A waste of an actor born to play Spidey

Rating: 5/10 (20 April 2014)

I'm a big fan of comics, particularly Marvel's characters and I grew up adoring Spiderman and most of the adaptations that have been made. The 90s animated series ruled, the Raimi trilogy made true the dream of a real action movie of the webhead but threw it all away in the final installment and this franchise..... just doesn't feel right to me.
The main issue I have with Amazing Spiderman both 1 and 2 is that the writers seem to misinterpret the aspects of the hero and it's surroundings. Spidey comes out more silly and clowny than witty and sarcastic. He is annoying to the guys he's fighting like a mime can be annoying when you walk by him in the sidewalk and chooses to displayed all his talents for you to see, and that's just not the feeling I think this character should provoke. All that, added to the crowds cheering behind a police line while Spidey fights a villain makes it all too childish for my taste.
What's really sad is that Andrew Garfield is the best Spiderman there is and will be. He has embodied the character amazingly and any shortcomings are due to the screenplay he's has to work with. Same goes to Emma Stone, a brilliant young actress that has returned dignity to our beloved Gwen Stacy after what Spiderman 3 did to her. Them and the greatly accomplished CGI scenes of Spidey's web swinging, which are what I've always thought that these scenes should look like, are the beautiful things about this movie that end up wasted in a context that doesn't do justice to a wonderful character and it's even more wonderful universe.