{"id":135611,"date":"2017-12-11T08:35:24","date_gmt":"2017-12-11T15:35:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=135611"},"modified":"2017-12-12T08:05:36","modified_gmt":"2017-12-12T15:05:36","slug":"movie-review-spider-man-homecoming-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/12\/11\/movie-review-spider-man-homecoming-2017.html","title":{"rendered":"Movie Review: &#8220;Spider-Man: Homecoming&#8221; (2017)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yeah, I know I&#8217;m late to the game with this one, because, honestly, I&#8217;ve been burned out on Spidey &#8212; in movies and comic books &#8212; for quite a while.<\/p>\n<p>This movie changed that.<\/p>\n<p>\u2605\u2605\u2605\u2605\u2606 (with a \u2665)<\/p>\n<p>Full Review: <a class=\"ot-anchor\" href=\"https:\/\/letterboxd.com\/three_star_dave\/film\/spider-man-homecoming\/\">https:\/\/letterboxd.com\/three_star_dave\/film\/spider-man-homecoming\/<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p><a style=\"display: inline;\" href=\"https:\/\/letterboxd.com\/three_star_dave\/film\/spider-man-homecoming\/\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"max-width: 650px;\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/EBC9u2UvmCvdMIiKMR8tFqZiEvjwAM8rIugVwNsqIPe0M1VKgkg1tD_SW0ttitFYpWTBeNOgzuidrlbrqIG_ToFLkpl6O7-YMspOYXvK2OIFkXQNtMbRA79gIwKHrP_p4gCcccb4oT1cgkg24RT9I1TyzBZfh0FN3x-a62R4dyT9T5thAPWp=w506-h910\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: large;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/letterboxd.com\/three_star_dave\/film\/spider-man-homecoming\/\">A \u2605\u2605\u2605\u2605 review of Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017)<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nI lost the thrill with Spider-Man as a character a long time ago. I generally don&#8217;t read the comics, and haven&#8217;t gone to see any of the movies since the second Andrew Garfield outing. My enthusiasm for Sony and Marvel\/Disney coming to a deal to incorporate Spidey into the MCU was more that it was fitting than that I was eager. The new Spidey&#8217;s appearance in Captain America: Civil War changed that somewhat, showing us a Spidey that was fun, not we&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/XYrk37t5jyU\">View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yeah, I know I&#8217;m late to the game with this one, because, honestly, I&#8217;ve been burned out on Spidey &#8212; in movies and comic books &#8212; for quite a while. This movie changed that. \u2605\u2605\u2605\u2605\u2606 (with a \u2665) Full Review: https:\/\/letterboxd.com\/three_star_dave\/film\/spider-man-homecoming\/ A \u2605\u2605\u2605\u2605 review of Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017) I lost the thrill with Spider-Man as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/12\/11\/movie-review-spider-man-homecoming-2017.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Movie Review: &#8220;Spider-Man: Homecoming&#8221; (2017)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":135618,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,11,525,41],"tags":[1234,1360],"class_list":["post-135611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plusposts","category-media-comics","category-marvel-cinematic-universe","category-media-movies","tag-mcu","tag-spiderman"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/spider-man-homecoming.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":32658,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/03\/01\/movie-rereview-the-avengers-2012.html","url_meta":{"origin":135611,"position":0},"title":"Movie (Re)review: &quot;The Avengers&quot; (2012)","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 1-Mar-13 7:32pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Lots and lots of fun. 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