10 Things You Just Have To Accept About The Amazing Spider-Man Reboot

8. This Isn't Sam Raimi's Spider-Man

No matter what occurs in the next decade or ten, most people will continue to look upon the Sam Raimi trilogy as the definitive cinematic Spider-Man venture, and they have every right to that claim, much as people say of Tim Burton€™s one-two punch of the Batman films. But there is still plenty of room for detraction. For every glorious Bruce Campbell cameo, after all, there is a scene that seemed alright back in the day but nowadays appears cringe worthy, almost all of them dealing with the villains and their first expression of power. The films are far from timeless, and even feel dated to the early-to-mid 2000€™s based on cinematography alone; their color palettes are less living comic book and more post-Fight Club saturation. The Sam Raimi trilogy is best experienced at that Golden Age of Science Fiction, twelve years old. For those of you still young-at-heart enough to get the same joy out of these films in adulthood as you did at that age when you watched them for the first time, I salute you. But for many, they seem like the kind of films you belatedly grow out of so you can enjoy the new films for what they are rather than hanging on to any detrimental sense of nostalgia. The Raimi films are much-beloved, and only time will tell what the final status of the Webb films will be, but a comparison of the two is fair to neither. They are each for their time, with their own flaws, and the sooner we quell these arguments the better.