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SPIDERMAN IS COMING OUT!!!!!

I can’t tell you how excited I am for this movie!! I mean, I could, and I guess I should try, seeing as this is a blog and the whole point of it is for me to tell you things…

I AM SO EXCITED!!

Seeing as this movie promises (and I really, really, really hope it delivers!) to give us all 3 Spidermans’ (Tobey Maguire, Andrew Garfield, AND Tom Holland!!) I thought it would be a fun idea to rank all of their Spiderman films from least favorite to favorite of mine.

Now, fair warning, I’ve never seen any of the Andrew Garfield movies.😳 I know, I know, treason!! But, it’s because I loved Tobey Maguire’s Spiderman so much, that I couldn’t watch them! So, that means then that, I’m sorry but Andrew Garfield’s movies are going to be ranked last.

Also, I’m not going to include any of the Marvel movies that are not titled Spiderman… So, Civil War, Infinity War, and Endgame are right out!

Ranking out of 7 movies (because No Way Home doesn’t count yet!!), we have in 7th place

#7: The Amazing Spider-Man 2

It’s last because I haven’t seen it😆, and it’s a sequel and sequels are historically bad🤐, and I heard that Gwen Stacy dies – so that’s sad! 😦

#6: The Amazing Spider-Man

Again, because I haven’t seen it, but it’s higher for me than the 2nd one because I love origin stories and pilots. I love em!!

#5: Spider-Man: Far From Home

This one is last in the realm of Spidey films I’ve seen because it was a bit too chaotic. Normally, I love all of that Inception-style craziness, but this one just didn’t quite do it for me, especially after all of the drama of Endgame. Plus, I hated the way that Mysterio, Jake Gyllenhaal, tried to replace Tony Stark in Peter’s life by manipulating him!!😡 But, I still really, really liked it!😁

#4: Spider-Man 3

A much as the Bully Maguire memes have revived this film – it is truly awful! 🤣 It ranks lower than the other 2 for me too because of the fact that Peter Parker never said the words “I’m sorry.” in this film. He’d actually made a lot of mistakes, and he never apologized! Not to MJ, not to Harry, not to anybody – I think he says something at some point to the effect of “I shouldn’t have…” or “I made a mistake…” but that’s not an apology! Those simple words “I’m sorry.” are so powerful, and they got that in Black Widow, when they had Natasha at the end apologizing to Antonia (aka the Taskmaster), just repeating “I’m sorry, I’m sorry.” to her. I won’t explain the scene more, in case anyone here hasn’t seen it yet.

#3: Spider-Man

The original Tobey Maguire origin story Spiderman. Coming in at 3rd, because we can’t have a tie for first place, ok, c’mon!

#2: Spider-Man: Homecoming

I loooooved this movie! This was the film that really cemented Tom Holland as Peter Parker for me. I’ve said it before, but Tobey Maguire was my favorite Spiderman, so I was very reluctant to accept any newcomer to the role, and indeed if he hadn’t had his debut in Civil War (I’m Team Thor btw!), then I probably would’ve skipped his origin film. But, he knocked it out the park in Civil War and ran all the way home with Homecoming! 👏👏

So, that means that, coming in first place it’s, that’s right, you guessed it…

#1: Spider-Man 2

This one was the first superhero movie that I ever saw! That’s why it gets first place, because it was this movie that got me into superhero films in the first place. This one, then Batman Begins, then Iron Man sealed the deal. It defied sequel expectations by being better than it’s predecessor. Doc Oc, that stopping the train scene, Willem Dafoe driving James Franco to madness, *chef’s kiss*!

And, that’s it!

I CANNOT WAIT to see No Way Home (I’ve already got tickets!) and I hope that it is good enough to de-throne the king of this list. If Tobey & Andrew (and Charlie Cox!) are truly in it, then I think it just might! 😀