28 thoughts on “Tom Holland Movies”

1. Marvel has another winner. Just saw Far From Home. Fun thrilling movie. Highly recommend it.

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   1. I have actually seen all of these Tom Holland movies including the ones at the bottom.

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      1. Hey Helakoski….well…a tally count of 13 can only be tied…I have seen 11 myself….only missing Pilgrimage and the latest Spidey movie….I will see Spidey in the near future….not sure about the other one….I had never even heard of it before doing this page. Good feedback.

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   2. I agree with Helkoski and Spider-Man 8.

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      1. Hey Taylor…it took me awhile to figure out the eight Spidey movies….but I got it…..3 Tobey ones, 2 Andy ones, 2 Tommy ones and the SpideyVerse…..for a total of 8….thanks for the mini-review….it is greatly appreciated.

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   3. Hey Helakoski….thanks for the mini-review of Spider-Man: Far From Home…..I am hoping to find time this weekend to see it myself. Happy 4th of July.

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2. HI STEVE

   Ouch – that hurt! I thought for a quick moment that The Work Horse had brought back The Master and unleashed him on me with all his ruthless savagery. By the way what have you got against gay icons? I gather Judy Garland was one as well as Joan.

   It has been recorded that Mozart wrote his first works at the age of 5 and performed them before Royalty. In the same vein I recall some time ago a Superman movie being released and critics, audiences and film magazine letter writers all adored it – except one. A “boy genius” of 10 wrote a letter in which he highlighted one of the spectacular feats that The Man of Steel executed in the film, and the boy went on to explain in great technical detail how the feat was a total scientific impossibility no matter how strong the individual would be or how great were his other “super powers”.

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3. Tom’s big-grossing movies are confined to the super-hero franchises which don’t interest me, but in fact I have seen NONE of the movies listed in the above tables. I would though maybe give Edge of Winter a shot despite The Work Horse giving it the rough Hirschhorn treatment with a poor 53% rating.

   The worldwide grosses for the superhero films show again how these movies and the action-hero[ine] ones are regularly attracting abroad massive audiences largely unheard of in the classic era and a few decades beyond. Bruce’s worldwide figures for classic era movies illustrate a general ratio of foreign grosses being just 50 % of domestic ones – ie overseas grosses are just one third of global grosses. Contrast that with the following examples-

   The Top 5 superhero movies in the stats chart above:
   Overall Domestic gross $2.425 billion
   Overall Foreign Gross $4.955 billion
   Overall Worldwide Gross $$7.38 billion
   Ratio: 33% domestic/ 67% overseas

   15 Milla Jovovich for which we have worldwide grosses
   Overall Domestic Gross $0.696 billion
   Overall Foreign Gross $$1.844 billion
   Overall Worldwide Gross $2.54 billion
   Ratio: 27.4% domestic/72.6% overseas.
   NOTE: The massive difference between domestic and overseas grosses is largely due to Milla’s action heroine movies especially Resident Evil franchise.

   IMDB credits Tom with 14 awards and 16 noms and his reported net worth is $4 million dollars. The chronological table above shows that Tom’s movie career has spanned less than a decade so it’s good to see another newcomer getting a Cogerson page and this new one is therefore “Voted Up!”

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   1. Hey Bob…..I figured with all the hype Spider-Man:Far From Home was getting….that I should get Tom Holland his own page. 13 movies is actually a pretty good total for such a young actor. Plus he has about 6 movies in pre and post production. One of those movies is called Uncharted….which is a movie based on a video game. That one has my 10 year old excited…..because she helped me play that game and often said “this would make a good movie”….and now it is a movie.

      Good breakdown and observation on how the overseas markets are exploding… as China keeps growing that trend will only grow and grow. As for Tom Holland movies to watch…..The Impossible and In The Heart Of The Sea would be the non-superhero ones to watch. Edge of Winter is average at best. Good feedback.

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4. STEVE

   I’m sure that the Work Horse can confirm this but by my reckoning Chuck’s two “monsters” beat the two Avenger films-

   Avengers Endgame $2.76 billion
   Avengers Infinity #2.05 billion
   Total $4.81 billion

   The Ten Commandments: $2.766 billion
   Ben Hur $2.337 billion
   Total $5.113 billion

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5. Bruce, Tom Holland might be your youngest UMR subject so far, born 1996!

   I’ve seen 7 of the 13 films on the chart. I’m planning to see Spider-Man Far From Home some time next week.

   Favorites are – Avengers Infinity War and Endgame, Spider-Man Homecoming, Captain America Civil War and Secret World of Arrietty.

   I’ve also seen The Impossible and In the Heart of the Sea, both good films but not really favorites of mine.

