7/30/2023 0 Comments Topher grace eddie brockSo of course his bad-boy persona will be doofy and somehow sweet in its desperation. Taking advantage of Tobey Maguire’s ability to play vulnerably, Raimi’s Peter is an achingly sincere dork, even when corrupted by the Venom symbiote. But there’s also no denying that Raimi has a compelling take on Peter Parker, one with a strong emotional core that remains even when the story goes to ridiculous places. Look, there’s no denying that Spider-Man 3 is a marked step down from its two predecessors, with the struggle between Sam Raimi and the movie’s producers resulting in an overcrowded script. He was good in 2007 and he’s still good today. Spider-Man 3 (2007)īully Maguire is good. Also, on that note, as someone who loved Lizard comics as a kid, turning the tragedy of Doc Connors into one of the worst comic book movie villains of all time puts this squarely at the bottom of the list. It shouldn’t need to be stated that Spider-Man is not Batman, and even the film is aware of this since the “gritty” aesthetic is so half-hearted and contradictory to a film about a giant Lizard. Prematurely remaking Spider-Man’s origin story just 10 years after Sam Raimi’s relatively perfect rendering of it in 2002 was always an odd choice, and Sony and director Marc Webb’s attempts to justify this by creating an unresolved conspiracy theory about Peter’s parents and clumsily imitating the tone and aesthetic of Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight films only made things worse. Unfortunately, other than in the scenes where Garfield and Emma Stone’s chemistry could smolder, little of that talent or passion made it to the screen in what was a confused and wholly underwhelming reboot. Garfield brought a sincere affection to the character in 2012’s The Amazing Spider-Man, as well as an impact web blast’s worth of charisma. When Andrew Garfield appeared nearly a decade later in a movie further down on this list, he and some writers got laughs from the actor admitting he’s the “lame” Spider-Man. The Amazing Spider-Man 2 comes across as the most soulless and calculated of all Spidey’s live-action adventures, and no amount of reappraisal will ever undo that. Andrew Garfield and Emma Stone have undeniable chemistry as Peter and Gwen, and do their best with the muddled material, but Garfield and Foxx’s undercooked Electro would have to wait for No Way Home to get the closure they deserved. It all adds up to a frantic, overstuffed mishmash that goes nowhere.īut wait, there’s more! The movie also tries to jam one of Spidey’s most famous storylines, the death of Gwen Stacy, into all this, blunting its emotional impact as well. After pointlessly retelling Peter Parker’s origin story in 2012’s The Amazing Spider-Man, this sequel (directed like its predecessor by Marc Webb) does its level best to jam a multitude of plotlines into its two-hour-plus running time, frantically trying to lay down a framework for sequels and spinoffs without giving us a valid reason why we should care.Īs a result, you have a feeble attempt at building out multiple villains as a prelude to the Sinister Six, conspiracy theories regarding Peter’s parents, the old “magic blood” canard favored by hapless screenwriters Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman, and yet another bad guy with a personal vendetta against our webslinging hero-in this case a heavily reconfigured Electro (Jamie Foxx). Sony Pictures and producer Avi Arad’s attempt to reboot Spider-Man is one of those model examples of how not to build a cinematic universe. We have thus elected to not include them in the ranking of Spidey-led movies. *Editor’s Note: While Peter Parker did appear in several Avengers films, as well as Captain America: Civil War, he was a supporting player in all three. So we here at Den of Geek have put our heads together and polled our staff to come up with the definitive ranking of wallcrawler flicks, from worst to best. Yet while Spidey has been fortunate to lead a number of good movies, some are better than others, and several more missed the Staten Island Ferry completley. Heck, there are those out there who will defend the Andrew Garfield years. Indeed, alongside Batman, Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man has probably been blessed with the most consistent series of superhero movies released by Hollywood, with millions of fans ready to swear that either Tobey Maguire, Tom Holland, or the kaleidoscopic animation led by Miles Morales (and Shameik Moore’s voice) is the best Spidey. Still, not all webs are created equal, and some of those captured thieves have made for better cinematic opponents than others. And across 10 theatrically released films, in live-action and animation both, he (or sometimes she) has spun a web any size, catching those thieves just like flies. It really is true: Spider-Man does whatever a spider can.
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