What do you think about Spider-Man: Homecoming’s title?

I think there’s a bit of a celebration about Spiderman coming back to Marvel, but I also like the idea about the new Spiderman movies centering around important events in high school. 

One of the shortcomings of the previous Spiderman movies, even the first two Raimi ones, is that outside of a couple rote bullying scenes, Peter Parker’s social environment was limited to a very few plot-important characters. The Obsornes, Mary Jane or Gwen Stacey, Aunt May and Uncle Ben, and that’s about it.

Whereas giving Peter Parker a lived-in social environment with lots of different people around him is a great way to make a smaller-scale movie feel important, instead of just throwing more villains at us, because it means that Peter has something to protect that the audience cares about. 

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