I saw the new Spider-Man movie, and if I’m being honest, I thought it was okay. I enjoyed it, but the story felt a little too simple for me. Strip away the fights, the powers, and everything that makes it a superhero movie, and the basic story is pretty straightforward: Peter makes a mistake, that mistake has consequences, and eventually he has to figure out how to fix what he did.

There’s nothing necessarily wrong with that. Spider-Man has always been built around the idea that our choices have consequences. But this one felt almost like a children’s story underneath all the violence and spectacle. You make a mistake, you learn from it, you try to make it right. That’s basically the movie.

What I found more interesting were some of the ideas underneath that story, especially the way the movie dealt with love. There was something about the idea that love can keep the darker parts of us from completely taking over. Life can push people into some pretty dark places. Pain, anger, grief, lonelinessall of it can change who we become if we let it. And sometimes it’s our connection to other people that reminds us who we are when things get hard.

I liked that a lot. Not because I think love magically fixes everything, but because I do think the people we love can pull us back toward ourselves. They can remind us that there is still something good in us when we’re having a hard time finding it on our own.

I also liked some of the characters they brought into the movie. Seeing Hulk again was great, especially because we finally got to see an insanely powerful version of him again. I’ve missed that Hulk. It was fun seeing him feel genuinely dangerous and almost unstoppable instead of always being the more controlled version of the character we’ve gotten used to. It reminded me of just how ridiculously powerful Hulk is supposed to be.

I was also happy to see Jean Grey. I was a little confused by her portrayal, though. Jean Grey is incredibly powerful, so seeing her so young and seemingly weak felt strange.

The ending when Peter and Ned did their old handshake, it seemed like something clicked for Ned. Maybe he didn’t suddenly remember everything, but it felt like some part of him recognized Peter before he understood why.

I got the same feeling from MJ. It seemed like there was something familiar about Peter that she couldn’t quite place. I don’t know if either of them actually remembers him yet, but the movie seemed to be suggesting that whatever erased Peter from their memories didn’t completely erase the connection they had with him.

So I wouldn’t say I loved the movie. It was entertaining, Hulk was fun to watch, I liked seeing Jean Grey, and there were moments that worked really well. I just wanted more complexity from the story itself. Underneath all the superhero stuff, though, there was an idea I really liked: love can keep us connected to who we are, especially when life brings out the darker parts of us. And the people who matter to us can leave something behind that isn’t always so easy to erase.

So yeah, in short, he let me watch the new Spiderman movie. We did have a deep conversation about it the night I saw it. I did miss his presence while watching the movie though, he is my Google when it comes to comics.

This post is in reference to: https://beenhashed.com/2026/08/04/to-buy-or-not-to-buy-the-movie-ticket/