I might be saying this because I'm kind of irked and find it unfair how much disparaging 'The Madame Web'* movie is getting but sure I can kind of understand that the movie really bungled in barely better than a B movie when there was so much imaginative opportunity lost.. but dang it people stop it.
We got it. Post-phase 4 Marvel is fizzling out and it's a pity how X-Men, Spider-Man stuff is going to get less attention and development because of the years of investment and risk of making things so Avengers-centric. I mean I get that, I get how that trend grew since 2007 because of how the Avengers were getting less attention in the comics around the turn of the century in contrast to Spider-Man and the X-Men not the least because of the contributions of artists who later on form Image comics like Todd McFarland and Jim Lee.
Like I mean I get it how it's starting to be superhero stuff is starting to become somewhat tiresome and the over the top-ness or cheesiness is starting to be more mawkish and trite but darn it even though it can be fun in moderated enough doses and is well intentioned in a sense, a fair amounts of the time when it's presented to children w/ the intention of trying to give them a showy presentation as to how positive change can be flamboyantly or stylishly undertaken.. I can darn well see such a genre taking a place in some back shelves more often than not for next while (like ppl did w/Westerns by the 70's) and I'm fine with that, for all the fondness I've had with it myself since I was little but who rarely finds time to watch live action, movies or series (or at least anywhere as much as I would like to).
I say this having seen my nibling for the first time since after the hospital, today.. I can understand if he won't be that much into superheroes even if OP characters in fantastical genre fiction will still get their attention.
I say this as someone who grew up with the 90s Fox kids Spider-Man as half of my intro to the Marvel Universe alongside the concurrent X-Men. Someone who always recognized Madame (*Constance*) Web(b) as not an overtly powerful character, but definitely enigmatic yet important character paralleling what I saw with the Professor and the X-Men. In my mind particularly with the Constance Webb version of the character there was an opportunity to have an involved 'long enough mini-seeies' quasi-experimental drama approaching the Spider-Man side of things, kind of how like how curiously for 3 seasons 'FX' made a series about Professor X's estranged son David Haller..which was really only still feasible because of how it wasn't clear that how the Fox controlled X-Men were going to transition to the Disney run MCU (the movie Logan came out in 2017 narrowly 2 years before Disney would absorb Fox barely before the pandemic). I'd dare think it could have gone well with using at least most of the cast from the movie and kind of feel bad for how the actors like Dakota Johnson might be at this point. keeping a low profile regarding the reception of the movie and maybe even kind of bottling up how they actually felt about the accomplishment of it all.
However from what I saw in the trailers months ago, even I will concede however that it was short-sighted and kind of rushed to include the 'not Jessica Drew but pre-late 00's' variations of the Spider-Women though as that is a fairly intricate but semi-obscure part of Marvel lore involving characters who I don't really think have been too relevant since sometime during the 00's (compare and contrast w/how say Miles Morales, Gwen Stacey/Spider Gwen, Silk and maybe a few other characters have caught on more); an unfortunate effect of this increasingly foolhardy rush that Sony still apparently has to make a 'Sinister Six' movie when 'the jury is out' as to whether there is even a live action Peter Parker at this point.
A little comic based spoiler which has been a thing from what I understand ~ *=_= since sometime during the 2000s*..the Constance Webb version of the character a fair amount of people, including myself, grew up knowing (from the animated series) was killed by relative of Kraven and her clairvoyant like abilities and (maybe role (?)) was eventually past to the Julia Carpenter Spider-woman (The one played by 'Euphoria' actress Sydney Sweeney in the movie).. that I put this out here kind of reflects on my part, shows how I will agree and find it a pity that the movie won't really catch on very well.
Don't you just resent when you put a lot into a posting and it looks bad in hindsight because of grammar or spelling mistakes ?-- what will it take for voice to text to really catch onto my cadences ?.
* =_= plus frankly chauvinistic even.. it's reminding me of the first Brie Larson captain Marvel movie reception, from a while back before even the streaming series She-Hulk came out
