I preferred the Garfield movies, I think he was a MUCH better Spider-Man than Maguire, and Kirsten Dunst was insufferable as MJ while as Emma Stone was actually likeable and had good chemistry w/ Garfield.
To me, the ideal Spider-Man is the animated series from the '90's, where he's a bit older, smart, and is competent with his powers, and not constantly moping around like some emo person. It's really fucking annoying that they keep rebooting and redoing his high school years. But at least Garfield captured the snarkiness and intelligence (he designed the web-shooters, thank god...I hope I never see another "organic" webbing Spider-Man where they use it as a very thinly veiled reference to virility/impotence) of the version of Spider-Man I like. And while a lot of awful shit happened to him, too, he didn't stay down about it all the damn time.
He also voluntarily unmasked far fucking less (and if he did, it was usually after the person had already figured out his identity anyway), another annoyance w/ the movies I have. He did unveil who he was early to his gf....which was welcome as fuck after Toby moped around about his secret life distancing himself from MJ for nearly two whole movies.