The Amazing Spider-Man (film series)

Summary
Peter Parker (Logan Lerman) is a social outcast teenager living with his uncle Ben and aunt May; Peter's parents were killed in a plane crash when he was only a child at the age of 4. When Peter is bitten by a genentically engineered radioactive spider, he is given spider-like power abilities. Only when his uncle Ben dies, Peter decides to use his powers as the amazing "Spider-Man" to fighting crime including battlling against superpowered villains.

Genres
Action, Adventure, Romance, Sci-Fi and Thriller

Music by
James Horner and Brian Tyler

Soundtrack by
The Amazing Spider-Man music soundtrack score by - Dashboard Confessional

Sequels
The Amazing Spider-Man 2

The Amazing Spider-Man 3

The Amazing Spider-Man 4

The Amazing Spider-Man 5

Characters
Logan Lerman as Peter Parker / Spider-Man

Kirsten Prout as Mary Jane Watson

Ashley Benson as Gwen Stacy

Garrett Hedlund as Harry Osborn / New Goblin

Helen Mirren as Mary Parker - Peter's aunt

Richard Jenkins as Ben Parker - Peter's uncle

James Remar as J. Jonah Jameson

Denis Leary as Captain George Stacy

Rhys Ifans as Dr. Curt Connors / The Lizard

John C. McGinley as Norman Osborn / Green Goblin

Cam Gigandet as Eddie Brock / Venom

Michael C Hall as Cletus Kasady / Carnage /

Anna Hathaway as Flicia Hardy / Black Cat

Vinnie Jones as Aleksei Sytsevich / Rhino

Adam Baldwin as Herman Schultz / Shocker

Mads Mikkelsen as Dr. Otto Octavius / Doctor Octopus

Timothy Olyphant as Mac Gargan / Scorpion

Bill Goldberg as Wilson Fisk / Kingpin

Gerard Butler as Sergie Kravinoff / Kraven the Hunter

Josh Lucas as Max Dillion / Electro

Ioan Gruffud as Quentin Beck / Mysterio

Matthew Fox as Flint Marko / Sandman

Luke Goss as Dmitri Smerdyakov / Chameleon

Sebastian Stan as John Jameson / Man-Wolf

John Malkovich as Adrian Toomes / Vulture

Plot
The Amazing Spider-Man: Peter Parker ( Logan Lerman ) is a social high school teenage outcast and lives in Forest Hills , a quiet neighborhood in the New York City  borough of Queens, with his Uncle Ben ( Richard Jenkins  ) and Aunt May ( Helen Mirren  ). He secretly loves Gwen Stacy ( Ashley Benson ), but he is too shy to approach her. Peter is rivaled with Eddie Brock ( Cam Gigabet ), who is the school bully and has a crush on Gwen as well. Peter’s best friend Harry Osborn ( Garrett Hedlund ) is the son of Dr. Norman Osborn ( John C. McGinley  ), president of the Oscorp manufacturing corporation, which is working to win a contract to supply weapons to the United States Army.

On a field trip to a genetics laboratory, Peter is bitten by a genetically engineered radioactive spider. He passes out in his bedroom at home, and the next day his vision is perfect, he has become more muscular with superhuman strength, his wrists emit web strings, and his reflexes are super-quick. At school, he saves Gwen from falling off the edge of the stairs and easily defeats Eddie in a fistfight, impressing Gwen. Realizing that the spider's bite has given him spider-like powers, he trains himself to scale walls, jump between rooftops, and swing through the city. Wanting to impress Gwen, Peter decides to buy a sports car and enters a tournament. He wins the tournament; however, the man in charge only gives Peter $100 for winning the match early. When a burglar robs the man, Peter takes his revenge by allowing the robber to escape, but he discovers later that the thief killed Uncle Ben during his getaway. Feeling responsible for Ben's death, and feeling guilty for rejecting his advice, Peter dedicates himself to fighting crime as the amazing Spider-Man.

