Homecoming Am I the only one that liked the parents story line?

[spiderman2]

I have heard so many people say they thought the parents story line was bad or waste of time ect. I thought thee parents story line was just fine and didn't take away form other important things. Am I the only one that fells that way?

 

[LizardMan07]

Can you please use spellcheck on your titles? <3

 

[spider-neil]

Utter waste of screen time. I hated it in the comics and I hate it more in the movie. I rolled my eyes at the 'reveal'. Two movies dedicated to the parents and the reveal was utter crap.

Think of all the storylines from Spider-Man's 60 year comic run.

Off the top of my head;
Master Planner.
Spider-Island.
Kraven's Last Hunt.
Death of Jean Dewolff.
Mysterio framing Spider-Man.
and so many more

and the story they went with was Peter's parents. Who the **** cares?! Peter's parents were Uncle Ben and Aunt May, that's who raised him.
I'm glad to see the back of it.

 

[titansupes]

No thanks to the parents.

 

[spiderman2]

Can you please use spellcheck on your titles? <3

I didn't noticed my typo in till it was to late. Is there a way to change that now?

 

[spiderman2]

Utter waste of screen time. I hated it in the comics and I hate it more in the movie. I rolled my eyes at the 'reveal'. Two movies dedicated to the parents and the reveal was utter crap.

Think of all the storylines from Spider-Man's 60 year comic run.

Off the top of my head;
Master Planner.
Spider-Island.
Kraven's Last Hunt.
Death of Jean Dewolff.
Mysterio framing Spider-Man.
and so many more

and the story they went with was Peter's parents. Who the **** cares?! Peter's parents were Uncle Ben and Aunt May, that's who raised him.
I'm glad to see the back of it.

I didn't say that there wasn't another story lines that they could have went with how ever with the story line they had in asm1 and 2 it didn't really take away form the movies. I know that uncle ben and aunt may are the ones that raised him but its like peter said in the movie its not about you. It was about peter getting the closure of just knowing what happened. Could it have been better yes but he still got the closure of knowing what in the heck happened has most kids would want to know if they didn't know what happened with there parents. Also because of what he found out he found out to be more carefully with oscorp had there been another movie.

 

[W/ Great Power]

Utter waste of screen time. I hated it in the comics and I hate it more in the movie. I rolled my eyes at the 'reveal'. Two movies dedicated to the parents and the reveal was utter crap.

Think of all the storylines from Spider-Man's 60 year comic run.

Off the top of my head;
Master Planner.
Spider-Island.
Kraven's Last Hunt.
Death of Jean Dewolff.
Mysterio framing Spider-Man.
and so many more

and the story they went with was Peter's parents. Who the **** cares?! Peter's parents were Uncle Ben and Aunt May, that's who raised him.
I'm glad to see the back of it.

It's almost definitive evidence that not many folks at Sony are familiar with the comics.

I feel like it was sort of along the lines of this: "So apparently Gwen was pretty important to Peter, and she died very tragically. Marc, you're good with love stories, right? Say, can you maybe - great! Also, I don't think the OT ever mentioned anything about Peter's parents. Maybe we oughta give the audience something they've never seen before, and we'll figure it out after that. Just need something to get them interested for now, you know? We'll call it 'The Untold Story.'"

 

[Shanio1]

Wasn't needed and wasted minutes that could of been spent developing characters (electro)

 

[GuestStar2004]

Problem with the parents storyline is that in TASM it was set up as a mystery that was gonna be unfolded into a trilogy which could have worked well and we knew it was something to with oscorp and norman osborn

but the problem with TASM2 is that the moment the sinister 6 idea came up sony obviously realised they had to tie even the parents plot to the sinister 6 and thats pretty much what i think happened, it got watered down the moment sony found something better

i personally don't think there is anything wrong with the parents storyline as its never been explained why peter lives with his aunt and uncle in the first place

i also think TASM2 showed alot of sonys insecurities since they felt they had to correct every criticism that critics gave TASM and one of them was that TASM promised stuff about the parents and gave very little

 

[Spidey220987]

As GuestStar2004 just said, it seemed pretty obvious they wanted the parents storyline to last a trilogy. I liked it, but it could have been handled better.

The bit that people seem to get confused about is the reveal about the Parker bloodline - basically, Peter was the only person who could become Spider-Man. My brother didn't get it, my friends didn't get it. I was like "he basically spelt it out for you" lol.

That in itself is a bit of a Deus ex machina. We've always been led to believe that anyone could have been Spider-Man, it was just a series of (un)fortunate events that led it to be Peter, a case of him being in the right place at the wrong time. But to be told that only someone with the Parker bloodline could have been, that just meant he was destined to be Spider-Man, he was chosen before he even knew it lol

 

[Rodrigo90]

Wasn't really interesting. I knew from day one that it would have something to do with Oscorp....
And thanks to Sony ballsing everything up with TASM2 and pratically revealing every detail about the film, I thought
"What a waste of time"

The 'Who Murdered The Waynes' storyline in Gotham, that's more interesting and mysterious.

