When Spider-Man became pointless

Rating: 1/10 (22 February 2016)

I disliked Spider-Man 3, but it wasn't so bad that the franchise needed to be rebooted and the audience delivered the exact same origin story.
Watching this as they try not to say classic lines such as 'with great power comes great responsibility' is cringe-inducing. When reappraising Sam Raimi's movies, you see how skillfully he set up all of the protagonists, and Spidey's relationships felt natural. The Amazing Spider-Man movies screwed-up it by attempting to alter the order slightly, to fool the audience that what they're seeing is fresh. Instead of an enjoyable, competitive friendship with Harry, Peter has no one to spark off. Instead of giving the school bully what he deserves, he just takes his basketball off of him and is even forced to apologise for that.
Then there's Andrew Garfield. At least Tobey Maguire's Peter Parker was a convincing nerd, what is Andrew Garfield's? He's a loner, yet popular. A science geek, yet skateboarder with perfect hair. It's like one character was made by committee.
What else to mention? The awful CGI rat? The sub-plots which go nowhere? I could go on, I just really hated this.