Tobey Maguire: The Amazing Spider-Man

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Since 2000, there have been 3 different guys to play Spider-Man in the movies. From 2002-2007, being in 3 movies, Tobey Maguire was the first Spider-Man. From 2012-2014, Andrew Garfield got his chance at the role as the Amazing Spider-Man appearing in two films. In 2016, during Capitan America Civil War, we got introduced to the latest Spider-Man, 21-year Tom Holland. Being such a comic movie nerd as I am, of course I have seen all the movies and decided to give my take on how the 3 guys rank. Please note that this is all my own opinion and I will discuss the person in order of appearance first then finish by my ranking. Tobey Maguire first appeared as Spider-Man in the 2002 Spider-Man movie. This was the first time to see the real life superhero on the big screen and I thought that Maguire nailed the role. He was witty and smart, and had all the traits of a the well known Peter …show more content…

Despite a recreation of the original movie in 2002, I thought Garfield was really good at the role. Him and Emma Stone (aka Gwen Stacy) portrayed the roles, should I say amazingly? My biggest issue was that I don’t feel like Garfield was, how do I put this, nerdy enough? The wit and looks were totally there and he really did play Spider-Man really well, I just felt like the way the movie was scripted just didn’t show enough of the nerdy side of him. I did believe that if the movies were done better, Garfield had a shot to join the avenger phases. Seeing how the first of the two movie in which Garfield star in was released in 2012, he was set up easily to jump right into the 2nd phase of the avengers. The only issue was, there was no link between the Amazing Spider-Man movies and the avengers. If director Marc Webb, again not bashing him at all here, was given a chance to link the Amazing Spider-Man movies with the avengers, I do believe Garfield would have stayed on longer as

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