Dragon
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Actually, I can tell you from seeing the sizzle reel at the Untold Story evet, he doesn't appear 'shy' in any way in this film, he's a contempory 'geek' who has trouble talking to girls, that's as far as his shyness goes. In fact I'd convey it more as 'awkwardness' what this Peter Parker gives off not shyness. He stands up to Flash before he even gets bit, and gets beaten up for it.
I was at the Untold Story event (Garfield was at my theater- seems like a cool guy). Peter's scene with Gwen reflects shyness. You can also call it awkwardness- same difference. But Peter clearly wouldn't have even spoken to Gwen had he not been outted by Ben.
As for the Flash thing- being shy doesn't mean you're a wimp. You can be shy and yet still stand up and do the right thing (I say this from personal experience).
edit: and I didn't comment on the rest of the post because theres no point, each movie have their differences from the material, this one we have yet to see how that fares. If they were going to rip it straight from the pages then why not just give us the bloody book to read?
I agree to a point. Sure this film shouldn't be a word-for-word retelling. But there are also many successful movies that are accurate to the source material (Harry Potter/ Twilight/ Hunger Games) and even great ones (Silence of the Lambs/ Shawshank Redemption/ Green Mile).
And what always gets me regarding the reboot is that you have folks cheering Webb on for the very things that they trash Raimi over.