Is Spider-Man: Homecoming really the best Spider-Man movie ever?

Is Spider-Man: Homecoming actually the best movie of its kind?

Spider-Man: Homecoming is doing work in China. It raised the question again: Is this most recent Spider-Man movie the best one ever?

Financially, Spider-Man: Homecoming is getting close to beating its Sony rivals. We can believe that it will surpass it soon. But, again, while it may make the money, is it the best?

So, why would people say it’s the best? We’ve seen past movies make a lot of money, especially during that opening weekend, but then you see it’s rated poorly. Why is that? I’ve always thought people are rushing to see the movie, sometimes unaware of just what kind of movie is made.

In this case, if a movie “looks good”, it can sneak in a few extra dollars before the truth of it comes out. By then, it’s too late. The sales are made. For some reason, sales are a standard tool of measurement to determine if the movie was good.

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Alright, but sometimes the financial gain of a movie does coincide with the quality. Movies that only make a certain amount of money or just a fraction of its budget are usually poor quality movies. Generally, people do know about a movie’s quality before opening up the wallet.

Today, with so much access to social media and such, it’s easier to find out various details of a movie. Doing research for an upcoming movie helps us determine if we should even be thinking about it when it comes out.

So, let’s look at Spider-Man: Homecoming specifically. This movie was poised to make money from the start. It was Spider-Man’s homecoming to Marvel. He was home. The Marvel Cinematic Universe has yet to produce something horrible (well, Iron Fist). It had Iron Man in it. New villains we’ve never seen Spidey take on before.

It was going to get exposure and likely draw a crowd regardless. Watching the movie — ahem —more than once has allowed me to really sink my teeth into it.

The movie was the most comic book friendly movie out of the Sam Raimi and Amazing Spider-Man movies. It was funny in its own special way, and the cast really worked together.

But, was it better than Spider-Man 2, which many consider the best Spider-Man, and potentially comic movie, of all time?

Does the money it makes have a valid role in determining that? Is that the leading factor or just a small piece? Consider this: inflation has prices of things increasing. Financial records are meant to be broken, quite honestly. So, I don’t like the idea of staking how much a film makes compared to something 13 years ago. Prices have changed. The population, it’s not like it’s shrinking, right?

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Was this a poor summer for movies in general? Not much money was going around. But, when people determine why that is, it goes back to this: The movie didn’t look interesting.

That’s what I judge first when I look to see if a movie is better than another. The story. Cast. Writing. Sounds. Sights. All of that. I rarely worry about how much money it made. Well, ya know what, we like what we like, and we don’t care how much money it made, right? We just watch the movie.

Majority rules on determining if a movie is better or worst. We, as the consumers of the product, make that determination. If we say a movie or even a genre sucks, Hollywood is going to either leave it alone, or look for other ways to make money in that area. But, they fight for the movie’s quality when they determine where the money is coming from.

So, yes, financial status is an indication of the type of film, but I don’t see it as a stable metric to use as a leading variable to determine if a movie is good. Bad movies have gotten paid and good movies sometimes aren’t discovered until later on. It happens.

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Let me answer the question of this article. No, I’m not willing to say Spider-Man: Homecoming is the best Spider-Man movie of all time. But, darn it, it’s close. I want to see how it stands the test of time. It may make the most money, but let’s see if it’s still great in our eyes 13 years later.