For all the wild, exciting, and unexpected places that all the Spider-Man films on this list goes, it’s hard to go away from Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man 2, which takes an approach that worked at the time and, really, will always work: tell a Spider-Man story, and tell it well. Spider-Man 2 follows Peter Parker’s (Tobey Maguire) relationship with the mentor-turned-villain Otto Octavius (Alfred Molina) and how that eventually intertwines with his own relationships with love interests (Kirsten Dunst), friends (James Franco), and family (Rosemary Parker). Everything that Spider-Man did, Spider-Man 2 does even better. The train sequence? The train sequence. There is not a single thing wrong with Spider-Man 2. It also ends with “Vindicated” by Dashboard Confessional, which is up there for the most inspired choice ever made in any movie, ever. Bravo.
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