Hello true believers! I am Kallark Kent, and in the following editorial I thought it’d be fun to look back at all 5 Spider-Man films produced by Sony in the last 12 years and rank them from worse to best.
5. Spider Man 3
This movie is an example of what happens to a great franchise when the studio that produces the films gets greedy. After 2 very successful outings, the makers of the Spider-Man franchise decided to up the ante by having Spider Man face 3 villains. Needless to say, the movie felt overcrowded, fan favorite villain Venom was rushed, emo Peter … enough said and unnecessary and dance numbers have made Spider Man 3 not only the worse Spider Man movie ever but also one of the worse CBM ever produced.
4. The Amazing Spiderman 2
This is an enjoyable movie( if you have low expectations, it really is,) but not a great Spider-Man film. Tonally it’s all over the place, and just like Spider-Man 3 it suffers from being overcrowded and perhaps from trying to do too much too soon. This movie is a response to a post-Avengers world, where fans a like us are spoiled and demand not just great films but interconnectivity between franchises, team ups and cinematic Universes. Unfortunately this movie only delivers on the cool factor and on the promise of a bigger universe.
3. The Amazing Spiderman
After the debacle that was Spider-Man 3, Sony cut ties wiht Sam Raimi and decided to reboot Spidey. So they hired wunderkind director Mark Webb (because his last name is Webb, nothing else in his resume says “This guy knows spider-Man) to direct a more grounded, less campy, Ramones loving, skater boy take on Spider-Man. The movie received mostly positive reviews, but it is still somewhat over showed by the original Raimi films not only on approval but also in financial success.
2. Spider-Man
This is the movie that started it all, many people credit movies like Blade and X-men for the advent of the Comic Book Movie, but it was Spider-Man that caved the way for men in tights to become major global successes. This is the first movie to ever pass $100 million on a single weekend, and it held the title of highest grossing CBM until Spider Man 3 out gross it in 2007. What made this movie have such a cultural impact? Who knows, every now and then the stars align and something that wasn’t expected to be great becomes the thing that redefines a whole medium.
1. Spider-Man 2
In my humble opinion, this is the best Spider-Man movie produced yet. Spider-Man may hold the title of having most cultural impact but Spider-Man 2 was a much better film. This is the one that really explores the journey of the hero. In this movie our hero is down on his luck; nothing is going right for him, he feels the weight of his responsibility and he is paying a high price for trying to do what is right. I am not saying by any means that this movie is perfect; Peter losing his powers due to “not wanting to be spider-Man anymore” was dumb to say the least but this movie has just the right amount of weight, camp and charm to put it on top of my Spider-Man list.
So that’s my humble opinion, I’d be interested to know if you guys agree with my ranking, disagree or perhaps would like to share how you rank Sony’s Spider- Man films. Thank you for reading and stay honest CBM friends.