Origin-al Sin: What Hollywood Must Learn From 'Spider-Man: Homecoming'
For years, it seemed that origin stories were central to keeping superheroes movies grounded. Homecoming proved this suspicion wrong. It found a better way — and a different key ingredient.
Long, long ago, when the Earth was new and icthyosaurs swam the turbid seas, Iron Man 2 arrived in theaters. [Ed. Note — Simmer down. It was 2010.]
It was, most agreed, a disappointment, compared to its predecessor, despite a fun and deeply, deeply squirrelly Sam Rockwell performance. (Remember how he had bronzer on his palms? And no one mentioned it, it was just a character thing? Remember that? That was cool.)
I agreed that it didn't work as well as the original , and I said then — , really, as I was a younger man, full of Moxie, and gumption, and eels — that I knew why. In fact I developed A Theory. A Grand
