Spiderman is to this day the movie that changed the game for comic book movies.Without it quality comic movies like the rebooted batman movies Iron man and X-2 would have been camp and alienating to comic book fans much like the first X-men movie. Spider man 2 sucked ,not as bad as X3 or spiderman 3 but it was still pretty awful. It lost all of the fun of the character and forgot that it was a Comic book movie and it doesn't have the substance to compare with real movies so it just ends up in the underwhelming limbo where Superman Returns resides. Still in the End Spiderman wins handily via the strength of the first movie alone.