Was this really a necessary movie?

Rating: 6/10 (20 October 2012)

I saw this movie despite not being an overly keen fan of superheroes or spiderman in particular. Why? Well because I had the time and had nothing else to see.
Having seen it, I must say that I sit here wondering just why they had to go and start the spiderman movies all over from the scratch? That just made no particular sense to me. Wasn't the other movies good enough? I can only speculate and guess, and it wouldn't get anywhere. I can just say that I think that this movie was somewhat of an unnecessary movie in many ways. Sure it was a good movie, fun and entertaining, but it is not something that was vital to cinema to have it remade and reinvented.
Visually, then "The Amazing Spiderman" is quite a treat. It is nicely made and looks good. But as with the previous movies, I just wonder with all that webbing he shoots about him as he swings through the streets of New York, wouldn't the city eventually become a tangled mess with all those strands of web? Or is the web somehow magically degradable by itself, yet strong enough to support hanging cars from a bridge? It just doesn't really add up.
Story-wise, well there were some deviants from the storyline in the first movie, and I guess that is the major difference between "Spiderman" and "Amazing Spiderman", but then again, I am not familiar with the story lines in the original comic books series, so I am just guessing. But again, it just adds to the point that this movie wasn't really a necessary movie to have made, in my opinion.
The movie bolstered some great names to the cast; such as Martin Sheen, Sally Field, Denis Leary and Emma Stone. I am not familiar with Andrew Garfield's work prior to this movie, but he did a good enough job with his role as Peter Parker/Spiderman.
I am sure for die-hard fans of the Spiderman franchise, then "The Amazing Spiderman" is a super great movie. And I will say that it was actually good entertainment. But for us regular non-spiderman fans, then there wasn't' all that appeal to this.