A Sort of Defense of The Amazing Spiderman

This will not be as spirited a defense as my Man of Steel thing.  Part of it really is the whole reboot fatigue thing, what with this new version coming out a scarce 5 years after Spiderman 3; not to mention that the whole concept of "gritty" franchise reboots (fresh and novel when Batman Begins and Casino Royale first premiered in the mid-'00s) had already worn thin by 2012, and are mainly now just another sign of the utter creative bankruptcy of contemporary Hollywood.

Yet though I, too...