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.

@keithm, the idea of changing things up is so that it will fit better in the story being told. while it worked fine in the comics it might not work here in this movie. i do like how he commented that the concept behind the phrase is still present in the film just not spoken. remember this is a visual media. we don't need everything told to us.

It's funny to see the regular trolls like Therealgoomba write that Uncle Ben saying the phrase is iconic to Spider-Man even though he never said it in the comics. It just shows how these kids were wiened on Rami's films and have no other knowledge of Spidey to reference. They are Rami fans not Spidey fans.

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

GIFSoup

In the first comic, it's the narrator who says it, not any of the characters. It's not meant to be explicitly stated within Spider-Man's story. Marc Webb, if anything, is staying true to the comics.

I've watched the movie and it was awesome! I'm happy he didn't use it because it would just sound too cheesy. The movie overall has a grounded feeling and using that quote would ruin it.

I am going to see this. It is true they always change something and I am better at seeing these movies knowing that... But what it really comes down to is someone's vision and view of how they see the story.Sometimes different is okay. As my friend said, there is always someone who wants to piss their scent on everything. If it goes over big they brag, if not they don't admit it.

I don't see how that one quote would ruin the whole experience of the movie.lol

Plus, it was used to death in the Raimi series. I loved those films growing up, and I still enjoy them for their nostalgic value, but it seems that every 10 minutes during those films either that Uncle Ben's voice would echo "With great power comes great responsibility", or Peter would start crying.

And when you combine those two elements that ran through the Raimi films with 'Saturday Night Fever Peter' from Spider-Man 3... The Amazing Spider-Man can't come fast enough!

1 MORE DAY!!!!!!