'Spider-Man: Homecoming' Teaser: Time To Embrace Vertical Video, The Future Of Marvel Movies

The first trailer for Spider-Man: Homecoming is nearly here, but there’s a major downside: you’ll have to watch Jimmy Kimmel Live! to see it. Or, you could just watch the brief glimpse posted to Twitter and imagine you’re watching the full Spider-Man: Homecoming trailer. That cuts Jimmy Kimmel right out of the equation.

These first few shots from Spider-Man: Homecoming seem to validate some of our collective hopes for the movie. What Spider-Man needs most of all is a return to high school. It’s exactly the Archie Comics aspect of Spider-Man that’s always separated him from your X-Men, Avengers and Justice Leagues: Spider-Man has regular teen shit to worry about. The Spider-Man of Captain America: Civil War showed us a different direction from The Amazing Spider-Man hijinks. Here’s a nervous, nerdy kid in a Queens apartment tower, shirking on homework and sneaking out to play superhero. That’s Spider-Man.

And while these few, brief shots don’t take us into the school hallways, they do contain more of Tom Holland’s infectiously enthusiastic Spider-Man. He looks 18 (Holland is 20), instead of Andrew Garfield’s 31 or Tobey Maguire’s 25. These few brief shots, debuted on Twitter on Wednesday, also contain the entire future of the Marvel cinematic universe. It’s time for these movies to go vertical:

Yes! Time to admit it: we all love vertical video more than luscious widescreen. We watch movies to see up noses. That’s what makes a true cinephile in 2016. So keep it up, Marvel. IMAX isn’t the future of aspect ratios, iPhone is.