If you’re a fan of Spider-Man, it’s been a pretty eventful year for you. There was the excellent Spider-Man on PS4, Dan Slott concluded his decade-long run for the character in comics, there’s an upcoming animated Spider-Man movie, Spider-Man: Enter the Spider-Verse, starring Miles Morales that’s coming out in December and looks amazing, and despite him not feeling so good in Infinity War, he stole the show for a lot of people. Truly, there’s nothing that could stop this gravy train from rolling. You know, except for Venom.
It’s not that everything about Venom is completely unappealing or interesting, but it justs looks like such a tonal mess of a movie. Venom looks goofy as hell, the movie is a toned down PG-13, and it comes across as Sony trying to make Venom edgy and cool like a 90’s anti-hero in all of the wrong ways. Now I haven’t seen the movie (nor do I intend to unless there’s an R rated version that releases on Blu-Ray or DVD), but I’m not holding out much hope for it. That’s a real shame because say what you will about Sony and how they’ve mishandled the Spider-Man franchise, they still made some good Spider-Man movies. They’ve also made some terrible Spider-Man movies, and I wanted to take a look back at the franchise that used to be the king of the superhero genre until Marvel came to town and took their beloved property back and rank each of Sony’s Spider-Man movies.
For this ranking, I’m using the same method as before when I ranked every Pixar movie. I’m watching all five of Sony’s Spider-Man movies, both the Sam Raimi trilogy and the Amazing movies, then putting them in an order of worst to best. Just to be clear, I’m not going to be talking about Spider-Man Homecoming because it’s a part of the MCU and wasn’t made directly by Sony. However, if you want to know my honest feelings about it, here they are. I think Homecoming is just okay. Tom Holland is fine in the role, but the movie seemed to be spinning its wheels for most of the runtime and tried too hard to make Spidey funny. You know how people like to rail or roll their eyes at Marvel’s brand of humor? Homecoming is textbook Marvel humor, for better and for worse.
Anyway, let’s get started with ranking these suckers.
Source: Destructoid Ranking Sony’s Spider-Man movies