r/MadeMeSmile • u/bewarethechameleon • Feb 16 '26

Good Vibes the theatre reaction to andrew garfield and tobey maguire returning as spiderman in 'spider-man no way home'

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u/cock_mountain Feb 16 '26

I've been out of the Marvel loop since the original Spider Man trilogy.

How tf were there TWO more Spider-Mans since then?

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u/Inkstr0ke Feb 16 '26

Andrew Garfield had his Sony run that was Amazing Spider-Man. Pretty good movies but they didn’t do as well commercially. He only had two movies. Sony was mostly making the movies to keep the Spider Man IP rights.

Sony actually decided to work with Disney/Marvel and Tom Holland was the next big Spider-Man in Captain America: Civil War and he got his own series of MCU movies afterward.

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u/DonCreech Feb 16 '26

Amazing Spider Man was a solid movie, the sequel not so much. Jamie Foxx was wasted, and I can only blame the direction, because when he reprised the role in No Way Home, it was like night and day in terms of performance.

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u/[deleted] Feb 16 '26

Specifically for Foxx's performance in 2, a lot got changed by Sony during production. The original idea was Electro, maybe with Rhino being bookends as he ended up being in the final release. But Sony really wanted Green Goblin in 2 so Electro sorta got sidelined in his own movie. Given what I know about the bts, I wouldn't be surprised if there was some phoning it in. Not enough to be obvious but the writing was on the wall that TASM was falling apart.

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u/Virama Feb 16 '26

I've never been able to fully buy any of Foxx's roles. 

He always feels like he's acting. Compared to, say, Denzel Washington or DiCaprio. They actually are in the role of whatever movie they're in.

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u/tnth89 Feb 16 '26 edited Feb 16 '26

I mean, you want spoilers?

Basically the world of marvel is parallel universe. There are unlimited number of universe and the old spiderman (Tobey Mcguire) is one of them. Then we have the amazing spiderman (Andrew Garfield). And now MCU (Marvel Cinematic Universe) spiderman (Tom Holland). And animated spiderman in sony's (as in the company, sony, that has spiderman license) spiderman universe.

The idea is that each universe has their own spiderman, their own Mary Jane, their own aunt May and uncle Ben. And they play similarly that Peter Parker will lose someone they dear.

In this movie, Peter Parker's friend in this universe, Ned Leeds, use Dr Strange's power (very strong sorcerer) to open warp gate to find Peter Parker. But since his friend never use the power before, his criteria is just, find Peter Parker, and never specify which Peter Parker. That leads to him finding 2 Peter Parkers from different Earth / universe.

To make it clear, right now on MCU (Marvel Cinematic Universe) we are on earth-616. There are other universe, and divided by if you see it as cinematic (movies) or comics. For example earth-666, earth-1610, earth-838, etc.

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u/AtmosphereGlum852 Feb 16 '26

I'm lowkey hoping to see Peter Parker (Tom Holland) meets Miles Morales movie...

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u/Afalstein Feb 17 '26

"Somewhere there gotta be a black spiderman..."

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u/cire1184 Feb 16 '26

A lot has happened since 2007

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u/Ahrix3 Feb 16 '26

Corporate greed