Patience doesn't pay off - It doesn't get any better

Rating: 3/10 (24 October 2012)

Spider-Man 2012 starts very lame, but that's to be expected. Origin stories of superheroes are always quite tedious. No matter how hard you try, they will remain nonsensical. Better to get over with them as quickly as possible. But here they've opted for the opposite. I wonder if anyone ever wanted to know the story of Parker's parents. I sure didn't. It looks like they are going to use this story line as the basis for the new Spidey trilogy. The ever-present "This time it's personal." is so annoying. It takes more than 50 minutes until we finally see the familiar costume and the real movie begins.
Spider-Man 2002 was superior to Spider-Man 2012 in about every way: Story, dialog, actors, CGI. Andrew Garfield is very bland and a complete miscast. The villain would be the pride of every Syfy creature feature. The "love interest" Gwen Stacy is just some kind of college acquaintance. The CGI is surprisingly underwhelming.
The only thing really amazing is the amount of bad decisions made that turned this into a 230 million dollar borefest. The real villains of this movies stay behind the screen. Choosing a TV-director for a big action movie because of his suggestive name (Webb), just to crack a corny joke - come on!
In a 1973 comic book Gwen Stacy dies after the Green Goblin has tossed her off a bridge. Spider-Man tries to save her with a string of web, but the sudden stop snaps her neck. This is actually consistent with real world physics. In Spider-Man 2012 he throws her out of a window himself to get her out of harm's way, breaking her fall with a string of web - and she's just fine. There was more realism in 1973's comic books than there is in today's blockbuster movies. Go figure!