If X-Men got the Marvel universe up on its feet, then it was jumping and swinging at this point.
Literally and figuratively.
I said way back 11 years ago (!!!!) in the old review.
I dug it okay, but I remember Harry Knowles saying he went to the bathroom and cried after seeing it.
...crying?
Fuckin' come on, man.
"Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark", now that, you can cry about.
Cry, and puke.
And pee a little.
Well, if 2022 future-me went back and told 2011 me that Toby-Spidey would culminate as part of the MCU in "No Way Home" and all these movies would truly come together, I would have wept for joy in the bathroom too!!!
Too bad Harry Knowles turned out to be a groper, we could have made up and been friends.
The universe takes some crazy fucking turns.
So, yeah, in uber-hindsight, once Spidey was on the chessboard, Marvel had basically already checkmated, and just had to wait long enough.
By the time Spidey 3 came out, we were one year from Iron Man, and the rest is history.
MCU/Disney talks about their phases, but this pre-MCU Phase 0 was where the plan was really already taking form.
And oh yeah, Spidey 1 still holds up as a nifty little movie.
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