Every Single Spider-Man Movie Ranked From Worst To Best

5. Spider-Man (2002)

There were definitely comic book movies before Sam Raimi unveiled his first take on Spider-Man, but without it and Bryan Singer's X-Men movies, there wouldn't be the current fascination with the mini-genre that there is now.

What Raimi did with Spider-Man was incredible and props to Sony for hiring a horror movie maker to handle their big assault on the superhero bucks. His experience in supernatural movies actually helped too as he created one of the most memorable comic book movie villains ever by essentially borrowing from Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde to bring his Green Goblin to life.

Tobey Maguire is great, Willem Dafoe is too and the whole thing is an exercise in blowing the cobwebs away from a genre that had lost its way badly with Joel Schumacher's Batman movies. As a post-9/11 movie, it also nailed the spirit of New York, which still really comes across today.