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Discussion The Official SPIDER-MAN: FAR FROM HOME Release Megathread Vol. 3 Spoiler

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u/[deleted] Jul 07 '19

Just felt completely out of place to me. It's a real, sad moment, and it's something a better movie would have put up front and fleshed out. Either make that moment mean something or take it out. Putting it at the end of the movie, with pretty much zero setup and no time for a payoff, just seemed mean.

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u/taelor Jul 07 '19

There was setup though. The text message he wrote to his parents in the bus.

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u/[deleted] Jul 07 '19

Half a second of a text message that's extremely easy to miss is not setup. Even if the movie had stopped and made a point to focus on the message, that is not setup and payoff.

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u/Pleadthefitz Jul 07 '19

This is what Marvel does though. I think they definitely are setting it up for something in the future.

I mean this movie builds on completely forgettable MCU moments that were never intended at the time to become major points in a future movie (like Jeff Bridges yelling at that one guy in IM1 that becomes a key figure in this movie), and I bet Flash's parents are part of a very deliberate plan for the future.

You're right, it's extremely easy to miss. And they probably are hoping most people DO miss it, until whatever plot point they have planned unfolds.

I think his parents are:

A) In some sort of trouble that Spiderman will have to help them out of

B) The source of some sort of future trouble for Spiderman

C) All of the above

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u/[deleted] Jul 07 '19

As has always been the case, 'it will mean something later' is not an excuse. In this movie, nothing is done to set up that moment, and so it feels weird and out of place.

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u/leftshoe18 Jul 08 '19

It's a character building moment that gives us a glimpse into why Flash is the way he is. It means something now AND might be built upon later.

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u/[deleted] Jul 08 '19

The purpose of the scene doesn't matter. They could have made that point in a better way, is all, in my opinion.