Madame Web

Weirdly enough, this has been one of the movies that I missed during the hiatus on this site that I’ve been most wanting to watch for a long time now. There’s just something about a universally disliked movie that scratches that itch and makes me curious about whether it’s actually bad, or if it’s just mediocre, or if it’s decent with some serious issues. And more often than not, I tend to like most movies that people think were bad. I enjoyed Morbius for the most part, so I was very curious to see where I landed on this movie. Outside of the general vibe, I kept myself pretty much in the dark about what the movie was actually about. I have vague memories of Madame Web appearing in the 90’s Spider-Man cartoon but I don’t really remember anything specific. I even forgot that she was blind until Cassie gets blinded at the end of the movie. I also kind of remember hearing about how the three Spider-Women don’t ever actually get any real scenes as their Spider-personas. But this movie really was a complete mess. It never really made sense as to why this was a story that needed to be told, as someone with zero Spider-verse comics knowledge there was very little for me to grasp onto for any of these future personas outside of Madame Web herself, the villain is ridiculously over-powered yet completely incompetent when it comes to anything involving Cassie, and no one has anything resembling a three dimensional personality.