Andrew's Tobey is a jerk but Tobey's isn't? Despite the fact that he just walked away from a guy being mugged and didn't even try calling the police or anything?
Are you serious?
That was the point. Peter was living he life that was too good for him. We see him in the montage watch a bunch of cops and firetrucks drive by and he looks at it for a second then realizes "not my problem anymore" and eats his hot dog happily and walks away.
Then we see him watch the mugging, and it is obvious, PAINFULLY obvious it got to him. But he couldn't do anything, seeing as he was powerless, and it STILL wasn't him anymore. He was trying, selfishly yes, to erase that part of his life.
He finally realizes he needs to step in when he sees the burning building with the kid inside. That is when he realizes he can't just sit by and ignore these things, so he heroically goes in and saves the child, but learns someone else did die in the fire. That is what moves the movie forward into him realizing who he really is and who he must be.
Andrew's Peter is just un-relatable to me. I hate how short and rude he was with his Aunt and Uncle. He was basically fighting with them or disrespecting them in every scene. The scene where he comes home and Aunt May is trying to ask where he has been and he is all angsty "just go ta sleep Aun' May just go ta sleep." It was eye roll-enducing behavior and just came off as childish and irresponsible. He could have handled that way better. I can forgive bits of it, of course like him bringing his dad up (which was really cliche' dialogue to me), even though I think he got a bit out of line.
I also hate he gets his powers by being a nosy little prick. Stealing someone's identity, nosily taking a long look at the papers that doctor dropped, going through doors that say "Keep out" "Danger" etc. It was too much.
Then that whole dinner with Captain Stacy...both sides of theirs made sense. However, both of them handled it so horribly. I hated them both in that scene. Peter came off as arrogant and disrespectful and Stacy came off as a condescending ass.
It was really selfish of him to just expose his identity like that to Gwen when they barely just started...dating (?). I think that could have waited. At least Peter in Raimi's tried really damn hard to keep it back, even rejecting her at the end to keep her safe. But Gwen? "Nope here I am lol."
Oh and then Peter promising Stacy he will stay away from Gwen, which he lives up to for about 4 minutes of screen time before stating "broken promises are the best kind" or whatever. I'm sorry but he just sucks. They really should have kept it like the comic where Stacy asked him to keep Gwen safe, and then she ends up dying. That is way more tragic to me.
Now it's like "well, if you didn't go and break a dying man's promise...
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Andrew's Peter isn't all bad. He had his moments where he shined, but they were few and far between sadly. He is a great, great actor in other pictures though.
Peter wouldn't act like a jerk at dinner with Gwen's family the way Andrew does. Peter was always so nervous about his secret that he felt he couldn't share it even with people he believed he could trust. So the way Andrew reveals it to Gwen willy-nilly was completely against the character.
Exactly.
Tobey cried:
When his uncle died
When he told his Aunt the truth about being the responsible one, after having hid it a secret
Finding out that the man he thought was his Uncle's Killer..wasn't.
When the love of his life dumped him right out of the blue
When his best friend died
Agreed. I felt for him as well. All good reasons to cry.
At least Maguire's Parker wouldn't break a dying man's wish to get some poontang.
Even Norman Osborn said "Peter, don't tell Harry" before dying and wasn't even asking for a promise, and Peter kept it secret.
What a stand up guy.
