The Amazing Spider-Man 2 Worst lines in the movie

[Andrew Lucas]

Yeah,Peter doesn't care about anyone :/

 

[OriginalMiles]

Except Gwen.

 

[Leenie]

He misses them to the point of being an ungrateful idiot towards his aunt and uncle, who were the ones who raised him. Aunt May and Uncle Ben are his parents, as far as I'm concerned. People come from all different kinds of families, and I've always thought it was cool that Peter came from a slightly different family structure, so it's pretty stupid to have Peter this fixated on his biological parents, in my opinion. Also, whenever Peter spoke of Uncle Ben in the movie, it was in a condescending way. It was awful.

While we're on the subject, I loved Aunt May's verbal smackdown on Peter in the movie. Peter deserved to get yelled at. Too bad he didn't learn his lesson, because his lines in that scene were awful. "Yeah, I'm sorry, and I love you ... But waaah waaaah my parents." Too bad, because Sally Field was awesome in that scene. I wish she had more to do in these movies.

The "And my parents line" ticked me off, because it was as if Sony wouldn't stop nudging me on the shoulder about Peter's damn parents. I. Don't. Care. About. His. Parents. Especially if the whole "Roosevelt" revelation was one of the lamest things ever, and especially if Spidey isn't in the MCU and his parents can't be involved with S.H.I.E.L.D. Stop trying to make his boring parents happen, Sony. Stop trying to make "Fetch" happen, Sony.

 

[OriginalMiles]

He misses them to the point of be an ungrateful idiot towards his aunt and uncle, who were the ones who raised him. Aunt May and Uncle Ben are his parents, as far as I'm concerned. People come from all different kinds of families, and I've always thought it was cool that Peter came from a slightly different family structure, so it's pretty stupid to have Peter this fixated on his biological parents, in my opinion. Also, whenever Peter spoke of Uncle Ben in the movie, it was in a condescending way. It was awful.

While we're on the subject, I loved Aunt May's verbal smackdown on Peter in the movie. Peter deserved to get yelled at. Too bad he didn't learn his lesson, because his lines in that scene were awful. "Yeah, I'm sorry, and I love you ... But waaah waaaah my parents." Too bad, because Sally Field was awesome in that scene. I wish she had more to do in these movies.

The "And my parents line" ticked me off, because it as if Sony wouldn't stop nudging me on the shoulder about Peter's damn parents. I. Don't. Care. About. His. Parents. Especially if the whole "Roosevelt" revelation was one of the lamest things ever, and especially if Spidey isn't in the MCU and his parents can't be involved with S.H.E.I.L.D. Stop trying to make his boring parents happen, Sony. Stop trying to make "Fetch" happen, Sony.

This.

 

[ThePhantasm]

I'll be honest... the whole "my parents, waaa" thing always makes me think they are trying to make Spidey more like Batman. Its weird to me how little Uncle Ben seems to matter to Peter in this new franchise.

 

[LizardMan07]

Well Teekay said in the rough cut there were a few Ben flashbacks and Ben's words stopped him murdering Harry after he laughed at Gwen's death.

That comment about Sony focusing on the parents seems pretty accurate, considering they actually cut uncle ben stuff out.

 

[OriginalMiles]

Did Teekay ever finish that comparison?

 

[LizardMan07]

He seems to dissapear for a while when people ask him that!

Would love to read about it, wish I got to see it for myself.

 

[SpideyK]

He doesn't even seem to care about his parents though, just his dad.

Yeah, that actually really bothers me.

The writers didn't seem to give a **** about his mom.

 

[LEVITIKUZ]

It's not like his dad went from hours of labor and breast feed young Peter.

Wait, his mother did that....

 

[blake c]

I actually thought the whole parent ordeal was sorta interesting, but I did feel like he cares way to much for them than Ben which really irks me. Personally, the line I dislike the most in the film is when Gwen is in the taxi and the driver says," Its Spider-man!" I just cannot stand the delivery

 

[DOBSON10]

Pretty much every word that came out of Jamie Foxx's mouth.

