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When we talk about genre fatigue, it is typically not the genre part that causes the pain. It is the sloppy execution, the corporate thought process of “if we go through the checklist and make sure everything is accounted for, we don’t need to do anything else,” the otherwise meandering in a world without any clear direction. Going into Spider-Man: Brand New Day, I was mostly fine with the state of the MCU. The Multiverse Saga compromising of Phases 4, 5, and 6 had been a mixed bag of tricks, kicked off with the underwhelming Ant-Man & Wasp: Quantumania, and include things like a Captain America movie that secretly a sequel to a movie that most people forget was canon in the MCU, a surprisingly grounded emotional story with the Thunderbolts* (which happened to be the quickest I have seen a company spoil the events of their own movie), a finally good Fantastic Four movie, amongst other films that also happened and left different level of impressions. Image via IMDb And all of this was happening with the knowledge that this was somehow leading to Doomsday where Robert Downey Jr. was inexplicably returning to the universe as an entirely different character, that the MCU refused to let Mahershala Ali be Blade, or keep their word and give us a Wonder-Man season 2. But the trailers got me excited and despite my trepidation, I went in hopeful even though No Way Home was my least favorite of 10 different different Spider-Man movies that have come out since 2002. And as the credit…
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Mikkel Snyder
Mikkel Snyder is a technical writer by day and pop culture curator and critic all other times.
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