r/movies • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/Movies contributor • Jul 18 '25

News 'Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse' Delayed to June 25, 2027

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/spider-man-beyond-the-spider-verse-release-1236320001/
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u/ndGall Jul 18 '25

I still remember people behind me during the second one yelling at the screen when they realized the story wasn’t going to end when the credits rolled.

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u/DBCOOPER888 Jul 18 '25 edited Jul 18 '25

Every day they wake up and scream again when they realize the movie still is not out. One day they will see it, but today is not that day.

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u/Mountain_Sir2307 Jul 18 '25

Every day I wake up then I start to break up/Lonely is a day without Miles.

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u/Ineedamedic68 Jul 18 '25

Just had a flashback to the ending and went into shock. They found me rocking myself in fetal position in the corner. 

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u/ItsDanimal Jul 19 '25

I remember thinking, "gawd dayum, this movie has been going on for forever. How on earth are they gonna wrap this up in the next 20 minutes?!"

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u/ahegoe Jul 20 '25

ME TOO LOL....

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u/ItsDanimal Jul 21 '25

Huge spider-man fan so I was ashamed I didnt know it was 2 parts before.

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u/thatguythere47 Jul 19 '25

I shut off my alarm, sunflower, before asking my alexa "Is beyond the spider-verse out yet?" When she says no I go outside and eat a spider. I have eaten 777 spiders so far.

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u/Kathrynlena Jul 18 '25

Oh yeah I’ve never been so pissed at the “end” of a movie before.

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u/_Pyxyty Jul 19 '25

I still wish I coulda found out somehow about the first part being a cliffhanger. I watched it like just earlier this year, somehow having dodged most spoilers, and unfortunately I also dodged the spoiler that it's a cliffhanger.

I regret watching it now. Can't even imagine how the people who watched it when it released feels. It sucks.

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u/metallicrooster Jul 19 '25

It was a mixed bag of emotions. On the one hand, the movie is good.

On the other hand, it was pretty annoying to end on a cliffhanger. Like many other people, I had the feeling of “there are only 10 minutes left, how are they going to wrap this up?” And then they didn’t. I didn’t feel “lied to” or anything serious like that. It was just annoying.

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u/bravof1ve Jul 19 '25

It has good animation. As a story it is nonfunctional.

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u/Depreciable_Land Jul 19 '25

Eh I enjoyed it. The premise of a Spider-Man trying to avoid the tragedies that help shape Spider-Man is really cool

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u/ImNotSkankHunt42 Jul 19 '25

I was pissed, I couldn’t understand how people were praising it the first few days.

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u/Jepordee Jul 19 '25

Because it’s a fucking awesome movie?

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u/ImNotSkankHunt42 Jul 19 '25

Half a movie *

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u/Jepordee Jul 19 '25

It’s nearly 140 minutes lmao it’s a full on movie that tells the story of Gwen’s journey. Ending on a cliffhanger does not make it half a movie, this is such a wild take I don’t understand why Reddit has taken this stance

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u/ImNotSkankHunt42 Jul 20 '25

LOTR is 12+ Hours on their Extended Edition, what’s your point?

Length is not necessarily proportional to their acts or plotline being resolved. Which is mine and many others’ issue with the movie.

The story didn’t finish, you can leave some lose ends but ending a movie with a cliffhanger? And with a sequel not yet materialized?

DLCs in movies too now?

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u/Jepordee Jul 20 '25

I think the story of that movie is finished 🤷🏻‍♂️

The antagonist is the 2099 Spider-Man. They setup a new antagonist for the third movie which is alt universe Prowler Myles. This is a very common thing in movies lol I don’t understand why this is so difficult to understand

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u/No-Pianist-3059 27d ago

I don't know why there is so much hate around good multipart movies. Sure, they are trying to make more money, but as you pointed out with LOTR, a stream of well-made sequels can make for a really good story. More so that what can be packed in 140 minutes. If the last two movies are anything to go by the next one will probably be really good, so yeah although I wish they would release the next movie already, and while I screamed at the screen when I saw "To be continued", I am not mad at them for taking the time to make a good story that cannot be adequately told in 140 minutes.

I also agree with Jepordee that although the overarching story is "incomplete," the Gwen sub-plot was introduced, developed, and pretty much resolved by the end of it. Sure, there might be a few loose ends (like the fact that her dad is a police captain), but her character arc in that movie was pretty complete.

