The Spectacular Spider-Man: 10 Reasons It's Already Doomed

4. Remnants Of The Amazing Series

There's something refreshing about being able to talk about The Amazing Spider-Man in the past tense. The movies weren't out-and-out terrible, but in a world where Guardians Of The Galaxy is a cultural phenomenon and X-Men is getting closer and closer to the straight-up craziness of the source the two movies are at once cynical and antiquated. For all the hipster-Peter, there was little development in approach from the Raimi films, which is a big part of why they failed. For longer than was acceptable, many assumed Andrew Garfield was in the running to return as Spider-Man and that Amazing would be assimilated into the MCU, a hideous thought on both a continuity and quality level - can you imagine having to follow The Avengers with an unrelated movie that ignored the Battle of New York when taking on a whole-series rewatch? The announcement of The Spectacular Spider-Man has finally put that sentiment to rest, but that doesn't mean some elements of it will be carried over. Even before the Marvel announcement, The Sinister Six was shaping up to be a soft reboot of the franchise, with some of the cast set to stick around (most prominently Dane DeHaan as Harry Osborn and assumedly Chris Cooper as father Norman), while the film tried to distance itself from the movies that introduced them. With only two years to bring the project together, the common thought is that this approach will continue, with the Sinister Six being somewhat familiar. The reasons why this is ill-advised should be obvious, so let's just say this: don't do it.