10 Things Nobody Wants Admit About The Amazing Spider-Man Films

3. The First Film's Score Is The Best Of All Spider-Man Movies

Amazing Spider-Man 2
Sony Pictures

The magnificence of James Horner's music could never be captured in a few words. The melancholic sounds of Titanic are guaranteed to stir your emotions every time you hear them, while the powerful music of Avatar captures the Navi's world to perfection. The Amazing Spider-Man score is perhaps his most underrated work.

Seeing those cranes line up for the injured Spider-Man across the New York skyline stirs emotion alright, and a large part of that is the moving music that plays in the background as they do so.

As it builds into the hauntingly triumphant section were Spidey makes his move, it's hard to watch with anything but goosebumps. And then finally, it breaks into a triumphant chorus as Peter slings his way to Oscorp by using the cranes above him in a moment that is guaranteed to make smile... and probably tear up a little bit too.

James Horner's music makes you feel things and that's exactly what it did here, adding a grandeur to the film that simply wouldn't have been there if anybody else had scored it. That's one of the many reasons why his score is superior to all other Spider-Man music and one of the reasons that the sequel failed to recapture the goosebump-inducing feeling of its predecessor.

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