10 Terrible Castings That Doomed Comic Book Movies
2. Andrew Garfield As Peter Parker - The Amazing Spider-Man
Peter Parker is a character practically defined by how many different interpretations of him there are out there. Some work, some don't, and some are the Amazing Spider-Man movies, which REALLY don't work. At all.
There are a multitude of reasons for this, but the driving philosophy behind all of them can be found in the casting of Andrew Garfield as Peter Parker.
Andrew Garfield is one of the best actors working today, and could have been a solid Peter Parker if the right director was attached to him. But instead we got Mark Webb, who didn't seem to get that Spider-Man is cool because Peter Parker is NOT cool.
Garfield, however, played him as being basically the same person regardless of whether or not he's wearing the mask. Simply put, he's too cool for this role.
Tobey Maguire and Tom Holland work because you can clearly tell a difference between the Peter Parker and Spider-Man identities. But Garfield's Peter is simply too cool to come off as a believable Peter Parker. Combine that with the general terrible-ness of his two Spider-Man movies and you get nothing short of a waste of a talented actor