Spider-Man: Homecoming — The Ferry problem

There’s an interesting story about Spider-Man: Homecoming’s Ferry scene.

The most entertaining superhero movie of the year is no other than Spider-Man: Homecoming. Directed by Jon Watts, this a great coming-of-age story and an impressive addition to your Blu-ray collection. Although this is the first Spider-Man movie that takes the character out of the big apple, there are still many moments that showcase what makes New York City famous. One of them being a fight scene that takes place on the Staten Island Ferry.

Spider-Man learns from a small time thief that Toomes’ gang will be making a weapons trade on the Ferry with Mac Gargan (The Scorpion). Before any purchases are made, Spider-man swoops in to stop the criminals, but ends up destroying some cars and splitting the entire ferry into two places. That’s until Iron Man shows up to save everyone and yell at Peter Parker. Although it looks cool in a movie, there is a huge historical inconsistency in that scene. According to EW, The director of the movie Jon Watts had some words about filming the exciting set piece.

"“The only real flaw is that [in our movie] there are cars on the ferry, and there haven’t been cars allowed since the ’90s.”"

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Hard to believe, but he’s sort of correct. After the 9/11 attacks, the Staten Island Ferry disallowed carrying cars during trips. Watts also joked that because the movies take place in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Ferries still allowed cars. It’s an interesting idea when you think about it. The Battle of New York was a huge incident in their universe, but because the Avengers were there to save the world, the world is treated differently. Perhaps we are thinking to critical of this historical inconsistency, but it still makes for an exciting sequence none the less.