10 Overlooked Positives Of The Amazing Spider-Man Films
9. The Intricate Webs Of Stories
The Amazing Spider-Man films had a plan. Theres nothing wrong with that. These films were clearly intended as the first two threads in a large web of stories that would have eventually spun out into all sorts of directions. Black Cat and The Sinister Six would eventually get their own movies, alongside Peters main story that wouldve held the franchise together. This is exactly what audiences fork out cash for repeatedly when Marvel Studios do it, so why should The Amazing Spider-Man be lambasted for trying to give us what the majority of cinema-goers seem to want? Things got a bit imbalanced in the sequel, but it was clear what was going on. In fact, Oscorp as the overarching baddies of the saga isnt a bad concept at all. Giving the villains a shared link to an evil corporation certainly makes more sense than Spider-Man 3s idea to send Flint Marko into an unexplained open air night-time sand-based molecule experimentation. At least The Amazing Spider-Man didnt do that. Whos to say, either, that The Amazing Spider-Man 3 and 4 wouldnt have picked up these Oscorp story threads and done something really interesting with them? We never got to see the full story, so it seems a bit harsh to slam what we did get. Not as bad as judging a book by its cover, perhaps, but something more like judging a book by its first two chapters. Which is still a bit silly.
