The Spider-Man: No Way Home - The Art of the Movie book just landed on shelves worldwide, and in it, the film’s director, Jon Watts, confirmed what audiences always suspected about the ending of the movie: it ends at the beginning.
Were people actually confused by the ending? It seemed pretty obvious.
Go to any forum for a TV show after an episode. The amount of obvious things people get confused by is soul shattering. You will lose faith in humanity.
So, I’m not surprised if stupid people were confused by the ending. Unfortunately.
Sadly enough, the “cinema sins” YouTube channel is pretty representative of how dumb and inattentive the average viewer is.
For some things yeah I can see that. For the MCU, I disagree. There are so many different plot lines and characters and this hovering idea about where different phases are leading. I don’t blame a casual or even Uber fan viewer for not fully trusting or understanding what a given MCU movie’s ending will mean going forward.
You don’t need to have seen any other movies to understand that nobody knows who Peter Parker is at the end of No Way Home. It’s the catalyst for the entire movie.
It’s honestly wild, and ranges from stuff that I can only assume is due to people playing on their phones and half-watching, to a level of ignorance about storytelling that basically requires the plot being exposition dumped for them to grasp it. I genuinely don’t get it, and it can make recommending good shows/movies difficult.