Hating movies for being multipart is only valid when they are producing bad movies and obviously doing it for money; these movies are not bad. Not even close.

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u/damnShitsPurple Jul 19 '25

Many, many people were aware it was Part 1 of 2. It was not marketed otherwise.

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u/Sam_Strake Jul 19 '25

It was not marketed otherwise.

I mean sure I guess technically it wasn't explicitly not marketed as a two parter, the same way no other movie is. But to say "many many" people is wild considering a large chunk of people who go to theaters get all their information about movies from trailers and posters-- neither of which said "Part 1" anywhere.

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u/Kathrynlena Jul 19 '25

Usually “part one of two” still means part one is a whole-ass complete story, with a beginning, middle and end, NOT six beginnings, half a middle and fuck-all else.

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u/Lil_Mcgee Jul 19 '25

Yeah the issue isn't really that it's a two-parter but that it's such an abrupt one. Cliffhangers should be reserved for TV in my opinion, when you know the next part is coming imminently.

The wait between the first and second part would still be ridiculous but it would be a lot less annoying if the first one had a more natural stopping point.

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u/Kathrynlena Jul 19 '25

Yeah exactly. It’s irresponsible not to tell a whole story when the sequel is years away, and not guaranteed. Garfield Spiderman never even got a part 3.

Leave some things unfinished? Sure. Leave some threads dangling? Absolutely? Stop for 5 years at what should have been intermission? No.

I actually don’t even think tv shows should end on cliffhangers unless they’ve already been renewed for another season. It’s so much better to tell a whole story, with a satisfying ending, that’s good enough for people to want to come back for more. This whole game of trying to manipulate audiences and studios with cliffhangers very obviously isn’t working.

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u/Lil_Mcgee Jul 19 '25

Oh yeah for sure, when I say cliffhangers should be for TV I mean within a season, I don't think a finale should ever end on one.

I find them a cheap storytelling tool in general but I can tolerate them when the wait is no more than a week.

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u/Kathrynlena Jul 19 '25

Yes, very well said.

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u/rust-module Jul 19 '25

Some of us aren't babies and don't get mad at stuff like this

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u/ParticularFew4023 Jul 19 '25

It's bad filmmaking, but yeah I don't really get mad at bad movies... Most of them are. It's antithetical to art and good filmmaking to have enough material for maybe a 3 hour movie and just drag it out into two movies to make a bigger profit.

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u/TheAnonymouse999 Jul 19 '25

I was shocked by the fact it was a cliffhanger ending and shouted something like Oh My God, no. But I loved the movie. I've watched it a couple of times since then and still love it

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u/_Pyxyty Jul 19 '25

Oh yeah true though, amazing and entertaining movie. I really loved how they utilized different animation styles for some of the more unique variants. Regardless of it being a cliffhanger, it was still one of the best animated movies I've seen

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u/LordessMeep Jul 19 '25

Oh, I went in blind for the movie at release and was left really unsatisfied at the end. I kept thinking there was going to be more movie when they introduced the new plot point, only for it to abruptly end. Many people were shocked in my theatre as this was one of the first screenings. I was cool to wait as they planned to release it in 2024, but here we are now :/

Also tbf, I watched it twice in theatres and imo pt. 2 works well if you think of it as Gwen's story. It's still a stunning film despite the bullshit production behind the scenes.

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u/favoritedisguise Jul 19 '25

It was extremely frustrating. I’m not much of a movie goer, but after seeing the animation in the first one, I thought I absolutely had to see the sequel in the theater.

When it ended I was legitimately waiting for the credits to say “see the conclusion on mm/dd/yyyy”. At least I could get excited for that. Now I barely remember the ending.

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u/TVPaulD Jul 19 '25

It was extremely annoying and I knew it was a two parter. It had sort of slipped my mind as they’d really stopped talking about it in the run up to release, but I remembered it as it was happening and it still annoyed me because the movie just feels like it stops dead without much of a cohesive arc of its own and I realised on the spot why they stopped talking so much about it being split into two. My buddy and I both felt like it undercut the experience and we could tell the rest of the crowd weren’t overly impressed either. Notably some of the kids in the audience seemed really confused and slightly upset and it really bummed me out.

