Didn’t Homecoming take place chronologically after Civil War? I’m not sure what part of my fanwank is inconsistent with MCU canon?
Might have been - I don’t remember the details of what happened when and to whom. Just adding a data point about Peter Parker and Star Wars.
Definitely after - in Homecoming Peter talks to Ned about having met Cap - and the gym teacher gets questions about why the kids are watching a video by Cap, a wanted man.
Other possibilities:
He’s not really that into Star Wars, but Ned is, and Pete’s picked some stuff up by osmosis. The Lego Death Star was actually Ned’s.
He is really into Star Wars, but doesn’t want his cool new superhero friends to think he’s a nerd, so he couches it like it’s some old thing he doesn’t really care about.
The events in Civil War happened prior to the release (in the MCU) of The Force Awakens, and Peter didn’t become a SW fan until he saw the new ones.
That Bald Guy was played by Peter Billingsley, most know for Ralphie, who most certainly did NOT shoot his eye out with his Red Ryder BB gun on Christmas morning. I knew he looked familiar but I didn’t think anything about it at the time.
And as far as everyone knowing Brad… Do we know it was JUST a high school? Maybe it’s k-12 or 4-12. Or he’s someone’s younger brother.
My kid hasn’t seen the Garfield or McGuire Spiderman movies so we had a VERY Who’s on First moment when JJJ popped up.
That guy was in the other movies. I love him!
Who?
That guy who was just yelling. He’s one of the M&Ms and was on a lot of Law&Orders.
Which guy?
That guy who was just on.
But who is he?
He was in the other movies. He was Peter’s boss.
Which guy?
THAT GUY WHO WAS JUST YELLING.
But who is he?
He is an actor. He was in that trailer with T’Challa before the movie. He was in the other Spiderman movies as Peter’s boss.
Who?
I swear I live half my life like Dr Strange. “Dormamu, I’ve come to bargain.” Lather. Rinse. Repeat.
I enjoyed the movie a lot. I was also not surprised as I knew Mysterio as a bad guy but did wonder if they were going to change it. Until he wanted Edith, then I knew for sure he was a bad guy.
I don’t prefer teen angst type stuff but knew to expect it with Spiderman and that mostly worked for me. I will see how it goes on second viewing. (Eventually.)
I’m also curious when I next rewatch Homecoming if it will make the scenes with Tony more poignant, knowing now what he was thinking about Peter.
Great discussion! Thanks!
Do you mean Endgame?
Just got home (held out 'til $5 Movie Night) and I loved it.
I rewatched Avengers:Endust to get ready (unnecessary, but it was nice to be immersed in that world). I went into Spider-Man FFS wondering if it’s the first film of the MCU Phase 4, or (as Kevin Feige recently called it) the last film of the MCU Phase 3, but guess what? I don’t care, I’d say “Naaah, doesn’t matter, it’s a Spider-Man movie. And a lot of fun.”
I’ve been a Spidey fan since buying Issue #6 at Herbst’s Drug Store. Loved the first Tobey McGuire movie… my kid sneered “Spider-Man? More like the Peter Parker movie!” THAT’S why I loved it, the “ordinary teenager tries to cope” aspect.
Andrew Garfield didn’t seem to be a hapless teen, and frankly I never cared about his character.
But Tom Holland? Hapless Teen To The Max! I sort of feel like the original Steve Ditko character is back.
You can’t just ghost nick fury!
Does Pepper Potts know that Happy’s password is password? Did Tony know? I strongly suspect that when Natasha was undercover there, she knew it.
When Ned told Betty that the hero in the black suit was “Night Monkey”, for a split second I thought he was going to say “Nightcrawler”, which would have been a nod to the X-Men.
The other members of Beck’s team should show up on Marvel’s Agents of Shield. They’ve got tech know-how.
I think Agents of Shield has stopped pretending it’s in the MCU at this point.
It’s of course a bad choice - but on the other hand, if you were hacking Stark Enterprises head of security, would you even bother with a dictionary attack, much less trying “password”? Note that it took 3 or 4 tries to communicate to Peter that his password was actually “password”. And of course, it is easy to remember.
I loved it. Near the top tier of MCU movies, IMO. Gyllenhal was teriffic, as were just about all of the rest of the cast. The one thing I was complaining about through the movie – Nick Fury really couldn’t be this gullible, could he? – was addressed in the post-credits scenes. JK Simmons as Jameson was a really nice surprise!
I loved that they gave Mysterio a Team. With the scale of the illiusions it really would make no sense that he can coordinate all that stuff. My absolute favourites are a costume Lady and a script guy! That man knows that heroic speeches don’t just happen (except for Cap)
I also enjoyed the uber-trippy Berlin fight, even though it made really no sense that he didn’t just shoot Spidey. But hey, he is a Showman at heart, so why not go for the Cartoon “hit by a Train” death?
The Night Monkey Running joke was awesome, especially him popping up all over the News.
I agree that they really, really need to stop killing their villains. I thought they learned their lesson with the Vulture. Then again, if one villain is capable of faking his death, it’s Mysterio.
Jake Gyllenhall put in a wonderful Performance - I was really sad that I knew all that great chemistry would be a fake in the end. And there is no question that he pulled off the glasses way better than Peter 
I thought there was something off about Samuel L. Jackson’s performance as Nick Fury. He’s always been a dick, but he’s not that kind of dick. The post-credit scene explained all.
I had no idea. I didn’t recognize him. He was one of the producers of Iron Man so he’s one of the fathers of the MCU. In Iron Man he had a cameo as the same character he plays in Far From Home.
He’s good buddies and business partners with Favreau and Vince Vaughn and is involved off-screen in many of their projects.
The wife and I saw it today. Liked it. Waiting for the next one. A little poignant that this is the first Marvel film without a Stan Lee cameo. (Or was that the last Avengers movie?)
I can’t believe the shlubs who race out of the theater as soon as the credits start. The wife and I are end-credit junkies and always stay until the very, very end of any film we see, no matter what. And while I know not everyone is like that … come on, this is a Marvel film! You ought to know there’s going to be some good extra scenes coming.
There was a cameo during Endgame.
Is it clear that it will, though? Seems like they could just write it off as a one-off joke. So Fury was off-world with the Skrulls at some point, and had a shape-shifter standing in; there need not be any bigger deal to it. Or am I missing the importance of that scene?
I’m guessing It could mean that the next chapter of the MCU will revolve around the Kree/Skrull War or one of the other major Skrull plot lines that happened after I stopped reading comic books.