User blog comment:StanLee4Ever/The Amazing Spider-Man film/@comment-1713281-20111002193646

I think the two big issues are that:

a) It's a reboot of a franchise that we've all just seen. It's like watching the 1968 version of Night of the Living Dead, and then immediately watching the 1990 remake (or to put it in comic terms, reading Amazing Fantasy #15, and then turning around and reading Ultimate Spider-Man #1). It's just too much too soon. Sure, it's not identical, but you can only tell the origin of Spider-Man in so many ways.

b)The fact that it was being written at the same time as Spider-Man four, and that they have now announced a sequel, and Bryce Dallas Howard has mentioned this becoming a trilogy, a lot of people just see it as Sony being money hungry. Cause even if this reboot blows, it will make money, cause it's Spider-Man.