they handled his reveals to them. In the comics the spell worked with the mechanics that if he revealed himself "all the memories came back" which seemed to happen with the moment of realization/fistbump in the store towards the end by Ned, but then MJ pulls the "I still have no memories" card... Maybe I missed something. OTOH, if they keep that she she doesn't fall for him again it opens up the possibility of him meeting Gwen Stacy and/or Silver Fox. Both of which could be entertaining.
  • The "surprise" - Having Damage Control end up being the real bad guys wasn't a surprise at all to me, but the V-max bit was a nice diversion. The minute I saw he was tinkering with acquired technology/etc I knew the next step was "you should see the people we have in the human experimentation lab upstairs!" And that guy damn well oozed creepy.
  • One thing missing completely, which I absolutely loved... At no point did I feel like they were trying to get across.... "The MeSsAgE!"
  • Post credit scene is mostly useless as everybody already knows he'll be in either Doomsday/Secret Wars or both.

Saw complaints that it felt like a "cameo fest" and "too many villains" but I didn't get that feel off it. Characters who were in there all had roles and positions to play.
Saw complaints about length, but that felt fine to me.

Overall I'll give this a solid 8.5 of 10. Probably most simply enjoyable movie I've seen in a while. And the more I think about it, definitely the film in the Tom Holland series I like the most. I look forward to it hopefully roflestomping some box office numbers, and very honestly wouldn't mind seeing it outperform Doomsday.

Another sign that I liked.... At the beginning there was a short pre movie clip with Holland, essentially saying he loved making the film and thanking the audience for coming out to watch it. Definitely a complete pivot from "Treat the audience like backwards nerds who need to receive "the message""

Bonus, I don't know if it's at all theaters, but ours handed out free little Spider Man buttons as we went in.
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First take, this is the first movie I can remember seeing since covid where the theater was honest to goodness FULL. As in people even sitting in the cheaper seats down front. And this was a 10am showing.

Same here. Forgot to mention another little thing (though unrelated to the movie), but our afternoon showing had some dude dressed up as Spiderman show up during the adverts before the movie.. he went to the bottom in front of the front seats and was doing backflips and all sorts of acrobatics, clearly not just a random cosplayer. He had all the mannerisms right, really cool shit, people were clapping and cheering, the little kids were crazy.

Felt wholesome.
 

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Damn, those trailers were misleading, great fucking comic movie, oddly Keaton's is the weakest out of the 4 but thats not a bad thing. Ranking villains ect is really hard, all 4 films have had great antagonist. I thought the movie was over and never even saw The Hand, trailer really made you think they were the main villain 😆
 
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I liked Frank, but the movie overall was very predictable. What was the force that was overriding Jean Gray's powers during the hulk attack on the damage control building? Also, Marisa looks good for her 60s
 
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Homsar

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I'm assuming it's hard to control hulk/banner but she was only getting messed up anytime Hulk got hurt and pissed him off
 
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He fought himself more than an actual main villian

he fought side battles more than he fought an actual main villain

Seeing real hulk was nice but that was a flash in the pan

Seeing him getting taken away regular ambulance style is retarded the fucking actual hulk just resurfaced that wouldn’t happen

ugly black lady and her ugly black kids felt forced to hit the diversity quotas

punisher was alright and talked decent

having to go through what felt like a spider one movie intro to powers was a time waster

allowing a mutant to be shoehorned in without any actual intro to mutants if not completely reset by doomsday is retarded

if reset then this is once again variant business and a what if to her character ?

whoever wrote previously “oh she’s going to up state New York and you guys all know what that means” what the fuck you talking about as no such X-men or school nor mutants exist so what you said is retarded

S1: had plenty of Spider-Man Vs vulture
S2: had plenty battles with mysterio
S3: had plethora rogues gallery of battles with true villains

there was more “ok actor #1334 do your best seizure impression” and this will be called jumping and then next actor you seize up and convulse and then on and on than fighting an actual main villain

it was ok but I am not disappointed I pirated the movie over seeing it in theatre like the last 3
Angry ranting don’t understand the hype
 
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Haus

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All those are your opinion, but if I might offer my counterpoints on a few.... Also spoilered because I ramble a little...