 

[Voices]

He misses them to the point of being an ungrateful idiot towards his aunt and uncle, who were the ones who raised him. Aunt May and Uncle Ben are his parents, as far as I'm concerned. People come from all different kinds of families, and I've always thought it was cool that Peter came from a slightly different family structure, so it's pretty stupid to have Peter this fixated on his biological parents, in my opinion. Also, whenever Peter spoke of Uncle Ben in the movie, it was in a condescending way. It was awful.

While we're on the subject, I loved Aunt May's verbal smackdown on Peter in the movie. Peter deserved to get yelled at. Too bad he didn't learn his lesson, because his lines in that scene were awful. "Yeah, I'm sorry, and I love you ... But waaah waaaah my parents." Too bad, because Sally Field was awesome in that scene. I wish she had more to do in these movies.

The "And my parents line" ticked me off, because it was as if Sony wouldn't stop nudging me on the shoulder about Peter's damn parents. I. Don't. Care. About. His. Parents. Especially if the whole "Roosevelt" revelation was one of the lamest things ever, and especially if Spidey isn't in the MCU and his parents can't be involved with S.H.E.I.L.D. Stop trying to make his boring parents happen, Sony. Stop trying to make "Fetch" happen, Sony.

Wow, I must have watched a completely different movie than you. I don't see how on earth you got those reactions from the film at all. I feel like you completely missed the tone of Peter's lines entirely. Peter wasn't condescending about Uncle Ben in the slightest. He was joking around with Aunt May about how Uncle Ben would act at his graduation. He was just trying to lighten the mood because he and Aunt May both missed him.

He said "and my folks" because he also wished his parents were alive and there to see him graduate. What kind of person wouldn't wish that? Do you know what it's like to be an orphan? To have parents and then lose them without an explanation? I think you're failing to grasp the weight and emotional impact that would have on a child. He wasn't implying that he misses his parents more than Uncle Ben. Or that he loved them more than Aunt May.

And it wasn't a "verbal smackdown". She was upset because she felt like Peter somehow loved her less because he was so interested in what happened to his parents. She felt like she raised Peter while his parents abandoned him. But as Peter explained, very beautifully, Aunt May will always be everything to him. He's her boy. In fact, his questions about his parents had nothing to do with Aunt May or Uncle Ben at all. It was about a bigger conspiracy that Peter needed to figure out. And we find out that Peter's parents did not just abandon him. Peter needed to see that truth. You may not like the plot for whatever reason, but don't pretend Peter's actions weren't completely understandable.

You may not care about his parents. But Peter does. Because they are his ****ing parents. What's wrong with you? Sorry, I'm just sick of seeing this argument. It makes no sense. Peter doesn't love Aunt May or Uncle Ben any less just because he wants to know what happened to his mother and father. He was not condescending about Uncle Ben, he was trying to remember him happily. He was not ignoring Aunt May, he needed to find out how his father was connected to Oscorp. Just... come on people. How do you get that tone from this movie at all? It just doesn't make any sense.

 

[UltimateWebhead]

He misses them to the point of being an ungrateful idiot towards his aunt and uncle, who were the ones who raised him. Aunt May and Uncle Ben are his parents, as far as I'm concerned. People come from all different kinds of families, and I've always thought it was cool that Peter came from a slightly different family structure, so it's pretty stupid to have Peter this fixated on his biological parents, in my opinion. Also, whenever Peter spoke of Uncle Ben in the movie, it was in a condescending way. It was awful.

While we're on the subject, I loved Aunt May's verbal smackdown on Peter in the movie. Peter deserved to get yelled at. Too bad he didn't learn his lesson, because his lines in that scene were awful. "Yeah, I'm sorry, and I love you ... But waaah waaaah my parents." Too bad, because Sally Field was awesome in that scene. I wish she had more to do in these movies.

The "And my parents line" ticked me off, because it was as if Sony wouldn't stop nudging me on the shoulder about Peter's damn parents. I. Don't. Care. About. His. Parents. Especially if the whole "Roosevelt" revelation was one of the lamest things ever, and especially if Spidey isn't in the MCU and his parents can't be involved with S.H.E.I.L.D. Stop trying to make his boring parents happen, Sony. Stop trying to make "Fetch" happen, Sony.

