THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN MOVIES - Worse (and better) Than You Remember 

ok so that’s why everybody was commenting that hahahha

Man it’s such a shame considering Andrew Garfield is a big fan of Spider-Man

To be fair, Peter bullying Flash after he was bitten by the spider was very accurate to the Peter Parker from the comic books. In the comics it was very clear, that if Peter could, he would fight back against Flash and even possibly be a bully himself. It was only after the death of Uncle Ben which he was partially at fault for, that he realised he should use his power to never let anything like that happen again. He wasnt really a good person before he got the powers, it was the powers that made it possible for him to be good.

I think Emma shouting “Peter!” fits much better than her yelling “SpiderMan!” so thank you for the happy accident, Emma

It was great to see audiences actually cheering when Andrew showed up in NWH, him saving MJ was the best moment in the movie for me.

I know it's been said before, but Andrew Garfield is not a bad actor. He blew me away with his performance in Hacksaw ridge.

Andrew Garfield’s the middle child of the Spider-Man movies

I honestly appreciate the more darker side of Andrew's Peter, because out of the three, he's the only one stated in No Way Home to stop pulling his punches after Gwen's death. This Peter Parker was significantly more emotional than the others, it takes control of him.

“He’s super tall and handsome, it doesn’t seem like the type of person that would get bullied.” The one fatal flaw here is relying on high school kids to be even remotely logical.

i just love that when Peter's alarm rings the morning after he got bit, his instincts make him OBLITERATE the alarm

Major props to Dane DeHaan for what he went through filming the second movie. The prosthetics, along with the heavy metal suit, would have been difficult to act in already but filming in such hot conditions in the clock tower is very impressive. It sounds like they had a lot of moments where his health was at risk while they tried to find ways to cool him down and he still stayed on and finished the film. I know he was probably contractually obligated to finish the film but it's still really impressive.

Andrew Garfield’s performance in NWH proved that he could be a great Spider-Man with good writing. I’m glad NWH somewhat redeemed his version of Spider-Man.

I just wanna point out. In the comics Peter Parker wasn't bullied only because nerdy, he was a self-outcast. Later in the comics when he becomes more confident a lot of people, and specially girls, notice how much of a good looking guy he is.

Note: The Spider that bit him DID die. Somehow petrified itself after he tugged the spider web. Its seen petrified and he put it in a jar and later shows Gwen. The spider you saw crawling was just a random spider and they only zoomed on it to show how observant he became.

There’s not enough love for Hans Zimmer’s Electro Suite. It’s beautiful how well it portrays Max’s character with just music, his start as an innocent but troubled loner that desperately wants to be seen, the shock (no pun intended) of getting his powers, and the descent into anger and evil as his Electro persona consumes him

I feel horrible for Andrew Garfield. He got the short end of the stick and ridiculed by fans. It truly is heartbreaking

I wish Elvis looked at the deleted scene where Peter's Dad comes back to talk to him in the cemetery. Andrew's acting in that scene especially was absolutely amazing and it was so emotional.

Andrew Garfield was a really good pick for this role, sadly he was a victim to poor writing. We seen what he can do with good writers backing him (The Social Network) it was just super unfortunate the way things planned out.

*SPOILER* !!! Watching this AFTER seeing NWH, you can appreciate the talk Andrew's Spiderman had with Tom's about seeking revenge and the not letting it consume you.

Something funny about the scene where uncle Ben tells Gwen about the picture in Peter's computer is that in the Latin American dub peter say something like "I was just editing the picture for the yearbook" and Gwen says " do you edit yourself too much?" And they laugh, but they say retouching instead of editing but it can also be interpreted as " do you touch yourself too much?" idk I always chuckle when I remember it

people say RDJ is the oly actor that can play Iron-man people say Hugh Jackman is the only actor that can play Wolverine People say Ryan Reynolds is the only actor that can play deadpool but all of these statements are probably an over exaggeration YET, there is literally no denying that there is probably no other person in the entire world that can play JJ Jameson, other than JK Simons.

