TASM: Why Marc Webb Nixed The Iconic "With Great Power" Quote From The Movie

Boooooooo!

Good move

Can't say i disagree really...its like Superman being from Krypton...everyone knows the statement:

"With Great Power...Comes Great Responsibility"

Comes from spiderman...and honestly who in the real world would ever utter such a cheesey statement...

It hasn't already been posted, the interview only went up on MTV today, July 2nd.

Manny Pacquiao ruined that quote.

That's true actually..well, not that it seemed forced, I think it worked pretty well.

Yeah I watched the 2002 spiderman the other night,and when uncle ben says it in the car,im thinking...well he doesnt know he has some sort of power,he only punched a kid in school,otherwise you should be telling that quote to everyone lol

It's a metaphor, Peter was a weak kid before he got bitten by a radioactive spider. Punching Flash was his first exposure of having a so-called "power" and Uncle Ben was worried he might abused it.

It was a mistake not to use it. The phrase is important to Peter, because it's an iconic, easy to remember, but profound reminder of his duty to use his powers responsibly. It coming from his Uncle Ben is important, because of the added weight it brings after his death and it's important to US, the audience, because the phrase both defines him and is inextricably linked to him.

Without the phrase being used at least once, by his Uncle Ben, then it makes it seem less 'genuine', less like the 'real' Spider-Man and more like an Elseworlds/What If...? "a filmmaker thought his ideas were better than Stans and his costume design was better than Steve's" type deal.

It's just another one of those "if it ain't broke, why fix it?" things Webb seems to have done just for the sake of doing it 'differently' - without any due consideration to whether it's actually better.

Not dissing on the film as a whole, but things like this do make me a little crazy with the "WHY DID YOU DO THAT?!!" of it all.

This was the same excuse execs used for not saying Avengers Assemble in Avengers.

People need to STFU, this is a problem. They have all this other weird ass dialogue "we all have secrets, the ones we keep, etc." that sound way worse.

Gutted, this is worse than them not saying Avengers Assemble in the Avengers

Agreed. I've become annoyed by that saying.

I've seen the movie at a screening and this is BS:

"There were moments where we thought about using it, but it didn't feel as emotionally honest to the scenes and to the sequences. We were trying to create something more naturalistic. Because we had seen it so many times before, I didn't think it was absolutely necessary."

There's a scene -- and it's actually the ONLY poorly written individual scene in the whole movie -- where they go through SO much trouble to avoid the phrase, it comes off as forced.

I forget the wording, but it's a long convo w/Peter and Ben, where Ben says something akin to, "Peter, you have a moral responsibility to do good." It was like they sat there trying to come up w/different ways to say the REAL line that it ended up feeling even more forced.

i read amazing fantasy 15 yesterday, and as far as i remember uncle ben doesnt even say it.

and that still doesn't change the fact that the suit is piece of shit

THAT is about the only gripe I have with this movie. I understand it's a reboot and you have to be super different, but that is one thing you don't take out.

hell i'm not gonna pay to watch this movie, i'll just pop some popcorn and stay home and watch spiderman 1 and 2 on the hd tv wit the surround sound "f" this remake

Stan lee used it as a narrative thing, same thing with superman the whole faster than a bullet powerfull than a locomotive it's for benefits of the reader.
Yeah in the most recent comics peter now says my uncle Ben taught me but before the first movie, I don't recall him ever saying it in comics.