I had told several people on here that I was going to take a much needed break from the Hype due to burnout. However, today I was getting a little bored so I decided to stop in and see what was going on and I came across your post and felt the need to post a response.

First off let me say, this is an excellent post, Leenie. I agree with pretty much everything that you’ve said here. The Spidey-brain within me is all thumbs up and very happy to read this. But, my non-Spidey brain has some thoughts on this topic that I would like to share.

It’s often a troubling thing to cause change. Especially when you have a storied character like Spider-Man who has been around for the past 50+ years and it’s been much of the same in almost every iteration. It’s always been about Uncle Ben and Aunt May. They’re his parents. They raised him, they deserve the credit. Right? Right. My Spidey-brain is all over it. So, when you change this to a certain degree and start to bring his biological parents into the picture…wow, talk about an upheaval. Of course it makes a lot of sense that this is going to be met with great resistance and hatred or vitriol. As an example, imagine you are working a particular job for roughly the same amount of time, 50 years or so, and you do your job using method A-B-C. Then, a new boss comes in and says “no longer will we be doing A-B-C, it’s now going to be done X-Y-Z.” Change, abrupt change, in the course of something with such a long tradition is not gonna be smooth. In fact it’s gonna be rough. It will cause a lot of tension. I see no difference here with ASM2. Spidey fans are up-in-arms over this change.

I’m not sure how old you are, Leenie, and quite frankly it’s none of my business. I am in my thirties, married, and the proud father of a little girl. It was actually after my wife and I had just got done watching the first ASM movie and were driving home from the theater that we had an interesting conversation. The whole idea of Peter’s parents leaving him struck up a talk about ‘what if’ for some reason we had to leave our daughter. I haven’t really talked to any other parents about this but I suspect this is one of those important conversations that parents need to have but probably don’t really think about. Well, at least my wife and I didn’t think about it, not up until we got done seeing ASM. It was a very emotional moment between us, one that I won’t forget, holding hands, tears were shed--a gut wrenching talk. It’s a thing you just don’t want to think about yet it’s important nonetheless.

Back to Peter. His parents left him on his Uncle and Aunt’s doorstep without much explanation and rather abruptly. Peter is about 7 or 8, maybe older, when they leave, so his understanding of the situation is enough that he’s aware of the abandonment yet not fully capable of grasping how it could possibly be for some other greater good. It’s not as if he was sent to stay with his Uncle and Aunt because his parents were abusive or drug addicts or something worse—it’s because his father was doing what he felt was right and trying to protect his son. He found out his research was being used for purposes not originally intended and was essentially be hunted down by those wanting his work. This all makes sense, right? At least to my non-Spidey brain it sure does. And from a parent’s perspective, it’s very difficult to think about as a possibility of this occurring. Leaving my child on the doorstep of a family member thru no fault of my own. Gut wrenching.

ASM2 bothered me a bit in the fact that there wasn’t more love for Uncle Ben. He was indeed there however a better balance was needed. Though it sounds as if the original screenplay had some flashbacks to Ben and also another instance with Peter hearing his words. It sucks that was cut and I blame the morons at Sony for their meddling. However, non-Spidey brain says, Uncle Ben wasn’t mentioned that much but it doesn’t really take away from how Peter feels about him. “Hey Uncle Ben, you’re a great dad, alright.” Peter’s quote from ASM. In my very humble opinion, even with the events in ASM2, it doesn’t take away from that line nor how Peter felt about his Uncle in the first movie. The second movie just happens to focus on wanting to know what happened to his parents. And I think a lot of people, Spidey-fans, are looking at all the negative aspects from this, notably the graduation scene and the “you’re my boy” scene with May. Why? Cause it goes back to my comment about change. It’s not met with open arms—more like fists. In the Graduation scene he stills comments on Uncle Ben and even hangs his head for a moment after “I wish your Uncle was here” prior to the “and my parents” line. But it comes across so negatively—there’s that change thing again. For the “you’re my boy” scene he gets down on both knees and holds his Aunt’s head in his hands, “I love you Aunt May, you’re all I need. You’re all I’m ever going to need. This isn’t about that, I just need to know.” But again this is some really harsh negative, right? I mean, how dare he think about the truth behind his parents. 50 years of Spider-Man history says, shut the hell up Peter and just love your Uncle and Aunt! But…he does. Doesn’t he? I don’t think that wanting to know about what happened with his parents offsets that fact…it maybe just convolutes it a bit. Like I said, a better balance and showing some more Ben would have been appreciated. At the end of the movie though, we see Peter packing up all his parents stuff into a box even their picture and it all gets put away. The mystery is over and he can breathe a bit easier now. He’ll carry the lessons forward and hopefully we will see more May and Ben in the future with ASM3.

