Yeah sure, there are multiple interpretations but that's the same with every good hero, but let's take a look at Superman, do you really want to see 30mins of film before he even appears again? Do we need the whole Krypton backstory? No, we don't hit home with Superman, no need to re-tread old footsteps of Kal-El. In the same respect, Batman covered little beyond the death of his parents, so Begins covered his training. And through all of these reboots and remakes, we usually know one thing, a good amount of time has passed or the content of the series has drifted so far from it's original basis and has lost so much money lately, Superman IV, Batman & Robin e.t.c. That they gave it a break and chilled out to return a new.
Did any of these happen with Spider-Man, no. It got the origin story well told and personally I think it struck a good balance between the long origin story (Superman/Batman Begins) and the quick straight into the action story (Batman '89).
Point is, that not enough time has passed really since the first movie to go rebooting. It's been LESS THAN A DECADE! I mean there was this much time between Batman & Robin and Batman Begins, but at least there there were no movies in between.
Most importantly perhaps from a business stand-point this doesn't make sense. It's going to alienate and confuse the audience. The previous three Spider-Man movies have made close to $3billion combined. Are we really about to say that they were unsuccessful movies, no. They were not, Spider-Man 3 (or in a few people's opinions the whole series) might have sucked but it was still successful. Spider-Man 4, if made into a good tighter movie and given the short relief between movies will probably break the $1 billion mark. Can you honestly tell me that no matter how popular Spider-Man is that a reboot would make as much money? It won't I doubt it'll even go beyond $700m and yeah you can say, well they sacrificed some money for better quality movie. Bullshit, I work in this industry and I know that is never the case especially when it's like $200million and up, which is not "some money", it's a hell of a lot.
Sorry guys, mawk, I understand what you're trying to say, I really do, but I just think that it's too soon to reboot. I'm not asking for Spider-Man 4, I just think that even if the trilogy of $800m+ movies was as bad as ten Transformers 2's. It's still far too soon to reboot a franchise that is so successful. Whether we might think it was a good film or not doesn't matter, 1 & 2 were both critically and commercially successful movies. 3 was commercially successful at the very least and in some aspects critically too.
