So Much Spider-Man...

In 2007 I saw Spider-Man 3 in theatres and if you had told me that 10 years later we would have two more Spider-Man franchises with different actors and stories then I would have found that ridiculous. Once Amazing Spider-Man was announced, the majority of people were against it, rebooting the franchise after only 5 simple years, and here we are again, Spider-Man being rebooted for 2017 just 3 years after the previous film, and while there are plenty of people against the idea of it being rebooted, the majority seem to be all for it. But my question is: Why?

Spider-Man 3 was not a good movie by most fans' standards, it's universally disliked, they reboot it, everyone is angry. Amazing Spider-Man 2 was also not a good movie according to most people, they reboot it, everyone is fine, the only difference being it's being co-produced by Marvel, even though Sony still have final creative say over everything, so in reality, nothing's changed. Also why is it Spider-Man that everyone has such strong opinions about getting rebooted? The Dark Knight Rises was released in 2012 and people either loved or hated that movie, 4 years later we get a new Batman in Batman V Superman, yet i have heard literally no one complain about getting the Batman character rebooted so quickly. Spider-Man has a bad movie and a reboot 5 years later, that's a crime, Batman has a mixed movie and a reboot 4 years later, that's okay...What!?

Finally, I have to ask why does the timeline matter? Why does it make a difference if a character is rebooted 5 years or 50 years apart, because be honest, if The Amazing Spider-Man was coming out 50 years after Spider-Man 3 and was the exact same movie, you wouldn't have been as sceptical going into it. And even now with Amazing Spider-Man 2 I heard plenty of people still criticising the fact that it's a reboot, surely you had enough to complain about with that movie? Just let it go already. And these same people are all for Spider-Man getting rebooted just because he's part of the Marvel universe? Because that's not hypocritical at all...

-Danny