You're probably right about that lol I generally like to think people are more positive or progressive but clearly that's not the case. I think I'm just going off of what I know of people outside of the Internet and how I'm used to interacting with people and I can always get a real reasoning behind any change in belief or opinion. I will pose this to you though just as a thought: Could the influx of difference of opinions now be from members who just didn't want to speak up on their opinions between 02-07? I wasn't here but from what you say, it was pretty much all praise all the time, but what if there were people who were afraid to speak on their differences of opinions and now that there is a reboot and that era of Spider-man films are over and done, they can now come out and speak their minds..just a theory.
A theory very close to the truth, regardless of what spideyhero12 aka Mr recognition may think.
I was chastised and even banned on occasion simply because my opinion went against the grain of those that adored and loved Raimi's movies. Every argument and criticism that is now being made against Raimi is nonsense to me because it's old stuff that I was saying years ago on these very boards, the only difference was I was vocal about it to the point that it attracted attention, people felt offended that their beloved Raimi couldn't please everyone and surprise surprise, flame wars occurred.
Many of the reasons why this reboot is even happening is because of things that I predicted way back in 2003/2004 with the way these movies were heading and the joke in all this is, trying to reason with rabid fanboys when there's no benchmark to compare other spidey movies to is often a waste of time because it's like their brains shut down and go into zombie mode, marching to the mantra of Raimi is a god, everything else is stupid.
Now, in the advent of films in this genre being handled better and with quality productions out there and with a new spidey movie on the horizon, some people are believe it or not are slowly having the scales removed from their eyes and can see the limitations of the spidey movies and now have higher expectations for a movie based on the characters.
For starters, I remember vividly, spideyhero12 would often cite that nobody else could come close to portraying Parker better than Maguire and I'm pretty sure he still believes that JK Simmons can't be topped. The fact is, up until recently, there were too many people here with closed minds and I always swore that I'll be here to broadcast the words, "I told you so" when we get a new spidey film that illuminates the mediocrity of Raimi's movies.
Good movies are good movies regardless of when they're made. Die Hard is still one of the best action movies of all time, From Russia With Love is still one of the best Bond and spy movies of all time. Raimi's spidey movies had a some great scenes but the movies as whole pieces of work just didn't cut the mustard for me and now, many people are only starting to realize this.