He fought himself more than an actual main villian
One of the most basic core things about Spiderman (from his creation) was that it's the story of Peter Parker dealing with growing up as well as dealing with spider induced mutation. Him struggling with the changes as he "grows into adulthood" was kinda the main point. BTW, "grows into adulthood" is the main theme of this and cause for some of the things you didn't like. Peter had to struggle with maturing biologically (the advancing mutation), emotionally (dealing with MJ/Ned situations), and as a hero (Figuring how how to solve the problem with his mind instead of web/fists.) That was literally the core of the story, and one thing I felt made it a more complete film past the usual three act formulaic generic Marvel MCU feature.

he fought side battles more than he fought an actual main villain
The montage at the first was establishing the passage of time (back to "growing into adulthood), the fact that many other battles were with "mooks" was establishing that there was a bigger/more complicated villain involved. The entire montage up front was to make sure you knew it's been YEARS since Spiderman 2 and they've all gotten into new young adult grooves rather than highschoolers.

Seeing real hulk was nice but that was a flash in the pan
Gonna have to agree with you on this one some, it's one of my gripes in general with the MCU is that they seem to have lost their way with this character. Although "Hulk was mind controlled" was one of the few ways to get a real Spiderman v. Hulk fight in which was definitely rewarding. I think it was Hulks overall power that let him force her out, my bet is off screen she slipped Banner on like a loose fitting robe. But the more Hulk she manifested, the more resistance she got.

ugly black lady and her ugly black kids felt forced to hit the diversity quotas
Meh, a black woman being a detective in NYC isn't out of the ordinary at all, and was there to show how he's working with the police and mostly loved by the city. That's Spiderman's thing. Also to build the contrast between him and Punisher.

allowing a mutant to be shoehorned in without any actual intro to mutants if not completely reset by doomsday is retarded
I think they've realized that for characters with a known fan base and presence, especially ones who have (in other multiverses) been in movies already they've realized audiences just don't yearn for a billion more origin stories. They hinted at things, and will probably backfill her origin in the Xmen reboot.

whoever wrote previously “oh she’s going to up state New York and you guys all know what that means” what the fuck you talking about as no such X-men or school nor mutants exist so what you said is retarded
We don't know it doesn't exist yet. We didn't know there had been previous Sorcerer Supremes until Dr Strange, but apparently it's gone back centuries. They have yet to establish what causes the mass emergence of the X gene in this universe. (A lot of suspicion of "there have been multiple global massive pulses of cosmic energy happening on this particular planet (infinity stones being used) and that triggered it at scale" might be it). I suspect we're going to get "mutants have happened in the past but very few and very far between, now it's become far more common". Charles may already be living in upstate NY, but not have converted it into the school yet, or is just starting the school. We just don't know yet.

there was more “ok actor #1334 do your best seizure impression” and this will be called jumping and then next actor you seize up and convulse and then on and on than fighting an actual main villain
This was the other many riff of the "Spiderman is growing up" theme. For one of the first times (he hasn't had to fight Kingpin yet) he had to fight an enemy that was beyond just "shoot a bunch of web and punch bad guy/disable technical gizmo they're wearing". Again, all plot lines had that common thing "Peter growing up, and evolving"

I don't know if your download was a telesync/cam/actual leak, but I will also say the cinematography of the fight sequences were really engaging to get to watch on the big screen, but that might just be me.
 

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It was pretty good.

Although, I wish they had used a Spider-villain instead. Kingpin or someone else would've worked just fine if they'd used the right supporting sub-contracted villains. They already had Scorpion, Tombstone, and Punisher involved in the movie, and could've found a way to make Hulk work anyways.
 
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I was just made aware of one somewhat significant screw up...

Assuming this movie takes place this year... And that the montage up front shows it's been 4 years since the last movie (they moved away, went to MIT, graduated, and moved back)... Then the date on those stone should, at latest, be 2022

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Not spoilered since image was in the trailer.
 

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Remember the blip moved the MCU ahead 5 years in Endgame. So real time has been catching up to that, slowly, since then. That places this movie in at least 2028 if not 2029
 

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May died before they went to MIT. So it would have been 4-years. So yeah, your suggestion of 22 would be perfect. At the same time, my dad died in '24 so the tombstone effected me on a weird guttural level. He was born in '53, so way earlier than May.