User blog comment:Mr. Xemnas/2 seperate marevl cinematic universe's?????/@comment-1895174-20130201050316/@comment-1895174-20130202190859

The Amazing Spider-Man is not that well-received by the general public. In fact, the biggest complaint against the movie was "It's too similar to the other movies", a complaint that wouldn't even exist if it wasn't a reboot. And that complaint took it all the way to being the lowest grossing of the four Spider-Man films - which, like First Class is pretty pathetic given a decade of ticket price inflation (and even worse when throwing in 3D ticket prices) - and only has a Tomatometer and Metacritic rating higher than Spider-Man 3.

Besides, the whole point isn't if audiences like reboots, it's that they don't always get them. And that's going to be even more difficult when the reboot is situated between films of the previous series and isn't even revealed to be a reboot until 3 years after it released. Never mind that a film in the other series is going to be used as the launching pad for the other franchises FOX wants to launch, so, if it is a reboot, that means they're going to have to run a reboot alongside the original series as well as other spin-off franchises...yeah. I wouldn't blame anyone for getting confused and turning away.