![]() ![]() ![]() While Endgame’s scene of Captain America counseling a room of grief-stricken survivors was a bit of a botch, it at least attempted some real gravitas. This is a deceptively load-bearing movie, tasked with the heavy lifting of depicting the post-post-apocalyptic fallout of Endgame, in which several billion vaporized souls were suddenly returned to their daily lives in media res, as well as remapping the narrative boundaries of the MCU. If the most enjoyable thing about the very enjoyable Homecoming was the self-reflexive interplay between Downey and star Tom Holland-with the older actor serving both inside the film’s narrative and meta-textually as a torch-passing father figure-the most ambitious aspect of Far From Home is its attempt to use the same dynamic as a structuring absence. Later in the film, Peter comes into possession of a pair of technologically advanced sunglasses bequeathed by his mentor, whose code name, “E.D.I.T.H.,” is Tony’s acronymical joke from beyond the grave: It stands for “Even Dead, I’m The Hero.” It’s a choice cut, pulling triple duty as a slice of I Love the ’90s nostalgia, a tactically tacky tear-jerker, and a prompt for potentially genuine emotion.Īs the song plays underneath a cheesy iMovie tribute to Tony Stark and the other casualties of Avengers: Endgame created by the grieving but aesthetically challenged students of Midtown High School, we are moved (at least theoretically) to contemplate a world-or an entire Cinematic Universe-without many of its marquee names, especially Robert Downey Jr., whose Photoshopped head shot seems to be smirking at the soundtrack. ![]() Spider-Man: Far From Home opens, equally humorously, and no less significantly, on Whitney Houston’s platinum-coated cover of “I Will Always Love You” from The Bodyguard. Back in 2017, Spider-Man: Homecoming introduced Peter Parker to the sound of Spoon’s eternally catchy indie-rock anthem “The Underdog,” a song that slyly symbolized the idea of a friendly neighborhood superhero still looking to come into his own. ![]()
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