So for this weekend’s date, my hun and I watched some movies. Just to give a disclaimer, my hun and I decided to watch the first movies of the Spider-man versions created. The Tobey Maguire one, the Andrew Garfield one, and the Tom Holland one. 

I guess the challenge started when my boyfriend told me that his favorite one is the Tom Holland one. I gave that movie a chance. I wanted to see what my boyfriend saw in the movie that made him declare that Spider-man: Homecoming was his favorite. After I watched it, I very passionately said “bullshit”. No way in hell. I asked him if he remembers Spider-man and The Amazing Spider-man. He said he haven’t watched the Andrew Garfield one. And he does not remember the Tobey Maguire one. So we decided to watch the other two movies.

We watched Andrew Garfield’s The Amazing Spider-man on 07.24. And the other day, we watched Tobey Maguire’s Spider-man. Thoughts? This 2002 version will always have a special place. Tobey Maguire’s Peter Parker was very endearing. The storyline was pretty solid. I love the Green Goblin, but that was because Willem Dafoe’s portrayal was phenomenal. 

But after watching all three first Spider-man movies, which one is my favorite? The top one for me is definitely The Amazing Spider-man with Andrew Garfield. I think the revenge arc his spider-man had was pretty good and definitely legit. The way he had the character shift from revenge-focused to being a hero was really good. The second one for me is Spider-man with Tobey Maguire. And then, of course, the last one is Spider-man: Homecoming. For the last version, I was looking for character depth that I got from the other two versions. It didn’t deliver, that Peter Parker/Spider-man version felt a lot more kid-ish. 

My love has the same rankings as well. He preferred The Amazing Spider-man, followed closely by Spider-man, and then the third one is Spider-man: Homecoming.

Anyway, that is the end of that. We are now planning on doing the same thing with Batman movies.