Spot on.
Decent
Meh
Terrible
I always wonder if people actually remember what Peter was like in the comics when they complain about him.
Or maybe, it's that they do, and that's why they hate Garfield so much.
Peter would never just tell a girl that he didn't even know that he was Spider-Man like he told Gwen in these movies.
Before someone brings up Ultimate Spider-Man, I will say that Peter thought of MJ as his best friend when he told her. At the start of ASM 1, Peter didn't even know that Gwen knew his name.
616-Peter was freaked out when MJ told him that she knew. And he tried to think of ways he could convince her that she was wrong. And this was someone he had known for years by that point.
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They wanted to depict Gwen as perfect and good and always understanding so her death would hit that much harder. But there was no tension in their relationship. Their relationship was nothing but two pretty people making goo goo eyes at each other. They tried to insert some tension into ASM 2, but then she was cool with Peter stalking her.
Some people try to argue that he was more of an asshole like Ditko era Peter. But Ditko era Peter was a loner who basically devoted his life to Spider-man and making a living to care for his aunt. He kept other people at an arms length and ended the one true romance he had because of Spider-man (cough cough the first two Sam Raimi movies.) I know the DB was referenced in TASM2, but did Peter even have a job in TASM?
He also wouldn't have handwaved his promise to Captain Stacy like he did at the end of TASM1 as it flies in the face of his origin story. To some extent I get why they did it, but they really made a mess of Peter's characterization in those movies. He was oddly moody, broody, and infatuated with Gwen.
Uncle Ben dies in the beginning as a motivation for Peter. They had years together, so they don't need much screen time to have a believable relationship. That's not the same with Gwen, whom he meets during the movie
And I've never had a problem with them not talking about Uncle Ben
I voted Meh. He played a Peter Parker I just didn't recognize and his Spider-Man was kind of annoying honestly.
I know some will probably say that he's better than Holland because he doesn't have a connection to Tony Stark but I really just can't get behind that, especially considering the emphasis this series placed on his obsession with his dead boring parents.