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Spider-Man: Brand New Day (2026) Non-Spoiler Review · The K.B. Radio Network

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  hello ladies and gentlemen welcome to the concession stand here on the kb radio network i am your host kevin reed and welcome to the review of spider-man brand
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  new day this is the non-spoiler review of the latest film in the mcu the
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  38th film to be exact in the marvel cinematic universe,
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  but the
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  fourth film in the mcu spider-man universe starring tom harlan as our friendly neighborhood spider-man aka peter parker starring alongside of him returning you have zendaya uh
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  jacob battle on as well joining them on this new spidey adventure you have uh john bernthal reprising his role as Frank Castle,
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  the Punisher.
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  Mark Ruffalo coming in as Bruce Banner.
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  Sadie Sink is in this film as well.
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  And in the film,
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  Peter Parker protects
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  New York City as the hero Spider-Man.
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  And he also investigates a powerful new threat.
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  While his superpowers undergo a surprising and potentially dangerous evolution.
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  You know,
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  I have enjoyed
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  Tom Holland as Peter Parker.
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  Spider-Man throughout the MCU,
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  not just in his own solo films,
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  but also in
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  Civil War,
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  in
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  Infinity War,
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  and Endgame.
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  You know,
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  he has been a welcome addition to the MCU,
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  and the most consistently good addition to the MCU as of late.
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  You know,
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  Marvel has been on the ropes with some of their releases as of late,
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  and the one good
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  consistent thing has been spider-man all of those films have been uh good to great you know uh even the one that i felt was lower tier as far as spider-man movies is concerned i still enjoy greatly and that that was uh far from home but
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  going into this one you already got a different feel you know going by the trailers and what we were left with at the end of no way home
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  You knew that this was a different direction that we were going with this film as well as this character of Peter Parker
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  And with a new direction we move a move from John Watts who directed the previous three films and this go-around We get Dustin Daniel Cretton
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  Directing this film and you know,
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  he directed
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  Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings,
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  which is a little diversive,
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  but I think
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  the majority of people enjoyed sung chi me being one of those people i really enjoyed that movie i thought it was good yeah the third act got kind of cg heavy and convoluted
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  but you know overall it was a pretty good film and at one time he was tapped to direct the next avengers film which was the king dynasty but once marvel moved away from the king story
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  uh he moved on as well over to spider-man nonetheless but i was i was curious to see how his take of this character was going to be and going by the trailers i was excited because it looked like we were going to get this more grounded true to form spider-man that we got from the comics you know the street level spider-man who fought street level villains and
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  I was
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  so excited to see that you know not spider-man didn't necessarily deal with global threats as much as much as he dealt with in the previous films at least in the comics you know yes of course he he teamed up with the avengers and even the x-men and the fantastic four you know he in
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  the comic books yeah they had their team-ups but for the majority of his his long run in the comic
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  books he's been a street level guy and i wanted to get back to that let's get back to the roots of this character this movie i will say i deeply enjoyed for the most part i
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  have my thoughts i have my thoughts about brand new day uh but uh i'm gonna temper them i even went as far as to Write them down.
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  that way i won't spoil anything like i said this is the non-spoiler review and so you're going to have to wait a couple of days until i release the spoiler review where we're going to go into
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  the meat of my issues you know that because i can't really dive into my issues without spoiling anything but uh for the most part even with all that considered i enjoyed spider-man brain brand new day this was a vastly
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  different film than what we got in the first three tom holland spider-man films this film is depressing laughing
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  And I don't mean that in a bad way.
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  It's not depressing like,
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  oh my God,
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  like you're going to leave the film or leave the theater,
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  go grab a drink or something like you done went through this roller coaster out of emotions.
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  It's not that type.
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  It's depressing in tone because of
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  Peter Parker,
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  you know,
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  where we left him last.
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  He was alone.
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  Everybody left him.
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  He lost Aunt May.
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  The love of his life has...
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  no idea who he is his best friend has no idea who he is he is alone he's a literal nobody and he has to deal with that he has to carry that burden with him but try
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  to balance it out with being your friendly neighborhood spider-man at the same time you know and it's taking its toll on him and this film does an excellent job
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  of displaying that if anything if anything you could take away from it it it really does a good job of deep diving into peter parker's emotions into what
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  he's dealing with and how he's handling and uh it is depressing because you're pre peter parker as you're watching this you are truly seeing it from his POV.
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  He is...
