Sam Raimi's Spider-Man was one of the first movies that got me into seeking out information about movies before they came out, and I remember unlocking a character poster of the Green Goblin as part of a fan campaign online before it debuted elsewhere. That film and Spider-Man 2 still hold up pretty well all these years later, even though Tobey Maguire was arguably too old to play the character from the start. Marvel Studios has remedied that problem by casting 19-year-old Tom Holland as the new webslinger; he made his debut in Captain America: Civil War and practically stole every scene he was in, and he'll appear in Spider-Man: Homecoming in 2017.

Maguire already had to (metaphorically) pass the suit down to another actor when Andrew Garfield took over the Spidey mantle for The Amazing Spider-Man movies, but now the OG Spidey is bestowing his best wishes on the new kid in town. Maguire took to social media to praise Holland's work as the new Spider-Man: