The most-recent live-action "Spider-Man" film, "Spider-Man: No Way Home," remains a miracle for so many reasons. It gave closure to Tom Holland’s MCU Spidey trilogy, then used its ending to set him off on a new path. It allowed Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield to return to the franchise they helped to establish and grow, and even gave Garfield closure on one of the most emotional moments from any of the Spider-Man movies. For these and other reasons, I rank "Spider-Man: No Way Home" as one of the best live-action Spidey movies, and why it’ll always have a special place in my heart.
This scene, in particular, made me gasp as I sat in my seat on opening night. Zendaya’s character, Michelle, is thrown from the scaffolding of the Statue of Liberty. Tom Holland’s Spidey dives to save her, but is intercepted by the Green Goblin (Willem Dafoe). Immediately. Garfield’s Peter Parker springs into action, and succeeds in a way that he previously failed. He catches MJ… and remembers how he dropped his own love, Gwen Stacy (Emma Stone) back in "The Amazing Spider-Man 2." The look on Andrew’s face when Zendaya asks if he’s OK shatters my soul. Because I know that deep down, he’s not OK. But that rescue makes him a little bit better.
This scene, in particular, made me gasp as I sat in my seat on opening night. Zendaya’s character, Michelle, is thrown from the scaffolding of the Statue of Liberty. Tom Holland’s Spidey dives to save her, but is intercepted by the Green Goblin (Willem Dafoe). Immediately. Garfield’s Peter Parker springs into action, and succeeds in a way that he previously failed. He catches MJ… and remembers how he dropped his own love, Gwen Stacy (Emma Stone) back in "The Amazing Spider-Man 2." The look on Andrew’s face when Zendaya asks if he’s OK shatters my soul. Because I know that deep down, he’s not OK. But that rescue makes him a little bit better.
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00:00saving MJ in the last Spider-Man film as well. I kind of had the same process with John Watts.
00:04I was like, yo, in the middle of this romp, there's this very serious thing that I have to do.
00:09Most of the time, I'm just improvising with the guys and f***ing around, and we're just
00:12trying to have as much fun as possible. But obviously, this moment is a big emotional piece
00:17in the film. Can we get specific about how you want to do that? I was like, yeah, he was amazing
00:20with it as well, John Watts. And we set it up so that Zendaya was on a platform and that we shot
00:25my close-up first. She was so cool with that. But then I was prepped. We were just about to shoot it
00:31and she was there. She was ready. She was being super sensitive and respectful. She was just very
00:35like, she knew I was in my zone. She was just so great. And then they realized that her hair was
00:41done in the wrong way for the scene. So we had another funny minute, while I'm just like pacing
00:44around in my Spider-Man outfit. This is the shit that happens. It just happens. It just happens.
00:51And it's just the way it goes.