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Just watched this last night and I had somehow missed that it was a Part 1 until I paused to get a drink and realized we were fifteen minutes from the ending with far too much to wrap up, lol. I liked this a lot but I feel dissatisfied with the structure. It feels more like half of a five hour movie, rather than a movie with a cliffhanger, if that makes sense. Like, stuff like Back to the Future 2 or Matrix Reloaded have clear plot threads that are essentially completed, and THEN we get the surprise and the lead-in to the next movie. In Spiderverse, both the Spot and the Miguel plots get set up and established as threats, nothing is really resolved and it's kind of unsatisfying. I wouldn't cut anything, but I would have preferred if they structured things differently from the start so that this movie has a threat of its own that mostly (seems to) get resolved, and then we pivot to the cliffhanger reveal to set up the sequel. Something that would let this stand up on its own. I dunno, maybe I'll feel differently once part 2 comes out and I watch it. Tender Bender fucked around with this message at 15:05 on Nov 11, 2023 |
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BonoMan posted:I disagree because I thought it was made clear pretty early on it was a 2-parter. I mean regardless of how it was marketed I just find as a film it felt incomplete. For example I think each of the LOTR movies are a good film experience: you need to see the whole trilogy but each movie tells its own arcs with satisfying climaxes (even though they were constrained by adapting an existing story) Spiderverse feels more like Dune Part 1, which also has the excuse that it's adapting an existing story.
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