[Poison Shadow]

I liked the movie quite a bit, and honestly I thought Andrew Garfield was the absolute perfect choice for Peter Parker/Spider-Man. I could've done without the skateboarding scenes, but that's just personal preference because I never pictured Peter having that particular hobby.

Now, I honestly didn't care too much for Lizard. I don't remember there being any sort of references to either his wife or son (although supposedly they WERE cast, but scenes were cut out) and that right there is a major motivation for Curt's character to fight his lizard side, and without them, he was just another mad scientist with dual personalities.

I also thought the Lizard's cgi was quite poor, but I'll reserve final judgement until I see him clearly on Blu-Ray.

But Spidey's character was so spot-on and that was enough to make this new movie my favorite of the four. There were plenty of quips (some of them appropriately corny) as well as there being a few subtle touches that were just perfect, such as when Spidey leaps out from the sewers and takes just a quick second to kick the manhole cover back into place before moving on. He was being responsible, people!

Speaking of which, I may be in the minority, but I'm damn happy the "With great power..." line was cut. I'm so SICK of that line. Seriously, if I never hear it again I'll be extremely pleased. Plus... people don't seem to realize that, in Spider-Man's very first appearance in the comics, Uncle Ben NEVER SAID IT! It was the narrator. Peter never heard it. So for those two reasons, I'm glad the line wasn't used.

Few notes:

-Not happy about him taking his webs (ahem - sorry - "biocables") straight from Oscorp. Why not make it a formula he finds in his dad's files?
-How many people know Peter (or at least random highschooler #1) is Spider-Man? Between him being unmasked several times, and falling from the top of a building, swinging down to street level and landing on a chair right beside a traffic-jammed street... what, no one saw? That irked me.
-People seem to think Peter stopped looking for Uncle Ben's killer... but why? The whole "vigilante" segment was him trying to find the guy, and after that WHEN would he find the time? His life got hectic QUICK, folks. Plus he had the police sketch pinned to his wall in the final shot of his room, so obviously his search isn't done yet.