My point was misunderstood. What I meant was that Peter Parker - the REAL Peter Parker - would never be seen skating down a hallway at school before casually mouthing off to a teacher. I would know - I was him in real life. This Peter just feels like he's a dick who's putting on a sensitive act just because that's what girls like - in other words, a player. Just cause you put on a pair of hipster glasses, that doesn't make you a nerd, as we tell countless chicks on Facebook every day.
With that said, the action scenes on this one work better, and we finally see Peter quipping - something that is a trademark of the comics and we never saw him do on Raimi's trilogy. It's also better than Spider-Man 3, but what isn't?
Ironically, though, the Peter on SM3 was more true to life (and the comics) than this Peter - anyone who's read Secret Wars and its aftermath knows the black uniform really did make him a bit more agressive and snappy when he was being influenced by it.
Overall, I'd rank them like so:
1. Spider-Man 1 (8/10 BEST. COMIC BOOK MOVIE. EVARRRRR. Watching it as a 16 year old, I was rooting for, encouraging and cheering Peter as he flirted with Mary Jane. Yes, audibly. And the power-discovery sequences are still the best ever done in a comic book movie to date. The Goblin was ridiculous, but whatever. Didn't ruin the movie as a whole.)
2. Spider-Man 2 (7/10, just because of the wildly unrealistic ending - yeah, right, like she'd leave a hunky well-off groom to go be with an insecure flat-broke nerd. Don't insult my intelligence, movie.)
3. Amazing Spider-Man (5/10. Hated the portrayal of Peter, otherwise it's a decent enough, middle-of-the-road movie.)
4. Spider-Man 3 (3/10. Would actually have worked if they'd kept to one villain, but as it is, it's a hodgepodge. I didn't even remember the dance sequence before the Nostalgia Critic brought it up, and I think that's why most people hate on it too. The movie has far bigger problems than that.)