So, my non-Spidey brain gets going again…back to my daughter. I start to think what would happen if my wife and I were suddenly out of the picture with her due to some unfortunate incident…car accident, plane crash, etc?? Now she’s without us and living with another family member. Even as I type this, my gut has such an incredible aching feeling. I think about all the important timeline tick marks that I would miss—birthdays, getting her license, graduating High School, getting accepted to University, graduating from there, her first love, getting married, etc. Knowing that I wouldn’t be the one to walk her down the aisle—holy Christ, where’s the Kleenex. I mean, in this scenario I am dead and gone so what does it really matter anyway, but what’s even more of a troubling thought for me, is that when she’s doing all these ‘important’ things, that she wouldn’t be thinking of me or my wife. That even though we gave birth to her and started to raise her, now we’re out of the picture thru no fault of our own, and we’re not even a thought on those occasions. Even more troubling is the thought that *gasp* we shouldn’t be. Cause she’s with some new family now and they are ‘her parents.’ From this perspective, I am greatly saddened and it’s a horrible gut wrenching thought process. I hate to get all emo on you here, but tears are welling up as I sit here and type this all out.

Good lord that’s a long post! lol. A little tl;dr, for a forum I think.

Oh well, anyways, Leenie, this is what I would call my extended thought process to add onto your post. I hope this all makes some sense and doesn’t come off as incoherent rambling. I don’t necessarily accept the changes that were made with the parents story but I can understand it and even relate to it, to some degree. Sometimes change can be a good thing…

 

[Airnick]

Spoiler

I had told several people on here that I was going to take a much needed break from the Hype due to burnout. However, today I was getting a little bored so I decided to stop in and see what was going on and I came across your post and felt the need to post a response.

First off let me say, this is an excellent post, Leenie. I agree with pretty much everything that you’ve said here. The Spidey-brain within me is all thumbs up and very happy to read this. But, my non-Spidey brain has some thoughts on this topic that I would like to share.

It’s often a troubling thing to cause change. Especially when you have a storied character like Spider-Man who has been around for the past 50+ years and it’s been much of the same in almost every iteration. It’s always been about Uncle Ben and Aunt May. They’re his parents. They raised him, they deserve the credit. Right? Right. My Spidey-brain is all over it. So, when you change this to a certain degree and start to bring his biological parents into the picture…wow, talk about an upheaval. Of course it makes a lot of sense that this is going to be met with great resistance and hatred or vitriol. As an example, imagine you are working a particular job for roughly the same amount of time, 50 years or so, and you do your job using method A-B-C. Then, a new boss comes in and says “no longer will we be doing A-B-C, it’s now going to be done X-Y-Z.” Change, abrupt change, in the course of something with such a long tradition is not gonna be smooth. In fact it’s gonna be rough. It will cause a lot of tension. I see no difference here with ASM2. Spidey fans are up-in-arms over this change.

I’m not sure how old you are, Leenie, and quite frankly it’s none of my business. I am in my thirties, married, and the proud father of a little girl. It was actually after my wife and I had just got done watching the first ASM movie and were driving home from the theater that we had an interesting conversation. The whole idea of Peter’s parents leaving him struck up a talk about ‘what if’ for some reason we had to leave our daughter. I haven’t really talked to any other parents about this but I suspect this is one of those important conversations that parents need to have but probably don’t really think about. Well, at least my wife and I didn’t think about it, not up until we got done seeing ASM. It was a very emotional moment between us, one that I won’t forget, holding hands, tears were shed--a gut wrenching talk. It’s a thing you just don’t want to think about yet it’s important nonetheless.

