Skel
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Sitting at 94% critic and 92% audience.
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/spider_man_homecoming
So yeah most people love it.
That's fine for most people. For me it wasn't really a good showing for Spider-Man. It was great if you want a movie that was full of Avengers stuff. If you want a "Here's Spider-Man and what makes him so special" than it's a disappointment.
They threw out a good chunk of what made Spider-Man so awesome. The Iron-Spider suit got way too much time, as did the "hey look it's Iron Man". This movie was also the first not to use the "Great power = Great responsibility" which I'm sure is good for some, but it's replaced with "If you need the Iron Man suit than you don't deserve it"... which is amusing coming from a guy that would be nothing without his Iron Man suit. Also all the characters that weren't the comic characters, but maybe they are crap was stupid. Just put Ganke in it.. unless it's still about movie rights. I'm still not sure if Michelle who some call MJ is supposed to be Mary Jane or if they're going try and use Mary Jane down the road.. otherwise, why call her Michelle till the end.
I thought it was good. I'd probably rank it below Spider-Man 2, which I consider to be the best Spider-Man movie. I think it's a bit above the original Spider-Man, but not by much. I think the one thing that hurt the movie was most evident during the credits: the sheer number of credited screenwriters. To be fair, if the script contains any of your work (i.e. they didn't just throw away the entire thing), then you're credited as a screenwriter. To give you an idea, I think there were around 6-8 names listed during the fancy credits, and I going back and thinking about the movie, you can kind of see that. There were some moments that felt like they happened "because plot" (in other words, ham-fisted simply to further the story).
Also, I think some of the quality of the writing showed with all of those screenwriters. For example, how Flash refers to Peter as "Penis Parker" (yes, that's a thing). When he first did it, I thought, "Well, that's a fairly sophomoric, high school thing, so I guess it fits"; however, that wasn't the only time it happens in the movie... at one point, you get it repeatedly. At that point, my only thought was, "...really?"
So, there are still some elements that make it feel like a Sony movie more so a Marvel movie.
As for end-credit scenes, there are two, and neither of them really further the plot. So, if you want to save yourself some time, you can skip them. I'll detail what they are here:
In the first scene, you see Vulture in prison pass by his buyer from the Ferry scene. The criminal tells him that he blames Spider-Man for his current injuries/disfiguration, and that he wants revenge. He heard a rumor that Vulture knows who Spider-Man is, but Vulture tells him that he's mistaken.
In the second scene, which occurs at the very end, you see a full-screen Captain America video similar to the ones from throughout the movie. In this one, he goes on about the virtues of patience, which essentially mock the viewer for staying so long with absolutely no pay-off. While it sounds condescending when put that way, it was funny.
Oh, and I thought Michael Keaton was pretty good as The Vulture. The writing for him was a bit weak at time... especially given how he went from just being a blue-collared worker to becoming an arms/alien tech dealer. Essentially, he felt beaten down, but the viewer doesn't really get that as they're just introduced to the character.
EDIT:
Hm... after writing all of that, I'm actually debating my ranking. I might place it below the original Spider-Man.
Keaton was one of the few things I liked about the movie. I wasn't a huge fan of his make over, but I thought Keaton did a lot with how little he had to work with. The last end credit scene was possibly the best one of these done yet. It def showed were a lot of people are at with them.