An Honest Review

Rating: 3/10 (19 November 2016)

Return of the Spider-Bully.
They just couldn't capture Spider Man's personality in these films. Or rather they captured it for the Millennial attitude rather than how Spider-Man has ever been written.
In both Amazing Spider-Man movies, he mocks and openly ridiculous and belittles the people he's fighting. He bullies them from low rent thieves to the Big Bads.
That isn't how Spider-Man has ever acted save for when he was possessed by Venom in the comics.
True, he has always had a mouth on him, he's always been comical and run off at the mouth, but it's never been to belittle his opponent. Spider-Man has never been a bully.
The depiction in these two reboots tend to take the sense of humor of the guy in high school that shoved nerds into lockers.
There is a marked difference in the attitude and humor portrayed in Garfield's Spidey and the more true to form Spider-Mans of both Tobey and Holland.
There is a maliciousness here, in the Amazing Spider-Man movies that I just can not get behind as a fan of the character. He gloats when he takes down people weaker than him.
It leaves a bad taste in the mouth and should for any loyal fan of the Web-Slinger both in the movies and in the comic books.