The Spectacular Spider-Man: 11 Biggest Mistakes It Needs To Avoid

11. Having More Than One Major Villain

This problem began in Spider-Man 3, where Spidey (Tobey Maguire) was facing off against three villains, each of who needed to be brought into the fold, fight Peter and have their plot resolved inside of 139 minutes. There was Eddie Brock aka Venom (Topher Grace), Sandman (Thomas Hayden Church), and then Harry Osborn's New Goblin (James Franco). The mix didn't work for a number of reasons (such as the Uncle Ben retcon and Grace being totally miscast), but Raimi, who was vehemently against adapting Venom from the start, just couldn't juggle three villains in one movie. ASM2 struggled with the same problem: Rhino (Paul Giamatti) admittedly only appeared in cameo form at the beginning and end of the film, but Marc Webb still had to rush to flesh out Electro (Jamie Foxx) and the new Green Goblin (Dane DeHaan). Despite a lengthy 142 minute run-time, the characters felt strangely underdeveloped and the villain arcs just weren't interesting at all. Electro is a Spider-Man fanboy and Harry needs Spider-Man's blood? Yawn. While it's understandable that Sony wants to set up its new Sinister Six movie, hopefully Marvel can force them into a more restrained approach in which Spider-Man just faces off against one major villain this time. Sure, have a secondary baddie make a cameo or something, but just focus on crafting one good villain before trying anything more ambitious.