Back to Peter. His parents left him on his Uncle and Aunt’s doorstep without much explanation and rather abruptly. Peter is about 7 or 8, maybe older, when they leave, so his understanding of the situation is enough that he’s aware of the abandonment yet not fully capable of grasping how it could possibly be for some other greater good. It’s not as if he was sent to stay with his Uncle and Aunt because his parents were abusive or drug addicts or something worse—it’s because his father was doing what he felt was right and trying to protect his son. He found out his research was being used for purposes not originally intended and was essentially be hunted down by those wanting his work. This all makes sense, right? At least to my non-Spidey brain it sure does. And from a parent’s perspective, it’s very difficult to think about as a possibility of this occurring. Leaving my child on the doorstep of a family member thru no fault of my own. Gut wrenching.

ASM2 bothered me a bit in the fact that there wasn’t more love for Uncle Ben. He was indeed there however a better balance was needed. Though it sounds as if the original screenplay had some flashbacks to Ben and also another instance with Peter hearing his words. It sucks that was cut and I blame the morons at Sony for their meddling. However, non-Spidey brain says, Uncle Ben wasn’t mentioned that much but it doesn’t really take away from how Peter feels about him. “Hey Uncle Ben, you’re a great dad, alright.” Peter’s quote from ASM. In my very humble opinion, even with the events in ASM2, it doesn’t take away from that line nor how Peter felt about his Uncle in the first movie. The second movie just happens to focus on wanting to know what happened to his parents. And I think a lot of people, Spidey-fans, are looking at all the negative aspects from this, notably the graduation scene and the “you’re my boy” scene with May. Why? Cause it goes back to my comment about change. It’s not met with open arms—more like fists. In the Graduation scene he stills comments on Uncle Ben and even hangs his head for a moment after “I wish your Uncle was here” prior to the “and my parents” line. But it comes across so negatively—there’s that change thing again. For the “you’re my boy” scene he gets down on both knees and holds his Aunt’s head in his hands, “I love you Aunt May, you’re all I need. You’re all I’m ever going to need. This isn’t about that, I just need to know.” But again this is some really harsh negative, right? I mean, how dare he think about the truth behind his parents. 50 years of Spider-Man history says, shut the hell up Peter and just love your Uncle and Aunt! But…he does. Doesn’t he? I don’t think that wanting to know about what happened with his parents offsets that fact…it maybe just convolutes it a bit. Like I said, a better balance and showing some more Ben would have been appreciated. At the end of the movie though, we see Peter packing up all his parents stuff into a box even their picture and it all gets put away. The mystery is over and he can breathe a bit easier now. He’ll carry the lessons forward and hopefully we will see more May and Ben in the future with ASM3.

So, my non-Spidey brain gets going again…back to my daughter. I start to think what would happen if my wife and I were suddenly out of the picture with her due to some unfortunate incident…car accident, plane crash, etc?? Now she’s without us and living with another family member. Even as I type this, my gut has such an incredible aching feeling. I think about all the important timeline tick marks that I would miss—birthdays, getting her license, graduating High School, getting accepted to University, graduating from there, her first love, getting married, etc. Knowing that I wouldn’t be the one to walk her down the aisle—holy Christ, where’s the Kleenex. I mean, in this scenario I am dead and gone so what does it really matter anyway, but what’s even more of a troubling thought for me, is that when she’s doing all these ‘important’ things, that she wouldn’t be thinking of me or my wife. That even though we gave birth to her and started to raise her, now we’re out of the picture thru no fault of our own, and we’re not even a thought on those occasions. Even more troubling is the thought that *gasp* we shouldn’t be. Cause she’s with some new family now and they are ‘her parents.’ From this perspective, I am greatly saddened and it’s a horrible gut wrenching thought process. I hate to get all emo on you here, but tears are welling up as I sit here and type this all out.

Good lord that’s a long post! lol. A little tl;dr, for a forum I think.

Oh well, anyways, Leenie, this is what I would call my extended thought process to add onto your post. I hope this all makes some sense and doesn’t come off as incoherent rambling. I don’t necessarily accept the changes that were made with the parents story but I can understand it and even relate to it, to some degree. Sometimes change can be a good thing…

Excellent post!

 

[LEVITIKUZ]

Edit.