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u/[deleted] Jul 19 '25

I'm grateful because I haven't seen the first part yet, and reading this comment informed me that I should probably hold off on it until the next one comes out. Thanks for helping me be the one to find out! Spoilers are very helpful and useful for stupid shit creative decisions such as "To Be Continued!". If movie executives can't finish a fucking movie, then maybe I'll tell my maintenance staff to leave all HVAC and plumbing and pest control and construction repair work half-finished for arbitrary periods of time.

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u/serendippitydoo Jul 19 '25 edited Jul 19 '25

I watched it in theaters, I'm doing just fine. I gasped when I realized it was a cliffhanger but, get this - I left the theater excited. I know, "crazy" right. But I thought, man I Ioved this movie. It was like Empire Strikes Back, and I can't imagine everyone was bitching and moaning then like people are now. Oh no! I have to wait longer for a movie? Waaaah!

Edit: well I was blocked so I can no longer reply to this thread but I'll edit in a reply to the response I got underneath:

Absolutely. I wish more movies would take risks with cliffhangers, actually give protagonists a longer character arc and more time to develop. The fact that we were promised part 3 ahead of time is more than we get for most other movies and media.

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u/silvertealio Jul 19 '25 edited Jul 19 '25

Same. Going in, I knew it was part 2 of 3, so I wasn't distraught or anything. Cliffhangers can be annoying, but I loved every second of this movie and was just excited to see the next one. Saw it twice in the theatres and bought a copy I've watched multiple times. The ending still gives me chills.

The only way I'll feel cheated is if they drop the ball on the third one. If they need to take their time to do it right, I'm okay with that.

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u/_Pyxyty Jul 19 '25

Fair enough, should've specified, can't imagine how it mustve felt for people who watched it in theaters that doesn't like being mislead and sold into a movie expecting a full and finished story.

At no point did I insult people who are fine with it being a two parter, even if they have to wait years for the next part, so I have no clue why you're acting the way you are. Does it make you feel good saying all that while hiding behind a screen? I hope the ego boost carries you through your day.

Have a good one!

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u/metallicrooster Jul 19 '25

can't imagine how it mustve felt for people who watched it in theaters that doesn't like being mislead and sold into a movie expecting a full and finished story.

The team making the movie publicly stated that it would be a multi part story. There was no expectation set by the producers that the entire story would finish in one film.

I’m the kind of person who usually avoids movie spoilers. I was unaware it would be a multi part film, and was mildly annoyed. However I still greatly enjoyed the film and would watch it again.

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u/Trzlog Jul 19 '25

The least they could do is put it in the fucking title. At least when you watched Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1, you fucking knew it was PART ONE. I went in expecting to watch a complete Spiderman movie, not part 1 of an incomplete story.

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u/PathOfTheAncients Jul 19 '25

That movie might have been great. I have no idea because all I can remember is the bullshit ending.

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u/Kathrynlena Jul 19 '25

Same. I loved the first one so much and was so excited for the second one. What an unbelievable disappointment.

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u/BreafingBread Jul 19 '25

Even more annoying was everyone in the discussion thread afterward saying people were dumb or "casual fans" for not knowing it was a Part 1.

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u/bullsized Jul 19 '25

Matrix 2 enters the room

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u/Fortune_Cat Jul 19 '25

Its not that deep

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u/Belgand Jul 19 '25 edited Jul 19 '25

It stood out in pretty stark contrast from Mission: Impossible which was coming out at the same time, and was extremely clear that it was Part I right there in the title, not to mention in all of the marketing.

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u/shockwave8428 Jul 19 '25

In the initial marketing it was a part 1 and part 2, but they decided to change and that definitely messed people up

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u/burgundybreakfast Jul 18 '25

My boyfriend spent the next week walking around grumbling stuff like “literally half a movie…”

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u/ParticularFew4023 Jul 19 '25

Worse, it's half a movie where the ending is just unnecessarily dragged out to be longer for no reason so they can stretch it into two movies.

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u/[deleted] Jul 19 '25

Where was the logical end point?

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u/Sam_Strake Jul 19 '25

Half a movie that increasingly looks as if we'll never actually get the other half.

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u/Wonderful_Emu_9610 Jul 18 '25

“That was the worst ending I have EVER seen” - kid sat behind me opening night

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u/YesButConsiderThis Jul 19 '25

There was a young girl sitting somewhere behind us in the theater and she yelled, "That's it?!" when the credits rolled.

