2. Spider-Man 2 (2004)

Vindicated! Spider-Man 2 is the perfect Spider-Man movie. It’s everything that makes the character great put together in just the right way. He’s a kid struggling to get by. He’s got a crush on the girl next door. He has to balance all these different spinning plates. And he’s got a great rogue’s gallery, led here by Alfred Molina’s Doc Ock. We wrote a ton more about that here but Spider-Man 2 is, we think, almost undisputably, the best live-action Spider-Man movie. Yes, we said “live-action.”