Decent movie, if you know nothing about Spider-Man.

Rating: 3/10 (23 November 2012)

If you have never heard anything about Spider-Man at all, this movie would be watchable. But of course tons of people got into Spider-Man after the movie series with Toby Maguire, so I doubt that this applies to too many people.
Where to begin. How about we hit the biggest screw up in comic movie history? They either forgot, or purposefully did not (to be "different? from the series before) add Uncle Ben's famous line "With great power, comes great responsibility". How do you do that??? This quote is an echoing reminder to Parker throughout his whole life to do what is right. Hell, its a comic book quote that is beyond comic book famous, it holds meaning in real life! Maybe I'm just a nerd about this stuff, but I was astonished that this wasn't included.
Next, lets talk go scold Parker. Aren't you supposed to be hiding that you're Spider-Man?!?!? Oh wait, apparently the New York that you live in is completely brain dead. You stick to a public subway ceiling, and beat up a bunch of guys, but no one seems to notice the problem with that. You jump 10 feet in the air, just to embarrass "Flash" Thompson. But no one is asking questions. And lastly, you started to practice your powers in public? What in the world? And in broad daylight none the less. But that's OK, I'm sure there are plenty of places in New York that are just empty and vacant for you to do that. Empty streets/sidewalks and all. You would think that even if he got lucky somehow, and not a single person reported this stuff, that eventually someone would realize "Hey, that kid was Spider-Man!". I mean hell, Spider-Man does eventually become well known in New York.
Now to the point of the reboot. What was it? I had heard that they wanted to reboot it due to disputes with the actors/director, and they wanted to go back and be more in line with the ORIGINAL story. Now personally I know the original story, maybe not perfect, but pretty damn well. This movie had me lost. No Mary Jane in high school? Flash Thompson is hugging Peter? Peter was an uncoordinated nerd before the bite, yet he rides a skateboard? I'm sure I could rant on forever, but this is already getting a bit long.
I'm very glad that I did not pay movie ticket prices to see this disgrace. I'm very surprised that the great Stan Lee made an appearance in this butchering of a movie. With this start to a series I really can't imagine how you would save it, short of another "reboot".