The fact that they included how Gwen died and actually added in that the web broke her fall, but also her back, severing her spine is what killed her is amazing. I'm so glad they kept that in. She would have died either way but the fact that Peter, trying to save her actually 'killed' her is insane. I can only imagine this is something they would have explored further if the trilogy had gone forward. It's exactly like the comics. Would love to see Andrew handle that part of Peter's storyline. Very sad we never got to see the end of this trilogy. It was going in the right direction. They just fumbled everything else.

I honestly think the reason he's still wearing glasses after being bitten is the same reason he never grew internal webshooters in his arms. It hadn't evolved in his genetic makeup yet.

Haters gonna hate but I loved these two movies. They came out when I was in high school and I watched the first one literally 3 times in theaters. Not sure why it struck me so much but I loved this version of Spider-Man!

Fun fact:There is a deleted scene showing Dr Conners with his family. They should have left in this scene because it would add more depth to the character and would have made the "Poor Peter Parker" line sting even more.

Reading the older comics from the 60s and 70s, I was surprised at just how egotistical and anti-social Peter Parker could be at times - he was more of an angry nerd as opposed to a shy one. The more I read I saw that was his arc. He would go from being a bitter young man to the earnest superhero we all know and love. With what Garfield’s Parker goes through in his movies, to me, his performance is closet thing we have to the character in the comics with that arc. So, I’ve always had a soft spot for Andrew Garfield’s version.

For all uncle ben knew that guy was a plain clothes cop, and he just instantly tried to steal his gun. Imagine if that was what it actually was, would Spiderman become a criminal as Uncle Ben was killed by the police? or would he just constantly think "man I shouldn't get involved in stuff I have nothing to do with as it can make things way worse".

In the first movie when Peter is arguing with captain Stacy, Stacy mentions how Spider-Man is operating with a vengeance. He pointed out how all the criminals were the same and how it must be personal. Peter had a puzzled look on his face as that was the moment he realized what he was doing was wrong. From that point forward he completely gave up on hunting his uncles killer, as he was greater than that.

Andrew’s performance in these movies is criminally underrated I’d totally believe the “responsibility” scene was straight out of a family drama

I really liked Andrew as Spiderman. The hate he gets is so unnecessary, and his relationship with Gwen/Emma Stones is down right awesome. Personally, they rushed the death of Gwen too quickly imo.

Personally, if I found a pair of my dad's glasses if he wasn't with me anymore, i'd either change the lenses to be my perception, or if I didn't need glasses i'd get regular lenses. Peter doing this is completely understandable, and after the first scene he could have very well got them changed (still feel they should have added a line or two about it tho)

I'm so happy Garfield's Peter Parker/Spidey was handled so well in No Way Home. He stole every scene he was in.

_"But I feel like one of Peter's core personality traits is that he genuinely cares about people. The Peter Parker in the beginning of this movie starts out as a selfish bully with a power trip, and it feels wrong."_ Now see, I cannot agree with that. This is actually straight from the original comics. When Peter got his powers he used them for his own personal benefit and stated very clearly that outside his aunt and uncle he didn't care for anyone else. It was the death of his uncle that incited his change of hearth there. Here, a little bit more realistically, he only cares about revenge until Captain Stacy points that out to him in the dinner scene, at which point he realizes he's dishonoring his uncle's talk about responsibility and strives to be a better hero.

Andrew Garfield wasn't a terrible Spiderman. I loved his performance and honestly he's the reason why I became obsessed with Spiderman. The execution for the plot for both movies need work but it's not Andrew's fault. He was technically just being told what to do by the directing team. It's not like he wrote the scripts and it's not like he was in the board room planning out the plot of the story. I don't think he deserves all the hate. He's a good Spiderman and I'm tired of pretending he's not!!!

Just a reminder, the reason for all the PoV first person shots in ASM1 were because it was supposed to be 3D. I watched it in IMAX3D when it was in theaters. It was it's biggest hook during trailers and such before it was released.

