As I suspected when seeing the trailer:
Madame Web could easily lose eight minutes that didn’t work and a couple of costume choices and be a pretty fun movie taking an interesting idea and running with it, but I presume they were required to connect it to the titular obscure Marvel character.
Someone with Final Destination style sorta-helpful visions of the future trying to save people from a murderer, that’s cool.
Someone with one non-combat superpower having to take on a full-tilt supervillain, also cool.
Disgruntled hero having to deal with the kids she has to protect, also fun.
The stuff I’d lose which I assume they were stuck with:
The bit where she goes to Peru for a week mid crisis.
The confrontation with the villain could have been a flash-forward instead of a nightmare.
Her one-use extra power when she could have achieved the same thing with a smart flash-forward.
If you’re going to have her blinded and wheelchair-bound as a result of stopping the bad guy in the fireworks factory, have it be actually stopping him rather than not getting away right after.
The costumes. Taking the Marvel TV thing of putting the hero in costume in the last episode to its logical conclusion we see the Madame Web costume in the last flash-forward scene. And it wasn’t worth the wait.
Some of this is obviously the result of rewrites, along with the villainous motivation being (repeatedly) stated through over-the-shoulder dubbing, so, yeah, it’s a shame because there’s a largely fun movie in between the jarringly odd side business leading to most of the negative reactions.
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