I'm not sure what lunatic can say the Superman movies a superior to the Spider-man movies. The Superman movies were deliberately campy and one-dimensional. Spider-man makes a determined and successful effort to develop characters with depth and complexity. The two sets of movies are in different classes.
If special effects of Superman were put on par to the 2000's, then a modern equivalent to Superman would be X-Men, as both have average special effects for their time, and both are plot driven stories of similar depth.
IMO, the Spider-man movies are easily the best comic book movies ever made. They have excellent production quality, good to great acting, awesome action, well developed characters (the ones we care about), etc. It's a refreshing reminder that movies (even an action-flicks) shouldn't be non-stop action when handling characters that the audience cares about; and that a balance can be reached between plot and character development.
Superman, X-Men, first couple Bat Man movies are a tier lower. They are still great movies, but they do lack the story telling of the Spider-man series. Just watch the first two Superman movies again. Although they have similar plots to Spider-man, they are pretty flat when held up to the two Spider-man movies.
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