Thats what you want it to translate into, but what the post really translates into, is "all of you used to love these movies stop jumping on the band wagon".
Um, but very few people seem to have any problem with the movies overall. They still mean a lot to a lot of people. At the same time, that doesn't mean they don't have flaws that could be improved upon. Every film does.
Personally speaking, I was always a bit disappointed by SM1 (at the time of release, people heralded it as the best superhero movie ever, and it simply wasn't for me), but I found SM2 extremely enjoyable (best superhero movie since Batman Returns)
Now, ten years later, I do think they haven't aged as well as some other movies. They play more similar to Adam West's Batman - colorful and semi-comedic - than other, more serious superhero movies. But I still enjoy them greatly - and my appreciation for SM1 has actually improved.
I could see if Marc Webb was doing something really different here but he's not, and it's a waste of a reboot. It feels very much like Superman Returns and not enough like Batman begins.
How is that at all relevant to the conversation? Outside of "you don't like my movies, well I'm not going to like yours either!"
I really don't understand why there has to be this big deal about how bad the Raimi films were. We went through the same thing a few years ago with Keaton vs Bale, and people finally had to accept they are both very different versions of Batman and are great int their own respect.
From what I've read, it really isn't that big of a deal. Raimi's movies were very good, now we have something new that can explore things that Raimi's movies didn't explore. That seems to be the general consensus from what I've read.
Brandon Routhe wasn't a bad Superman, nor is Andrew Garfield a bad Spider-Man, I really like his performance from what I've seen actually, much more so than Maguires even. However, theres just something about the tone and the way this movie feels like tells me Marc Webb doesn't understand the Comics well enough to be heading this project.
Again, that's an entirely separate conversation that once again belies the fact that - for you - it's nothing more than one versus the other competition rather than merely a fair and detailed analysis of each film.
As for Garfield vs Maguire, I think people need to just leave it the way we left Keaton vs Bale. They are both very different versions of Spider-Man and both work in their own respects.
I'm sorry, but I disagree. For me, Maguire was always painful to watch as Spider-Man. I've always felt that way, and I probably always will. The existence of TASM hasn't done a thing to alter that opinion.
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