Please, PLEASE see Captian America: The Winter Soldier first!

Rating: 4/10 (10 May 2014)

It's still in theaters and it's..wow, I'm not kidding that it's 1000x better. If you're like me you'll probably have to see this for yourself anyway...and I understand! But PLEASE see the amazing Captian America: The Winter Soldier first!
I like the Spider-Man character, I liked Sam Rami's Spider-Man 1, loved 2, 3, and Amazing 1. I've loved the animated Spectacular Spider-Man and the 90's animated show (at least at the time). And I've loved the graphic novels...
I certainly WANTED to like this despite the reviews, but...wow.
It's not 90's (live action) "Batman" horrific, but Electro could have stepped straight out of those. I winced every time he was on screen...he's that bad, and doesn't feel like he comes from the same universe as anything else in this film, or any other Marvel related film. INCREDIBLY poorly written and acted...I'll trust that the acting isn't Jamie Foxx's fault, that he's just doing what they told him to do, but it's truly horrific. After writing that I realized actually the other...villains are either bad, or really terrible too.
Not every moment is a disaster. I'm sure everyone will have some fun here and there, but I don't even think Emma Stone nor Andrew Garfield were that good here. They have way too little screen time together, and when they do it's mostly the same mumbled conversation over and over again. There are chunks of the film where Peter and Gwen could have been together, going through the motions of the plot TOGETHER, so at least they'd have more screen time and you'd see them having a relationship.
Going in to this film I was baffled how Sony thought they could spin off much from it. The ONLY Spider-Man spin off I'd actually like would be a May Parker (i.e. his daughter from the alternate Marvel 2 universe). Would love to see her on the big screen (if it was WELL WRITTEN), but I have no desire to see a bunch of bad guys teaming up. Now that I've seen it, I have even LESS desire. The bad guys in this ranged from bad and rushed to embarrassing...more often cringe inducing.
They want to spin this off but they haven't come remotely close to making the core Spider-Man film work...
If this is the best Sony can do with it, I wish the rights would revert to Marvel. As it is, I'm worried the VASTLY superior Marvel films actually made by Marvel are going to be damaged by having this around.