BY NOW YOU will be well aware of the jokes about Sony’s sort-of-Spider-Man-spinoff Madame Web. They started as soon as the first trailer for the movie dropped, with the clunky, expository line of dialogue “He was in the Amazon with my mom when she was researching spiders right before she died” launching so many memes that it ended up getting cut from the movie upon its release.The Dakota Johnson vehicle is by no means a great movie, and it might not even be a very good superhero movie, suffering from the fact that it comes 20 years into the boom of that particular genre, and Marvel fatigue has well and truly set in. But I’m here to say it is actually a perfect execution of a very different kind of film: the airplane movie. Or, as it may have been dubbed in decades past, a B-movie: a film… Click below to read the full story from Men’s Health
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Madame Web Comes From the Writers of Morbius and Other Spectacular Flops
