2. Spider-Man 3 (2007)
No movie on this list has less chance of being made than a direct sequel to
Spider-Man 3. The reason is obvious: the franchise has moved on, and so have the cast, and the trilogy's director, and everybody else in the world but me. But no forgotten film franchise grinds my gears more than this one, considering that - for the most part - Sam Raimi did such an excellent job with the series on the whole. The fact that
Spider-Man 3 was only mediocre wasn't even his fault - the studio forced another villain on him, and he was pressured to include story elements that he felt made the story bloated. That aside, we never really got a proper "conclusion" to this Spidey story, and considering that audiences invested three movies in the Peter Parker/Mary-Jane Watson relationship we glimpsed here, it's a shame that the trilogy ended on a kind of a bum note. It wasn't a really horrible ending, exactly, but it wasn't the stuff of blockbuster joy, either. That's to say, I find the reboot entirely unnecessary, and though
Spider-Man 3 was a relative critical failure, it wasn't anywhere near as bad as people make it out to be nowadays. It's in my very humble opinion that it was a mistake to reboot Spidey before this story felt completed - and now we'll never know what Raimi's fourth movie would have been like. A shame.