10 Movies You Hated Before You Even Saw Them

2. The Amazing Spider-Man

Why people hated it: Superhero movies are big bucks. So naturally the movie studios who provide the initial bucks required to make the profit bucks will want to protect their investment. But while the likes of Marvel seem to have perfected the balance between producer and director, Sony keep stumbling. Spider-Man on film has been dominated by how the studio/distributor keep interfering with the film-making process; Sam Raimi, who directed the original trilogy, was forced to include Venom in his already stuffed Spider-Man 3 on their demands.

That's nothing compared to The Amazing Spider-Man, a reboot that only exists so the rights to the character don't go to Marvel. With a decision not only financial, but also time-specific, defining its very existence, people were quick to push total hatred on the new film. Some critics may as well have written their reviews of the movies before even sitting down and watching it.

Was the hate justified: Neither The Amazing Spider-Man movies are worthy Spider-Man films. They're not the worst blockbusters out there, nor do they show the superhero genre at its most cynical, but they just aren't that good. However, what makes the first film fail is less its attempts to distance itself from Raimi's films (although that does play a part), but its lack of comitance to its own ideas.

The first half sets itself up as a Peter Parker movie, giving us a mystery about his parents and a hunt for Uncle Ben's killer, but baulks mid-way through the second act and returns to the old formula of big villain, epic showdown, bored audiences.