Amazing Spider-man (2012)
I'm just going to say that amazing spider-man is complete garbage. The acting is BELOW average and the story was boring. Not to mention the lizards "Evil" plan. How the hell is turning the entire city into lizards a good idea for a movie? It's something Disney, with all there idiotic takes on my favorite superhero's would come up with.

Spider-man (2002)
This one was by for more enjoyable. It had superior acting and story, the characters where interesting. The writing was great and so was the directing. Tobey Maguire was a great choice for peter parker, and Kirsten Dunst made a incredible Mary jane watson.

First of all. Read the comics or re-read them. Then rant.
The Lizard's main goal as The Lizard is to turn everyone he can into lizards as he finds reptiles superior to humans.
The Amazing Spider-Man was a great movie.
The characters and the story were both good.
The acting was no more different from any other good movie that I've seen. In my opinion. Good solid acting.
And unlike the Sam Raimi trilogy they didn't just kill off the super villain at the end.
I will admit however that I don't care for how they made Aunt May into a nagging b word.

Second of all.
Spider-Man.
A great movie as well.
With great characters and a great story line.
The acting was solid here as well.
They changed the radioactive spider to a genetically altered spider and had Spider-Man's own body create the webbing naturally and it still worked and didn't ruin the movie.
The only thing I really don't like about the Sam Raimi trilogy though is that they killed off almost every super villain at the end.

Both are great movies.
The Sam Raimi trilogy I'll always like more though because I grew up watching those movies and got used to those actors playing those characters.
However I still like The Amazing Spider-Man a lot as well.
There is The Amazing Spider-Man 2 trailer out right now.
The Amazing Spider-Man 2 looks like it will be even better than the first.
I can't wait to see it.

Spider-Man is my favorite super hero.
Venom is my favorite super villain.

I feel Amazing Spider Man is the superior film here. Raimi nailed it with Spider Man 2 and so I have high expectations for Amazing 2.