A Sony Pictures reboot starring Andrew Garfield in the title role. Focusing on Peter Parker in his high school years and his first love interest Gwen Stacey. The film holds true to many aspects of the comic book, Revisiting the hero's origins, introducing older characters such as Captain Stacey, and revealing the fate of Peter's first love.
Most importantly the film and its sequel explores Richard Parker, and how Peter's parents influenced who he would become beyond his aunt and uncle.
The specter or mystery of why his parents left him that dark and stormy night had plagued Peter all his life, the film explores and shines a light on that untapped history. It gives a compelling and independent sub-story in both Amazing Spiderman movies. The parental history mirrors Richard Donner's Original Superman concept on how Jo-El being able to be there in guiding his son once he becomes of age in the aftermath of his own demise. To have his son become the hero he is destined to be. Both sets of parents met a fiery explosive ending and both left messages and a video representation of themselves that their son's were able to watch and learn from, carrying with it the secrets of where their powers come from and how they are different. The movie of father's and their children holds true in the both movies, with Gwen and her father, Peter and his adoptive parent Uncle Ben, and to some extent in Richard Parker's former partner Dr. Connors who Peter strikes a bond with in the field of study.
Peter is nearing the end of his High School years and is coming of age, Uncle Ben and Aunt May are pillars of support to guide him. Like the Kent's, Ka-El's adoptive earth parents, they shape and provide a grounded and supportive foundation for our hero, before he ventures forward .
Denis Leary plays Captain Stacey, a role he took on with great honor and pride in representing a fallen hero in the line of duty. The tone of tragedy and how the hero never forgets, is in many respects the thesis of Spiderman and what makes him different from most superhero archetypes, it always comes down to the basics of he rarely wins in his personal life, cursed with personal tragedy he finds a way to overcome his adversary to keep his neighborhood safe, but having experienced those losses is what shapes him, and keeps him grounded.
In the Amazing Spiderman 2, Peter is haunted by Captain Stacey's dying words, compounding the heavy choices he makes with love interest Gwen Stacey. Who as written in the comics - fulfills a dark destiny of her own. The film concludes on Gwen's climatic ending, However, finding cathartic resolution would take ten long years and a dark cloud haunting The Amazing Spiderman . The long awaited resolution brought on a full admission of guilt and loss followed by a redemption arc found only in Spiderman No Way Home; that provides a full and robust concluding trilogy to the Amazing Spiderman's story. The paradigm shift is the line given repeatedly over 20 years of Spiderman "With great power comes great responsibility", This re-telling of a singularity that is a cog for the 5 Sony Spiderman movies, Into the Spider-verse, and No Way Home. 
The Amazing Spiderman 2 gave us a scope of loss then decided to end on a more somber note like the conclusion of The Empire's Strikes Back. We as a collective audience were begrudgingly given time for our hero to make his legendary return and close with a satisfactory third film. That was unfortunately not provided in the final act of Spiderman 2, The 2014 sequel only provided that specter of unfulfilled aftermath. With the hero out of high school, alone in the world, and conflicted. The Rosetta stone or North star to guide our hero back would be a commencement speech, written in truth by actress Emma Stone who drafted the speech herself as she did not become a valedictorian in her own life,
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