10 Ways To Reboot The Amazing Spider-Man Correctly

6. Please, Don't Give Us Another Origin Story

Our number one gripe with The Amazing Spider-Man was the sheer redundancy of it all. Sony went to the trouble of rebooting Spider-Man (a mere five years after the last Raimi film), changing the entire cast and director, only to give us a movie that elongated the first hour of Raimi's film to feature length. The differences were really only skin deep and the similarities glaringly obvious (both the Green Goblin and The Lizard were potential father-figure scientists driven to monstrous evil by their experiments, and both talked to themselves in an evil monologue inside their heads). Don't even get us started on the needlessly convoluted and awkward way they got out of having Uncle Ben say 'With great power comes great responsibility'. But the biggest redundancy of all was the very fact that Sony felt that the world needed to see Spider-Man's origin story. Again. By this point, it's pretty much common knowledge the world over that Peter Parker was bitten by a radioactive spider and became a costumed do-gooder. No one needed to see this story play out again, but that's what Sony gave us. It just meant that we were left feeling like the whole endeavour was vaguely pointless, aside from as an attempt to squeeze more money out of a franchise that was running low on ideas. So, if Sony does indeed reboot Spidey again, we beg of them to skip the origin story. If they were to start the thing with Peter already established as Spider-Man and hit the ground running, maybe they could be on to a winner.