Hollywoods descent goes on and on

Rating: 3/10 (13 February 2018)

Hollywood only knows two themes anymore: xenophobia (preferrably towards Germany) and the disassembly of their own legacy (or a combination of both). The new Spider-Man - if you can call it that - belongs to the second category, which is the less bad category, but still gives no cause for delight. As I bought this new installation due to the loyalty to the character, I was unaware that it was a parody of Spider-Man, not one of the funny Scary Movie kind, or the charming, intended way like the first Spider-Man movies were, but in the poor, involuntary way. Nothing is left of the movie-character Spider-Man that audiences all around the world have come to know and love. Instead, it is respectless and tasteless against DC's Flash with a character of this name which counterpoints Peter Parker as an annoying (Guatemalan) classmate. But if you want to pull the hell out of Flash, it's all the more astonishing that (the iconic, red-haired Mary-Jane has been eliminated or - transformed into an African American - demoted to a short appearance (revealed only in the end), and instead) they operate with Liz as Peter's heartthrob, who is an almost identical copy of the annoying/arrogant Iris of The Flash, but apparently the pretension of a non-racist casting (which it is actually not, exactly because color does play the most important role in casting - and by no means Hollywood casts color-blindly and only for the amount of fitness to the character in question) outweighs all other motives. Accordingly - while German villains e. g. are beaten to pulp accompanied by joy and applause in American movies - it is equally ridiculous that in the end the villain who has already killed and has also tried several times to kill Spider-Man, is spared by the same, yes, even saved. All for the appearance of a moral that could not be more hypocritical and that Hollywood has long lost. And even the much too young Marisa Tomei (whom I adore, but here she does not fit) seems completely out of place as aunt May and leaves you sadly missing Rosemary Harris. For the sake of fairness, positive innovations include well-cast school friend Ned, the cute little drone, and the (unfortunately very short) performances of Tyne Daly and Logan Marshall-Green. All in all, a (nowadays typical) Hollywood development for the worse. Hollywood is on a descent and accelerates this development with full consciousness and will. I know I will not hold my breath until the next Marvel or Spider-Man movie comes out - oh, and who, by the way, wants to see Thor with short hair? Everything has become utterly ridiculous.