 

[chaseter]

Leaving your kid at 6 or 7 has more impact on the parent than the kid. Uncle Ben dying should have more impact on Peter who grew up in Ben's house than his parent's death who he barely knew. That's the problem. Then when you throw in some hokey crap like ultra secret scientist parents then it takes away the reality that could be relatable. It's too over the top and pointless spectacle in ASM. This is Peter's story and they made the opener about his parent's story. It's pointless to me.

 

[Leenie]

Spoiler

I had told several people on here that I was going to take a much needed break from the Hype due to burnout. However, today I was getting a little bored so I decided to stop in and see what was going on and I came across your post and felt the need to post a response.

First off let me say, this is an excellent post, Leenie. I agree with pretty much everything that you’ve said here. The Spidey-brain within me is all thumbs up and very happy to read this. But, my non-Spidey brain has some thoughts on this topic that I would like to share.

It’s often a troubling thing to cause change. Especially when you have a storied character like Spider-Man who has been around for the past 50+ years and it’s been much of the same in almost every iteration. It’s always been about Uncle Ben and Aunt May. They’re his parents. They raised him, they deserve the credit. Right? Right. My Spidey-brain is all over it. So, when you change this to a certain degree and start to bring his biological parents into the picture…wow, talk about an upheaval. Of course it makes a lot of sense that this is going to be met with great resistance and hatred or vitriol. As an example, imagine you are working a particular job for roughly the same amount of time, 50 years or so, and you do your job using method A-B-C. Then, a new boss comes in and says “no longer will we be doing A-B-C, it’s now going to be done X-Y-Z.” Change, abrupt change, in the course of something with such a long tradition is not gonna be smooth. In fact it’s gonna be rough. It will cause a lot of tension. I see no difference here with ASM2. Spidey fans are up-in-arms over this change.

I’m not sure how old you are, Leenie, and quite frankly it’s none of my business. I am in my thirties, married, and the proud father of a little girl. It was actually after my wife and I had just got done watching the first ASM movie and were driving home from the theater that we had an interesting conversation. The whole idea of Peter’s parents leaving him struck up a talk about ‘what if’ for some reason we had to leave our daughter. I haven’t really talked to any other parents about this but I suspect this is one of those important conversations that parents need to have but probably don’t really think about. Well, at least my wife and I didn’t think about it, not up until we got done seeing ASM. It was a very emotional moment between us, one that I won’t forget, holding hands, tears were shed--a gut wrenching talk. It’s a thing you just don’t want to think about yet it’s important nonetheless.

Back to Peter. His parents left him on his Uncle and Aunt’s doorstep without much explanation and rather abruptly. Peter is about 7 or 8, maybe older, when they leave, so his understanding of the situation is enough that he’s aware of the abandonment yet not fully capable of grasping how it could possibly be for some other greater good. It’s not as if he was sent to stay with his Uncle and Aunt because his parents were abusive or drug addicts or something worse—it’s because his father was doing what he felt was right and trying to protect his son. He found out his research was being used for purposes not originally intended and was essentially be hunted down by those wanting his work. This all makes sense, right? At least to my non-Spidey brain it sure does. And from a parent’s perspective, it’s very difficult to think about as a possibility of this occurring. Leaving my child on the doorstep of a family member thru no fault of my own. Gut wrenching.

