10 Big Mistakes That Forced Sony To Give Up On The Amazing Spider-Man

8. Stupid Supervillains

One thing that audiences certainly couldn't take seriously throughout The Amazing Spider-Man films were the villains. Again, they were something of an issue in the Raimi films: Willem Defoe was good casting as the Green Goblin, but his costume was silly; ditto for Alfred Molina as Doctor Octopus in the sequel; then the third film was stuffed with way too many villains to keep track of. The Amazing Spider-Man pared things back a bit. Instead of having a whole host of bad guys for Peter Parker to contend with, they stuck with Rhys Ifans as The Lizard. Which he was pretty good at! Well, so long as he was Curt Connors, anyway. Then he turned into a hench, CGI version of the Goombas from the Mario Bros. movie. Even worse was the sequel, which ignored the lessons of Spider-Man 3 and also blew its load, villain-wise. Paul Giamatti seemed to be the only one who knew what movie he was making as the overblown, mech-driving Rhino, whilst Jamie Foxx's Electro a) made no sense and b) had a ludicrous motivation. As for Dane Dehaan's Goblin? Nah.