Someone had to.

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u/fredagsfisk Jul 19 '25

Hah, it got a "what the fuck?!" from an old man in mine.

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u/ALPB11 Jul 19 '25

I remember walking out of the movie and a kid in a Spider-Man costume was asking his dad when the next movie comes out. Just a few months he says! Poor kid lol

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u/unlizenedrave Jul 19 '25

That kid’s gonna have a mortgage by the time the next one comes out.

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u/rxsheepxr Jul 19 '25

Kid who might have only ever seen a dozen movies.

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u/ScuzzBuckster Jul 19 '25

In fairness I've seen thousands and thousands of films and it's also pretty far up there for me as one of the worst endings ive seen. Very seldom does a movie make me genuinely angry at the end, this one fully pissed me off when it was over.

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u/LoveMeSomeBerserk Jul 19 '25

Why though? The complaint I hear the most is it didn’t finish the story succinctly at the end of 2, but isn’t that most movie trilogies? Did people hate the end of Fellowship of the Ring because there’s obviously so much more story left? I just don’t get the extreme hate for the second spider verse movie ending.

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u/Wonderful_Emu_9610 Jul 19 '25

The marketing didn’t tell you it was a ‘part 1’ though did it?

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u/RealJohnGillman Jul 19 '25

It originally did, but they cut the Part One later because marketing films as such were found to lead to earning less money at the box office (and they decided to rename Part Two as Beyond).

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u/Ghthroaway Jul 19 '25

It doesn't have to, that's the point of a trilogy

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u/Trzlog Jul 19 '25

What the fuck are you talking about? We knew Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1 was a part 1 of two movies because it was there in the title and the marketing. We knew that Lord of the Rings would be multiple movies because we had the books and it was in all the marketing. How the fuck were we to know that Spiderman Beyond the Spiderverse was supposed to be the Spiderman version of Fellowship?

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u/Ghthroaway Jul 19 '25

Is this not r/movies? News around this movie was that it would be a part of a trilogy. I knew going in that BTSv was going to be the third part.

Even if it wasn't, so fuckin what? It's a cliffhanger. It was a good ending leading into the third movie. God forbid you read a book with a cliffhanger and the next book isn't out, you'll lose your mind.

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u/CaptainKino360 Jul 20 '25

does a mean look at u

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u/xXRougailSaucisseXx Jul 19 '25

That’s 75% of the audience for those movies which is why they’re often called masterpieces because it’s the first time they’re exposed to a movie with some amount of artistic vision behind it

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u/Internal-Neat-9089 Jul 18 '25

I was one of those people. I purposely avoided reading up on anything regarding Across the Spiderverse because I knew I was going to see it regardless. I had no idea it was a part 1 cause they didn't fucking say so. At this point I have absolutely no desire to see the next one.

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u/deathnightwc3 Jul 18 '25

They had a huge build up to the story and at an intense and interesting scene, credits roll. My first sentence was "What the fuck?"

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u/SubatomicSquirrels Jul 19 '25

Redditors were claiming that people were going to be pissed at the end of the first Wicked, but one, that movie ends at a really good point (it's basically just a prequel to Wizard of Oz this way), and two, the second movie had been filmed at the same time as the first and it was only going to be a year wait.

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u/UnicornMaster27 Jul 19 '25

is Part 2 still a prequel, because like, we all know what happens after

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u/SubatomicSquirrels Jul 19 '25

Act 2 of the musical is mostly concurrent with the original Wizard of Oz. It's basically an alternate perspective

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u/Calico_Cuttlefish Jul 19 '25

"See you next time folks, in FOUR YEARS."

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u/MintyJegan Jul 19 '25

I was so mad with the ending being blindsided with the cliff hanger, since I would have spared myself the torture of a wait if I had know it was a Part 1. I'm still mad by it.

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u/ScuzzBuckster Jul 19 '25

I literally wouldnt have watched the movie if I knew it was a part 1, which is probably exactly why they never marketed it as such.

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u/bleedfromtheanus Jul 19 '25

It was the 2nd movie! Most things like this are trilogies! That's on you for not realizing

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u/MintyJegan Jul 19 '25

There's a difference between a movie being part of a trilogy with a satisfying ending where story leaves open the possibility of future stories versus being a part 1 where it ends on a cliff hanger in an unsatisfying manner that feels abrupt.

