In all honesty when I heard just after only a few years after the release of the third Spider-Man film of the Sam Raimi trilogy that they were going to reboot the franchise I was a bit angry. Yeah Spider-Man 3 kind of sucked, but both Spider-Man 1 and 2 were solid great films. Both films were so great I'd like to think Sam Raimi help set the bar that every superhero film has to met or excel higher than it. I thought for sure they were going to make a forth in the franchise. Alas they went ahead with the reboot, and I must say - Thank you! The Amazing Spider-Man was a great change of pace from the original Sam Raimi trilogy. Marc Webb did an excellent job and the cast were all amazing. I felt the entire film was much better in every way (although it could have used some more action scenes) than the Raimi trilogy, much better. I'm looking forward to the next films in the new trilogy and helpfully if Avi Arad can get Sony and Disney together in a room we could see Garfield playing his version of Spider-Man in the next Avengers film - Hey, I can dream can't I? (I actually wrote this review back when this film was first released. 10 years later after No Way Home, I can't believe this dream became real is so many ways!)
Review by Viper Du'VarkVIP 7BlockedParent2022-02-09T03:54:22Z
In all honesty when I heard just after only a few years after the release of the third Spider-Man film of the Sam Raimi trilogy that they were going to reboot the franchise I was a bit angry. Yeah Spider-Man 3 kind of sucked, but both Spider-Man 1 and 2 were solid great films. Both films were so great I'd like to think Sam Raimi help set the bar that every superhero film has to met or excel higher than it. I thought for sure they were going to make a forth in the franchise. Alas they went ahead with the reboot, and I must say - Thank you! The Amazing Spider-Man was a great change of pace from the original Sam Raimi trilogy. Marc Webb did an excellent job and the cast were all amazing. I felt the entire film was much better in every way (although it could have used some more action scenes) than the Raimi trilogy, much better. I'm looking forward to the next films in the new trilogy and helpfully if Avi Arad can get Sony and Disney together in a room we could see Garfield playing his version of Spider-Man in the next Avengers film - Hey, I can dream can't I? (I actually wrote this review back when this film was first released. 10 years later after No Way Home, I can't believe this dream became real is so many ways!)