I just realized that Gwen’s father asking Peter to keep Gwen out of his life for her safety basically foreshadows her death which is due to her being involved in peters life and try’s to help him defeat electro leading to her death

The best way to deal with the killer never coming up again, is just having a short scene where peter comes to terms with the fact that he wont ever find uncle Ben's killer but he can stop other people from going through what he did and then he properly becomes spiderman, this would best after he saves the kid in the bridge

I will die defending the Andrew Garfield universe....I know there were some things that weren't "great, or whatever", but his portrayal of Spider-Man was excellent to me...the mixture of the emo-kid with out of control emotions to the wise-cracking Spidey we all love worked really well, and gave a humorous edge to an otherwise gritty, dark story. Also, TASM 1 has my absolute FAVORITE Spider-Suit ever....super textured (like the Man of Steel Superman suit) and a little on the darker side of the spectrum (plus the eyes were black in the first movie...I LOVED that). I felt the skateboarding and the hairstyle was just an attempt to modernize the Parker side of the character (remember, nerdy is the new sexy) to make him a more contemporary "nerd" as opposed to the "Urkel/Screech" type nerd most people think of in a movie or television show...Andrew was a WONDERFUL Spider-Man, and I hope to get to see him don the suit a few more times. I honestly thought that the Venom universe was going to be related to the TASM series....I thought that would have been a nice little retcon...finding out that Eddie Brock lived in the same universe as this version of Spidey.

Love the Raimi trilogy for giving us the whimsy straight out of the comics, corny, off the wall, overall solid and charming comic book fun. Tobey is amazing and really conveys the conflicts and personality of Peter Parker. Also the memes. Love the memes. The Amazing movies are a lot more grounded, and I’m disappointed we didn’t get to see more of what they had planned for this series with all they had set up. Andrew Garfield is definitely different from Tobey, but I like how he’s a lot more subtle in how he shows he’s a loner and a nerd with his vocal delivery and mannerisms. Wish we didn’t bother with the parents subplot, I like Gwen a lot more than Mary Jane with her chemistry with Peter, and I’m really glad Garfield got another chance in NWH. MCU Spidey is pretty good, nothing else I can really say. A younger-looking Peter is really great, and I love Tom Holland selling how he’s just a boy filling in a huge role in a massive world. In a world with the Avengers, they nailed a Spider-Man to fit that universe. Into the Spiderverse is still head and shoulders above the lot in my opinion. Absolute masterpiece.

Peter was a skater because Andrew thought that if HE was Spider-Man, that would be how he chose to express himself (similar to how Miles uses graffiti)

I'm a huge Spiderman fan. He's always been my favorite hero. Andrew Garfield did a great job, it breaks my heart people give him such a hard time. The movies were enjoyable at the end of the day and you could tell he loved being the character

What annoyed me most from this film was how the trailers and posters always made The Rhino seem like a major threat and character in the movie, despite how little he's in the movie for. They hyped up the fight between Spiderman vs. Rhino so much before this movie's release only to be completely blue balled by the anti-climactic finish between the two characters. We'll sadly never get to see what a 3rd installment of this particular Spiderman franchise would look like.

I think Andrew felt the most like Spider-Man because he actually had quips when he was fighting and they were actually great and played off well. Tom Holland is more like a dumbfounded teen who's lost all the time. 'Whoah that's like a super big metal horn you got there Mr. Rhino person.'

I like the decision that Peter never finds Ben's killer. Kinda similar to Batman in the sense that part of his motivation is he'll never truly get closure.

The glasses nitpick is funny, because peter in the og comics also wore them for quite a while after he got bit by a spider. He only stopped using them after flash broke 'em in issue 8. Also, wasn't Captain Stacy supposed to be right in that scene? Because of that conversation Peter realised that his actions, up until this point, were selfish, so he stopped going after uncle Ben's killer and actually became a hero. Also, again, Peter in the og comics was also a fucking asshole, up until his uncle died. He believed that his aunt and uncle were the only people who loved him, so he thought he had nothing to give back to the world. But to be fair, Andrew's Peter definitely had a good heart from the beginning, since he stopped flash from bullying a kid earlier on in the movie. Your point is still somewhat valid, just in a different way than you intented to present it.

