![]() The last thing families and children need is for Marvel movies, which millions of children watch and enjoy, to normalize pornography among teenagers and pre-teens. The negative effects of pornography are real, and even many Hollywood actors, some of which who came out of porn addiction, are speaking out about the dangers of porn, including actors like Josh Radnor, Terry Crews, Russel Brand, and even Pamela Anderson. Surveys also show that children are being exposed to porn at younger and younger ages, many times by accident and other times from curiosity. Studies have shown that porn consumption affects your brain negatively, destroys relationships and is addictive like drugs. This line however about a 15-year-old flippantly joking about watching porn, and it being normal and acceptable, felt especially irresponsible and frustrating. ![]() I mean, the frequent S-bombs and 30 other obscenities and profanities already gave away the fact that the Director, Jon Watts, didn’t have children in mind when he made a popular children’s comic book into a movie. In fact, the mother sitting next to me, who was with her daughter, found it especially funny. Later in the movie, Peter is chasing the villain, and Ned is helping Peter from the school computer lab, fulfilling his dream of being the “computer guy.” Obviously, these 15-year-old teenagers need their activities of stopping bad guys to be a secret, so when the teacher walks in on Ned, asking him what he’s doing, he slams the screen shut and responds with an answer he hopes will get her off his back. In the movie, Peter Parker has a best friend, Ned, a chubby Hawaiian teen who finds out about Peter’s secret identity as Spider-Man and desperately wants to be Peter’s techie sidekick. However, one line that was said by one of the characters stood out to me as I was writing, and I couldn’t let it go. ![]() The movie has a myriad of issues, from poor writing to bad direction, which you can read more about in the review here. However, when I saw it in a press screening along with other critics, many of whom brought their children, what I saw disturbed me. All in all, SPIDER-MAN: HOMECOMING has a lot of excitement behind it and could be the beginning of a new and very successful Spider-Man movie series. Since Sony Pictures owns rights to the Spider-Man character, and has already made several movies just in the past 15 years, the fact that Marvel, owned by Disney, made an agreement to share the same Spider-Man played by Tom Holland is unprecedented. Last week, I attended a pre-screening of the first Spider-Man solo movie that’s included in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. This One Line Might Have Ruined SPIDER-MAN: HOMECOMING
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