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Me really enjoyed this series, especially awards handed out at end! Me not sure what other movie has been remade enough to do this again. Maybe Spider-Man? Me feel like No Way Home would really clean up at Spideys...

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It wouldn't clean up if I had anything to say about it! I liked all of Raimi's more, Spidey 2 especially.

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Spidey 2 was always favorite of all Spider-movies. But me rewatched it over weekend to educate kids in advance of new one, and while it still hold up tremendously once Molina put on robot arms... it takes while to get there. First third of movie just about stress-out college student trying to work two jobs and flirt awkwardly with his ex. And Macguire and Dunst share some expository/romantic dialogue that only few notches about "me hate sand," whereas Tom and Zendaya have better chemistry and seem more like real teenagers. And movie really hit ground running, something me always big fan of. Plus, me give it lot of credit for pulling off high concept with aplomb, and serving every non-Molina villain better than their original movie did with less screen time. As much as people like to bash MCU for being "not real cinema," this movie, like Endgame, have economy of storytelling (and ability to get audience invested in countless characters very quickly) that future directors would be wise to study.

Anyway, here how me vote in Spideys:

Best Picture: Spider-Verse

Best Spider-Man: Shameik Moore

Best Peter Parker: Holland

Best MJ: Zendaya

Best Villain: Molina/Doc Ock

Best BFF: Steinfeld/Spider-Gwen

Best Setpiece: Operating room sequence in Spider-Man 2

Best change from comics: Tobey secreting web fluid instead of teenager inventing magical gadget that shoot webs / Aunt May not being absurdly old (tie)

Actor Who Most Deserved To Be In Better Movie: Emma Stone

Biggest Small Missed Opportunity No One But This Monster Noticed Or Care About: Homecoming open with Blitzkreig Bop, which was perfect needle-drop, as it set pace and tone of film well and Ramones also from Queens. And then it also end with same song. Except Ramones covered Spider-Man theme! It would have been perfect! Me care way too much about this, and me not can imagine anyone else do. It like how me get worked up about how no one ever make oatmeal cookies with chocolate chips when it obviously superior to oatmeal raisin!

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No MCU, please.

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"Me not sure what other movie has been remade enough to do this again."

That's easy: A Christmas Carol

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Loved this series, though I worry that you've brought about 100 years of bad luck to your site...

Sneaky Macbeth supplemental: I just finished reading "All's Well" by Mona Awad, a darkly comedic novel about a university production of one of Shakespeare's frothier plays (you can guess from the title) after the director, shocking and dismaying everyone, decides not to do the Scottish play. The book is a kind of magic realist tug-o-war between the two, as elements from the latter end up colouring the former and the director becomes a mix of Lady M and Faust (to throw in yet another influence). This one's a stretch as an adaptation, but well worth a look. The Three Weird Brethren are about as delicious as it gets.

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While I think there is weakness in McDormand making the transition to “wracked with guilt Lady MacBeth”, I really loved her “ambitious Lady MacBeth”, so I found myself overall enjoying her performance more than either of you. Can’t agree more about Washington inadequately selling “tomorrow, tomorrow, tomorrow” however; while out of the purview of your series, nothing tops Ian McKellan’s go at it:

https://youtu.be/4LDdyafsR7g

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