But when a Spider-Man movie is good, there’s basically nothing else like it. After The Amazing Spider-Man 2 failed to excite audiences, Sony and Marvel Studios came to an unprecedented agreement over the Spider-Man franchise. The Amazing Spider-Man (2012)Bad as Spider-Man 3 was, it was still a tall order for Andrew Garfield to assert his role as the new Spider-Man. Released in 2002, Sam Raimi’s first movie with Tobey Maguire rewrote the superhero movie playbook just as the genre was starting to take off. A masterful fusion of the soul of The Amazing Spider-Man comics with Sam Raimi’s playful filmmaking (see: the hospital scene), Spider-Man 2 is one of the greatest superhero movies of all time and, without a doubt, the best Spider-Man movie ever made.