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  going through the ringer as as far as emotions are concerned and this triggers this this evolution in his body you know where he is becoming something else you know that that was more of a physical manifestation of what he's going through mentally and
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  i i thought that was a really really good choice and direction that they took this character in um
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  coming in at a close second of my favorite things about this film had to be new york city even though this movie i think was filmed in scotland mostly but it felt like new york this is the most grounded superhero
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  movie i've ever seen let alone spider-man movie and that's going all the way back to toby mcguire and uh sam remy films this felt street level this was truly We
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  street level i you felt the texture of the buildings of the of the streets of the cars of everything of the people the people that was walking around it felt like new york city i've only been blessed to go to new york city twice
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  in my life but the two times that i've been there it's a it's a vibe man you know like if you go to different places you feel the vibe but i felt it
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  New York has a heartbeat of his own.
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  just like new orleans i'm not gonna i'm not gonna poo-poo on my on my town but it's it's something about new york city that just has this certain little flair to it and the film captured that it it felt real it felt lived in the world didn't feel like a cgi mess you
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  know what i'm saying like you see in all of these superhero movies these days it felt real it felt like you can look up and see
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  Spider-Man swinging.
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  from the buildings you know it i really love that aspect about this movie it raised the stakes in a sense it really did uh the other aspect of this film that i deeply enjoyed was tom holland zendaya and
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  jacob battle on even though this is the fourth film that these actors have been a part of this franchise and playing these characters it feels like this
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  for all three actors this was their best performance of these characters hands down not even close it is uh tom holland was so good in this movie so
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  good in this movie this it felt like he he finally got it and i'm saying that he always had it i always looked at him like man that the most
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  perfect casting in
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  Marvel history in my eyes.
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  But,
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  this movie just felt like he just you know just broke free and became peter parker and brought it to a level that i really wasn't expecting him to bring it uh zendaya zendaya
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  for the first three films you can make an argument she is an annoying character of mj she is very annoying and you know you
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  you get the charm of her you know the charisma that zendaya brings to a role it all that's there you know she's not a hated character but you can get where she's kind of annoying not in this one this movie she's still mj just
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  mature and i think that's the uh through line throughout this film it's a mature spider-man film as far as you know compared to the first three
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  this is a spider-man that's an adult now you know mj is an adult now ned is an adult now so they have to act and speak like an adult but still keep those little elements you know keep that core that you fell in love with throughout the first
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  three films of this franchise but zendaya she brought it in this room oh my god there was a scene in here and i'm not gonna get into too deep with it.
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  now i'll talk more in depth with it with the spoiler review but man you talking about oh my god it was it was gut-wrenching that scene and her and tom holland was just perfect i mean of
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  course their chemistry is fire because they're married i mean they've been together forever so they they they're gonna have chemistry but man they it was it was great that was a great scene uh
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  towards the middle of this film and of course ned uh jacob battle on he he was he was awesome in this as well um our new additions to this cast john bernthal as punisher this was this
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  was probably my favorite i'm not going to go as far as say is my his best portrayal of the punisher in the mcu but this is definitely my favorite portrayal of frank castle in the mcu
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  I think Jon Bernthal had fun.
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  You could tell he had fun this time,
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  you know,
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  because going back to the Netflix
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  Punisher show and even when he popped up on Daredevil Born Again and whatnot.
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  And just recently with One Last Kill that's on
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  Disney Plus is so depressing.
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  You know,
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  he's so moody.
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  He's Frank Castle,
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  you know.
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  he only has one gear in in this film uh frank castle has several you know and and it still is still honors the character perfectly you don't deviate from the frank castle that we all know and love that only has one one
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  solution to that problem and that's kill it and that's still here in this movie even though this is a kind of a lighter
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  uh frank castle but it's not um it's not as hard heartened as we've seen him in the past uh mark ruffalo was great once again it probably one of the best hawk sequences i've seen and
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  i'm not joking this was great you could in the mcu i'm telling you this the scene would and i'm not spoiling nothing here because it's in the trailer but
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  the scene with spider-man and the hulk fighting was unbelievable probably the best hulk fight i've seen in the mcu i have nothing else to say on that speaking of nothing else to say uh
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  sadie sink was the star of this film and that's i'm gonna leave it at that i'm gonna leave it alone gonna go more in depth in the spoiler review but she was fantastic
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  going into the negatives of the film the only negative i can really it's only one negative i can speak on in a non-spoiler review the rest i will cover in the spoiler review because there there are a few this
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  film is not perfect there are a few but the one i can speak on in the non-spoiler review would be this movie is two hours and 30 minutes long not needed
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  Not needed at all.
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  It took too long for the movie to get started.
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  It's like...
