10 Exact Moments Fans Turned On Their Favourite Movie Characters

10. Peter Parker - Dancing In The Street

Emo Parker - a montage so off-putting Sony themselves made fun of it it more than ten years later in the superb Into the Spider-Verse.

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Everything about this scene seems designed to induce maximum levels of embarrassment in all who witness it, as if it were created by scientists who wanted to test if human bodies were physically capable of cringing themselves into a black hole of mortification. Watching Peter Parker strutting and dancing through New York city in Spider-Man 3 outdid any horror movie in its ability to make the audience watch a scene through the gaps in their fingers.

We liked Tobey Maguire's goofy, earnest take on Spider-Man. We felt Maguire brought the right amount of nerdish naïveté to the role, and watching him turn to the emo side just made us feel bad for him. It was like when the sweet, shy boy at school starts going to the gym and mistakenly believes he's now a sex symbol; all tank-tops, exaggerated macho dialogue and misplaced confidence.

The “What the Hell” looks the women give Peter are a clear indication we're not meant to like this new version of the character, but damn it Raimi, you didn't need to make him that big a prat.

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