Spider-Man 4 or Amazing Spider-Man?
 

It is again relevant with the tease of the J.J. Abraham's mini-series backfiring and talk of building up the Sinister Six. Last night FX aired Spider-Man 3 while the next channel Sci-Fi aired Amazing Spider-Man. Seeing both air at the same time it solidifies for me what I prefer in Spider-Man while noting the flaws in both. It inspired me to ask you all in this small corner of the internet what direction would you have liked? Continue and conclude the McQuire/Raimi movies or see something different in the Garfield/Webb approach? I will keep my opinion out for the moment. I am curious to what the poll will say.

Spider-Man 4, without a doubt. I'm way too emotionally tied to that series to choose otherwise. I love Sam Raimi's take on the character. I love how emotionally hefty it feels, being weighted down in Peter Parker's life and feeling my heart break for him. I also love the sort of nebulous time/setting of his series. It doesn't feel modern but it doesn't feel like the past either.

There's plenty I like about ASM though. A lot I dislike as well, but I enjoy the movie. I actually do like the unique take on Spider-Man's costume, I enjoy Gwen and Peter's chemistry.

Spider-Man 4 cause Raimi's movies were the best. The Amazing movies were just a quick cash grab so Sony could keep the Spidey movie License.

Yeah, that's an easy one. Spider-Man 3 gets a lot of sh** but by no means was that a franchise-killing blow. Sony should have just licked their wounds, learned to give Raimi some space, and let him do Spider-Man 4 for sure.

The idea of Felicia Hardy as "Vulture Jr" isn't one I'm fond of but I doubt it would have been any worse than what we got with ASM.

I really wanted them to go with The Lizard in 4. They literally spent the first 3 movies slowly setting that up with Dr. Connors.

Same. I think Raimi would have done a great job with The Lizard, based on his penchant for horror.

I also think his Vulture could have been fun, in a creepy way. I don’t know if that’s what he would have gone for though.

Was the Lizard ever actually considered by Raimi despite the build? We know Vulture and Vulturess (Adrian's daughter melded with Black Cat) and Mysterio makes a cameo.

I believe I've heard it had been in and out of consideration. Pretty sure you can even find concept art with a quick search.

We should have gotten up to Spiderman 5 before that universe ended and we moved onto Marvel Universe Spiderman.

I'm still betting Tobey Maguire gets a "crossover" in the Marvel universe someday. His movies are 20 years old now, perfectly ripe for nostalgia milking as all the kids who watched him are now adults.