8 Movies Where The Worst Version Got Made

5. The Amazing Spider-Man

The winding path that took us to The Amazing Spider-Man's release in 2012 epitomises the worst trends of the comic movie genre, enacted by the studio with by far the most weird, ill-thought out superhero schemes in the business. Yes, give it up for Sony folks - the company that swapped out Sam Raimi's Spider-Man to create a contrived cinematic universe populated entirely by B-tier Spidey villains, led by an incarnation of the wall-crawler whose most memorable trait was being way too cool to actually be Peter Parker.

This might be harsh on Andrew Garfield, who made valiant attempts to uplift the material he was given as the web-slinger in Marc Webb's Amazing Spider-Man movies, but it wasn't enough to stop the weight of Sony's clunky franchise machinations from crumbling down around them.

Adding insult to injury, though, is that we could have had Spider-Man 4 instead of The Amazing Spider-Man - a fourth film from Sam Raimi that was set to include The Lizard, Black Cat, and a bigger role for Bruce Campbell (the main draw of the franchise to begin with, as well all know).

For his part, Raimi has spoken out regarding his dissatisfaction with getting Spider-Man 4 off the ground, and it was him who pulled the plug on the project down to frustrations with the script (via Vulture). Even so, a less than stellar work from Raimi would have still had twice the amount of personality, pathos, and investment than what was seen with The Amazing Spider-Man - or any of the other Spider-Man films that released afterwards, for that matter.