I walked out

Rating: 4/10 (30 April 2014)

I admit that I haven't been keeping up to date with this franchise (having not even seen the last three Spidey movies). I went to see this one because when I went to the theatre it was the next movie playing.
I didn't enjoy this movie. I fell asleep for a few minutes at the start, and I walked out after about 70 minutes, something I rarely do.
However, I did enjoy the 3D CGI scenes of Spidey travelling through NYC.
I was surprised to see that Spider-Man is more like Superman now, in terms of his strength. (But you see this creeping inflation in superhero powers in most comic-based action movies now.)
Garfield is not a young actor who interests or excites me. I don't really see him as Spider-Man. I did give it a shot, for an hour or so.
I really didn't like the wisecracking of this Spider-Man. The cheesiness of this caught me off guard.
I didn't like the dialogue, which was more like repartee actually. The movie collapsed several times into boring melodrama that reminded me of soap opera or Glee. The scene in which Peter breaks up with Gwen seemed forced and cliché. The scene between Peter and Aunt May seemed off and unrealistic.
The Jamie Foxx character was unappealing. His treatment by his coworkers was cartoonishly portrayed. (I've been wondering lately whether the Hollywood people who make movies have ever really been employed. They don't seem to know what employment is actually like.)
This movie felt too movieish, too full of itself. It didn't seem original. After a while, I became aware of the problem that the scenes were disjointed, and I wasn't interested enough to thread it together.
I didn't like the music.
After a while I put on my jacket and left. I'm surprised by the current score, but I suppose the legions out there have spoken and we must all bear the consequences.
I'm sorry to the people involved for such a negative review. I see from the demographics of the scoring that people under 18 are rating this movie the highest. This seems about right. It's absolutely absurd (and an indictment of internet rating systems) that about 20% of viewers give this movie 10/10. This is a phenomenon that I don't understand, and that I suspect has little or nothing to do with the movie itself. I want to give it 1/10 (because after all I wasted my money), but that seems irresponsible. I'll give it a 4.