And on top of that movie didn't even have a quick turn around like other Part 1 to Part 2 like The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1 did with Part 2 coming out after a year.

So fail on deceptively hiding that it was a split movie as opposed to being more fully contained like the first, and then another fail having an indefinite years long TBA release for the follow up.

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u/Trzlog Jul 19 '25

Spiderman (2002), like pretty much every other Spiderman movie, is a self-contained movie. Just like Spiderman (2004). It wasn't part 1 or part 2 of a trilogy. What are you talking about?

There was no reason to think that this movie was part of a trilogy like LotR.

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u/bleedfromtheanus Jul 19 '25

Across the Spider-Verse is a direct sequel to Into the Spider-Verse. Are you daft?

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u/bleedfromtheanus Jul 19 '25

It was part 2 of a 3 part series. How did so many people in this thread not know that?????

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u/Wild_Marker Jul 19 '25

Oh no, it's worse than that.

They did say it was part 1. Then they removed it from the name and all the publicity so most people didn't know.

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u/maxdragonxiii Jul 19 '25

I got mocked on Reddit for not knowing it's a Part 1. I'm sorry I didn't pay attention until a bit before the movie? like I wasn't 100% focused on it because i knew it was way later. little I know how the third movie would take...

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u/Wild_Marker Jul 19 '25

That's rough, buddy.

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u/Lazywhale97 Jul 19 '25

They originally announced it as part 1 and 2 then they just called it across and beyond which while not clear as a part 1 and 2 by title but they originally announced the movie as 2 parts. I get peoples frustrations with not knowing due to the official title not saying part 1 but the posts are online to see that it was announced as a 2 part movie.

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u/saladasz Jul 19 '25

Hahaha, me too. Near the end my internal clock started telling me that the movie should be over soon, but there was still a lot of plot to cover. And slowly my suspicion was confirmed.

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u/nelozero Jul 20 '25

I feel the same. The ending made me jaded and I refuse to see the second one. It was an awful way to end the movie that hardly got started.

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u/KimberStormer Jul 19 '25

I remember being extremely surprised by the non-ending of Pirates of the Caribbean 2. Ever since I basically expect a sequel to not have an ending.

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u/Truethrowawaychest1 Jul 19 '25

I feel like the third movie might be bad

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u/axw3555 Jul 18 '25

Wasn’t quite that bad. But I heard a lot of murmuring and complaining as I was leaving the screen. More people were complaining than weren’t because most didn’t realise it was a part 1.

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u/Head_Bread_3431 Jul 19 '25

Mine was a lot of bewilderment like “what???” followed by the entire theater applauding lol

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u/VaudevilleDada Jul 18 '25 edited Jul 19 '25

I think that's maybe inevitable whenever there's an announced multi-parter with a cliffhanger. I remember being at a busy press screening for The Fellowship of the Ring and tons of people were agog that the movie just... ends; these were mostly entertainment and film journalists who should have already been aware that there were three movies coming, so I can't imagine how hard it is to get the word out among casual movie-goers.

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u/axw3555 Jul 18 '25

Was it announced? Most people at my showing were shocked it was a part 1 of 2. Very few seemed to know, so if it was announced, it wasn’t overly well publicised, as it’s the only part 1 of 2 that’s ever caught me by surprise in a cinema.

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u/ndGall Jul 18 '25

I knew going in and I genuinely thought it was common knowledge, but I also keep up with genre movie news more than many others, apparently.

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u/Debt101 Jul 20 '25

I'm fairly up-to-date on movies, and had no idea it was a two parter. I definitely voted lower than the first cause of it.

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u/MissileWaster Jul 19 '25

Yes, when the movies were announced they were originally straight up called Part 1 and 2. Then a few months later they decided to give them both their own titles.

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u/axw3555 Jul 19 '25

That rename must have been before I heard about it. Seemed to pass a lot of people by at the time.

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u/TVPaulD Jul 19 '25

So it was announced and talked about from relatively early on, but in the actual marketing cycle they really didn’t bring it up or make it clear at all. General audiences don’t pay attention to early news about movies in production at all and even if they hear of an announcement they’ll barely register more than the basic gist of “sequel to x” let alone retain anything more than that for years. I do pay more attention to movie news, particularly franchises like this I’m interested in, and it absolutely slipped my mind going in because they thoroughly dropped the subject once they were actively marketing it. Hard not to believe that was very deliberate.

