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

9. Retelling The Origin Story...Again

Since 2002, Spider-Man's origin story has had two big-budget Hollywood tellings, first with Sam Raimi's version, and then, the hugely unnecessary one in Marc Webb's The Amazing Spider-Man a decade later. Though the reboot was largely praised by critics, even they took umbrage with the movie's repetitious first hour, which lazily rehashed all the same beats audiences saw ten years prior, such as the iconic spider bite moment and, of course, Uncle Ben's death. What should've just been Spider-Man 4 with a new lead actor was instead so eye-rollingly redundant and a gigantic missed opportunity. Some have begun speculating whether Marvel and Sony will fashion yet another origin story for Peter Parker given that the part is again being recast, and though this seems terribly unlikely from what's been said so far, it's possible that some sort of retooled origin story could be inserted in via flashbacks. Hopefully, though, they'll stop boring audiences with this repetitive nonsense and just focus on telling an interesting and original new story with Spider-Man already established, given how even the most casual audiences are well-acquainted with this prologue by now.