Is Spider-Man 2 a masterpiece?

[Solid]

It's the most highly rated Marvel film and the best director Marvel ever had their name attached to.

For comic books, with the exception of The Dark Knight, it's rare to see a comic book film being called a masterpiece (in general)

So what do you think, about the film overall, it’s just a great film or can be considered as good as the likes of Seven, Fight Club, Blade Runner 2049, Heat, Terminator 2, Inception and others classics?

 

[Shinobi Shaw]

Is it a masterpiece?

Indubitably.

 

[Bayne]

Never liked it.

 

[MasterBoss]

It's not even my favorite Raimi Spider-Man film, I've always preferred the first one. It's more rough around the edges than SM2, but it's much better paced (SM2 has some dead spots for me), Mary Jane has some character (she wants to prove her abusive father wrong) and it's generally more exciting than it's sequel.

There's a lot I like about Spider-Man 2, but the movie is extremely bogged down by Mary Jane, who's so poorly written in this she becomes genuinely unlikeable. The writers need her to cut Peter from her life, so they have her get absurdly over the top angry about him missing her play to the point of absurdity. She abandons her fiancée at the altar, and it's framed as a romantic thing. Worst of all, she has zero agency as her own person. Everything about her life revolves around Peter. Even at a point when she's decided to cut Peter from her life and move on, she still fantasizes about doing the upside kiss with her fiancée.

The best Spider-Man film by far is Spider-Man Into the Spider-verse. Now that's a comicbook masterpiece (unless we're not counting animation for some reason),

 

[Chip Chipperson]

simply the best

 

[Drizzle]

It's a masterpiece for sure. There's a reason why it's still brought up in conversations about the best superhero films almost two decades later.

 

[Another_Fool]

As much as I love Spider-Man 2, I don't consider it a masterpiece. Really close but no.

Into the Spider-Verse though . . . I personally think is a masterpiece, at least for the property.

 

[Nardz937]

It is masterful in every sense of the word. The epitome of cinema.

 

[Solid]

One of the best comic book films, for sure.

 

[Gothamsknight]

It's absolutely a masterpiece. The only film I rank above it in the genre is The Dark Knight.

 

[Solid]

It's absolutely a masterpiece. The only film I rank above it in the genre is The Dark Knight.

I agree both are the best directors to be attached to comic books, with the best trilogies overall.

Still, I think the gap is wide between their third film only.

 

[Drizzle]

It's the most highly rated Marvel film and the best director Marvel ever had their name attached to.

That's debatable. Raimi is right up there but don't forget Guillermo Del Toro directed Blade II and James Mangold directed Logan and The Wolverine.

 

[Solid]

That's debatable. Raimi is right up there but don't forget Guillermo Del Toro directed Blade II and James Mangold directed Logan and The Wolverine.

Mangold is good but below both of them, I do agree Del Toro and Raimi are on the same level but I personally prefer Sam Raimi's horror films overall.

I think Spider-Man 1 and 2 are better than Del Toro's Blade 2 which was good too

 

[Drizzle]

Oh yeah, there's no comparison there. Blade II was good but Del Toro was still relatively new at that point. Raimi was at the absolute top of his game with Spider-Man 2.

 

[kguillou]

The answer is yes.

 

[The Joker]

Still the best Spider-Man movie and one of the best CBM's.

 

[Albright]

I was blown away when I watched the first movie. Besides TTT it was the greatest movie in 2002.
When I watched SM2 I was pretty underwhelmed

 

[Laderlappen]

I'm not sure I go so far as calling it a masterpiece but it's my favorite Marvel movie I think.

 

[psylockolussus]

It is. 'Nuff said.

 

[noob]

Best of the trilogy by far, but not a masterpiece

 

[BlackFox]

God tier

 

[Mysteryman]

The answer is yes.

YEP!

 

[Mysteryman]

That's debatable. Raimi is right up there but don't forget Guillermo Del Toro directed Blade II and James Mangold directed Logan and The Wolverine.

I would add Ryan Coogler to that list as well.

 

[Drizzle]

I would add Ryan Coogler to that list as well.

He's a great director too and I would have put both him and Taika Waititi on the list as well. The only reason why I didn't was because they both have relatively short resumes in terms of films directed compared to Raimi and Del Toro.

 

[Mandon Knight]

Depends surely on one's own definition of what can be termed a 'masterpiece'. It's certainly amongst the best in the CBM genre, no doubt.

I personally prefer the original of Raimi's trilogy, as solid as number 2 is.

But 'masterpiece' ? Not for me, no.