   Looking at the box office charts – scary how successful those two Avengers films were, both grossed over $2bn worldwide! Might never happen again… or until Avatar 2 comes out in a couple of years.

   Good stuff Bruce. Vote Up!

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   1. STEVE

      I’m sure that the Work Horse can confirm this but by my reckoning Chuck’s two “monsters” beat the two Avenger films-

      Avengers Endgame $2.76 billion
      Avengers Infinity #2.05 billion
      Total $4.81 billion

      The Ten Commandments: $2.766 billion
      Ben Hur $2.337 billion
      Total $5.113 billion

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      1. Hey Bob. I agree with your statistical breakdown….Chuck out performed all The Avengers.

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         1. HI BRUCE

            Thanks for the confirmation.

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            1. Hey Bob….you are welcome

   2. HI STEVE I have to say that the box office success of the superhero films always surprises me as the figures suggest that droves of adults watch them. Why? I can remember about 7 years ago when my 6 year old grandson [now a teenager of course] who had been viewing the likes of Indiana Jones and the Star Wars reruns suddenly experienced a Batman film and when I called at his home he came running up to me all excited babbling something like “Granda, Granda – I’m seeing a film where the man who beats up the bad guys is a SUPERhero!”

      Oh to have that innocence back again! However as I’ve often quoted [and I speak for only myself naturally] “When I became a man I put away childish things.” Dare I opine that the last Superhero movies that were truly challenging enough for demanding grown-ups are Superman 1978 and Superman Returns 2006?

      I personally haven’t seen him but I gather there is now one superhero who charges around cursing and swearing like a trooper. But hey! that in itself isn’t “adult” – kids swear too. Indeed I don’t think that we adults need even the Statham type of film – unless he’s teamed with the Meg of course [Jason’s own little Asta].

      MARTIN CRANE [In great excitement]: Well sons. Did you learn anything from that Van Damme film I’ve just taken you to?

      FRASIER [Scathingly]: Yes – I learned that even a hail of bullets is useless against a man who can kick 20 feet into the air!

      [Frasier TV sitcom Season 4 Episode 8.

      I am having breakfast this morning with my grandson and I must ask him if he still gets pleasure from watching the, to me, seemingly endless proliferation of ensembles of acting hams [and ham-ines nowadays] leaping about repetitively with, all around them, loud explosions and buildings collapsing while they get up to impossible feats in what looks like Halloween costumes that include things like masks and tight undies.

      “One week he’s in polka-dots, the next week he is in stripes.
      Oh yes he is (oh yes he is), oh yes he is (oh yes he is)
      He thinks he is a flower to be looked at
      And when he pulls his frilly nylon panties right up tight
      He feels a dedicated follower of fashion.” [Sung by The Kinks 1965]

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      1. Bob, I don’t know how you want me to reply to that post. I’ll try to be as nice as possible considering your advanced years. 😉

         My enjoyment of superhero movies and comic book movies probably stems from a lifelong interest in science fiction. I was an avid sci-fi reader as a young man and many of the comic book movies have popular sci-fi tropes like – alien invasion, rampaging robots, space exploration, mutants, mad scientists, gadgets, experiments etc

         Nothing wrong with adults enjoying these movies, they are essentially action movies, very expensive action movies.

         Your taste in films is the polar opposite of mine – women’s weepies, mawkish dramas, musicals starring Deanna Durbin of all people, your Joan is a gay icon. On TV you watch endless repeats of Columbo, there must be more to see on TV, surely? This is your comfort zone and you rarely venture out of it.

         I’m the lucky one I can enjoy nearly all kinds of films – Singin in the Rain, Ben-Hur, Battle of Britain, The Exorcist, Enter the Dragon, Unforgiven, Fast and the Furious and Spider-Man. And you can’t.

         🙂

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         1. Hey Steve….I generally agree with your comment. Especially how adults can enjoy superhero movies. I think the Spidey movies are a good way to look at that. Growing up Spidey was easily my favorite superhero. I loved the first Tobie Spidey Movie. Liked the second Tobie one, disliked the next 3 Spidey movies. The 5 Tom Holland movies and Spidey-Verse. The big difference was the tone of the movies. When Spidey was like the comics I read,I loved the movie…when he was gloomy and doomy I did not like it.

            As for Bob. Everybody has their preferences. There is no right and wrong answer when it comes to personal preference. We all like different genres, actors and movies….and we might disagree, but in the end we are all movie lovers. Good feedback.

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         2. When I receive severe criticism of my preferences in movies I usually take time to consider whether the criticisms are valid. Some of yours in the matters that we discussed are reasonable but the validity of a few I would wonder about.

            ONE. People are usually criticised for refusing to leave a comfort zone because they won’t take risks that might benefit them in one way or another. For example when I reached 21, I still loved living at home and as all my friends and enjoyments were in Belfast my comfort zone was there. However I decided that as an adult with limited experience I needed to see more of the world to improve myself.