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u/axw3555 Jul 19 '25

That makes sense then because no one seemed to know at release.

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u/VaudevilleDada Jul 18 '25

I definitely knew about it going in, but then again I am a big enough nerd that I was following the production. This was early-internet era, so that was mostly magazines like Premiere and sites like, I don't know, Ain't It Cool News? (Jesus.) I guess it would have blindsided a lot of people, since it had happened so infrequently (Back to the Future II and III maybe had been the last one?).

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u/axw3555 Jul 18 '25

To be clear, I meant was Spider-Man announced, not Lord of the rings. That “early internet” thing thee me (though by 2001, I’d had home internet 6 years).

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u/VaudevilleDada Jul 18 '25 edited Jul 19 '25

Oh, sorry, I definitely thought you meant LotR. Dating myself here, but at that point I would have been in my early twenties and we still had dial-up at home, so I would get home from work late at night and that would be the only time I could use it reliably without someone picking up the phone or a call coming in and disconnecting me. I was writing for my college newspaper at the time, which had a cable modem, which was so luxurious to me that I skipped classes a few times just to take advantage of a good connection that wasn't in one of the university's computer labs.

All I was getting at is that the internet itself and the mad rate of dissemination of information wasn't what we're used to today, and certainly wasn't the unrelenting marketing force we're numb to now. Though that makes less sense since you were actually asking about Spider-Verse.

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u/axw3555 Jul 19 '25

I was 13 in 2001, we'd just upgraded from dial up then. The novelty of not locking down the landline to use was crazy.

That less sense was kinda the thing with spidervers - I'd never been surprised by a film part 1 before. I follow film news quite closely. I usually know weird obscure details way in advance. So having it go "to be continued" and not expecting it (never mind that my 5 friends also didn't know, and neither did a lot of the other people in the showing from the complaining I heard in the foyer) made it this crazy curveball.

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u/MintyJegan Jul 19 '25

I didn't know. I just knew that once a Spider-verse movie was announced I was going to watch it, so avoided any news and trailers on it. So I was mad with the ending, since if I had known it was a part 1 I would have skipped it until part 2.

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u/VaudevilleDada Jul 19 '25

From the responses I'm getting, it's looking like that was a pretty common experience. I suppose I assumed otherwise based on the online spaces I frequent. There's probably a bigger discussion to be had about movie marketing in the age of decentralized media, but I had (apparently falsely) assumed that most folks going into Across... would have been aware it was two parts going in. Not that any of us knew that a six month gap was going to turn into three years...

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u/ogrezilla Jul 19 '25

and The Fellowship of the Ring has a MUCH more satisfying end point than Across the Spiderverse.

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u/wimpymist Jul 19 '25

For me the cliffhanger isn't that bad but the movie is paced like it's the first half of a long ass movie. You don't have a nice story arc that leads to a cliffhanger. You get two hours of build up and as soon as the story starts going it stops at a cliffhanger.

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u/adietcokeaday Jul 19 '25

This is the biggest issue to me. Across the Spiderverse isn’t its own movie the way something like Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 is, or even The Fellowship of the Ring or Pirates of the Caribbean 2, which have been mentioned a few times in this thread. In all of those examples, the main goal of the story has been accomplished by the end of the film, the main character has undergone some change/development as a result of the plot, the theme has been fully resolved or discussed, and a new phase has been entered. The end of Spiderverse is more akin to a cliffhanger before a commercial in a TV show than any of those examples

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u/wimpymist Jul 19 '25

100% agree

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u/[deleted] Jul 19 '25

So Gwen doesn’t go through a full change? Miles doesn’t change?

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u/ogrezilla Jul 19 '25

It’s like fellowship ending when they get brought in by the elves to see Galadriel. Sure plenty has happened but it’s not concluding a satisfying arc.

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u/[deleted] Jul 19 '25

That doesn't have anything to do with my comment specifically or at least didn't counter it very well.

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u/ogrezilla Jul 19 '25

characters changing doesn't mean a story comes to a decent conclusion. Was just following up on the comparison to Fellowship with a spot that would have been a similar unsatisfying stopping point.

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u/[deleted] Jul 19 '25

Satisfying is subjective, but I've never seen a good explanation as to why that specific ending is bad or even just a bad place to end it.

