The future of the Spider-Man movie franchise

Originally posted by ares834
Magneto is a genocidal maniac. He is evil. Sure, in his warped sense of right and wrong what he is doing is "good", but in the end he is every bit as terrible as the humans he is fighting against. Still a great villain and one of my favorites.

I'll give y'all this, that magneto was the antagonist. He was no villain in this movie though, as he had good intentions. He was doing whatever was necessary to prevent the genocide of HIS people and the apocalypse.

One consistent factor that ruins Spider-man (Tobey and Garfield) for me is the love interest - Mary Jane and Gwen.

The first Spider-man movie is an exception, because boobs.

On topic - I don't mind if they drop Garfield.

I love Garfield as Spider-Man. I think he plays him perfect. But even I wouldn't shed a tear if he was dropped because Marvel was taking over.

Originally posted by Firefly218
In DoFP Magneto was justified. It was the government and Trask who were creating weaponry to eliminate mutants. Magneto just took drastic measures for a drastic situation.

I'll give y'all this, that magneto was the antagonist. He was no villain in this movie though, as he had good intentions. He was doing whatever was necessary to prevent the genocide of HIS people and the apocalypse.

I fail to see how having good intentions doesn't make him a villain. Plenty of great villains have good intentions.

Magneto is a bad guy, cool as he is as a character.

Originally posted by Quincy
Magneto is a bad guy, cool as he is as a character.

Yeah, but he's definitely a redeemable bad guy.

Having not read the entire thread, I'm bound to reiterate someone's thoughts, but;
- I really wanted the story to continue in the Raimi universe. New actor? No problem. Didn't hurt 007 or Doctor Who.
Bad guys can always return too.
- I liked that the Raimi villains were tragic, in some way misguided or accidental - much like the books. All the Webb villains seem manufactured to just be evil. Not sure how I feel about that yet. Does that make them more clean cut 'bad guys'?
- Did we really need another origin that took up half the film?

With that said, the future seems like its headed down the Avengers route (obviously) with spin offs, mergers and the like.
Not a bad call, but they need to spread the creativity evenly and make each instalment in this universe work on all levels well.
I'd love to one day see Spidey morally scolding the Punisher and both running into Wolverine spying at a drug deal involving mutant trafficking - but thats extremely unlikely without rebooting everything again.