TheRetroCritic

With the release of this new, slick Spidey reboot, there's been a lot of Sam Raimi bashing with people praising the new film for not being as silly as those early noughties efforts. I liked those movies! Well... the first two anyway. Then again the third one was pretty   lol... My point is these were fun comic-book flicks which, for the most part, got the cartoonish spirit of the comics and brought Spider-Man to us for the first time on the big screen. Sure those movies had their problems and there was a hell of a lot of shark-jumping going on in all of them but Spider-Man was never Marvel's darkest, moodiest character. One villain was a bird for crying out loud! An old man bird! That's freakin' ridiculous. Raimi delivered good old-fashioned popcorn entertainment. It was goofy but we loved it. Now comes The Amazing Spider-Man , a reboot with a brand new cast, a brand new approach and brand new everything. This time, we concern ourselves a bit more wit