Favourite Movies Recommended by Peter Parker // Full List

Back to the Future Part II

Marty and Doc are at it again in this wacky sequel to the 1985 blockbuster as the time-traveling duo head to 2015 to nip some McFly family woes in the bud. But things go awry thanks to bully Biff Tannen and a pesky sports almanac. In a last-ditch attempt to set things straight, Marty finds himself bound for 1955 and face to face with his teenage parents -- again.

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Peter's Stark-enhanced suit can shrink to fit his body, and it can also warm him up and dry him off when the occasion calls for it. It instantly makes us think of the futuristic jacket worn by Marty McFly in Back to the Future Part II...

High Anxiety

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This is a cute little nod to Mel Brooks’ High Anxiety. Spider-Man, trying to hold onto the Infinity Gauntlet, mimics the line delivered by Brophy in the 1977 comedy, where he tries to lift Thorndyke’s trunk and says “I got it, I got it, I got it, I ain’t got it!” before dropping it on the floor. He didn’t have any heroes to help him out.

Footloose

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Quill mentions his "dance battle saving the galaxy" bit from Guardians of the Galaxy, and Parker immediately riffs on this, saying that it was just like the movie Footloose.

Alien

During its return to the earth, commercial spaceship Nostromo intercepts a distress signal from a distant planet. When a three-member team of the crew discovers a chamber containing thousands of eggs on the planet, a creature inside one of the eggs attacks an explorer. The entire crew is unaware of the impending nightmare set to descend upon them when the alien parasite planted inside its unfortunate host is birthed.

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He's referencing Aliens. This is a reference he gets wrong; in the film, his plan involves kicking the Thanos crony Ebony Maw out of an airlock. That particular move happens in the first Alien.

Risky Business

Meet Joel Goodson, an industrious, college-bound 17-year-old and a responsible, trustworthy son. However, when his parents go away and leave him home alone in the wealthy Chicago suburbs with the Porsche at his disposal he quickly decides he has been good for too long and it is time to enjoy himself. After an unfortunate incident with the Porsche Joel must raise some cash, in a risky way.

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Another presumably "really old" movie that Peter has likely seen is Risky Business. During the montage of him getting ready for the Homecoming dance, Peter pulls the classic Tom Cruise move of sliding across the floor in his socks and ending up perfectly framed by a doorway. This puts it over the top— this kid's life seems to be way more informed by older things than by the modern. It's part of what makes Peter Parker a dork, which is a big part of why we love him.

Return of the Jedi

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It seems that Peter's love for the original Star Wars films is shared by his best friend Ned, who enthusiastically asks him to help build his enormous Death Star LEGO set early in the film. Ned even does an impression of Emperor Palpatine using the character's LEGO minifig. Since the Emperor comes with the set they are building (and becomes the final piece on the top later in the film), we can assume that this is the Death Star II, and therefore it is from Star Wars: Return of the Jedi. Who saw these "really old" movies first? Did Peter discover them, and then show them to Ned, or was it the other way around? The next entry may provide a clue.

The Empire Strikes Back

The epic saga continues as Luke Skywalker, in hopes of defeating the evil Galactic Empire, learns the ways of the Jedi from aging master Yoda. But Darth Vader is more determined than ever to capture Luke. Meanwhile, rebel leader Princess Leia, cocky Han Solo, Chewbacca, and droids C-3PO and R2-D2 are thrown into various stages of capture, betrayal and despair.

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Spidey's first appearance in the MCU came with a lot of excitement and one huge pop culture reference. In the middle of stealing the show during the airport battle (no easy feat), he proposes an idea about how to take down the suddenly gigantic Ant-Man. His plan is the same as Luke Skywalker's plan to take out the AT-AT walkers in The Empire Strikes Back: go for the legs. It isn't so much the plan itself that's interesting, as much as how he brings it up. He calls Empire a "really old movie," and honestly wonders if any of the others have seen it.