Spider-Man: Brand New Day

The film itself was fine. For a Spider-Man film it was pretty good. The plot got a bit cluttered balancing competing 'crossing the threshold' storylines and the villain reversal was obvious. But the action was competent and final scene fan service was nice.

The biggest negative - and it's a significant one - is the sheer volume of product placement in this movie. It's egregious. I largely structure my life to be ad-free paying for premium streaming, buying physical media, avoiding broadcast television and terrestrial radio, running ad and tracking blockers - because advertisers have long since demonstrated that they can't be trusted. The level of ad placements in this film distract from any claims of artistic merit and honestly hurt the plot. Parker is supposed to be a broke twenty-something struggling in one of the most expensive cities in the world, yet the level of product placement around him creates enough narrative dissonance to hurt the story.