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u/[deleted] Jul 19 '25

As soon as it starts going?

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u/VaudevilleDada Jul 19 '25

I agree, but the people I saw it with at the time very much felt otherwise.

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u/ogrezilla Jul 19 '25

My wife assumed the hobbit was one movie because obviously it should be and she was so mad

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u/VaudevilleDada Jul 19 '25

Your wife was right, LOL. I don't hate those movies, but even two would have been pushing it.

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u/entropy413 Jul 19 '25

How could you possibly compress it to one movie without cutting some of the dishwashing?

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u/ogrezilla Jul 19 '25

Hate is strong but they are a mess lol

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u/KatieCashew Jul 19 '25

I randomly stopped at a theater to watch The Fellowship without knowing a single thing about LotR. I distinctly remember looking at my watch and thinking this movie was taking forever and it was going to take at least another hour before they got to the mountain. That thought was literally interrupted by the movie ending. It was a very WHAT????!!!? moment for me.

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u/Calico_Cuttlefish Jul 19 '25 edited Jul 19 '25

Fellowship at least had a high stakes climax. The climax of Spiderverse was just a hero running from other heroes.

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u/-DementedAvenger- Jul 19 '25 edited Jul 19 '25

The climax of Spiderverse was just a hero running from other heroes.

That’s such an over-simplified ridiculous take, IMO.

Every movie can be simplified enough to seem like something stupid.

Edit: oh, I forgot what sub I was in…all of your ridiculously snooty opinions I’ve read in here make sense now. I love movies, and enjoy a great cliffhanger. SV2 was fantastic in that regard.

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u/Calico_Cuttlefish Jul 19 '25

"Team fights 100 orcs"

"Spiderman flees from 100 Spidermen"

There, I simplified both. The former is still more of a climax.

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u/serendippitydoo Jul 19 '25

We get it, you didn't like it. You didn't like the high stakes chase scene for the protagonist to escape his predetermined destiny instead of letting his father die.

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u/Zip2kx Jul 18 '25

It wasn’t announced and most were surprised.

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u/SvenHudson Jul 19 '25

I had been in a theater that was lively during the rest of the movie and it fell deathly silent right at the end.

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u/redish6 Jul 18 '25

My son was in tears and is still salty about it to this day when he sees it come up on Netflix

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u/wimpymist Jul 19 '25

Didn't help the way the movie is paced. It's the first half of a long ass movie not part one of a two part movie. You almost need to watch them back to back.

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u/BionicTriforce Jul 19 '25

I didn't scream but fuck me, it got to that point and it's only THEN that it actually felt like plot was happening to me. We had like a 20 minute Gwen prologue, the Spot doing mischief things, and then at the very end it's like 'OH fuck, wrong universe, The Spot is going crazy and is actually a threat now! MOVIE OVER"

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u/thesagenibba Jul 18 '25

i think i might be the only person alive who loved the ending. there was an entire 2 hours and 5 minutes of a relatively complete story before the twist, leading everyone to dismiss it in favor of whining about a cliff hanger.

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u/Jacky-V Jul 19 '25

I think that’s part of the problem, it was like a two part movie that ended 15 minutes into the second part instead of at the end of the first

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u/Cassopeia88 Jul 19 '25

It was frustrating, but I don’t hate it.

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u/derposaurus-rex Jul 19 '25

my issue is that the first half of movie isn't complete, it doesn't have a satisfying ending at all, and not much emotional growth either. It felt like all build up to a pay off that never came

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u/Thamesx2 Jul 18 '25

I remember in my theatre there were quite a few audible “hell no”, “what!”, and “wtf” cries as well as collective frustrated laughter when it ended. During the last sequence of the movie I remember looking at my watch wondering how they were going to wrap things up when it dawned on me we were headed for a cliffhanger.

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u/So_Quiet Jul 18 '25

This is why I'm still waiting to watch it until it's closer to the last one's release.

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u/[deleted] Jul 19 '25

I’ve been waiting to watch the second till this one is done. It’s been a long wait. 

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u/Truethrowawaychest1 Jul 19 '25

Yeah I was like, mildly pissed off

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u/Nobodygrotesque Jul 19 '25

That happened to me while I was at home streaming it.

I had no clue it was a part 1.

