Was it really necessary for Sony to reboot the Spider-Man series only five years after
the last film and ten years after the first? Is Sam Raimi’s trilogy already
ancient history? Apparently for the Millenials anything older than half a
decade is passé. I don’t mind a new actor in the Peter Parker/Spider-Man role
or a new director at the helm. James Bond has changed hands through six actors
across fifty years. The problem I find is the absurd need to retell the origin
story. The Batman series went through
three actors and two directors with a major stylistic shift halfway through
without getting back into Bruce Wayne’s history. It was Christopher Nolan who
rebooted that franchise by taking a completely new track on the mythology.
Unlike Marc Webb’s The Amazing Spider-Man
which is virtually indistinguishable from the first trilogy.
