Plus, some of the worst scenes in the film are the Sandman scenes... his origin story is laughable (just happening to run into a scientific test pit) and the whole "needing money to pay for his daughter's operation" is just lazy and cliche-ridden storytelling. Plus no one liked the idea of shoehorning him into Ben's death.
This is a shame, because the black suit/love triangle story IS very mature and emotionally intertesting. It will be a challenge to make all this work together.