Watched The Amazing Spider-man. I was a little worried, since I was a fan of the Raimi trilogy (yes, I even find some redeeming value in the third one), and it was such a short time before doing a reboot. However I was very impressed. While there were certain qualities about Tobey Maguire's Peter Parker that I liked, such as he altruistic nature, his innocent shyness, etc., the nature of a different Peter was quite interesting. This Peter was darker, less noble, less responsible, more angry. He isn't always just a good kid. He still starts out as a bullied nerd, but he grows into a responsible hero, and instead of the cliched "With great power..." line (yes, I know it comes straight from the comics), he slowly figures it out over the course of the movie. The villain was surprisingly frightening, Spider-man more vulnerable to lethal actions, the action more realistic (insofar as is possible for a Spider-man film), and the villain far more frightening than any in the Raimi films. I really liked this movie, with its only less favorable aspect being that it took me a while to actually care about Garfield as the protagonist compared to Maguire who instantly earned my sympathy. But even that was a well done stroke in his character's growth, so I can't really fault it for that.