I'll grant you that Sam Raimi and Sony have done a stellar job with the Spider-Man franchise but they haven't exactly stuck to the "cource" either. Or am I the only one who remembers the organic web shooter brouhaha??!!t: Now hardly anyone mentions that. Or jumping right over Gwen Stacy, Betty, and Liz Allen as prior Peter Parker girlfriends and going straight to Mary Jane. Or making Otto Octavius a crusading scientist? Or "Power Ranger" Green Goblin? If the changes are handled well enough, the fans eventually come around to accept them. We haven't seen the final product yet for FF: ROTSS so we can only reserve judgement until then. Fox has a lot to make up for though, I'll grant you that.
agreed, but sony stuck to the source material for the most part despite the girlfriends', the organic webshooters(a plus in my book) and the GG costume. you can can sit there and go"this is like the comic" while as F4 some of the changes, like in Doom was done poorly and without merit, none other then the suits following what they think is best, like by looking at things that have worked in other films and applying them , when it's not who the characters are.