There Is Nothing Amazing About This Spiderman!!!!

Rating: Null/10 (8 July 2012)

"The Amazing Spiderman" is a thoroughly unnecessary and quite pedestrian re-boot of a re-boot. Was this movie really necessary? No of course not, but in the dwindling days of Hollywood's ability to create new, original and imaginative movies, this is what passes for an "original" idea.
While re-makes are not something new, Sam Raimi's "Spider-Man" re-boot franchise is only a few years old, and DID NOT warrant yet another franchise, as I said, a re-boot of a re-boot.
People will point to the "Batman" franchise as an example. Still, there are some differences there, after Tim Burton's first two exciting entries, Joel Schumacher managed to water down and destroy the "Batman" franchise. Christopher Nolan took Batman and gave the Dark Knight his own spin and interpretation, making him much darker and more menacing, straddling the fine line between villain and hero. So I understood the rationale for doing that, besides Nolan delivered two excellent movies so far "Batman Begins" and "The Dark Knight". We'll see what "The Dark Knight Rises" will be like.
Personally I never liked Spidermans as a superhero, frankly he's just not that exciting, a guy who sticks to walls and shoots thread out of his wrists...the same goes for Superman, not to keen on him either. There is no sense of danger, of conflict emanating from these characters, and most of the popular superheroes, be they Marvel or DC etc. "Batman" is the only one that I find intriguing (from the popular ones), he himself does not have superpowers of his own, yet he has such a classic design, one that can make him look as a superhero but also a masked vigilante at the same time. With Batman you never really know where you stand...is he good or bad?
For these reasons, I prefer the more complicated characters like "Blade", "Spawn" and "The Punisher". I did not like Raimi's movies, nor this one. I'd rather choose movies like "Sin City", "The Crow", "300", "V-For Vendetta" and "Watchmen" than any of the Spiderman ones.
I know that I'm probably in the minority here, but I did not think that this movie was necessary in any way, shape or form, nor did I think that it was a particularly good movie to begin with! The only difference I could think of between Raimi's movies and this one, is the fact that Raimi's Spiderman's web was natural and he shot it from his wrists, while Webb's Spiderman uses cartridges to shoot his load (LOL)...other than that...pretty much nothing....just a bland and predictable movie...