10 Things Nobody Wants Admit About The Amazing Spider-Man Films

10. The First Film Is Excellent

The vast majority of problems in the Amazing Spider-Man franchise lies with the second film. Though it's by no means a bad offering, it is overpopulated with villains, gets caught up in the theatrics of it all (at the expense of the arc) and features multiple divisive ending scenes that are more concerned with franchising it than finishing its own story. But that doesn't mean we should ignore the grandeur of the first film.

The Amazing Spider-Man was always going to be fighting an uphill battle simply because it had the unenviable job of rehashing Peter Parker's origin story so soon after Sam Raimi did it in the previous franchise. And while it's largely accepted that the 2002 film did it better, that doesn't mean we should overlook the reboot.

Not only does it retell Peter's origins well, it provides fans with a new Spider-Man that doesn't venture too far from the source material. The Lizard may have been too reliant on CGI for some, but from a story standpoint, he served as a great antagonist for Spidey's first adventure and ended up giving the film a rather larger-than-life presentation.

We'll go into more detail about how great the first film is (as well as exploring how underrated the second is) shortly, but the truth is that it deserves far more credit for successfully rebooting the franchise with an unforgettable adventure - one with a lot of potential.