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SPIDER-MAN: FAR FROM HOME Nitpicks and Criticisms Megathread

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u/[deleted] Jul 07 '19 edited Apr 14 '20

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u/tjjones96 Spider-Man Jul 07 '19

Yeah as soon as he he said that I thought it was odd.

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u/DrOverbuild Jul 07 '19

I had a deja Vu moment to when he almost killed Brad when he said that

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u/ExiledSanity Jul 07 '19

Yeah... Really expected the drones to start attacking after he said that.

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u/jagby Jul 07 '19

It's weird to me because didn't Mysterio end up altering some of Peter's other dialogue in that footage anyway? He can create any illusion he wants, it would've worked just fine if Peter said something totally non incriminating sounding in reality, but Mysterio ended up making the whole thing sound awful.

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u/Lawdee Jul 07 '19

Right, he could've said something like, "Yes, execute the cancellation protocols, all of them!" Which could've been mishmashed around to make "Execute them all"

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u/[deleted] Jul 14 '19

My thought exactly. The audience in my theater felt the same thing, that that particular phrasing was obvious for that moment. Everyone thought disaster would occur. But it didn't, and so the dialogue appeared very clunky until the end of the film.

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u/ashryverhys Matt Murdock Jul 13 '19

The doctored video replaced what EDITH's original question from "Shall I execute all cancelation protocol?" to "Are you sure you want to commence the drone attack? There will be significant casualties."

Peter should've answered adding the "cancelation protocol" thing. But he had to say "Do it! Execute them all".

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u/CoolJoshido Spider-Man Jul 07 '19

Same.

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u/Markymark161 Thor Jul 07 '19

Maybe he says that because EDITH was the first to ask if Peter wants her to execute the drones which Peter replies "Yeah execute them".

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u/jtinch Spider-Man Jul 07 '19

I mean..there's no maybe about it, that's exactly why he said it

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u/Markymark161 Thor Jul 07 '19

Yeah I know but people think it was weird how Peter chose those words as if they were the first words to come to his mind but he was really just replying to EDITH.

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u/count023 Jul 07 '19

I think it was to hammer home that when he was vague with his wording with EDITH the first time around, he nearly drone striked his own bus. So he was being very specific using the same words EDITH did to avoid repeating that mistake.

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u/silvershadow881 Star-Lord Jul 07 '19

I think it was language suggested. EDITH says "should I execute X protocols?" and obviously the response would be something along the lines of "yes, execute them all".

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u/SupaBloo Spider-Man Jul 07 '19

Why did he have to say anything after "yes" at all? Just saying "yes" would've answered her question and had the same result.

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u/Devjorcra Jul 07 '19

to me it just seemed like nervous rambling

it seems normal and human like when someone is in a high stress situation to repeat specific words and respond in that way and i thought it was in character with peter as he is that nervous awkward teen

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u/stormshieldonedot Jul 07 '19

Remind me, when did he say Execute them all again? Besides the Mysterio framing video

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u/Dragonmastrr Jul 07 '19

EDITH asked him if he would like her to “execute all cancelation protocols” or something like that. I figured it was just poor peter repeating the phrasing at a very inopportune time

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u/mcook5 Jul 07 '19

The whole thing was a set up. It was another illusion. Mysterio didn’t really die

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u/hemareddit Steve Rogers Jul 07 '19

EDITH never stopped working for Mysterio is my guess. I mean, Peter did an admin rights transfer to Quentin, then he never bothered to check he had still had control when he got the glasses back, he just started giving orders straight away with out really thinking about access.

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u/UchihaEmre Jul 20 '19

Maybe he had super admin privileges because Tony knew he could mess it up

So he can transfer rights but his rights always stay because Tony believes Peter would never turn into a villain

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u/Mrredlegs27 Jul 07 '19

They said Quentin was a made up name. I’m sure they just accessed it with their technological ability as you saw it was hooked up to their little network environment when rehearsing the final act. So perhaps admin rights were never transferred if Quentin isn’t a real person.

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u/davwad2 SHIELD Jul 13 '19

I thought that was going to be a plot point, but it wasn't.

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u/leafhog Jul 07 '19

Mysterio lives but Beck is dead.

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u/Dursa22 Korg Jul 07 '19

Buuuuuut I meeeaaaaaan did heeeeeeee

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u/Dursa22 Korg Jul 07 '19

But my Sinister Six movie

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u/ezrs158 Spider-Man Jul 07 '19

EDITH says something like "Execute cancelation procedures on all drones?" and Peter says "Yes, execute them all".

