Spider-Man: Far From Home 2019
Sean and Micah both loved it, from the class trip through Europe and Mysterio's illusion troupe to a J. Jonah Jameson stinger that got the loudest reaction in the theater.
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July 2, 2019/ 43 min/ Sean Fennessey · Micah Peters
Sean Fennessey and Micah Peters review Spider-Man: Far From Home, dig into Mysterio's fake-news angle, and plot where the MCU goes next.
16 films across 3 segments.
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‘Spider-Man: Far From Home’spoilers
Mysterio, fake news, and the future of the MCU
Spider-Man: Homecoming 2017
The MCU's previous Spider-Man movie, from the same director, writers, and producers.
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse 2018
The animated Spider-Man movie both hosts are "very fond of."
Avengers: Endgame 2019
The five-year gap it creates, the "blip," is what Far From Home's opening AV-department montage is riffing on.
Captain Marvel 2019
The comparison for burying the real reveal in the stinger. Micah says the movie itself played like a two-and-a-half-hour commercial for what came next.
Captain America: Civil War 2016
Cited as the MCU already doing this: smuggling in a real-world theme, there the surveillance state.
Avatar 2009
The box-office record Endgame is about to pass on its way back into theaters.
Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events 2004
Jim Carrey's acting troupe of hired illusionists is Sean's comparison for Mysterio's team of visual-effects people.
Zodiac 2007
David Fincher supposedly ran Gyllenhaal through 99 takes of moving a pencil. Micah reads that history into Gyllenhaal's Mysterio.
The Nice Guys 2016
Where the hosts first place Angourie Rice, who plays Betty Brant here.
Iron Man 2008
The novelty Sean measures superhero fatigue against.
The Avengers 2012
Same comparison. Nothing since has matched the novelty of the first crossover.
Eternals 2021
Chloe Zhao's next MCU movie, just announced with Angelina Jolie, Kumail Nanjiani, Salma Hayek, and Richard Madden.
Sean's Top Three Spider-Man Moviesbest to worst
No. 2
Spider-Man: Homecoming 2017
No. 2, the car-scene showdown between Michael Keaton and Tom Holland.
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