Come anticipate animated Miles Morales in SPIDER-MAN: INTO THE SPIDER-VERSE with me

in my universe jabroni means 'great guy'

Mine too!

yeah that story about the 14-year-old is amazing

I guess I wasn't as thrilled with the visuals as everyone else (for some reason it conjured up pixar + apple facemojis a lot of the time), but I liked how the ultimate "real villain" of the story is really how tired and unnecessary every superhero's trauma origin is, and it's on a level of the lego movie openly mocking lego's business model, if not quite as hand-bitey.

Also the putative villain sounded like Doug and Fry from Futurama -- was it the same voice actor?

No, it was Jason Schwartzman.

i did not buy that miles’ loving, thoughtful parents would not support his dream to *checks notes* study quantum physics

now that i think about it, i don’t buy that perpetually late, spray-paintin, notebook sketchin, absolutely ripped part-time spiderman miles morales is obsessed with quantum physics but i’ll park that (as the movie did)

You did get that he wanted to study quantum physics so he could figure out how to see Gwen again, right

Took the (adult) kids today, sat close up front. Holy. Fckn. Shit. I felt like a kid again. Plot was a bit lengthy but one of the most beautiful things I’ve ever seen in cinema.

You did get that he wanted to study quantum physics so he could figure out how to see Gwen again, right

i did but i thought he also was supposed to be genuinely into science? was it all a ruse?? whatta scamp

did not buy that miles’ loving, thoughtful parents would not support his dream to *checks notes* study quantum physics

It's not that they're against him studying quantum physics, it's that they don't like the idea of him moving away from them. Which is irrational but a kind of irrational that a loving, thoughtful parent might fall for imo.

i’m just full to my back teeth of “gotta be me” parent conflicts, it’s like a tic at this point, everybody’s tryina get out of winesburg ohio, even when nobody’s stopping them

Yeah, but they're tying to get to Brooklyn

"Princeton? In New Jersey?" was a funny line.

biggest laugh in my theatre was when rio says something like “she did not just call me by my first name”

2) there are a lot of long scenes that are basically just conversations about family relationships.

we were sitting in front of some like 12 year olds and they clearly had an issue with this and started cracking jokes and talking during every conversational scene. I finally had enough and turned around and told them to shut the fuck up. I thought they were going to jump me and beat me down when the movie was over they glared at me so hard. little shitheads.

I'm afraid the biggest laugh in our screening was me, laughing at Dark Garfield. My daughters, embarrassed, asked me to hush. Crossover with the crying at films thread, but I blubbed heartily as Miles and Gwen swung thru Manhattan together.

Yeah I nearly cried then too, it’s so beautiful and free.

went to see this with the kids today, they enjoyed it, as did I, did tire a bit towards the end as it became clear that we were only halfway through what may turn out to be a five-hour epic which had been chopped in half. But kids were eager to see the next part.
I am really not into superhero films, but this was OK.

I can accept that this is the middle installment of a trilogy. And I know that the constant art shifts are one of the strengths (superpowers?) of animation. But I found it wearying.

was this released in 3d anywhere? is anything released in 3d anymore? I had this vague feeling I saw the first one in 3d but my kid tells me no. It would be both amazing and incredibly overwhelming in 3d.

Apparently there was some grumbling from the 3D fans that this movie was rushed out with no time to make a 3D version.
I'm kinda with them since I'm not a fan of the faux-3D off-register effect they use to simulate depth, which I assume would disappear in an actual 3D version.

A 3D version would have been super fun to watch, but we already waited 5 years for this one. I suspect there will be a delay for part 3

Nah, they worked on both at the same time. Due for release in March.

It's still possible - from what I understand they were still tuning this up all the way to the release date - but Steinfeld recently said she hasn't even recorded voice lines for the third movie yet. there's still enough time, but...

I thought the voice work was done pretty early in an animated film so the visuals could match.

Yeah most of the voice work is done early but I wonder if some of the action sequences are worked on even earlier like they are in lice-action Marvel

That typo is so much better than what I was trying to say

Lice action baby

this movie was so good I don't even know what to say about it

love that Jeff Koons is now canon (or was this established in the comics?)

loved the venom cameo too

Saw this with my 9yo and my (comics ambivalent/averse) wife and we all came out loving it so much. We didn’t know it would be a cliffhanger so we had some whiplash right at the end but then we went out for some burgers and couldn’t stop talking about everything we loved. I’m shocked my son never got tired of the lengthy family emo scenes but he was rapt throughout.

I noticed something up was up when his mom's eyes were GREEN.

My wife noticed that too! I didn’t (we just saw it)

I thought the soundtrack was terrific. The animation too, obv.

My favorite part was the introduction of Indian Spider-Man, as it recaptured the fun & humor of the first movie (but I know this movie was a different thing, and OK not to have much more of that schtick). I also loved that sassy digital assistant gal.

As a Jessica Drew stan, I enjoyed that character (Issa Rae!)… even if she was kind of a jerk :/

I didn’t quite get why, if Miles being Spidey is an anomaly, why would his dad not dying also be an anomaly? Like why would his father be an important “Captain” in the “real” Spider-Man’s story in that universe? But I know there’s no point in questioning multiverse logic..

(I also didn’t get how that spider happened to get to Miles’s universe in the first place, but I assume I wasn’t paying close enough attention)

I assume there will be a 4K box set of this trilogy sometime next year after "Beyond..." is released and I'm already looking forward to that.

I think the first was rendered at 2K, I didn't bother buying the 4K disc for that reason. The second certainly needs 4K!

Amazing.

Pretty impressive (and detailed) list of comics references in the movie: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/spider-man-across-the-spider-verse-easter-eggs-list-1235506838/

I think the new villain was responsible for the spider getting across, as part of the research for the Kingpin - the whole thing about him and Miles having the same origin.

Yeah, I thought that was it… but how did he happen to grab this random radioactive spider (that was meant to bite someone else)? Or was it more like – when you monkey around w/ the Spider-Verse, you’re gonna mess up something Spider-y… and this is the form it took.

My takeaway from the movie was that they explicitly grabbed the spider as part of testing the collider

the third one was represented by Donald Glover as the Prowler, who of course that's who he is in Homecoming

I assumed this was a capper to the Community S02e01 joke (which I regret to inform us all is from thirteen years ago)

Surprised Cindy Moon (Silk) wasn’t involved at all; she’s a pretty major modern Spider-character. Maybe b/c they’re developing her own thing…

the only disappointment for me was lack of Spider Pig

he was there very briefly near the end

I have a feeling we’ll have returning and new characters next time.

yeah the crew gwen was assembling at the end included all the spider-people from the first movie iirc

I was thinking that one reason they may shy away from Silk is that her story (in the comics, anyway) sort of goes against the movie's concept that every Spider-person needs to lose one or more ppl close to them as inspiration; and also that there can only apparently be one Spider-person per universe (although I don't know if the movie actually says that's a rule, or if I'm making it up). Her origin & background are also heavily tied up with the comics' version of the "Spider-Verse" and related concepts, which the movie doesn't f with.

All that said, they apparently got around the same points w/Jess Drew by just using an alternate version...

(The first two points, I mean... Jess's backstory in the comix isn't tied into the Spider-Verse, it's just weird as hell.)

Going thru the soundtrack album (Metro Boomin Presents Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (Soundtrack from and Inspired by the Motion Picture)) is somehow a lot less pleasing than encountering/experiencing the music in the movie itself... but at least I was able to identify / add-to-playlist the track that plays throughout the opening Spider-Gwen sequence ("Self-Love," by Metro Boomin & Coi Leray). Its use was so perfect, I thought...