Bruh he was boring as Spider-Man, and too cool as Peter Parker. Those are your reasons. Lizard as a villain in the first one the cgi sucked and let me not get on the 2nd one and this fucking guy
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Those movies sucked!
You're the only one complaining about Lizard when most everyone applauded the CGIs.
The only people complaining about Peter's being so-calledly cool are the people complaining about Peter being not an ugly incel. Peter has his ups-and-down during his high school years but remains nonetheless widely impopular in every single life-action iteration. Furthermore, one of comic-book Spidey's major recurrent plots while growing into his later teens to twenties, was that both Peter and most especially SM became recurrent serial monoganists across the story: women who used to snub him at age 15-17 were now dating him on-and-off frequently. Peter never stayed single for a long since the Ditko era.
Coming back to the movies, MacGuire's Peter was impopular because he was a nerdy, unconfident and ugly classroom genius prior getting mutated: afterwards he began drawing
way too much attention with his suddenly increasing high athletic prowess, acrobatics, super-strength, absent myopia, changing color eyes, (slight) glowing-up and ripped body all acquired overnight-- hell, he accidentally drew his bio-organic webs and catched the whole content of a plate dropping mid-air in
full middle of the canteen! He was smart enough to not draw further attention and keep getting this way when he attended the campus - quite begrudgingly - by holding back his intellectual prowess as well as his double life to everyone save Dr. Connor, who was not that gullible (matter-of-factly, TASM1 was originally planned to be Raimi's SM5) . Yet, until his narcissist tendencies began cripping forth in SM3...
Still... his both personaes began drawing the attention of MJ and Gwen, who both used to be way out of his league. In SM3, his super-persona ascended at the status of a living icon, making him almost unanimously cool for everyone (which was already byt slowly building up since the first movie) .
Whom to Garfield's Peter, yes he's far less unnoticeable than MacGuire's because of the whole "pretty poster-boy-slash-Shia-Laboeuf-esque-skater-boy" personae he's exuding, coupled by the fact he got Andrew Garfield's face... still, you rarely see anyone in the high school, besides Gwen Stacy and a few other, interacting intimally with him; and he still got bullied by Flash Thompson until the two ended up resuming their silly rivality following Uncle Ben's murder.
TASM2 is even very clear that Peter is bordering on full creepy incel zone at multiple instances: by stalking his ex Gwen for
ONE YEAR STRAIGHT, spending a major extent of his leisure time outside crimefighting to obsessively investigate on his parent's murder and late (?) father's secrets and being pushy. At the climax of the film, he spent five months talking to NO ONE following the prematured death of Gwen Stacy, mourning and isolating himself as the rest of the city is in the meantime tormented by the uprise of the Sinister Six led by Dr. Octopus (and a fakely-dead Norman Osborn behind the shadows) .
Having lived most of the same shit Peter live since his teenage years, trust me: being effortlessly cool and appreciated by the lookers around doesn't guarantee you from warsing off the Impopular Incel pass etiquetted by others on your acne-smitten forefront from time at time. Why? Because Garfield's Peter was nonetheless a socially awkward, borderline narcissist, reclusive classroom genius who acted very creepy and stalky at times (remember how Gwen and Peter met?) : and the fact his newfoind superpowers and responsabilities make him more secretive, monastical, guilt-ridden and depressed haven't helped, especially as the list of people he keep losing are dropping high.
How about MCU Spidey? He's pushy, simping, overly awkward, bromantic to the brim this is even suspiciously Miles-Moralesque (and it is now confirmed that was planned in this fashion) but how about the narcisstic and supergenius tendencies? Completely stifled by the shadow of Tony Stark and Disney/Marvel Studios's bad child-targeting marketing policy choices. I hate how I can't see Tom Holland at his full potential, because he's a very good actor and had a potential to overshadow his two forerunners.
