Quote Originally Posted by Pike View Post
Spidey is tied with Iron Man as my fave and I love the fact that he both a.) is a giant nerd and b.) doesn't have a whole lot of money. I can really relate with him on that level. He is also laugh-out-loud hilarious in a lot of his comics, which I love.
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Spider Man is probably my favorite Marvel Comic after X-Men and I must say the 90s Animated Series did a large part of getting me to really love the wall crawler and get into his character and stories. In some ways, he's kind of Marvel's answer to Batman, yes Spidey has powers but most of his villains make him look relatively normal and often Spidey has to outwit his enemy instead of just brute force them down like other heroes.

I didn't mind the first two Spider-Man movies but I was displeased with some changes and felt Tobi and the writers focused way too much on his angst side despite the fact Peter Parker has always been a hero who is conflicted about being Spider-Man because he does hate how it eats into his social life and causes major problems for him, but he also loves it. I never saw that in the original trilogy so I am happier that Garfield's Spidey is closer to his actual character in the book. I also hated Kristen Dunst as Mary Jane Watson and much prefer Emma Stone's Gwen Stacey. The third Spider Man movie was awful and I felt the series had moved Peter and Mary's characters too far away from their source material to continue on so I was actually grateful for the reboot.

I'll agree with Del that Lizard isn't exactly my fave villain from his mythos but I also wasn't happy about how quickly the first movies introduced Green Goblin who is a character I feel needs a bit more of an established intro. I still need to watch the new film, I keep hearing mixed things about it but then again I heard the same with the first movie and found it vastly better than the previous trilogy so maybe I'll get lucky and love this one too.