5. Spider-Man 3 (2007)
How The Original's Magic Was Stripped Away: Pointless Retconning Of Established Plot Points I'm one of only forty-six human beings in the world who doesn't think that
Spider-Man 3 is all that bad, but it should still be blasted into the sun for including what is one of the most inconsiderate and mostly pointless retcons in cinema history. For some reason, director Sam Raimi decides to revisit Peter's origin story a full two movies later, and shoe-horns in the idea that Sandman (one of
Spidey 3's villains) killed his Uncle Ben in the first flick, and that, uh, it wasn't that guy we thought it was. Not only does that force us to reconsider the events of the first two movies for no real reason, it seems awfully lame for a director to retcon something in such a blatantly ham-fisted fashion. It's genuinely the equivalent of something saying: "Oh, yeah, that didn't happen like what told you. This happened. Accept it." Any re-watch of the first Spider-Man proves irksome now, mainly because we know what is obviously supposed to be the real story is later going to get messed with. Embarrassing.