The shared backdrop is certainly a more comfortable parallel than comparing Peter to a deranged murderer who wants New York to wash away into nothingness.
Filling Spider-Man: Homecoming with Easter Eggs and classic references wasn’t enough: it’s time to pay tribute to the movies that inspired it, from Breakfast Club to Taxi Driver using the stars themselves.
The real standout, for reasons obvious to anyone who has seen both movies, is the Taxi Driver tribute.
The tale of “one man’s struggle to take it easy”, like Breakfast Club, is also one of the defining movies of director John Hughes’s film career.