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The Sandman isn’t as striking a villain as the others because he felt like he was getting in the way of an already narratively inflated Spider-Man 3 (which had Peter Parker sympathize with him because of his sick daughter, despite the fact that he murdered Uncle Ben - a huge retcon considering Uncle Ben was killed by a completely different person in the first movie).
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Thomas Haden Church as Flint Marco/the Sandman, Spider-Man 3 (2007)Īll respect to Thomas Haden Church, who took his Marvel money and simply showed up, worked kind-of hard but not as hard as he could have, and ran home as soon as he heard the word cut. So who handled their great power and responsibility the best? Here, we rank their performances from meh-tastic to Oscar-worthy.Ĩ.
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No Way Home easily could have been a messy web of chaos, but thanks to all-in performances from returning actors who, quite frankly, did not have to go as hard as they did for this, it all holds together. Does any of this make sense? Not really, but it doesn’t have to, because the emotional arcs track and we love Spider-Man.
#THE AMAZING SPIDER MAN 2 MASK MOVIE#
Most of the returning performers ham it up as much as possible, making this ambitious and absurd endeavor - basically, turning a meme into a bloated but fun, moving, and self-aware nostalgia trip of a movie - work. The movie gives each returning villain and both returning Peter Parkers a somewhat cohesive, satisfying arc - in some cases even more satisfying than their arcs in their original movies (proving that Spider-Man 3 ’s problem was not too many villains). Tom Holland’s Peter Parker, with the help of Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield’s Peter Parkers, attempt to cure their villains of their villain-y ailments (being a lizard being made of sand) before they are brought back to their original places in the multiverse. As a result of a magical mishap courtesy of Doctor Strange, old villains from each of the live-action Spider-Man franchises end up in the main timeline of the MCU. (Warning: spoilers ahead.) Spider-Man: No Way Home (out now), the latest installment in the MCU and the Tom Holland Spider-Man series, brings all the Spider-Mans together. Now, 18 years and three Spider-Man franchises later, we’ve come back to where it all started.