Van Lathan

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1,134 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 31 Jul

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The Big Picture · ‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day’ and the Spider-Man Movie Rankings · 31 Jul 2026 podcast

He's getting it from Damage Control. matched

Damage Control has been around for a long time. matched

But that's also something that we've criticized. matched

Damage Control has been in other Spider-Man movies. matched

It was in, like, No Way Home. matched

The second one, yeah. matched

The third one. matched

Remember Damage Control? matched

Damage Control is being another Spider-Man. matched

So it was waiting to have a larger role in the Spider-Man movie. matched

Do I think that Damage Control in this situation is the perfect... matched

like sort of antagonists for Spider-Man in this way, there'd probably been things that would be more thrilling to me, but it was just been them introducing something else that was brand new. matched

I think even in the... And this was a... Jomie had this criticism. matched

A lot of Midnight Boys had this criticism that the movie has a villain problem. matched

And I think my thing was this villain, Jean Grey, being the villain in this movie, is kind of even... matched

you know, to my, against my, uh, better, my preferences is continuing the tradition of Spider-Man movies in live action, which if you look at Green Goblin, if you look at, uh, Dr. Octopus, which I rewatched that movie and Raimi's skill as a horror director is underrated, not in the grand scheme of things. matched

Obviously he's one of the masters of that craft, but in how he crafts that movie, there are a lot of just straight up horror scenes. matched

And you have to be afraid of them. matched

So, like, he makes them scary, right? matched

But Octavius in that movie is a tortured genius that is a good guy that is doing a bad thing. matched

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