“Andrew Garfield is too good looking” meanwhile Holland is a literal tween heartthrob lol I’ll never buy that statement

i grew up on raimi movies and the idea of spiderman producing web and shooting them from his wrist just seems natural to me, now that i understand the comics more it would make way more sense for him to produce them naturally if he was in a universe where he was a mutant instead of a superhuman.

I think Andrew would have worked better as a slightly older, more experienced Spider-man, one who is already in college, more use to his powers, greater level of overall confidence. Still a bit dorky, and nerdy, but much less so than he is at the start of the comics kind of thing. I mean the general audience already knew Spider-man's origin, so doing it again seemed pointless to me, and would have worked better to skip over that part.

"Sometimes I prefer Andrew's Spiderman over Toby's interpretation. But I know I'm putting myself into a guillotine by sayings that" Literally 90% of people after watching NWH: Andrew Garfield was amazing and we're creating petition to make TASM 3 or at least the next Venom with Andrew as Spiderman.

I’m glad more people are talking about this. All the Spider-Man actors are extremely talented and capable of playing the characters in numerous ways. What people take issue with is the writing and tone etc. things the actors don’t get to chose. All the Spider-Man actors are great and each one could be “The best Spider-Man ever” with the right script.

Now that No Way Home has been out for a while, I want to mention how I loved the scene when Andrew Garfield managed to catch MJ. It was a complete recreation to the scene that happened with Gwen, but this time he was able to succeed where he had failed before. Then you see him getting emotional and beginning to tear up and MJ is the one to ask if he was okay. Loved that scene. No Way Home has it's problems, but when it hits, it hits.

Elvis just completely brushed over the part where he dodges a freaking bullet

The bridge scene imo was the "transition" you were wishing they added. This is the first time he chose to use his powers to really save somebody, and you can tell the interaction from the father of the kid he just saved hits him hard. He liked the felling that happy ending gave him and realized he would never get his uncle ben back, but he could help prevent other peoples "uncle bens" from dying. This is why the murder plot is dropped from here on, he has moved past it and has officially "become spiderman", accepting his responsibility. While they didn't beat us over the head and treat us like idiots spoon feeding this information to us, it's all there.

The Lizard was actually capable of telepathically communicating and controlling other reptiles in the comics

the second had a really good deleted scene after Gwen’s death, it’s so strange to see it cut off because it adds so much to it

electro's theme carrys the movie. it's honestly one of my fav theme songs. so the fact elvis didn't mention it made me cry

Fun Fact: The reason this Peter Parker has a skateboard, is because is Andrew is a skateboard nerd and suggested it to Marc Webb.

I took his “WOOOOOOOOO” as a call back to the raimi films when tobey did it after first climbing the wall after being bit

Peter making the web in the sewer is probably the smartest thing I've seen in any Spider-Man movie.

56:30 Fun fact: water, on its own, isn't that conductive. It usually has to have an electrolyte mixed in with it, like sodium hydroxide.

I believe that Andrew's Peter is supposed to be another take on the nerd character. I had just revisited the movie and it's not the classic "broken glasses, only loves books" kind of nerd we're usually looking at in old movies and how it's usually stereotypically portrayed. It's more of an outcast/wallflower kind of nerd. He's more introverted, but he's not overly nerdy. You can see that he's trying to be more confident in the beginning of the movie, prior to being Spider-Man, but he lacks the real power to back it up. Though he's not the classic nerd that Stan Lee and Steve Ditko originally designed, I can see what Webb was going for and I honestly think it works in his progression as Spider-Man in this certain movie.

