{"id":552182,"date":"2026-07-31T00:38:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T00:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/552182\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T00:38:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T00:38:08","slug":"spider-man-brand-new-day-feels-overstuffed-and-underdone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/552182\/","title":{"rendered":"Spider-Man: Brand New Day feels overstuffed and underdone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"[&amp;_em]:font-serif-text-italic [&amp;_cite]:font-serif-text-italic\">More than anything else, Brand New Day feels overstuffed and underdone. Even at almost two and a half hours long, there&#8217;s still a grab-bag of characters and plot lines that go under-explored. Many elements of the film feel like they were borrowed from other comics \u2014 Peter&#8217;s struggle with his new, animalistic Spider side looks and concludes like a Venom arc, while Sink&#8217;s mind-controlling villain belongs in an X-Men film.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"More than anything else, Brand New Day feels overstuffed and underdone. Even at almost two and a half&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":552183,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[156,409,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-552182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=552182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552182\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/552183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=552182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=552182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=552182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}