@Overly Serious since you endured this trainwreck, I want you to clear something up. Did this movie basically imply that Peter is Ben's son in even though he name wasn't said?
It's easter egg level - I didn't notice if the surname Parker was mentioned or not though it's the name of the character in the credits. She is a paramedic and her (work) partner is named Ben. His sister is present in the movie and her name is Mary. Mary's husband named "Richard" is said to be away on business or something. We do know the baby is a boy but a balloon pops just as Mary is about to say what the name is at her baby shower. You have to read between the lines a lot but given a few references to "Richard" being away a lot I think the implication is that she never marries him as she still has the same family name as her brother. The alternative is that she married a guy with the same family name as her.
Ben is explicitly her brother in the movie so unless for some reason he's secretly fathering a child with his sister and she's lying to her partner about it being his child then no, the movie does not imply that Peter is Ben's son. However, it would be relatively easy to miss that Ben and Mary are siblings so somebody probably misinterpreted the relationship between the two characters. He does drive her to the hospital to give birth and is generally the one looking after her. I don't know why her name is Mary rather than May - I've never heard people use May as a diminutive for Mary, it's its own name. Though I suppose it's possible.
An early version of the script apparently had the villain after Peter to stop him growing up before they switched it to the three girls.
I’m only curious on how accurate the following shitpost is.
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Again, the only bad thing about this movie being a dumpster fire is that I don’t think Sony is retarded enough to be gaslit into rereleasing it in theatres a second time.
Okay. So obviously spoiler territory but I think we're beyond that by now. And nobody in this thread is excited about the movie so I'm just going to launch in.
I haven't seen Forspoken so I cannot compare unlikeability. She's not exactly a warm and engaging person though the actress is nice enough. The unlikeability is mainly fairly forced things in script like bringing up that her mum died in childbirth to a pregnant Mary Parker. She does throw away a child's drawing but not in front of the child. She's Hollywood awkward about anything family related because
of very forced writing her own mother died and she grew up in the foster system. A child attempts to give her a drawing to thank her for saving his mum or dad's life and she refuses it until Ben
sotto voce insists she accept it. She later pulls it out and has an emotional moment seeing a drawing of a kid and two parents. Actually, I don't remember if she actually throws it away or not. She is very reluctant to accept it, though.
She does talk a lot about not wanting to save the girls and wanting to dump them on their parents and stop being involved in this. She never talks about hating saving people as a paramedic. Shitposter is getting a little carried away there. She just doesn't see why it should be on her to save three people she doesn't know from a super-powered killer. She's basically an ordinary person at this point who has just yesterday started getting visions.
None of the girls get superpowers, it's never explained how they get superpowers. All moments with them having superpowers are part of either her or the villains' vision of the future. They're not necessarily false future visions, however. The villain's are because he dies during the movie not in the future as his visions tell him. But Madam Web also sees them with powers in the future I think, so presumably they still get them.
It is correct that they don't go to the police because one of the girls says she'd be deported. Her dad was and she is now faking not being alone to her landlord for two more years because when she turns 18 she'll be safe or something. Which now that you've reminded me of it means that the girl is supposed to be sixteen. There is zero way that the actress passes for sixteen, but bless her for trying.
I believe they do mention the villain's name briefly towards the end. She discovers that he was the one who was with her mother in the Amazon where the magic spiders live and I think she gets his name from the back of a photograph. I will grant you though that it would be very, very easy to get through this entire movie without knowing his name. We learn pretty much nothing about him or what he does when he's not hunting down girls from his visions. He does jump in front of her car at every opportunity.
He also dies when a giant S from an illuminated Pepsi Cola sign falls on him, this is also true. Slight context is missing - Cassie forsees that the S is going to fall down and edges in its direction so that he's in position to be Warner Brother's by it when it falls.
Cassie does not "figure out her powers out of nowhere". A Disposable Exposition Man has a scene with her earlier in the movie and tells her she can be in multiple places at once. And that "if you accept responsibility then great power will come". So technically she's been told about these powers in advance. But yeah, other than it's just a suddenly have them moment. Specifically all three girls miraculously end up clinging to things over an enormous drop (which Cassie created by blowing stuff up fwiw) and all some distance from each other. The villain taunts her by saying "You can't save all of them" at which point alternate glowing versions of Cassie all beam out of her body to the girls and save all of them. Silly villain!
There's a tiny bit between that and the actual end of the movie - we see that Cassie is now blind. No reason given that I could see. We see Ben and Mary in the hospital with a newborn baby boy. Seriously, there's almost no reason for this. They either go all in on this being a story about Peter Parker being born or scrap it. What they ended up with is a weird disconnected scene that means nothing to the story. And then we get to the closing scene where the three girls all now live with Cassie. One of them does indeed steal fried chicken and she is indeed Black, though any subtext to that passed me by entirely because I am not American.
So your shitposter has evidently seen the movie and barring a couple of minor and very understandable things he missed, is correct. I give him 9/10 for accurate summary.
Hope that helps!
EDIT: In the course of checking the character surname, I visited IMDB. This is apparently a sixteen year old:
hecks off box: ”, which stinks.