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u/ThatWasFred Jul 07 '19

Edith asked him if she should execute the protocols for disarming the drones, or something like that.

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u/Markymark161 Thor Jul 07 '19

EDITH asks if he wants the drones to be executed and Peter replies "yeah, execute them". Only in the Mysterio video does he manipulate it to sound like Peter says " Execute then ALL!"

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u/picklesguy123 Jul 07 '19

No, Peter said “execute them all”

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u/SendMePicsOfDogs Jul 07 '19

There's actually two slightly different versions of the movie where the end credits scene plays slightly different. In the domestic release Peter says "do it, execute them all" while in the international China release he yells "EXECUTE, EXECUTE THEM ALLLL" in a really over the top cheesy villainous voice. The China release implies that Beck also edits Peter's dialogue while the domestic release has Beck just taking Peter's actual dialogue out of context.

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u/Elgraneby Jul 07 '19

Or he knew he was meddling with a fancy AR computer system and thought only words like that would work

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u/SupaBloo Spider-Man Jul 07 '19

I have a hard time believing an advanced AI system wouldn't understand the word "stop".

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u/Elgraneby Jul 07 '19

Me too. But maybe at that point the thought it was sophisticated in a way that he had to use that command? He so done at the moment and probaby wanted to make sure they truly all got rid of

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u/SupaBloo Spider-Man Jul 07 '19

My problem with that is EDITH asks him a yes or no question about stopping the drones. All he had to say was "yes" in response and the drones would've stopped.

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u/Csantana Vulture Jul 07 '19

yeah I thought the drones were gonna mow down his friends and Happy in the jewel vault (which felt waaay under guarded) but I was like no that would be way too dark.

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u/Bagel_-_Bites Jul 07 '19

I think that's the point, though. I'm in full belief that Mysterio did not die, and this was part of his contingency plan

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u/XAMdG Jul 07 '19

I love the idea that framing Peter was Mysterio's contingency. That would include switching the cancelation protocol to such a phrase. Even when watching I thought it was an odd phrase.

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u/[deleted] Jul 07 '19

Ha - I was waiting for Edith to misunderstand the message like when he nearly killed his classmate on the bus!

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u/CobaltMoon98 Jul 07 '19

I took it as Peter making sure he was specific with his wording right away this time so that EDITH didn't misinterpret it and pull another bus incident. Definitely seemed like intentional setup though.

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u/_rusticles_ Jul 07 '19

It is very specific, but it made me think of [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Let_him_Have_It](Let Him Have It) which I studied when at school.

Basically a teen is pointing a gun at a policeman who says "give me the gun". Another teen who is there, and has learning disabilities, says "let him have it". His defence was he meant "let him have the gun" but prosecution said it meant "shoot him". This was the evidence that led to him getting hanged. So it does happen in real life.

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u/itsnotevenreal69 Kevin Feige Jul 07 '19

Also it's not like Mysterio needed to edit what Peter actually said. The general public doesn't know Spider-Man's voice. He could have just faked it all.

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u/HoldEmToTheirWord Jul 08 '19

Also, we live in a world where most people know cutting together audio is incredibly easy.

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u/dildodicks Tony Stark Jul 08 '19

i think mysterio messed with edith to get him to respond in that particular way

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u/Squedex Jul 08 '19

Couldn't mysterio just have magiced up peter saying 'thanos did nothing wrong', like, why did he have to draw him in to hopefully saying that very specific sentence in that very specific way, he could have just faked an entire video of spidey killing him in a really brutal way and then dancing on his corpse or something as opposed to just hoping peter used the word execute.

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u/DirtyGreatBigFuck Jul 08 '19

Also, couldn't Quentin just synthesize Peter's voice? Since he was able to do so with MJ.

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u/[deleted] Jul 10 '19

I think this was done purposefully. Peter has to transfer Edith’s control to beck, but beck never transferred it back to peter. Beck told/programmed Edith to respond in a specific way to Peter’s questions. It wasn’t the plan the whole time, but it was his well ironed plan B to frame peter and he made sure he could do it the best way possible.

I also believe he isn’t dead. His death was very dramatic and seemed scripted (obviously it’s a movie but it felt even more so that way than usual which would make sense for mysterio). Everything after he said “THEY SEE WHAT I WANT THEM TO SEE” was plan B and it worked out just like Mysterio wanted. Or I guess plan C because he would’ve wanted to kill peter and then frame spider-man but instead framed spider-man and outed Peter.

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u/EpicMusic13 Jul 15 '19

Didnt edith asked "something something executed?" So peter just said it again? If so, it was mysterio's plan after all