>The Amazing Spiderman movies shyed away from the source material
It didn't tho. It was the most accurate by using homages and montages.
In my humble opinion, TASM series is not objectively bad.
They are well structured movies, and even with the supposed "executive meddling with the script", the director and cretive team did a good job showing their style. I like Marc Webb's "music clip" style of action and editing. The characters were fresh, the acting was good, the universe was coherent, etc.
Peopel bash the movies as if it's shit or not well done. The movies didn't have too many villains, and every other criticism we see around here is plain wrong. It's just that people didn't like the movies and try to reason why by bashing technical aspects of it.
The reason why they didn't like it is because it's a bad Spider-man story.
Yes, the best aspects of Spider-man, and what defines the character, is his struggle to live a normal life anf be spider-man at the same time. Although Raimi's movies were huge cringey technical garbage with ilogical plot points and useless characters that didn't act like human beings, the story managed to reach that core aspect of Peter trying to still have friends and a normal life whilst dealing with street level crime. That's spider-man.
TASM seres tried to adapt a greater story arch. An uninteresting story arch, with boring plot points, boring twist, and it stole the time from seein ANYTHING from Peter's social life. Not a coincidence that the first movie was better perceived, since it had more moments like that, and not a coincidence that the romance was praised either. Those were objectively good adapted moments from what people wanted to see. All the rest was still well done, but it was not what people wanted to see. Honestly, who cares about Peter's parents and some kind of Oscorp paranoia, we want to see how this guy stops some bullies and still don't miss the train.
So there you go, OP.
