1. A Younger Spider-Man
Peter Parker's career as Spider-Man started when he was in high school, and while he's grown up since then, the comics have always kept him south of 30. Now, Tobey Maguire did geeky pretty well, but the guy was already 25 when he got the part, and now ten years later, he's way too old to play the eternally youthful Spider-Man. Sony has already confirmed that the re-boot will have Peter back in high school, and since Hollywood is always looking for the next hot young actor, we're confident they'll find someone who can balance high-school nerd with driven superhero. (Example: Beau Mirchoff, who plays a hunky outcast on Desperate Housewives.) Of course, if they don't want to go the unknown route, I hear Zac Efron can be made to look nerdy if you slick back his hair and put glasses on him. Taylor Lautner, not so much.

2. A Different Point of View
We love Sam Raimi -- his Evil Dead trilogy and, more recently, Drag Me to Hell are some of our favorite movies. His Spider-Man trilogy showcased his famed light-hearted touch... but minus all the horrific violence as a counterbalance, it sometimes came off a bit saccharine, especially whenever MJ sang a song, or people on the street cheered for Peter or, I don't know, maybe when he did a dance number in a nightclub to show how bad-ass he was. While Spider-Man should almost always have a sense of humor about things, a little more Dark Knight and a little less Black Knight would be nice. How about Kathryn Bigelow, who raised action movies to an art form on The Hurt Locker and Point Break, as the new director?

3. A Better Villain
While getting John Malkovich to play a super-villain is a major casting coup, the Vulture is an old man in a bird suit who robs banks. There was also a younger version who wore an armored flight suit, but both are generally considered pretty lame. That said, we certainly don't want to see a rehash of the Green Goblin story, after three movies of Goblin drama, but an iconic villain like Electro or Mysterio or the Scorpion or the Chameleon or Kraven the Hunter should probably come first. It would have been nice to see Dylan Baker, who played Peter's college professor Curt Connors, finally transform into the Lizard, but with Peter back in high school (and the rest of Raimi's cast gone) that seems less likely. If they can't get Josh Brolin to play Kraven or Nicolas Cage to play the Scorpion, maybe Malkovich would be willing to stay on and play the Ringmaster, leader of the Circus of Crime and wearer of hypnotic top hats?

4. A Third Dimension
Now that 3-D has become so popular with filmmakers and studios, it seems like a no-brainer to make the new Spider-Man a 3-D epic. Spidey swinging around the New York City landscape on a webline already looks pretty awesome, but it seems tailor-made for this technology. Hell, the entire Spider-Man universe seems ripe for it -- flying pumpkin bombs, flailing mechanical tentacles, giant sand people, stabbing scorpion tails, the aforementioned hypnotic top hat... (Seriously, though, the Ringmaster needs to be the next Spidey villain. He has evil clowns on his payroll!) Avatar director James Cameron was once interested in the Spider-Man franchise -- he has the technology, but would he be willing to rebuild it?

5. A New Mary Jane
Kirsten Dunst is the worst. Seriously, she's incredibly annoying and not a very good MJ at all. MJ should be strong and independent -- pretty much a superhero all by herself -- not insecure and constantly in distress. It's about time the studio told her she wasn't irreplaceable (a misconception she has previously expressed) and got someone younger, prettier and more talented (not difficult) to play the tough-but-sexy model-actress. Off the top of our heads, Hayden Panettiere, Dakota Fanning, Kay Panabaker, Ellen Page and Taylor Momsen spring to mind, and we weren't even trying particularly hard.

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