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I'm a kid of the 90s, so I grew up on comic books and saturday morning cartoons that were all huge in scope and had TONS of crossovers.
I remember when the first X-Men movie got announced (X-Men TAS being one of my favorite shows), and even though the movie was good for its time, I remember being disappointed that there were, like, six mutants in the whole movie, and not the cast of hundreds that I'd grown to expect.
I remember the first Spider-man movie, and how that was mind-blowing in how it portrayed stuff remarkably close to the comic book (not perfect, but up to that point, nothing had even really tried. It was either "Black leather" X-Men or "What the hell even is this?" Batman). I remember the third Spider-man movie, and what a massive disappointment that was, one of the main complaints being "Too many characters". And even when the Spider-man movies were good, they were grounded in a way that made a lot of the bigger stuff; the crossovers, the massive fights, all that, a lot of the stuff that I grew up reading, impossible.
So it's goddamn amazing this movie exists at all. It's something I never thought I'd actually see given justice on the big screen. That's why I'm not too hip on complaining too much about this movie, even if it is flawed in certain ways.
It's like growing up, all you want is pizza, but everyone's like "No, no, Pizza wouldn't really work, so here, have some pasta instead" and you're okay with pasta, and it's got a lot of the same ingredients, so you can almost convince yourself they were right all along, and then one day some dude comes in with the biggest, thickest pizza you've ever seen, piled high with every topping you could ever want.
And it's like, yeah, I could do with some more pepperoni, I guess, and I'm not a fan of pineapple, but it took 20 goddamn years, and it's fucking PIZZA!
I'm rambling, but does that make any sense?
