Missing scene has been driving me nuts for 4 years

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I swear I've made a thread on this before and nobody knew what I was talking about. This has been driving crazy ever since the DVD was released. There was a scene I saw in theaters that's not on the DVD. It's the scene where Peter is late for work so he webslings there and then Dr. Connors fires him. The only mention of it on the DVD is when Pete tells Harry he got fired. I've asked everyone who saw SM in theaters and nobody remembers it. Does anyone have any clue what happened to it?
 
It was....never shot.....really.
 
Yeah, that makes sense. :confused:

I guess me and my friend imagined we saw and could describe a scene that was never shot.
 
Ah, sounds just like the whole Transformers: The Movie Prime decaying into dust theory.

Thank God for the internet! And bad luck to anybody who has been convicted in court for similarly suggestible reasons!

Check out my missing footage thread at bottom of page:
http://www.superherohype.com/forums/showthread.php?t=233360

I think all miising footage ha been documented there. Raimi used nearly everything for the final film.
 
I read your thread before and it doesn't mention the scene I am referring to.

I still don't understand how I saw a scene in theaters that nobody else did (or remembers.) My fiance went opening night and he's a hardcore Spidey fan and he doesn't have any clue what I'm talking about. I didn't go until like the weekend after it opened and me and the person I saw it with are the only two who remember it. What the hell?
 
It wasnt there. It was described in the novelization, but it wasnt actually in the movie, you're imagining it.
 
You're such an ass, that doesn't make any sense. I've never even read the novelization and I can describe the scene in distict detail. My friend remembers it exactly the same except he swears that Spidey swung near the Towers and he believes that's why it was cut from the DVD. But I don't remember seeing the WTC and I know most of those scenes were cut before the theatrical release.
 
See, so there are indescrepencies between what you two remember. Maybe you read about it somewhere online? Who knows, but it was NEVER there, as everyone here has already told you.
 
Damnit, it was there I know it was. If I had read the novelization or read anything about the movie pertaining to that online, I could buy that I just imagined it was in the movie, but I didn't. It was even the same bloody actor who played Connors in 2. Peter was running down the street with his bookbag, he looked down at his watch, ducked into an alley, opened the bookbag that his Spidey suit was in, webslung his way to work with some lovely flips and a few "woo-hoo's", got there late, Dr. Connors said he was sorry but he was late too often and he had to fire him.

It's a lot like the fired sequence in 2 except everyone has seen that scene.
 
It was never there. The fact that you can find absolutely no one online who's seen it, especially on this boards where people have seen it multiple times in theaters (I saw it 4 times myself) shows that fact.
 
X-Chick said:
Damnit, it was there I know it was. If I had read the novelization or read anything about the movie pertaining to that online, I could buy that I just imagined it was in the movie, but I didn't. It was even the same bloody actor who played Connors in 2. Peter was running down the street with his bookbag, he looked down at his watch, ducked into an alley, opened the bookbag that his Spidey suit was in, webslung his way to work with some lovely flips and a few "woo-hoo's", got there late, Dr. Connors said he was sorry but he was late too often and he had to fire him.

It's a lot like the fired sequence in 2 except everyone has seen that scene.


Woh!

Did you read my bit about court witnesses? Either you or your friend should avoid testifying methinks.
 
My friend and I are both law students, so we won't be the ones doing the testifing.

Anyway, unless someone can give me something other than "it wasn't there," like maybe an explanation as to how we saw something nobody else has, then you can just refrain from wasting our time. I've had enough people tell me I'm crazy, I don't especially want to hear the same crap over and over.
 
X-Chick said:
My friend and I are both law students, so we won't be the ones doing the testifing.

Anyway, unless someone can give me something other than "it wasn't there," like maybe an explanation as to how we saw something nobody else has, then you can just refrain from wasting our time. I've had enough people tell me I'm crazy, I don't especially want to hear the same crap over and over.


Ah yes, US law is the bastion of truth-hood (that's a jibe at his Bushiness btw, not an attack on your self).

The thing with memory is that it is inherently unreliable, no matter how intelligent you are.

But there must come a time when, no matter how much you feel (or KNOW) that you are right, that if enough people (of reasonable intelligence) disagree with you, then you must either accept you are wrong, or continue to believe you are right, but that the majority are probably right as well.

The WTC scene that your fiance mentions was used in the 1st trailer, and was PROBABLY originally for inclusion in the film (probably in the 1st Spidey montage), but Sep 11 events prevented that.

