10 Lessons Sony Must Learn Before The Amazing Spider-Man 3
8. Slow Down
Which brings us to our next point: Sony, quite simply, need to slow down. There is absolutely no point trying to cobble together a cinematic universe as quickly as possible - the villains in the Spider-Man mythos deserve to be dealt with delicately, preferably in their own SEPARATE pictures. From the looks of things, the upcoming Sinister Six film will bring together a slew of iconic villains - a cool idea, perhaps, but are we going too fast? The answer is probably yes. By having all the iconic villains in Spider-Man's world coming together at once, we're literally zapping the potential from each and every one of them. It will certainly be cool to watch several of the big bads dealing with one another and plotting against our favourite webhead, but the idea is also very risky: in one movie, there's a chance you might ruin their reputations simultaneously with a single picture. Can't we just go straight to Spider-Man 3?
Sam Hill is an ardent cinephile and has been writing about film professionally since 2008. He harbours a particular fondness for western and sci-fi movies.