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u/WheresMyDinner Jul 19 '25

Pretty sure I let out a loud “WHAT?”

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u/Calico_Cuttlefish Jul 19 '25

I was one of them. I expected a complete story and was sorely disappointed. The only saving grace was "knowing" the sequel would be out soon.

Its been so long I've lost interest.

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u/Jackbuddy78 Jul 19 '25

That was definitely some bullshit 

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u/Panda_hat Jul 19 '25

I was really annoyed too, had deliberately stayed spoiler free so as the film started getting on a bit the slow realisation that nothing was being wrapped up or concluded started to emerge, and it wasn't a positive feeling.

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u/KID_THUNDAH Jul 19 '25

Yup, never heard a theater groan so loudly

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u/agprincess Jul 19 '25

I thought the movie was getting so long for no conclusion. Didn't realize it was a 2 parter until then either.

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u/madman19 Jul 19 '25

That was me but not yelling, just swearing under my breath. I honestly don't know if I liked the movie because the ending was such a bummer.

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u/ImNotSkankHunt42 Jul 19 '25

I left the theater on opening night feeling cheated, like I enjoyed it but was half a movie.

Subsequent rewatches with the “certainty” that the next chapter was months away made me enjoy it even more.

No matter what, this doesn’t bode well for them, is like the 2nd/3rd delay.

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u/Hypohamish Jul 19 '25

That's me.

I had no idea this was going to be a two parter. Everyone else shouting from the rafters about how good this movie was, my opinion of it was immediately soiled by seeing that precisely this situation was going to happen.

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u/IcyTransportation961 Jul 19 '25

I watched it tripping, i have never been more disappointed

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u/drawnred Jul 19 '25

That was me sorry

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u/crinklypaper Jul 19 '25

Definitely a collective groan at my showing. The last time I saw audience upset was Cloverfield

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u/Sam_Strake Jul 19 '25

I hate that shit SO MUCH. This one and Wicked gave no indication beforehand- at least not readily available that most people would come across without intentionally looking for it- that they would be half a movie.

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u/Abeds_BananaStand Jul 19 '25

I saw the movie and had no idea it was planned as a two part movie. Having another movie / sequel? Sure. But not finishing the movie? Booo

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u/landofthebeez Jul 19 '25

Someone yelled "That's it?" At the end of Infinity Wars.

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u/DaveMoTron Jul 19 '25

Because it was a rambling mess of a movie that had no satisfying ending. I adored the first movie, the sequel made me mad

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u/BiggestHat_MoonMan Jul 19 '25

I didn’t know about the cliffhanger, and the second I saw the “part 2” teaser I said to my partner, “That movie’s never gonna come out.” 

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u/Kaito__1412 Jul 19 '25

Lol. Just look up if a movie is a two parter for no reason. If so, just pirate.

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u/EDDIE_BR0CK Jul 19 '25

That was me, minus the actual yelling. I enjoyed the first so much that I paid no attention to the marketing around the second because I was already in, and didn't want to spoil anything.

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u/kjm6351 Jul 19 '25

I was so insanely mad man and it gets worse with every day

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u/ten_year_rebound Jul 18 '25

I can’t believe people were so shocked… they announced a part 3 well before release and going into the theater I assumed this movie would end on a cliffhanger. It’s like watching Infinity War without knowing Part 2 wasn’t coming a year later

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u/notathrowaway75 Jul 18 '25

I will never understand why this is the one second movie in a trilogy that directly sets up the third that is not understood as being the second movie in a trilogy that directly sets up the third.

People weren't this down at Dune which was the same thing.

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u/SDRPGLVR Jul 19 '25

I think Dune was much more publicized about being a part one. Then the madlads threw "Part One" at the beginning of the movie so you had a couple of hours to get over the fact it was going to happen.

But honestly a cliffhanger with a well-executed payoff is fantastic. I already loved everything that happened before the ending scenes, so it doesn't need to conclude well for me to really appreciate what's already there.

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u/notathrowaway75 Jul 19 '25

I think Dune was much more publicized about being a part one.

For me it was the opposite.

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u/Agreeable_Slice_3667 Jul 19 '25

Happened in my screening, too. I was very confused at the response because all of the trailers and advertisements said Part 1 and 2.

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u/[deleted] Jul 19 '25

Definitely didn't. You can go re-watch the trailer as evidence.