I managed to get hold of a bootleg version of Spider-man not long after it came out, probably originally from Asia. I'm convinced that the scene where Peter is drawing his costumes is slightly different on that bootleg to the one we have here on UK editions.

I think also, we have lost a headbutt or powerful kick here or there as well.

So there will always be slight differences (our version runs 4% faster than US because it is sped up from 24fps to 25fps).

But an entire new scene? Previously never mentioned? Nor heard of before?

I don't doubt that it is possible, especially if you are not from the US or other English-speaking countries, but if you are American, it has to be something you imagined.

Realistically what other feasible explanation can there be?
 
The Connors firing Pete scene was indeed in the working script as of late 2000, but to my knowledge it was never shot, even as a test scene. Thus, Dr. Connors only appears in the novelization of SM1 and not the movie itself.

Dylan Baker was not cast as Connors until late 2002, for SM2.
 
Interesting that many of us saw it multiple times in the theatres, I saw it 6 times, and you are the only one to see that scene. Isn't there a point where you realize it doesn't exist? A scene doesn't show up in theatres and then everyone else in the world has their brain wiped to forget it. Also the fact that there is not one shred of evidence, anywhere. We have proof of lost scenes from movies that were shot 25 years ago, but not from a movie that came out a few years ago. It's just not logical.

The only explanation is that it was beamed directly into your head.
 
Well, I have a possible explanation.

The scene featuring the World Trade Center towers (as a reflection in Spider-Man's eyes) happens during the web-swinging montage sequence where the public tells the camera what they think of Spider-Man. The very next scene is the first time we see J. Jonah Jameson (Peter's future boss) on screen. During this sequence, JJJ is doing his rant and he constantly berates Ted Raimi's character (dark hair, dorky, wears glasses). The very next scene is Peter meeting MJ outside the cafe where she works and he tells her that he is looking for a job. And then the VERY NEXT scene is Peter telling Harry how he got fired by Dr. Connors.

Do you think it's possible, since it was your first time seeing the movie, that these four scenes blended into each other and you simply remember it as Peter getting fired by Connors?
 
The only explanation.......alien mind control. Everyone's brain has been deleted of this scene except for 2 people.
 
Murdock, your explanation makes no sense.

I've taken like 6 pysch classes, so I'm aware that the brain does fruity things and I have had instances where I've believed one thing happened only to later realize details got jumbled in my mind. And taking any basic criminal justice class will tell you how unreliable witness statements are, thus showing the reliabilty of memory. And taking all of that into account, I could start to believe that no matter how vividly I remember it, it never happened. The only thing I dont get is how my friend and I both remember it. It seems unlikely that both of our brains would manufacture the same scene. We did both have bootleg copies, but if that scene wasn't filmed anywhere, then that doesn't really matter. The only remotely plausible explanation I can come up with if I never saw it is that I might've read it somewhere, though that seems pretty unlikely also.
 
It is possible your memory is being contaminated by the scene from SM2 where Connors berates Parker for being late.

He essentially fires him then (well, ok, he really threatens to fail him, but the implication is the same).
 
Trust me, drmick, don't try logic.

She blasted me for it.
 
I also doubt that wtc footage was ever ment to be in the movie. Look at how it was filmed and showed. Spiderman had limited contact with the characters in the scene. Also the scene was show pretty full in the trailer. It would have never been in the film with the exception of maybe the web on the towers.
 
Let's not dismiss X-Chick out of hand. It is known for slighlty different prints of films to end up in circulation at the same time. There were two copies of Attack of the Clones for instance, with one or two small differences.

X-Chick - can you recall where and when you saw Spider-Man?
 
The answer has already been told. There simply was no Curt Conners cast in the film. Dylan Baker was cast after SM1, during pre-production of SM2. It's as simple as that. There is nothing else to say.

When Sony announced the new cast members for SM2, don't you think they would have mentioned that Baker had filmed a scene in SM1? This is not a matter of National Security. There is no secret.
 
Kevin Roegele said:
Let's not dismiss X-Chick out of hand. It is known for slighlty different prints of films to end up in circulation at the same time. There were two copies of Attack of the Clones for instance, with one or two small differences.

X-Chick - can you recall where and when you saw Spider-Man?

What were the differences in the Attack of the Clones versions?

(Yet Lucas kept the awful dialogue!?!?!?! )
 

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