The Amazing Spider-Man · reception & legacy
2012 · Marc Webb
How The Amazing Spider-Man has been received, argued over, and remembered.
The arc
Landed in 2012 to shrugs — a reboot just five years after Raimi, widely read as Sony keeping the rights warm — but Andrew Garfield's stock has soared since, and post-No Way Home the film gets a much warmer second look.
What's debated
The eternal fan debate it fuels: was Garfield a great Spider-Man stuck in not-great movies — and did the world do him dirty by cutting his run short?
Its footprint
It's the origin point of the internet's Andrew-Garfield-as-Spidey affection — the campaign to give him a third movie, and years of memes about his (long-denied) return in No Way Home, all trace back here.
Where it stands
The middle child of Spider-Man screen canon — long dismissed as the skippable reboot, now semi-reclaimed by a generation that grew up with Garfield and Stone.