There wasn't anything wrong with ASM. It was certainly a major improvement on that god awful third film.

In my opinion 
 
Amazing Spider-Man > The Raimi Trilogy

@TheCannon: It wasn't flawless by any means, but at least it didn't have Peter as a jazz loving emo. It also handled Venom, my favorite villain, horribly.

Whether the casting choices were bad is just personal preference I guess. I though Garfield done a good job as Parker.

@TheCannon: Having Peter as a skater type rather then a nerdy bookworm was an unusual direction to go in, I admit.

And I also felt Uncle Ben's death seemed rushed, tacked on because it had to be in the movie.

@TheCannon : Having Peter as a skater type rather then a nerdy bookworm was an unusual direction to go in, I admit.

I really do think that people look at the Raimi trilogy with rose colored glasses....the only good casting choices were Aunt May and Jameson...the rest of the cast was horrible....Spider-man was horribly written in the trilogy with not one single wise crack....the Green Goblin was a reject from the Power Rangers and horribly overacted by Dafoe....MJ was just a plain bad casting choice...the second movie was ok but not nearly as good as everyone makes it out to be and the third was just bad

while Amazing Spider-man was by no means a perfect movie it was definitely a better portrayal of Spider-man than the Raimi trilogy and I feel like it could only get better with time

I really do think that people look at the Raimi trilogy with rose colored glasses....the only good casting choices were Aunt May and Jameson...the rest of the cast was horrible....Spider-man was horribly written in the trilogy with not one single wise crack....the Green Goblin was a reject from the Power Rangers and horribly overacted by Dafoe....MJ was just a plain bad casting choice...the second movie was ok but not nearly as good as everyone makes it out to be and the third was just bad

while Amazing Spider-man was by no means a perfect movie it was definitely a better portrayal of Spider-man than the Raimi trilogy and I feel like it could only get better with time 

@The Stegman said:

@Razero:

@TheCannon : Having Peter as a skater type rather then a nerdy bookworm was an unusual direction to go in, I admit.

That's one criticism everyone makes about ASM that I don't get. In the comics, Peter is a nerd yes, but more importantly, he's a social outcast, he's picked on or ignored in school, and ASM captured that. The thing you have to get is, what is "uncool" changes with the time, bookworm nerds who do nothing but homework and calculus don't really exist in high schools anymore, at least, not the ones i went to, and I've been to three since I move a lot. However I DO see skateboarders who wear skinny jeans and listen to alternative music all the time. They may be "hipsters' but they are by no means actually popular, and that's what Peter was in the film. I'll say it right now, I liked Skateboarder Peter much more than nerdy, "Randomly blurting out facts about spiders" Peter we saw in Raimi's films.

I don't have a problem with it, I actually preferred Peter that way,like you said he was more believable, I just think it was unusual.

@TheCannon: How can you say Martin Sheen was terrible casting as Uncle Ben?

@TheCannon said:

The original trilogy was awesome. There was no need to reboot it after Spider-man 3. I loved 3, but there's a lot of hate for it for some reason. Instead of just looking at the mistakes they made in 3 and fixing them in 4, they decided to reboot it. Fine. But when you have something as good as the original three, and reboot it with that complete sh*t called The Amazing Spider-man, why can't we just pretend it never happened? Superman, Batman, and Hulk hit rock bottom for their movies and they got rebooted. Well, Spider-man has now hit rock bottom. Is there any chance this will be rebooted?

I think a lot of fans thought ASM was markedly better than spider-man 3. The Dance scene alone in 3 was so awful, I can't think of anything that would be even remotely as bad as that scene. That said, it's all about personal opinions. I think Andrew Garfield is a better Peter Parker than Tobey, I like the love story in ASM better, the banter is WAY better, and I like that they're spending more time in high school. But, the stuff with Peter's powers coming out in public (breaking the back board, bending the uprights on the football field by tossing the ball, etc. is too over the top). I love two-thirds of the original trilogy and I like parts (albeit, very few parts) of the 3rd movie. The end of 3 seems to me like a decent place to leave that chapter of spider-man, and ASM was successful enough that the company is going to continue with it, so there is really no point to rebooting it. That said, I'm sure at some point in the future the franchise will be rebooted again and we'll all have another set of movies to nit-pick about.

ASM is far from a "complete shit"... actually its a pretty good movie, i liked it and so did the audience and most of the critics... the numbers speak for themselves.... its not going to be rebooted anytime soon..

ASM>>>>Spider-Man 3

ASM> Spider-Man

ASM< Spider-Man 2

The crap-tastic stink of Spider-Man 3 required the nuclear option of a reboot (hard or soft is debatable), so yeah...reboot needed.

@TheCannon: I thought he did a good job....

@TheCannon: What was the worst?

@TheCannon: Eh, i understand Stacy

I liked the Amazing Spider-Man movie, but it wasn't my favorite.

Spider-Man 2>Amz=Spider-Man>>Spider-Man 3

I really liked how well Gwen was cast, and how smart Peter was, but I was sad when he didn't use his powers to wrestle (like every other Spider-Man origin), how he gave up on Uncle Ben so soon, how there was no Jameson, and it almost felt like he didn't take anything serious (the promise to Mr. Stacy went out the window, he took someone else's badge, he went into a limited access room)