At this point, Bob is just trying too hard.
The first two Spider-Man films were pretty good, I'll grant. I'll never like the casting that much (Maguire made for a good Peter Parker but a bad Spider-Man, Dunst was just plain wrong for the part, Franco is... Franco, and while Bob is right in that they may never try to replace JK Simmons, a few good casting decisions don't make up for all the bad ones), the films are campy (no, that's not honest, heartfelt emotion. I've got no problem with emotion. Raimi breaks into camp at the drop of a hat because it's Raimi, and Bob might find that over-acted, over-played scenes make for emotive impact, I find them... well... over-acted and over-played), and I find Raimi's bizarre need to make all of his villains tragic heroes (seriously; he basically sets it up so that almost none of them are responsible for their own actions, choosing instead to make them victims and missing the entire point of many of Spider-Man's nemeses: that these are people who obtained powers by accident and then made the choice to ignore the whole "with great power" bit), but the first two films do stand on their own as decent pieces of filmmaking.
The third film is a turd, well past the point of polishing. It's terrible, it killed the original series, got Raimi kicked out of the director's chair, and wound up with Sony scrambling to find some way of salvaging that mess before the film rights reverted to Marvel.