Missing scene has been driving me nuts for 4 years

[matthooper]

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

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

One print stunk and the other one stunk worse.

 

[Screenscribe]

I have to admit that I don't remember this scene. I've seen the film a number of times when it first came out. about 26 times actually. And Dr. Conners wasn't in the film. I know scenes were filmed in early trailers that never made it to the theaters like Peter showing off his webshooters. perhaps it was in an early trailer?

 

[Chris Wallace]

Reminds me of another scene that people swore up & down was in the movie; JJJ making some reference to the "Liberty Island incident"(Presumably from "X-Men"). The scene just doesn't exist. Sorry. I saw the movie twice on opening day alone. Add that to the numerous subsequent viewings, & I'm pretty sure I'd remember. Connors was not seen until the second movie. At all. It's as simple as that.

 

[Kevin Roegele]

Reminds me of another scene that people swore up & down was in the movie; JJJ making some reference to the "Liberty Island incident"(Presumably from "X-Men"). The scene just doesn't exist. Sorry. I saw the movie twice on opening day alone. Add that to the numerous subsequent viewings, & I'm pretty sure I'd remember. Connors was not seen until the second movie. At all. It's as simple as that.

According to the IMDb's Spider-Man 2 page:

"In some theatrical versions of the film, there is a scene near the end where Peter calls up Aunt May on the phone, and she just sits there, listening to the answering machine, but not bothering to pick up. This scene has been completely removed from the dvd release."

 

[Chris Wallace]

That makes no sense.

 

[drmick]

According to the IMDb's Spider-Man 2 page:

"In some theatrical versions of the film, there is a scene near the end where Peter calls up Aunt May on the phone, and she just sits there, listening to the answering machine, but not bothering to pick up. This scene has been completely removed from the dvd release."

Yeah, the exact same thing MJ did.

So either they filmed the same scene with two different characters,

or

Someone is getting mixed up.

 

[Chris Wallace]

They filmed the same scene w/two different characters & showed both, no less?

 

[Chris Wallace]

Plus, Aunt May doesn't strike me as the machine type.

 

[AVEITWITHJAMON]

The scene mentioned in the first post never happened here i can tell you that much

 

[November Rain]

Loony....?

 

[spideyman101]

i am starting to beleive these are only rumors started to create popularity on the board or something... ???

i didn't see SM1 in theaters... but i saw SM2 in theaters and i never saw anything about Peter calling Aunt May or whatever...

 

[spideyman101]

all i gotta say is: everyone... pay close attention to SM3 when you see it in theaters... :P

 

[Venom 1988]

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?

Were you high at the time and imagined it? Marijuana will usually do that to a person.

 

[Splicer]

I haven't seen this footage either I'm afraid. Can you elaborate on it? The scene, what happened, what was the dialogue? Or the jist of the dialogue?

 

[drmick]

I haven't seen this footage either I'm afraid. Can you elaborate on it? The scene, what happened, what was the dialogue? Or the jist of the dialogue?

Dude, have you, like, read the first page?

It's so detailed in those posts, that I am beginning to believe it DID happen!

 

[Venom 1988]

But it didn't, so there you go.

 

[Spider-Girl™]

I saw both in the theatres, and I didn't see either one of these scenes, what I saw in the theatres is what I see when I watch them at home.

 

[Dope Nose]

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.

more unlikely than you being wrong? I would think what you've written is a little more than remotely plausible given the number of users, myself included, who never saw the scene in question.

 

[Tyrinus]

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.

I like how you keep mentioning what kind of classes and education you've had, like it some how makes you immune to being wrong about this.

 

[HR-PUFF&STUFF]

we should just E-Mail Bruce Campbell and ask him.

i just tried and he seems to have taken the E-Mail off his site.

 

[Splicer]

Dude, have you, like, read the first page?

It's so detailed in those posts, that I am beginning to believe it DID happen!

Dude, er, yah

Detailed? Hardly.
- He never carried his suit in his bag, he WORE it.
- No specific dialogue, just a generalisation (even I kinda knew the dialogue of each scene after the first viewing) One or two sentences doesn't make a good scene.
- Dr. Connors was played by the same guy in S-M2 when he wasn't even cast until S-M2? He did have a role in Along Came A Spider though, does that qualify?
- The scene doesn't really have anything 'going' for it, I can't see why it would have been in the final stages of scripting, or even 'test' shot at all.

It wasn't in the movie, let it go.

That is all.

 

[Chris Wallace]

Dude, er, yah

Detailed? Hardly.
- He never carried his suit in his bag, he WORE it.
- No specific dialogue, just a generalisation (even I kinda knew the dialogue of each scene after the first viewing) One or two sentences doesn't make a good scene.
- Dr. Connors was played by the same guy in S-M2 when he wasn't even cast until S-M2? He did have a role in Along Came A Spider though, does that qualify?
- The scene doesn't really have anything 'going' for it, I can't see why it would have been in the final stages of scripting, or even 'test' shot at all.

It wasn't in the movie, let it go.

That is all.

The best part of said scene, when I read it in the novel, was Peter secretly fantasizing about the lizard in Connors' lab biting him & turning him into a human lizard, so he could understand what Peter goes through. But that kind of internalized scenario can't be conveyed on film, so it would've been a waste to shoot it-if they had.
Plus, the way Peter told Harry-"I was late for work & Dr. Connors fired me"-none of that would have been necessary had the audience been introduced to Dr. Connors already. They had him say that as a way of paying further homage to the comics. Otherwise it would've been a simple "I got fired for being late."

 

[matthooper]

We are almost giving this topic a shred of credibility by still posting here. The scene was never shot. We've all given 100 facts and evidence as to why and how the scene does not exist and cannot exist. All the facts are stacked up against one person who simply is mistaken and claims they saw it.

The most obvious evidence is that there was no Curt Conners cast for SM1. It's not like we couldn't know that. If an actor was cast and a scene shot it would be known. Even before the movie was shot, the cast was known. Even if the actor makes it on the cutting room floor, he was still a cast member. It's not like everyone but Raimi was neuralyzed.

I think it's time we let it go.

 

[Abaddon]

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.

You read the novelization and after awhile when you were remembering the movie your mind filled in the blanks. Defense rests.

 

[Kevin Roegele]

i saw SM2 in theaters and i never saw anything about Peter calling Aunt May or whatever...

In some theatrical versions of the film, there is a scene near the end where Peter calls up Aunt May on the phone

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