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  they tried to drive home drive home the fact that peter is alone and he's depressed and he's struggling with with the with his current situation and all this here we didn't have to take 30 minutes of this movie at
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  least the first 30 minutes of this movie to drive it home and not only the first 30 minutes because it lasts the whole movie but especially in the first 30 minutes because they're expensive.
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  explaining what's all going on i knew that from watching no way home at the end of that movie you knew where peter stood i didn't need 30 minutes of
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  the first part of this film to be all about that you know i mean all about that i i don't get it i don't i don't understand that yeah i get
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  recapping and touching in on it of course yeah one or two scenes established where he's at currently cool but it took way too long to get to the story to the meat of this story and
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  if that was any other film i'll be beating it over the head so i gotta be fair just because i love spider-man in these in these films like this.
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  I don't want to just,
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  you know...
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  be biased and so it is so it's so weird that they went in that direction with that but once the film gets started we're we're going you know it once once it kicks into high gear it never lets up the foot stays on the gas and so i give it that much but it just took a while to get to that uh
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  i guess i could speak on one other thing without going spoilery and that would be sadie sinks
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  reveal now this is more of a marketing thing yeah i don't it's not the film it was a marketing thing it just i don't understand that move i don't understand why i'm hiding her character like it just did it didn't make sense and
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  finally when it happens in the movie you're like well pretty much assume that you know it's not it wasn't a big reveal like this mysterious thing like they're trying to i don't i don't understand why they did that
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  but whatever i'll touch in more on that with the spoiler review but uh overall i enjoyed it it's it's one of these funky little movies where it you can say that some
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  of the best spider-man moments happen in here but it's not the best spider-man movie it's it's not it's far from the worst there's nowhere near the worst it's a really good movie really good spider-man movie it just
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  it had elements of some of the best spider-man moments i would say uh that i've seen on screen and for that reason i'm gonna give spider-man brand new date a letter grade of a b plus yeah
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  it was really good really good tom holland proves yet again that he he was born to play this role i was a little scared that maybe he was getting tired of the role maybe he would
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  mail this one in you could tell when i act i'll give you a prime example jennifer lawrence when she played mystique in the x-men films you could tell by the last two x-men films she was in that she did not care she
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  mailed in those performances with three post-it stamps she did not care she did not want to be there and you felt it you felt it through the screen
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  I was a little worried that maybe he'd start getting tired of it.
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  I mean,
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  because in a sense,
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  you probably feel you're getting tight-cast.
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  You're only known as Spider-Man.
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  But Tom Holland,
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  he's doing some work everywhere.
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  You know,
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  he was just in Odyssey,
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  and he was phenomenal in that as well.
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  But he really enjoys this character.
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  You could tell he loves playing this role.
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  He brought something different to the role this go-around.
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  Zendaya as well and along with everybody else.
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  Another thing I wanted to mention on,
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  I was going to save it for the spoiler review but it's not spoilery but
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  Tom Holland and John Bernthal's chemistry in this movie was absolutely amazing.
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  That was also one of the better elements of this film.
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  I loved seeing Peter Parker and Frank Castle bounce off of each other in this movie and John Bernthal and uh uh
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  Tom Holland.
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  They've been friends for a while.
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  Little fact for y'all in case you don't know.
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  When they were auditioning,
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  For
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  Spider-Man and Punisher,
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  respectively,
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  they were auditioning with each other.
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  That's how far back they go.
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  They pretty much helped each other get those roles.
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  They filmed each other's audition.
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  That led to Tom Holland getting the Spider-Man role.
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  And it led to Jon Bernthal getting the Punisher role.
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  And it came full circle in Brand New Day.
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  I thought that was cool.
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  and you could tell that
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  it was kind of a uh uh homage to their friendship and uh look where we came look where we started and how we how we are right now it's it was beautiful but yeah that was great uh but like i said stick
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  around wait wait till this weekend when i drop the spoiler review and i can go more in depth into my problems with it because i do have a few that i do have a few
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  But also in that review,
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  we will go over some Easter eggs and some predictions going forward in the MCU and in Spider-Man,
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  the character on his own.
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  You know,
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  what's his plans going forward?
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  We'll see.
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  But that's my thoughts on Spider-Man Brand New Day.
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  I would like to know yours.
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  Did you watch it?
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  Have you seen it yet?
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  Let me know.
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  Let me know where it ranks in your Spider-Man film.
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  to the concession stand here on the kb radio network everybody thank you for joining me for this review of spider-man brand new day want you all to know that i love you continue to love everyone and until we speak again you
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  all be blessed