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

7. Setting Up Mysteries (And Not Solving Them)

Despite repeating some of the mistakes of the Sam Raimi films, The Amazing Spider-Man movies thus far have actually tried to do something different. For one thing, they've decided to draw from a fairly obscure corner of the source material, digging deep into the comic book archives and resurrecting an oft-forgotten plot-line about Peter Parker's parents being killed because they were spies. Peter's orphaned status in the Raimi films was rarely commented upon. He was more upset about losing his Uncle Ben, because he raised him, and because his death was the motivation for him to become a superhero. It is a well-known fact you can only do good deeds when fuelled by grief over the death of a loved one. But they screwed the pooch by setting all this spy intrigue up in the first film and then... never following up on it. Based on the early trailers, there was supposed to be more of this, and they eventually got around to exploring it more in the sequel. A bit.