Maguire somewhat overplayed the nerdiness/lameness but Garfield's Peter wasn't nerdy at all and he was also pretty lacking in charisma.
shareI didn't think at any point during the film he was a nerd or an outsider, the attempts put in were just aesthetics. The script doesn't give anything for Garfield to work with.
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"Maguire somewhat overplayed the nerdiness/lameness but Garfield's Peter wasn't nerdy at all and he was also pretty lacking in charisma."
Was Peter Parker ever meant to be a charismatic person? In the live action TV series from the 1970s he was a clumsy hypochondriac who couldn't get a date. Garfield's Peter Parker showed a bit of clumsiness after his newly endowed super strength caused him to wreck the bathroom. He still had an awkwardness about him when he tried to talk to anyone of the opposite sex.
"Maguire somewhat overplayed the nerdiness/lameness but Garfield's Peter wasn't nerdy at all and he was also pretty lacking in charisma."
Was Peter Parker ever meant to be a charismatic person?
In this movie, Parker is portrayed out of character, as an arrogant bully and a bad boy.
Even Flash seems more human and likable.
Parker is supposed to be a bit more awkward and nerdy.
Ummm in the Steve ditko comics lee wrote Peter as an angry teen almost a dick . There sites that say if it wasn't for bad guys and uncle ben spidey would have become a villain . After he got outa high school he became more good hearted and kind
shareAndrew Garfield's acting is better than Tobey's in my opinion, but the ASM film is still bland in that check-the-boxes, sweetly non-offensive way. I don't regret seeing it, but I can see why Sony stopped making these as it was obvious it wasn't going anywhere with audiences.
The new Spider-Man: Homecoming is so much better. For once, he really feels like a teenager. Right mix of Peter Parker arrogance and immaturity, but we also get a sense of a boy learning to become something greater.