I do think Andrew Garfield’s movies are the “worst” but I still really enjoy both of them

That spider that bit him in AS1 was dead, the one he saw walking on his skateboards was just a different, house spider, different size and color, it was just to demonstrate his spidey senses and ability to detect other spiders (and possibly a wink and nod or foreshadow to being able to control/summon spiders)

I remember when i was like 7 or 8 i watched the amazing spiderman 2, and for some reason as soon as electro's ass showed up on the screen, i couldn't stop screaming. Like when him and spiderman actually started fighting, my mom took me OUT of the theatre because I was so genuinely terrified that i was screaming and crying. I feel bad for the other people who were watching this movie cuz i bet it wasn't even that serious and child me was just dramatic lol.

The common complaint of skateboarding making Peter "too cool" makes me think that whoever is saying that clearly doesn't remember that skaters weren't cool....

The “everything flying out the plane because of the windows breaking out” thing is just not how it works. Rapid depressurization just doesn’t really do that (although I doubt he would be-able to keep typing). So all in all that scene is more realistic then 90% of other movies. Although it still in no way is completely realistic.

just learned that a lot of well known directors today started off with directing music videos like michael bay, david fincher, and marc webb

21:34 actually that’s the real reason why I like the Toby Spider-Man. He doesn’t actually have to reload the web shooters. They’re more organic instead of having to stop reload, midflight another cartridge and continue the fighting. No tell me just can constantly shoot them out of his wrist and that’s what makes Toby the superior Spider-Man more better than Tom Holland and way more better than Andrew Garfield. Also, Tom Holland is a it’s not really a Spider-Man to me

I think that the first Amazing Spider-Man movie was a great "modern" take on the Spider-Man origin story. I liked the web shooters and the suit especially. Even though the suit didn't look that good, it looked like something that someone could produce on their own with stuff ordered online. Also a lot of the stunts were actually live action and that's a huge plus every time.

Andrew I feel gets too much hate, I think he did a fine job I’m just glad to see him come back

I actually enjoyed the Amazing Spider-Man more than any of the Toby Maguire movies.

Andrew is by far the best Spider-Man. Great acting, he actually ACTS like Spider-Man should in the suit. No disrespect to your opinion on how the others voice sounds but I think Andrew nailed how Peter should sound. Tom is too shrill, and Tobey was way too quiet in the suit. The quips he rarely used were very good tho.

Garfield is one of the greatest actors of our generation. The movies themselves are pretty meh but his performance is just brilliant. If anyone’s interested, look up his performance in Angels in America, an 8 HOUR stage play where he steals the show and won a Tony award for his performance

I actually think it's better that peter isn't a classic nerd and is more of a loner. It fits the setting and time period they're trying to portrait

The problem with these two movies is certainly the plot and not Andrew Garfield. Andrew Garfield’s portrayal is as good as the other 2 and I liked all 3 of them in NWH. I feel like the plot for these two wasn’t as strong as Tobey and Tom’s solo movies and this wasn’t Andrew’s fault

I've just discovered your channel. I love your commemtary. The editing is awesome too.

in peter's defense, i wouldnt help a shopowner who wouldnt let me take my drink over a few cents, especially with his "10 dollars minimum for take a penny" store policy my ass

Honestly the death of Gwen in the 2nd movie is still one of the most tragic scenes in any superhero movie for me. Both of these movies have a crapload of problems, but they also have absolute strokes of brilliance far above any of what the Raimi movies did. It's a shame it wasn't consistent at all

Your mention of "after he tortured that mugger with the knife we should have had a scene where he takes off his mask and is questioning if what he's doing is right" was really intruiging. I wish we got something like that in one of the newer movies. e3e We dont see much of Spiderman questioning if he's wrong or right in what he's doing

1:18:40 "The score was abysmal." I have to strongly disagree. Especially since that includes Electro's Theme, and, well, I love that theme. I just enjoy electronic music though, that's just me. But I really don't think it's bad, very much the opposite.

Andrew still wearing his glasses after the spider bite could be a reference to the old comics where Peter still wore his glasses when he wasn’t being spider man.

Stan Lee didn't actually want Gwen Stacy to die. He's not the one that wrote it. One of the writers killed her off while he was on vacation. They had far more leeway back then to do what they wanted. Side note if you want to see a Spider-Man like character that shoots web out of his butt, check out the Venture Brothers. Brown recluse or something like that.

