2. Conveniences and plot holes: No one found it convienent that Peter’s father worked with Spiders, alongside Dr. Connors, who employs Gwen Stacy, at Oscorp, home of the Green Goblin? Or that Uncle Ben’s killer is completely forgotten by the end of the movie? How about the thug that yells “We know what you look like” just as Peter awakes to see a luchador ad? Or the not so subtle pointing out of the aerosol device. Think that might come up later? Where’s Pete getting the money for this space age suit? He’s not selling pictures to the Daily Bugle, one of the defining tropes of Spider-man. How’s Dr. Connors getting the power down in the sewer? If Peter sees an article online about his Dad dying in a car crash, why would he scream “where is he” to Uncle Ben? After a flying half court dunk and bending a goal post, some high schooler’s not going to put 2+2 together? What happened to Connors’ boss on the bridge? The list goes on and on.

3. The Aunt May relationship: It would appear the studio hired Sally Field to walk around with a horrified look on her face and cry. Her and Peter never have a bonding moment that even comes close to the emotion in the Raimi films. And after you’ve freaked out on your adopted son for coming home with cuts and bruises, you then just hug him when he comes home looking even worse!? It’s either bad writing or bad editing.

4. THIS is emo spidey: Everyone had kittens when Raimi decided to go with a poor joke briefly in a montage where Peter had a haircut indicative of a teenage movement called emo. What he didn’t do is have Peter act completely emotionally stunted for at least an hour, sputtering out hems and haws that made it look like he has a brain condition. And for all the talk about getting Spidey back to funny, this was a very melodramatic piece. There’s a laugh at May’s Meatloaf and with Stan Lee, but after seeing the Small Knives clip in 100+ TV ads, it loses it’s merit.

5. The Lizard: You can’t relate to him, you don’t feel bad for him, his face looked ridiculous and the CGI looked like it was from 10 years ago.

6. Where is the reaction to a “Spider-Man”?: There’s suddenly a dude in tights webbing through the city and everyone other than the police is basically OK with it? It’s just a given? There needed to be more outsider reaction to the phenomenon as done in the previous franchise, the Nolan Batman, and even to a degree, the Avengers.

7. Don’t do an after scenes credit that even comic book fans don’t comprehend.

8. Great power. Great responsibility: It has to be there

Raimi’s films were a tribute to the classic Lee/Ditko character of Spiderman. This adaptation obviously is culling from Bendis’ Ultimate Spider-Man. If fine with that, but it lacks Bendis’ knack for dialog and his integration of super heroics and teen drama. The myriad of writers and the inexperience of director Marc Webb is obviously the issue.