Cinepals React to HISHE's Amazing Spider-Man Parody and Make a Case for Andrew Garfield's Return

We sat down to watch HISHE's take on How The Amazing Spider-Man Should Have Ended, and the short parody sparked a bigger conversation about whether Andrew Garfield still deserves another shot at the character.

This matters because plenty of fans have wondered for years whether Garfield's Spider-Man story was ever really finished, and this reaction digs into why that unresolved arc still bugs people.

The HISHE Fixes to The Amazing Spider-Man's Ending Get Laughs

We went through the parody's logic beat by beat. The video's fix is to use the antidote on Dr. Connors immediately instead of letting the lizard rampage play out, which raised the question of what happens to the other cops who got turned into lizards. The answer given was that they would just change back to human after one day.

From there we pushed the idea further: since Peter had the lizard formula in his hands before Captain Stacy died, why not give him a dose too, on the theory that its regenerative powers might heal his wounds and stop Gwen's father from dying at all. That line landed well, prompting the admission, "I did not think about that, you are totally right."

The jokes about Peter breaking his promise to stay away from Gwen also got a laugh, especially the bit about "don't make promises you can't keep" being spun as somehow the best kind of promise to break.

Andrew Garfield Gets Called the Best Spider-Man in the Room

The case was made directly: "Andrew Garfield has been the best Spider-Man... he embodies the character of Spider-Man so at least from my sensibilities." That came with a comparison to "the Pierce Brosnan of the Spider-Man universe," and a clarification that this isn't a knock on Tom Holland or Tobey Maguire, just a personal ranking. The follow-up hope was blunt: "I hope he gets more Spider-Man movies, solo Spider-Man movies, even as he approaches 40."

Why We Still Want a Proper Dark Spider-Man Movie

The conversation turned to Spider-Man: No Way Home, where Garfield's version hints at having gone down a dark path after losing Gwen. That hint is exactly what we want expanded into a full movie. Sam Raimi's Spider-Man 3 tried a dark turn for Peter, but it came off gimmicky rather than earned, even though Spider-Man 2 with Doc Ock is remembered as the edgier, better film in that trilogy. The point made was that no live-action Spider-Man movie has actually shown him crossing fully into the dark side, and Garfield seems like the right actor to finally do it.

Do you think Andrew Garfield should get a full movie exploring his character's dark turn after Gwen's death?