You obviously can't fit 40 years of comic books into 3-4 movies, so you got to pick and chose what to put in there. Plus these stories were written in the sixties and they obviously need to be updated for modern times. What I'm getting at is don't really expect most of it to coincide besides basic things like Peter's origin and J.J. hating Spider-Man. I thought for the most part the characters' personalities rang true to the series besides MJ being a little too helpless.