10 Worst Movies From Otherwise Great Franchises

10. Spider-Man 3 - Sam Raimi's Spider-Man Trilogy

Other Films: Spider-Man and Spider-Man 2.

The first two films of Sam Raimi's Spider-Man trilogy are great superhero films, especially the brilliant Spider-Man 2, and they're ageing remarkably well too. Superhero films have been pretty much the dominant genre of the 2010s, but the overwhelming majority of those movies have still never managed to top Spider-Man or Spider-Man 2. It's a bit of a shame about that third film though.

Hopelessly overstuffed with under-developed characters and plot threads and overall an absolute mess, Spider-Man 3 is deservedly a poster-child for films ruined by too much studio interference. It does offer some of the trilogy's most epic action sequences, but the script is a wreck and most of the performances, even from Tobey Maguire, are terrible.

It's also the film which contains the Emo Peter Parker scene and whatever positives the film may have, that ghastly moment overshadows all of them.