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August 4, 2019 Season 9, Episode 54

The Clubhouse Podcast hosts discuss Spider-Man: Far From Home, praising its writing, humor, and visual style tailored toward high school audiences. They examine the film's villain design, Tom Holland's portrayal of Peter Parker, the expanded role of Aunt May, and location filming that spans multiple countries. The hosts conclude that the film is well-executed and worth seeing again, with one host willing to see it in Dolby cinema.

About this episode

Key takeaways

  • The film's writing and jokes are aimed at high school audiences while maintaining appeal for general Marvel fans
  • Tom Holland delivers the best Spider-Man performance to date, authentically capturing Peter Parker's character and age
  • The villain's costume design is impressive and closely follows comic book origins
  • Marissa Tomei's younger portrayal of Aunt May works well as a character who is discovering herself alongside Peter
  • Far From Home closes MCU Phase Three with strong visuals and cinematography

Q&A

Is the villain in Far From Home original to the film?

No, he is an old school villain from the comics, though his costume was close to the source material with the notable difference of a fishbowl helmet that kept his face mostly obscured

Where was the film shot?

The film was shot on location overseas in multiple countries, including Venice

Why is Tom Holland's portrayal of Spider-Man significant?

He is the first actor to authentically portray the character with a British accent, holding true to Peter Parker's youth and innocence

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. I know you're you know, I'm saying where he's not in high school on high school field trip and stuff like that Like go to year high school. It just wasn't to this it's I think how they they The writing the jokes the style the plot the storyline.

I think they really wrote this more towards the young Oh, absolutely then a general audience of Marvel for about anybody of any age and that's why kind of felt watching through that CGI that was good Jill in hall. I really like him. My question on Jill in hall on that mysterious is the costume He had is that more like the word he's an original villain, right?

It's it's yeah, he's he's old school villain Okay, it's a pretty I mean they did a really good job in the costume design of him. I was very impressed So that that costume was kind of like was close to what's it was in the comics and stuff like that, okay? All right, the only difference is you very rarely actually saw his face.

Okay, that was the bit the fish bowl was the bit Okay, but it was always cloudy like you see it in most of the film. So okay, but yeah, I'd like to storyline that a little Pots the twist the turns and stuff. Um, it was just a fun film You know, so leave it at that.

I just have this more porch of Millennials. Generomy Bill and Coride over there Yeah, no, um, I think it's actually younger than Millennials Um, but it is more that high school age that it's aimed at but as I said, I think that fits with Who Peter Parker is supposed to be and it it holds true to The innocence you're seeing holds true to how he should be at that age. Well, and I think Holland Really gets the character better than just about anybody has and it's something that Kevin Smith once said He's like why is it Tom Holland is the first actor by the way He's British, but how is he the first actor that's been able to do this with a queen's accent?

You know, which no one else has done before because that's where he's from and I just like what they're doing with the character right now. Oh, yeah, and to Again like don'ts at the visuals amazing in this The there's some history to it because of course it does take place overseas Far from home. That's why they call it.

What's that filmed in in Venice there? I believe they filmed on location. I can't say for sure Because that really showed Venice and it looked like they went to a couple of different countries and that was nice But I thought the villain style in it was unique.

I thought it was really it's really well. Everything in this movie is really done. Yeah, it's done well Is there anything else we want to talk about before we get to the final analysis?

Um, I'm really pleased with what they did with Aunt May in this one We got to see a little bit more of her personality and I liked it Okay, why question this one? Don't get me wrong. I'd like to or me.

She's you know, Oscar, Oscar winner and all that How you doing? I kind of when I think of Aunt May as the older Aunt May And she's kind of the younger What do you think on that? I'm kind of okay with it because I like where they're going with it Because and she's gotten progressively younger because if you remember it was Sally feel So we were kind of regressing we've gotten to Marissa tome and I think she And I love how he never calls her Aunt May.

He just calls her May Yeah, I mean and in the the Saturday morning cartoons. It was more of a granny looking as she was traditionally Yeah, where she's getting so security You know, I was thinking in with this version of Aunt May She is more like an aunt like his mom had her mom or dad whichever it wasn't I remember had a much younger sibling So there might the two of them are closer in age. So she's still finding herself as Peter's finding himself And it plays really well off each other nice Anything else?

Yeah, it's all right. Let's get to the final analysis the way we do the final analysis on the show We're not going to give you films up thumbs down. We're not going to give you a letter grades numbers But Jones anything like that Two questions question number one is would we see this film again?

At the answers know we're done here, but if the answers yes We get into how far you're willing to go to see it again from the best of the best of the worst of the best Here's how it goes Full price in the theater down to a twilight showing down to a matinee down to early morning on a weekend down to second one With the dollar theater down to actually leaving our house to get it on a physical media down to stream It on our favorite streaming service down to watching it on cable general Yes, I would see it again. All right. Tell for you want to go do it Early morning if there's breakfast tacos Fair enough.

That's cool. You do that at Daleko fish again. I don't know if they serve breakfast tacos, but you can get it You do breakfast.

Yeah. Ah I did that for a reason Don would you see spider-man from home again? Saturday afternoon afternoon showing that kind of thing I'm gonna up you a little bit.

I'm gonna say yes I want to see this at a twilight in the Dolby cinema. Oh, I think Dolby would be good. The Dolby cinema.

It's looking sound like there's a certain sequence About two-thirds of the way through it that I think would sound amazing in the Dolby at this shaking too I think yeah after with the rumble packs. Oh, yeah It is the closing of the MCU Phase three if you can believe it and we don't even know where phase four is going yet They haven't even announced that. We don't know if oh, it's happening and stay through the end Oh, it's a marvel movie.

Yeah, it is John Watts directing spider-man far from home for install thing Yeah, you're kidding. We got to take Brad and everybody at fawns PR for the invite Hey, our vendors are amazing and Brad is no exception to that rule fawns PR Thank you guys so much for letting us see this movie so we can talk to the empire about it Remember you can check out our written reviews for this all three of ours and Alex's Alex could not be here tonight But he did get his written up you can find oh, no, he wasn't with us for this one It's the other one that he was with us for I can't keep track anymore But you can find all of our written reviews at www.clubhousepodcast.com Find out everything you know and some stuff you don't you can follow us on social media Twitter's at clubhouse show everything else is the clubhouse podcast all three words in that order Or you will wind up somewhere else you can file follow me on social media if you would like Everything is yes that rob urban that I spelled E-R-V-I-N my normal co-host is Chad Warwick You can follow him at chat in PG-69 and Alex is at vexployte I'm Jen Rome home at Instagram and Twitter. I'm at eagbunu iGbU and you you you Also email me don to clubhousepodcast.com email Don for information how we can come to a live Show for you.

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