Far From Home was a good movie, not really that great for me because this version of Spider-Man just doesn't quite do it for me.
But their MJ was bland and i sad than so far the MCU version of my favorite comic book romance was so dissapointing, i pretty much lost any hope for it in this version.
Last edited by TheCape; 07-07-2019 at 03:26 PM.
"Wow. You made Spider-Man sad, congratulations. I stabbed The Hulk last week"
Wolverine, Venom Annual # 1 (2018)
Nobody does it better by Jeff Loveness
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Honestly after the FFH, is clear that she is MJ, a boring one, but their version at the end of the day, the romantic subplot of this movie was meh, they pretty much gave me no time be invested on it (for that matter i had the same problem with Peter's Class in general). Hell, i actually think that they did a better job selling me Liz and Peter in the previous movie.
"Wow. You made Spider-Man sad, congratulations. I stabbed The Hulk last week"
Wolverine, Venom Annual # 1 (2018)
Nobody does it better by Jeff Loveness
"I am Thou, Thou Art I"
Persona
The spider is always on the hunt.
Spider-Man does work better as a tv series, but his popularity makes impossible for him to have something like that, not giving him a movie is just insane. Is probably why Spec Spider-Man is the best modernization of the characther as far as i am concerned.
Even with that i think that Raimi made a better job in make me care about Peter's supporting cast, even if i disagreed with some of his decisions.
"Wow. You made Spider-Man sad, congratulations. I stabbed The Hulk last week"
Wolverine, Venom Annual # 1 (2018)
Nobody does it better by Jeff Loveness
"I am Thou, Thou Art I"
Persona
That doesn't disprove my point .
I think one of the issues with the MCU as a serialized movie series is that some of the character building minutia and development tend to happen off-screen so you just jump into a movie with characters sometimes at Point B when you never really saw the progression from Point A to Point B.
Does that make sense?
No disagreement here.
I would've said PS4 Spidey was a good runner-up but I prefer Spec's MJ to PS4's MJ, if only from a characterization standpoint even if the show ended before they could really develop the former.
It does makes sense, take Peter and MJ, last movie she was just a jerk toward him and he was just confused about her attitude. Cut to FFH he is all over her, even making romantic plans to confess, apparently he fell for her in the 8 months between Endgame and this, but we never saw how or why they are into each other. Say what you want about Raimi's MJ at least i did understand why they wanted to be together. Here was like filling a checklist. For that matter, the movie doesn't make a good job in making you care for Peter's classmates, Ned is mostly a sounding board with some jokes, Brad is unecessary and Flash....well that tragedy doesn't need explaining.
I recently played it and i was surprised about how good was PS4 Spidey, one of the best version for sure. But i agrees that i prefer Spec MJ. Still the romance was decent in that game, especially the text conversation .
"Wow. You made Spider-Man sad, congratulations. I stabbed The Hulk last week"
Wolverine, Venom Annual # 1 (2018)
Nobody does it better by Jeff Loveness
"I am Thou, Thou Art I"
Persona
Spec!MJ never lived up to her true potential.
Given that they probably weren't going to kill Gwen until the very end, I don't know if we would have ever seen such a thing as you imagine it.
But because the show ended when it did that means all of this is just speculation. And it is for that reason I can't agree with Spec!MJ being best MJ. It relies far too much on speculation. You can say she had the most potential.