 

[Erzengel]

If this was a TV show, this would have been like Season 8 when the show officially jumped the shark with what about the parents storyline.

 

[spider-neil]

It's one thing to adapt a great storyline and mess it up, it's quite another to adapt a boring arse storyline that no one cared about and expect it to be anything other than a boring arse storyline that no one cares about.

 

[The Joker]

The parents storyline was dull, uninteresting, with a lousy pay off.

 

[GuestStar2004]

It's one thing to adapt a great storyline and mess it up, it's quite another to adapt a boring arse storyline that no one cared about and expect it to be anything other than a boring arse storyline that no one cares about.

Same could be said about the plot for Spider-man 2 though

Peter loses his powers because of not wanting to be spider-man anymore or whatever it was, something thats pretty weak really when you really think about it

I actually remember i grew up with the 90s cartoon and he started loosing his powers because his genes were changing and he was slowly transforming into a human spider monster and honestly i thought that was the direction they were going in Spider-man 2 and i was actually kinda disappointed when it was just performance issues

 

[The Joker]

Same could be said about the plot for Spider-man 2 though

Peter loses his powers because of not wanting to be spider-man anymore or whatever it was, something thats pretty weak really when you really think about it

No you couldn't say the same for Spider-Man 2 because the Spider-Man no more story is a classic fan favorite story. In the comic books Peter loses his powers and quits for the exact same reasons as the movie. Peter's parents....nobody gives a toss about them in the comics. They were non entities. Why would they think making a big sub plot about them in the movies is a good idea?

I actually remember i grew up with the 90s cartoon and he started loosing his powers because his genes were changing and he was slowly transforming into a human spider monster and honestly i thought that was the direction they were going in Spider-man 2 and i was actually kinda disappointed when it was just performance issues

You were deluding yourself if you thought the Man-Spider monster was going to be done after one movie lol.

 

[GuestStar2004]

No you couldn't say the same for Spider-Man 2 because the Spider-Man no more story is a classic fan favorite story. In the comic books Peter loses his powers and quits for the exact same reasons as the movie. Peter's parents....nobody gives a toss about them in the comics. They were non entities. Why would they think making a big sub plot about them in the movies is a god idea?

do people wanna see him lose his powers because of something as small as i don't wanna be spider-man anymore for most the movie?

the parents stuff has been done in the comics aswell as alot of stuff, you can't pick and choose whats less boring because its from an early 60s story

 

[The Joker]

do people wanna see him lose his powers because of something as small as i don't wanna be spider-man anymore for most the movie?

Yeah they do. The foundation of Peter's woes is the hardships his life as Spider-Man brings on his personal life. It's one of many reasons why Spider-Man 2 is the most popular and well received of the Spider-Man movies. It got to the core of that, it humanized Peter like the comics do and presented what a lot of superheroes don't have to deal with. The every day woes of life.

Batman, Iron Man, Superman, the X-Men etc don't have to worry about keeping up with school work, or their Aunt struggling to pay her mortgage, or paying rent for a crap hole apartment, or trying to juggle two jobs, or lose friendships and relationships because their superhero life always gets in the way etc.

The kind of things so integral with Peter Parker. Things I might add which were predominantly absent from the TASM movies.

the parents stuff has been done in the comics aswell as alot of stuff, you can't pick and choose whats less boring because its from an early 60s story

The parents storyline was done once in a single story where Peter found out they were framed by the Red Skull as traitors, and he went and cleared their name. That's it. In the height of the 90's crap fest, they came back seemingly alive and turned out to be ROBOTS (big eye roll) that Chameleon and Goblin made to dupe Peter.

Neither of these storylines, especially the latter one, are any kind of fan favorites or have any iconic status. Peter losing his powers and the whole Spider-Man no more storyline does. They even recreated that iconic image of him dumping his Spidey costume in the trash can and walking away.

 

[spider-neil]

I'm sorry but 'Spider-Man no more' is a GREAT storyline and infinitely better than the Parker SHIELD agents or worse, Parkers - Robots. Utter rubbish in the comics and no more interesting in the movies.

 

[UltimateWebhead]

Peter's parents are Uncle Ben and Aunt May. 'Nuff said.

 

[OriginalMiles]

'Twas meh.

 

[chamber-music]

I actually like the Webb Spider-Man films but the parents angle wasn't worth exploring.

Most people didn't watch the previous Raimi Spider-Man films and think "I wonder what happened to Peter's parents".

It felt like the parent's plot was in these movies just to differentiate it from the previous Spider-Man trilogy.

If your going to take storylines from the comic then it is a good idea to pick the more popular and well received ones as they are more likely to be a hit with wider audiences.

 

[Spiderine]

The whole parents subplot was bad execution. And it was a lousy plot twist. And chamber music is right, they just wanted to distance itself from the original trilogy by including it.

 

[Tacit Ronin]

You aren't the only won that liked it. I am sure other won's did. But I, Won Ze, did not like it.

 

[rebellion]

lmao