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Spider-Man 1 and 2 hold up very well.

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Uzumaki Goku

Junior Member
There are problems but honestly for what they are, these movies are pretty good. They're all about Peter Parker. The casting is pretty good. Especially JK Simmons. So after the mediocre to awful Amazing Spider-Man movies these are actually pretty damn good.
 
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JCHandsom

Member
It's been a while since I've seen them, but I remember liking them well enough. I recommend checking out MovieBob's episode of Really That Good for a critical breakdown of why they still hold up.
 
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Sephzilla

Member
In my opinion they don't hold up that well actually and feel extremely early/mid 2000s. I'm also not a huge fan of Tobey's Spidey as he doesn't quip or anything nearly enough. Tobey's Peter was on point though. Dafoe's Osborne is great too, as is Simmons as JJ

Spidey 1 > Spidey 2
 
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Enilced2

Member
JK Simmons casting is the only things those movies got right. Aside from that they would have had to been good in the first place to hold up now.
 
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ferr

Member
They're so much better than ASM. I was just thinking the other day that I can't remember a single thing about the ASM movies. I know Jamie Fox was in one. I remember Gwen Stacey was in one of them (or both?) So forgettable, worst movies ever.
 
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EGM1966

Member
They remain better constructed and tonally (and visually I'd argue too) interesting than most CBM today so yeah why wouldn't they hold up beyond some aspects pining down the time period of their release?

As films they're better than most CBM films.

Spiderman 2 in particular remains a great character driven action superhero film.
 
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Massicot

Member
I watched these fairly recently. I still like mostly everything about them. I like Tobey's peter and spidey, love the set pieces, love the dialogue and the casting. Great movies. Will always be great.
 
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maxcriden

Member
ItIsOkBro said:
nothing has surpassed the train battle/scene as far as i'm concerned. that is peak superheroism.
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Agreed! The first two Spidey movies are amazing. There are a few superior parts of SM3 but it's nothing spectacular on the whole. In the ASM films they had good intentions heading in but they're far from sensational. I think the characterization of Peter Parker is solid but the web of plot entanglements in the movies is unexciting and Andrew Garfield is a very good actor (99 Homes is very under-appreciated) but he's just not the ultimate choice for Spider-Man to me.
 
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Nerdkiller

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RangerX said:
I preferred the ASM films. Please don't hit me.
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Sn4ke_911

If I ever post something in Japanese which I don't understand, please BAN me.
What's with people saying movies hold up very well? of course they do, if you think a movie was good it will forever be good. Movies don't age like games.
 
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Mighty Chin

Banned
maxcriden said:
Agreed! The first two Spidey movies are amazing. There are a few superior parts of SM3 but it's nothing spectacular on the whole. In the ASM films they had good intentions heading in but they're far from sensational. I think the characterization of Peter Parker is solid but the web of plot entanglements in the movies is unexciting and Andrew Garfield is a very good actor (99 Homes is very under-appreciated) but he's just not the ultimate choice for Spider-Man to me.
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That's quite the Web of Spider-Man you created.
 
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jon bones

hot hot hanuman-on-man action
the movies are fine Tobey & Dunst are awful in their roles - the melodrama is CW-tier

I am really looking forward to seeing our first good live action Peter Parker again
 
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The Boat

Member
Honestly? Saw 3 again the other day, it has plenty of good parts until they uh... ruin it. Everything related to the symbiote is a mess, but I really liked Sandman and despite the stupid costume, Harry was cool too. Some really good awkward/nerdy Parker moments that I really enjoyed too.
 
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LionPride

Banned
Disagree, the acting from the two leads is sus for three straight movies, the villains themselves are...alright in terms of character, acting from them is good. Characterization for Peter makes him an annoying asswipe who gives up Spider-Man because he feels like it and his relationship with MJ ain't good. Never comes across as genuine. The movies are fine movies, but as a Spider-Man movie, I never got the core characteristics always found in Peter Parker as Spider-Man.

And hell 3 is fine too, if Raimi made the movie he wanted to make, it'd be another fine movie.
 
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Soldiussnaku

Member
Number one still has some great punchy fight sequences, especially the end fight.

Number 2 still ranks as one of my goat superhero films. It also deals with an array of emotions well, rather then get stuck deep in sickly saccharine happy go lucky tone
 
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phanphare

Banned
I disagree but then again they didn't really hold up for me day 1

jon bones said:
the movies are fine Tobey & Dunst are awful in their roles - the melodrama is CW-tier

I am really looking forward to seeing our first good live action Peter Parker again
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+1 to this, I'm so excited for Homecoming
 
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Mr. Poolman

Member
To me, they haven't aged that well.

Special effects are dated, Tobey's Peter is not a nerd, is a loser. Mary Jane is annoying and spends screaming her lungs out on each movie.

JJJ casting is fantastic, I will give you that.

Spider-Man 2 is looked back with rose-tinted glasses, it was not that good. To this day I'm still annoyed of the whole "spider-man loses his powers due to sadness".
 
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Redd

Member
You couldn't of casted a better Doc Ock. He made SM2 top tier. Also the actor who played Aunt May was amazing. She came off like how I'd picture an old aunt May would be.
 
Tom Nook

Tom Nook

Member
I liked 1 and 2.

We could've pretended 3 did not exist and continue the movie Rami intended to do on 4 with Vulture.
 
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phanphare

Banned
jon bones said:
this is my biggest problem with the series - the leads were kinda bad at release and now they're just terrible to watch
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yep that's why 3 was so bad, they fucked up the villains too. the villains were what carried the first two movies and then in 3 there was nothing. JJJ can't carry a whole Spider Man movie. you sub out Dafoe and Molina for fucking Eric Forman, whoever played Sandman (shout out to the shoe horned in sob story and retroactively adding him into Uncle Ben's death, what awful decisions), and Franco hamming it up and that's that.
 
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jon bones

hot hot hanuman-on-man action
i hope when Holland has to face his down-beat, in a post A4 (probably after some real deaths), he can handle the sad scenes better than Tobey

bigJP said:
liked the movie but hated and still hate that tobey was spiderman...
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Mr. Poolman said:
Special effects are dated, Tobey's Peter is not a nerd, is a loser.
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Eidan said:
Nah. Maguire was an awful Spider-Man then, and he's an awful Spider-Man now.
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co-signed x3

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Skilletor

Member
They're terrible movies and the continued praise for them baffles me.

But I guess being hokey as fuck is part of the charm or whatever.
 
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Sami+

Member
They're a cheesy love letter to 60's Spider-Man which isn't really what I prefer, but even so Spidey 2 is still excellent.
 
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JCHandsom

Member
Sn4ke_911 said:
What's with people saying movies hold up very well? of course they do, if you think a movie was good it will forever be good. Movies don't age like games.
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People's tastes change with age? Do you think that every movie you liked as a kid is still just as good now that you're an adult?
 
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phanphare

Banned
Sn4ke_911 said:
What's with people saying movies hold up very well? of course they do, if you think a movie was good it will forever be good. Movies don't age like games.
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movies don't age like games, no, because they're movies and not games

but of course movies age. a good movie in 1980 might not be a good movie today.
 
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