OldBoy

there have been a few incarnations over the past 20 years, few different actors, one great Oscar winning animated.

so which is your favorite Spider-Man film?


Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse. for me hands down. the exhilaration, the humor, the internal conflict, never more so on display than the exquisite Spider-Verse animated film. perfectly animated, perfectly voice cast. everything about it had me smiling ear to ear throughout. even downloading the soundtrack immediately after.

i was never the biggest Spider-Man fan as a character. really didn't think about him all that much, until Maguire's portrayal in Sam Raimi's very fun original in 2002. since then, have liked the character and most of his incarnations/films, but nothing takes the cake like Spider-Verse. a near perfect film for me.

and i didn't include the 70's made-for-television films, but feel free if those float your boat...

movieguru

I'm sure SM2 (2004) will be the winner on this, but I choose the one that started it all.

mwbmis

Even in this "golden age" of superhero films, Spider-Man 2 remains my favorite one released in this century (number 2 overall).

OldBoy

Wow. It was a great film, but I think dated to me now. I think the films since SM2, most, at least have built and taking further. Nevermoreso than in Spider-Verse.

The Antipodean

Still Spider-Man 2. The MCU Spider-Man movies have been very entertaining, and I quite like them, but for me they get a little too far away from the basics of the character - a smokin' hot Aunt May, Tony Stark as Uncle Ben, too much reliance on sci-fi technology. The Raimi trilogy (even SM3, which I stick up for) keeps the idea that Peter Parker is a loser who wins sometimes, who's always broke, who tragedy keeps coming back to, et cetera. I won't even talk about the Garfield movies as I've forgotten them already.

nando820

Is a bit of a tie between Spider-Man 2 and Into The-Spider verse

Giantrobo

So far. Spider-Man 2. Really loved that one.

Noonan

Haven't seen FFM. Spider-Verse is better than all the live acted movies otherwise, IMO.

Unclejosh

As a whole Spider-Man 2 overall is my favorite, however Tom Holland is my favorite PP/Spidey, Emma Stone is my favorite female lead, and the scene with Michael Keaton and Tom Holland in the car is the most tension filled well acted scene in all the films in my opinion.

B5Erik

I was actually REALLY disappointed with Into The SpiderVerse. They got Peter 100% wrong. I don't know who that character was, but, personality-wise that was NOT Peter.

And I thought that Miles came across as pretty dull and uninteresting.

It was a clever take on the concept, but I just didn't like the character portrayals.

I'd give it a C+.

Mike86

Sonic

nando820

All correct. You get an A+

movieguru

I consider into the Spider-Verse a completely different thing when comparing the movies. I don't think animated and live action movies should be compared to each other as part of a franchise for the same character.

As for the live action movies, I think the Tobey Maguire got the Peter Parker character the closest, while the Andrew Garfield movies did better capturing the aspects of Spider-Man. The MCU movies while decent and very fun to watch are very superficial with how they portray Peter Parker/Spider-Man and don't get indepth into the intricacies of who the character is. As far as the supporting characters go, none of them really get the romantic interests right. The best portrayed supporting cast would be JJJ followed by Aunt May and Harry Osborne of the Raimi movies.

Mike86

Hokeyboy

1. Spider-Man 2
2. Spider-Man: Into The Spidey-Verse
3. Spider-Man: Homecoming
4. Spider-Man
5. Spider-Man: Far From Home
6. The Amazing Spider-Man
7. The Amazing Spider-Man 2
8. Spider-Man 3

OldBoy

i don't know why anyone wouldn't consider Spider-Verse in the same comparisons as the live action films. it is an origin story of another that is a Spider-Man. tells exact same story as all the others and just because it's animated, don't see why not compare to all others...

OldBoy

And I can’t get enough of that Spider-Verse soundtrack, especially the Post Malone song, Sunflower. I have soundtrack on continual loop in car...

Michael Corvin

Top tier:
1. Spider-man 2
2. Into the Spider-verse

Second tier
3. Spider-man
4. Spider-man 3
5. Homecoming

Unwatched:
Garfield flicks

Mondo Kane

movieguru

To me it is like taking out seven different professional photograps and one painting on canvas and asking which is the best artwork out of the eight. Or having seven different varieties of apples and one variety of an orange and asking which fruit is the best.

Sonic

Agreed.

This is a lop sided poll. But fuck it ya'll having fun with it so why not?

I'm sure there are religious people out there that probably found Prince of Egypt (animated) better than the ten commandments with Heston.

tanman

So for me Into the Spider-Verse was number one. It was just an amazing movie that subverted all my expectations. When I first saw the trailer a year before it released I thought it was basically a direct to video movie that Sony was trying to cash in on the recent resurgence of the character. Boy was I delightfully wrong.

As far as the others while I absolutely loved Tobey Maguire as PP and SM and I still love those movies I too think that they haven't aged as well. He captured the angst of being PP very well and the difficulty that he has to face so he was perfect in his movie. But Tom Holland basically IS PP/SM and it's mesmerizing watching him have so much fun on screen. He really brings the joy of what it's like to be Spider-Man.

So my ranking would probably be:
1. Into the Spider-verse
2. Homecoming
3. Far From Home
4. Spider-Man 2
5. Spider-Man
6. Spider-Man 3

And we're just not going to talk about the Garfield Spider-Man movies. I don't know how you can screw up Spider-Man so badly but they do. I feel bad for Garfield because he seems like a nice guy that really wanted the part but the movies were just unwatchable. Especially the second one. I don't know how you can have Emma Stone as Gwen Stacy and do that story and have zero emotional resonance with the audience but here we are...


I haven't rewatched the Raimi Spider-Men in a long time but yeah I think a lot of it would be dated now. Most of which is the power rangers like costume for the Green Goblin.

Pretty much agree. Emma Stone was just a rose amongst thorns in those movies. Can't believe Garfield got to hit that.

I really wish the Garfield Spider-Man movies just didn't exist. Because I still would like to see the origin of Spider-Man with the MCU version but understand why they cut it out because it would have been so redundant. Of course if the Garfield movies didn't exist then neither would the deal to have Spider-Man in the MCU. I was really hesitant to learn that they were going even younger with MCU Spider-Man but boy was I wrong. That's what makes them so great is capturing that high school feeling.

That's true that scene was a really emotionally grounded scene. One of the best amongst all the Spider-Man movies.

I agree and it's your poll anyways so there.

Me too. It's just so awesome.

Why would you need to be religious to weigh in on that?

davidh777

Sonic

I imagine that most watchers of Prince of Egypt and Ten Commandments are tied to some type of religion. But I could be wrong as I'm just assuming. I don't think kids out there that don't go to church would not request mom and dad to put in the disc/stream of those movies. Instead they will request Finding Little Nemo or some other type of cartoon.