10 Ways To Reboot The Amazing Spider-Man Correctly

7. Please, Do Away With The Awkward Teen Romance

We touched upon this issue in our entry about letting Peter Parker grow up, but feel like it warrants more development. Unless you were in your teens when the two Amazing Spider-Man movies hit cinema screens, chances are you may have felt like you didn't belong to the target audience that Sony was aiming for. Everyone can relate to the first pangs of unrequited love in high school, that feeling of nobody understanding you and the desire to make the prettiest girl in school notice you somehow. But, if you are long past reading the Twilight books, or obsessing over which boy Katniss will pick in The Hunger Games, then awkward teen romance is unlikely to be what you want from a Spider-Man movie. We feel that Sony narrowed their focus far too much with The Amazing Spider-Man, appealing pretty much solely to only one demographic and nowhere is this more obvious than with Peter and Gwen Stacy's romance. Don't get us wrong, Andrew Garfield and Emma Stone have excellent screen chemistry, miles better than the damp squib that was Tobey Maguire and Kirsten Dunst in the Raimi movies. But it still left us pretty cold, we have to say. A reboot could introduce a more stable, adult relationship for Peter Parker, one that a few more groups of people in the audience will find relatable.