The Funeral Electro is a dubstep villain. Jamie Foxx is blue. The Green Goblin looks like a rejected Harry Potter house elf. And then… that ending . The death of Gwen Stacy is so devastating that the studio literally had to cancel the franchise out of sheer guilt. Andrew Garfield cries, and so do we.
The Perfect One Alfred Molina’s Doc Ock. The train sequence. Peter literally stopping a runaway train with his bare hands and teenage angst. This is the Godfather Part II of superhero movies. If you don’t cry when Peter reveals his mask to Aunt May, you are legally dead inside.
The Emo One We don’t talk about the finger-guns. We don’t talk about the jazz club strut. But we must talk about Topher Grace as Venom. This movie is a beautiful train wreck. It gave us the single greatest meme template of the 2000s. Is it bad? Yes. Is it entertaining? Like watching a live-stream of a dumpster fire. Emo Peter’s hair deserved its own spin-off. Spiderman 1-10
The One That Started It All The holy grail. Kirsten Dunst’s upside-down kiss in the rain. Willem Dafoe’s unhinged "Godspeed, Spider-Man!" Green Goblin. The only crime this movie commits is making us believe that a New York crowd would throw bricks at a hero instead of filming him on a Nokia 3310.
The Lost One The only film on this list that doesn't exist yet. Delayed endlessly. Rumored to be three hours long. Will Miles save his dad? Will Gwen’s dad quit the force? Will we ever see it? The legend says that if you stand in front of a Sony Pictures building and whisper "Canon event," a producer appears and delays the release by another month. The Funeral Electro is a dubstep villain
The Art Apocalypse Wait, this isn't live action? It doesn't matter. This animated masterpiece makes the previous eight look like student films. Hundreds of Spider-people. A plot about canon events that breaks your heart. Spider-Punk. Spider-Cat. Spider-Rex. The cliffhanger ending leaves you screaming into the void. It is the best Spider-Man movie since Spider-Man 2 .
The Baby One Tom Holland arrives. He’s 15. He has a Stark suit. He has an AI. He has an Aunt May who is suddenly hot. The villain, Vulture (Michael Keaton), is a dad with a salvage business. The stakes are low, but the anxiety is high. It’s Ferris Bueller’s Day Off with web-shooters. And then… that ending
As we prepare for the soft-reboot Spider-Man 11: Home Before Dark , let’s look back at the beautiful, baffling journey of Peter Parker 1 through 10.