He makes money by selling pictures of himself as Spider-Man to  Daily Bugle  newspaper editor J. Jonah Jameson ( James Remar  ), who declares Spider-Man as a menace to New York. Spider-Man has kept the city save from rubbers and gangs, however, George Stacy ( Denis Leary ), Gwen’s father who is captain of the New York City Police Department, declares a manhunt in capturing Spider-Man for arrest and to unravel his identity in anger of claiming Spider Man making the police department look like a joke. As Spider Man, Peter encounters villains Aleksei Sytsevich ( Vinnie Jones ), who was empowered by scientists and proclaims himself as Rhino , and Felicia Hardy ( Anne Hathaway  ), who follows in her father’s footsteps as a criminal proclaiming herself as Black Cat. After a confrontation with Rhino, Spider-Man defeats him however for Black Cat he allows to get away, since he was unable to catch her in a race in the first place. Before she flees, Black Cat offers to aid Spider-Man whenever he is in trouble, but the two will always remain rivals. Meanwhile, Norman attempts to preserve his company's military contract from a rival firm, personally experimenting with his company's new but unstable performance-enhancing chemical vapor to increase his speed, strength, and stamina. Afterward, he goes into an uncontrollable rage and kills his assistant. At school, scientist teacher Dr. Curt Connors ( Rhys Ifans ) informs Peter and the rest of the class about his new program of regrow back his arm before injecting himself with a lizard DNA, which will regenerate his arm back. Unfortunately, this goes wrong, and Connors transforms into The Lizard. Peter sneaks in his Spider-Man outfit and battles the Lizard, which escapes into the sewers. Norman kills several of his competitor's scientists from the air, wearing an artificial exoskeleton and standing on a small flying platform called a "glider", proclaiming himself as the Green Goblin. After Oscorp's directors fire him, Norman flies to an Oscorp-sponsored fair, which is at a high school pep rally, and kills them before Spider-Man drives him away. After Spider-Man refuses the Goblin's offer to work together, Norman tracks down Rhino and Black Cat, asking them to join forces to kill Spider-Man. Black Cat refuses but Rhino accepts.

Norman seeks to find Connors, planning to force him into building a machine-like transmitter to infect everyone in New York with the chemical vapor. Norman secretly discovers that Peter is Spider-Man; the Green Goblin attacks Aunt May. As Peter, Gwen and Harry watch over May in the hospital, Eddie, in an act of jealousy of Gwen rejecting him over Peter, meets with the Green Goblin. He asks him to kill Peter so he can win Gwen’s heart. Instead of this, the Green Goblin lures Spider-Man to the Brooklyn Bridge, where he has taken Gwen captive and plans to activate the transmitter. Connors, angered of the Green Goblin’s actions, decides to shut down the transmitter; however the Green Goblin threatens to kill his wife and son, whom he had kidnapped in order to get Connors into building the machine. Connors transforms into the Lizard and attacks Spider-Man as George and his NYDP SWAT unit arrives to rescue Gwen and capture Spider-Man as well as the Green Goblin. Spider-Man is overpowered by the Lizard and Rhino, but Black Cat appears and joins the fight, helping Spider-Man defeat Rhino and the Lizard, which flees. Black Cat escorts Connors’s wife and son to safety. Spider-Man confronts the Green Goblin, who activates the machine, which is destroyed by Gwen who had placed a grenade inside as it was activated. The Green Goblin throws Gwen off the bridge, but when Spider-Man saves her, the Green Goblin attacks him causing Gwen to fall to her death despite Spider-Man’s fail attempt to try and save her again. Filled with rage, Spider-Man savagely attacked the Goblin, nearly killing him. Norman, unmasked, returned to his senses at the last minute; however he took the opportunity to attempt one final play by remote controlling his goblin glider to impale the wall crawler. Spider-Man was able to dodge the glider which instead impaled Norman, seemingly killing him.

At Gwen and Norman’s funeral, Harry swears vengeance toward Spider-Man, who he believes is responsible for killing his father, and asserts that Peter is all he has left. George also vows to gain revenge on Spider-Man, who he blames responsible for Gwen’s death, but instead seeks him death sentence when captured. As he leaves the funeral, Peter recalls Uncle Ben's words, "With great power comes great responsibility”.