9. The Amazing Spider-Man 2 - Get Past It Being A Remake
The Argument: The nadir of Hollywood's love of remakes has to be its treatment of the Spider-Man series. Even though Spider-Man 3 made cash by the bucket load, the prolonged pre-production of a sequel got Sony antsy. Distaste with the Venon-Sandman-Goblin mess was setting in and they really needed to put something out fast so the film rights to the character didn't revert to Marvel. So Raimi and Maguire were jettisoned in favour of a new take on the character. For all its faults people like the Raimi Trilogy and thus came with a pre-disposed dislike of The Amazing Spider-Man series that stopped many from recognising their good elements. Or at least that's what its defenders suggest. Why It Doesn't Work: While sequel was approached with trepidation, the first Amazing film actually arrived with a greater sense of optimism. The horrors of Spider-Man 3 were still fresh in audience's minds, so a more restrained, teenage film was an exciting prospect. It was the failure to live up to that (seriously, what the hell happened with Uncle Ben's killer) that really had people wary of Marc Webb's second film; the reboot issue was second to a story issue (no-one involved really knew where it was going).
