In my previous blog post, I showed how recently the Marvel Cinematic Universe has been falling due to its lack of imagination and creativity with its projects, obvious through its poor box office numbers and viewership ratings. However, one recent film of the Marvel Cinematic Universe was able to hinder this sad descent to the land of worn out and boring franchises, and this movie is non-other than Spider-Man: No Way Home. The success of this superhero flick is astonishing, as Marco Vito Oddo, journalist for the Collider, reveals, “When we look at the global box office, No Way Home is the sixth-highest grossing movie of all time with $1.8 billion.” What makes this movie so different from the other recent Marvel productions? It wasn’t afraid to break the mold. Most Marvel movies trap themselves in the same, overused formula: make a likable hero in a light-hearted, humorous movie who somehow inconsequently defeats the bad guy that was scheming for world domination. These movies ultimately lock themselves in a formula that doesn’t allow emotional or darker scenes to thoroughly unfold, hindering the addition of relatability into these films that would actually make us feel something about the events or characters involved. Spider-Man: No Way Home, on the other hand, does not pull its punches and allows bad things to happen, which results in thoughtful character development and emotional story points that can’t help but make the audience feel empathetic. Those heart wrenching scenes are not ruined or undermined by forced humor, but are actually allowed to play out, as what a movie should do if it wants to be impactful. Personally, the last two Marvel Cinematic Spider-Man movies made me feel completely indifferent to the character. It was only my years of growing up on everything Spider-Man that lead me to the theaters the week Spider-Man: No Way Home was released to the public. I can’t tell you how glad it makes me that I went because while watching the movie, I didn’t feel as if the creators were taking advantage of my years of being a fan. Instead, it felt as if they were actually delivering something they were proud of and that meant something to them, which made it mean something to us as an audience. It didn’t feel like a money grab, and that’s why it’s one of the highest grossing movies of all time. Another reason why Spider-Man: No Way Home is so different than many other Marvel movies (and movies in general) is its trailer. The main plot of this movie is Spider-Man trying to cure the villains before sending them back to their original universe; however, the trailer doesn’t expose this main plot thread and focuses on scenes that happen earlier in the movie. This movie trailer, unlike many other Marvel trailers, left the audience wondering what this movie specifically was about and, ultimately, left them pleasantly surprised when it was finally time to see the film. Needless to say, Spider-Man: No Way Home is refreshing to see and has done something other movies haven’t in a long time: make me excited.
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