Jasonic's Favorites: The Amazing Spider-Man

Hello, and good evening, Internet! With this being the movie that launched my Spider-Man fandom, a thousand channels on YouTube, and further encouraged reboots everywhere, this film is special in a lot of ways as well as having the distinction of being the first Spidey review on this blog that I've done from scratch. Released in 2012, The Amazing Spider-Man was Sony's back-up plan for Sam Raimi canceling his plans for Spider-Man 4 to be released in 2011 with Sony desperately wanting to maintain the rights to the character. This certainly caused a lot of backlash from the Spider-Man fandom based on the fact that back then it denied us the chance to see Spider-Man swing into the then-growing Marvel Cinematic Universe as well as how many believed it was something of a "Dark Knight ripoff". While the comparison is sound given that this reboot follows in the footsteps of Batman Begins with its darker tone, retelling of the iconic origin, and deeper, more personal them...