Comparing the Original Spider-Man Trilogy to the Original X-Men Trilogy

[MarvelFan]

Spider-Man trilogy

More heart, more drama, and more good story..

 

[superhero]

im big spider-man fan!! but i still enjoy spider-man 3! i don't care what every one els says!!!! if i was too compair spider-man 2 to x-men 2!! it be hard to chose!! there both awesome movies!! i guess im more of x-men fan!! but i do still enjoy spider-man 2!! i would chose x-men 2!!

 

[pr0xyt0xin]

Pretty much one for one i prefer the X-films.

1 X1 > S1
2 X2 = S2
3 X3 > S3

They are all close. But in the end, I think X-Men made a more solid franchise with more interesting concepts and better actors. Raimi's Spider-Man was good, but not great, and not my Spidey. #NotMySpidey

But I changed my mind S2 and X2 are too close to call.

4 ASM > FC (this is the one exception. of the two reboots I like FC a lot, but I like ASM a bit more :P)
5 DoFP > ASM2 (the far superior film. DoFP deftly handles the ensemble and world building way better than ASM2 did)


Homecoming vs Apocalypse (these have some similarities too. A new younger cast, another attempt at a more comic-accurate universe. I happen to think Spidey stands a good shot at winning this one.)

 

[Chip Chipperson]

X1 was quite forgettable

X2 is great

not even gonna comment on the third installment.

Spidey 1 and 2 are both great, 2 edging out the first. 3 is weak but still much more enjoyable than Last Stand.

Raimi gets the edge

 

[DACrowe]

Clean sweep of the Spider-Man trilogy.

For all of their faults and "inaccuracies," Raimi's movies (even SM3) had real heart, and a sense of joy and excitement for the material and its world. That's a rarity in blockbusters, I actually find it to be more the exception in the MCU (the first Iron Man, Avengers, and GOTG, being the ones) too. Spider-Man 2 also remains a benchmark that, at least judging from the trailer for Homecoming, will remain unchallenged in its own character's movie franchise.

With that said, I will defend the X-Men a little bit. I see folks throwing around the word "overrated," but the truth is that without the X-Men and Spider-Man franchises both, we wouldn't have the MCU to date. And the only one of the original X-Men films that is uncompromised is X2. X1 didn't have the budget or time it needed to succeed fully, and X3 was a studio rushed hack job. But X2 holds up quite well as one of the better superhero movies made to date, and certainly of its era. And even in X1's defense, its strong casting choices overall (excluding Ms. Berry) and focus on characterization, and allusions to WWII and gay rights is why the movie helped wash out the taste of Batman & Robin in the industry, as well as become a staple for marginalized minorities who had it much rougher in the Bush Years than they have had since Obama was elected.


.... And as for today, I'll take X-Men: First Class and X-Men: Days of Future Past over pretty much the whole MCU. But I suspect that has more to do with Matthew Vaughn and Jane Goldman taking what Singer created and vastly improving it. Apocalypse was Singer/Kinberg on their own, and well... it was far below most of the MCU then.

 

[The Whizzer]

With as bad as the third one is, the Raimi Spider-Man films are the standard that I judge every comic book film by. They perfectly encapsulated everything I love about the genre, and even the corny stuff works. Hell, as much as I love the MCU, they still haven't made anything that sniffs the quality of those first two Spider-Man films.

I admire the X-Men series for lasting as long as it has, but in my opinion, only DoFP and First Class were what I'd consider great films. If I'm being charitable, I'll grudgingly add Deadpool to that list. The other films were either good, mediocre, or terrible.

 

[Yowza]

I'll 2nd "FeedonaTreeFrog"; both these original trilogies are special.

I remember after I first saw the Spider-Man movie in the theatre and looked back on the first X-men movie watching it on DVD a year or so later, I had the same impression as "Kahran Ramsus" to some extent. I think the humor was hokey and the final standoff felt rushed and forced but still loved the first moments of the film. However, at the time I saw both in the theatre both felt pretty eventful and looking back many years later now I kind of see it the same way.

Overall I have to go with the first Spiderman over X-men because that really set the bar high special effects wise for comic book movies to come and was something special to watch at the time. Although oddly enough now I may prefer the tone of the first X-men movie to the Spiderman one but I'll just say Spiderman for heck of it.

I'll go with Xmen 2 and Spiderman 2 being equal as I prefer the tone in the Xmen to some extent but will give Spiderman 2 the nod as was more fun to watch and some of singer's xmen films can be bit cheesy at times.

Xmen 3 vs. Spiderman 3 is tough but I'll give a nod to Xmen 3 as I appreciate some of the risks it took (even if storyline not the best nor a lot of the stuff in it) even though not as good of special effects as spiderman 3 which kind of recycled some of the same beats over again from previous installments which I didn't like.

Overall, I have to agree with "The Batman" and say X-men gets the nod as an overall franchise though just by a bit. Spiderman movies felt a bit too self-contained although the opening credits for spiderman 2 were awesome and provided a good connection between the first 2 movies. I think it was the coincidental nature of someone who knew Peter always becoming the next villain or kind of silly ways that things kind of repeated over that brought it down for me as a whole. That and I can be more critical of Spiderman as used to read a lot of the comics I suppose.

 

[AVEITWITHJAMON]

1) JUST Spiderman 1

2) JUST X-Men 2

3) Spiderman 3 by quite some way

4) Spiderman trilogy.

Overall I love some of these movies, there is only X3 I hate out of all of the,. X-Men and Spiderman though will always be my top 2 comic book property's no matter what.