User blog comment:UltimateBub/What Spidey film was better?/@comment-4651179-20130630213409

The main thing I didn't like of Sam Raimi's films was that they were cheesy, but I still loved them. In my opinion, Spider-Man 2 is the best film of the original trilogy, a great villain, a hero facing his destiny before it was cool, awesome fight scenes (I wonder how many times I re-watched the train battle when I was kid) and good dialogues.

But I think The Amazing Spider-Man movie captures better the character of both Spider-Man and Peter Parker. While in the original trilogy had little demostration of Peter being smart, and more of being a loser nerd, The Amazing Spider-Man showed us he was a shy and outcast genius. I also believe the original trilogy was more like a love letter to the 60s-70s, while the new installment is more modern, that's why Raimi's Peter Parker felt somewhat out of place in the 2000s.

So I prefer The Amazing Spider-Man over Spider-Man 2 for a close difference.