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

4. Including Too Much Romance

It's impossible to deny that romance is a big part of Peter Parker's life, and so his various love stories have been given substantial screen time throughout all five Spider-Man movies to date: Peter and MJ were on-off for two movies before Peter had a brief dalliance with Gwen Stacy (Bryce Dallas Howard), and ended up going back to MJ. In the Amazing Spider-Man movies, it's been Gwen all the way, and in fairness, Emma Stone's performance as the character was one of the new series' highlights...before she was unceremoniously killed off at the end of ASM2. Still, both Spider-Man franchises ultimately ran their romances into the ground through sub-Dawson's Creek dialogues that simply dragged each film's length out without adding much actual content. Peter will most certainly have a love interest in the new movie, but hopefully it will be downplayed and kept to the periphery, focusing instead on an awesome battle between the web-slinger and a new villain. Or better yet, just start the movie with Peter and MJ already being an item, so audiences don't have to suffer through anymore cornball love declarations.