From The Amazing Spider-Man to Total Recall, is our thirst for familiar stories growing, or are fresh ideas simply drying up?Enthusiasm for The Amazing Spider-Man has been tempered by a caveat. In the words of Roger Ebert, "We didn't really need to be told Spidey's origin story again." It's only five years since the same studio gave us the third instalment of a different version of the same arachnid hero's exploits.