The trailer for Spider-Man: Brand New Day was released, and I’ve been sitting on it, unsure of what I thought about it. There are things that I like a lot, but there are things I’m disappointed with. The disappointment part is what made me apprehensive on posting about it. I wanted to mostly keep this website positive. Mostly.
I guess a little negativity is good? Maybe. I’ll start with the disappointing part. Which, oddly, I should probably add a spoiler warning for, even though it’s just a trailer. It seems like an odd choice to put a significant and crazy plot point in the trailer.
So! Spoiler ahead!
I know in the comics — and the kicking rad 90s cartoon — that Spider-Man goes through a secondary mutation that makes him more spider-like; growing extra limbs and all that, but I never expected to see that in a live action movie. The trailer for Brand New Day seems like it’s going in that direction, with Peter clearly going through a mutation and seemingly able to to shoot webs from his body rather than using web-shooters.
I can’t say I’m happy about Tom Holland’s version of Spider-Man will now have organic webs like Tobey Maguire’s version. I know it’s because I’m partial to the idea of mechanical web-shooters; it relied on Peter’s intellect to develop different types of webbing for different scenarios, along with how he has to be creative when he runs out or a web-shooter gets damaged. It was a fun aspect to Spider-Man. Organic webs takes away from that.
Ironically, everything else in the trailer I’m excited for. Less world ending events and more street level, personal stakes, are far more exciting to me. And honestly, most stories are much better that way.
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