            Hence I joined the British Royal Air Force and they educated me to a higher academic level that enabled me to get a good job in the Northern Ireland Civil Service when my tour of military duty came to an end – ie leaving the comfort zone paid dividends.

            There would though seem to be no advantage in leaving a comfort zone for something in which one is not interested such as in my case superhero films.

            “Travelling through all the lonely towns and cites to ply his trade and sell his wares he would stay night after night in unfamiliar friendless hotels. Nonetheless he could often find by watching the hotel television sets one of those other secondary creature comforts that we all need for a quality of life beyond the basic.”

            See also Part 2.

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            1. TWO As I understand it Joan was bisexual. I have three close acquaintances and two cousins who are of gay orientation but I have never asked them about Crawford.

               However if there are qualities in her screen persona that appeal to their own particular orientation, then it seems to me natural that they should respond to those qualities by watching her films just as I was attracted to the feminine charms of say Betty Grable or Hedy Lamarr and liked watching their movies.

               I liked looking at Joan as a woman and her films entertained me. Whether or not she was a gay icon doesn’t really enter into the equation as far as I can see so the issue can’t really reflect negatively on my selection of her as one of my favourite actresses and am puzzled that you seem to imply that it should.

               THREE I like Deanna’s movies mainly because (1) as a woman she is very easy on the eye for me (2) she had one of the most beautiful voices that I have ever heard (3) in her movies she sang operatic numbers and popular songs of the variety that I like whereas I have never been interested in for example the hills being “alive with the sound of music.” However when I consider the following extract I must confess that I find it strange defending against a patriotic Englishman my admiration for the “Little Miss Fix-it” of the movies

               “Another Durbin fan, British prime minister Winston Churchill made sure to see her films before they were released to the general public in the U.K., WHERE SHE WAS EVEN MORE BELOVED THAN SHE WAS IN THE U.S.A.” “Churchill’s special favorite film was One Hundred Men and a Girl. Churchill screened the film on celebratory wartime occasions while enjoying brandy and a cigar. Anne Frank hung a picture of Durbin on the wall of the attic in which she and her family hid from the Nazis.”

               Ahh-the company I keep!

            2. Hey Bob…..the beauty of movies is anybody can like any type of movie….and there is no “wrong” answer. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. You are a huge fan of Randolph Scott (picked up a Scott book if you are interested), Brando, Durbin, Crawford, Wayne and others. Steve likes Heston and Bruce Lee and many others. Flora is a huge fan of Gregory Peck (as are you) and Richard Widmark (as are you). I am a huge fan of Judd Nelson (I now that is not saying much because the world loves him…lol).

               So in other words……the company you keep is awesome….just like the company Steve keeps and the company Flora keeps is awesome. So just keep on keep on coming….lol.

      2. Hey Bob….I would say comic book fans are older than you are thinking. A good percentage of my friends are avid comic fans. They are part of a huge collection of people that support superhero movies. This run of superhero movies has been going on for almost 20 years. It looks like it might never stop but it will one day. In some ways it reminds me of Computer Animated Movies…for awhile every computer movie was box office gold….but once the market was flooded with these types of movies….box office disapointments started happening pretty often.

         I think superhero movies are getting there….Dark Phoenix might end up losing $100 million dollars…..DC movies are hit and miss. Even the MCU might be worried about their Phase 4….which is going to have lots of new characters and new actors. As for no decent movies for grownups….. I think you are forgetting movies like Logan, The Dark Knight, Avengers Infinity War and Avengers End Game. All have lots to say and are considered great movies by most people and not just comic book fans. Good feedback as always.

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         1. HI BRUCE

            Thank your for your interest in the exchanges between Steve and me. As always you bring to the table for our consideration excellent additional salient points.

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   3. Hey Steve….thanks for checking out our Tom Holland page. You are probably correct…he is the youngest person to get an UMR page….pretty soon….somebody in 2000 will be getting a page….lol. Tally count: Helakoski 13 (I guess she only wants to play when she is going to win…lol), me 11 and you 7. I have not Spider-Man:Far From Home yet either…but like you …I plan on seeing in theaters.

      Like all of your favorites….though I do admit when I saw The Secret World of Arrietty…I did not notice his voice role at all. Actually…it was not until putting this page together did I realize that he was the boy in The Impossible…..nice performance in that one. Spidey is kicking butt at the box office too….his five Spidey appearances have almost 7.5 billion in worldwide grosses.

      Not sure if Avatar 2 is going to break box office records…that is a lot of time from part 1 to part 2…then again…betting against James Cameron is not usually a smart bet….good feedback as always.

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