7:44 I like to think that even though the bite made his vision better, it gave him eyesight that a bit too good for him to handle. He wears the glasses to make it more blurry. Like how MCU Peter had shades that Tony couldn't even see through.

38:16 id like to point out that, while that seems obvious that the lens cap is down the "both eyes open" shooting technique is a viable method for shooting red dot sights having such large goggles on. If you cover the front end of the optic it still projects the red dot and your eyes super impose it over the area that you are looking at. (usually the front sight post) making it easier to engage close targets just having to use one point of aim

About Peter never finding Ben's killer; That was my favorite element of the original Death Wish. The vigilante lashes out at random street thugs hoping desperately to get the right guy by accident someday. But he never does. Eventually it stops even mattering any more. I like that Spiderman started down that path and directed it to good.

Andrew Garfield is not a bad “Spider-Man”. He doesn’t have the greatest movie, but has the greatest performance from an actor. He’s such a good actor and doesn’t need the hate. He played the best Spider-Man (just get rid of the skateboard)

Not gonna lie, i was always 100% team Toby, but after seeing Garfield's performance in No Way Home and rewatching the Amazing Spider-Man films, i think I've actually come around to team Garfield. I still prefer the first two Rami movies, but i genuinely think that Garfield is the best live-action Spiderman and want to see more of him.

Fun fact: the pictures shown at 50:48 are actually pictures of the spider-man noir comics green goblin rather than the earth 616 comics goblin.

I always loved Andrew Garfield’s movies since I was a kid. People switched up so fast after NWH dropped.

The best thing about TASM and why it's my favourite spiderman is Andrew Garfield. He's an amazing actor. Every single emotional scene where Peter Parker is just being a down to earth human with problems is where I feel like he really shines through. When it comes to emotional moment and it's just silent where the actor ability is being tested, Andrew is probably the best one compared with the other 2 spidermen. However, after watching no way home. The last few minutes of the movie truly made him the best Spiderman.

Andrew Garfield is amazing, the writers did him dirty.

Wow your video made me realize the kid at the end of 2 that walks up to the Rhino is the same kid he saved from bullying earlier in the movie or in 1. Whenever it happened lol

Norman's casting was spot on considering his actor looks like he's constantly about to keel over

Sony used the 'main character breaks into a lab to investigate and gets infected with superpowers' setup for The Amazing Spider-Man and liked it so much they recycled it for the first Venom movie.

I was 13 when the first The Amazing Spiderman came out, I never really watched the original trilogy before, my brothers always were more into slashers and horror movies, which meant that I was watching movies like Final Destination, SAW and The Mist at like age 7. I skipped over most comic book movies because they just weren't introduced to me. TAS was my first introduction to spiderman because of this and I absolutely loved both movies in my teens, I was actually upset that they didn't make a third movie back then. Because of this, I always had a bit of a bias for Andrew as spidey and I'm willing to die on the hill that he is at least the second best spiderman.

Imo, the biggest issue with the first film is that it was advertised as being the "Untold story of Peter Parker's parents", except it wasn’t. All it shows is that his parents left him, and him trying to find out why, then that's it. Then it skips ahead to the classic Spider-Man story: Peter gets bit, Uncle Ben dies, Peter tries to find Uncle's killer, and now he has to deal with The Lizard. It's like for the rest of the movie, Peter just forgot about the mystery behind his parents, so the entire plot just feels out of place.

I actually think andrew garfield is a great spiderman and a great actor who actually behaves and emotes like a real person. I think he was just given a sub-par script.

I feel bad for Andrew he’s kind of like the “middle child”. I think his movies were great but the first one was definitely better.

It kinda is accurate that he becomes a bully on a power trip for a while when he gets the powers.. people also forget that he became a TV celebrity at the start of his spider man career too

51:19 sadly a lot of the time this is how electrical accidents happen, because bosses want the job to be finished quick and right away or the workers themselves just want to get it done quickly and then start disregarding safety measures or forgetting about them