ASM2 bothered me a bit in the fact that there wasn’t more love for Uncle Ben. He was indeed there however a better balance was needed. Though it sounds as if the original screenplay had some flashbacks to Ben and also another instance with Peter hearing his words. It sucks that was cut and I blame the morons at Sony for their meddling. However, non-Spidey brain says, Uncle Ben wasn’t mentioned that much but it doesn’t really take away from how Peter feels about him. “Hey Uncle Ben, you’re a great dad, alright.” Peter’s quote from ASM. In my very humble opinion, even with the events in ASM2, it doesn’t take away from that line nor how Peter felt about his Uncle in the first movie. The second movie just happens to focus on wanting to know what happened to his parents. And I think a lot of people, Spidey-fans, are looking at all the negative aspects from this, notably the graduation scene and the “you’re my boy” scene with May. Why? Cause it goes back to my comment about change. It’s not met with open arms—more like fists. In the Graduation scene he stills comments on Uncle Ben and even hangs his head for a moment after “I wish your Uncle was here” prior to the “and my parents” line. But it comes across so negatively—there’s that change thing again. For the “you’re my boy” scene he gets down on both knees and holds his Aunt’s head in his hands, “I love you Aunt May, you’re all I need. You’re all I’m ever going to need. This isn’t about that, I just need to know.” But again this is some really harsh negative, right? I mean, how dare he think about the truth behind his parents. 50 years of Spider-Man history says, shut the hell up Peter and just love your Uncle and Aunt! But…he does. Doesn’t he? I don’t think that wanting to know about what happened with his parents offsets that fact…it maybe just convolutes it a bit. Like I said, a better balance and showing some more Ben would have been appreciated. At the end of the movie though, we see Peter packing up all his parents stuff into a box even their picture and it all gets put away. The mystery is over and he can breathe a bit easier now. He’ll carry the lessons forward and hopefully we will see more May and Ben in the future with ASM3.

So, my non-Spidey brain gets going again…back to my daughter. I start to think what would happen if my wife and I were suddenly out of the picture with her due to some unfortunate incident…car accident, plane crash, etc?? Now she’s without us and living with another family member. Even as I type this, my gut has such an incredible aching feeling. I think about all the important timeline tick marks that I would miss—birthdays, getting her license, graduating High School, getting accepted to University, graduating from there, her first love, getting married, etc. Knowing that I wouldn’t be the one to walk her down the aisle—holy Christ, where’s the Kleenex. I mean, in this scenario I am dead and gone so what does it really matter anyway, but what’s even more of a troubling thought for me, is that when she’s doing all these ‘important’ things, that she wouldn’t be thinking of me or my wife. That even though we gave birth to her and started to raise her, now we’re out of the picture thru no fault of our own, and we’re not even a thought on those occasions. Even more troubling is the thought that *gasp* we shouldn’t be. Cause she’s with some new family now and they are ‘her parents.’ From this perspective, I am greatly saddened and it’s a horrible gut wrenching thought process. I hate to get all emo on you here, but tears are welling up as I sit here and type this all out.

Good lord that’s a long post! lol. A little tl;dr, for a forum I think.

Oh well, anyways, Leenie, this is what I would call my extended thought process to add onto your post. I hope this all makes some sense and doesn’t come off as incoherent rambling. I don’t necessarily accept the changes that were made with the parents story but I can understand it and even relate to it, to some degree. Sometimes change can be a good thing…

Wow, this is a fantastic post. Thanks for the response!

I can see how the parents plotline could affect you (or any other parent out there). I may not be a fan of Richard and Mary Parker being put into these films, but hey, I think it's great that there are people who got something out of it, and that it resonated very deeply with some people.

I mean, no parent likes to discuss the possibility of leaving their children behind (but it's an unpleasant subject that a lot of parents have to be prepared for in case something bad happens, God forbid). I can see exactly where you're coming from and how the movie had such an impact on your family when considering this. Thank you for the different perspective; it makes me understand how this plotline has been favorable with plenty of people!

I'm in my late 20's (no kids right now; they are definitely in my not-so-distant future plans though), but I think maybe a partial reason as to why I'm not a fan of Peter's parents dominating much of the storyline in these films is because the subject of adoption has been a big thing in my life (I won't get into specifics at the risk of making this post really long). Let's just say that what I said in my previous post about how people come from all different kinds of family structures is a big point I was making about my criticism towards the TASM movies and Peter's parents. Losing the focus on Uncle Ben and Aunt May's impact on Peter's life kind of takes away their poignancy, almost as if Peter loves them a lot less because they're not his biological parents. It's just rubbed me the wrong way (especially when considering that Uncle Ben is the main reason why Spider-Man becomes Spider-Man).

 

[chaseter]

It seems Peter loves Ben and May less because they are less interesting than his parents.

Perfect example: Peter drops finding out why Ben had to die for finding out why his parents had to die.

These writers are terrible and I don't think Marc Webb gets the character at all.

 

[Voices]

It seems Peter loves Ben and May less because they are less interesting than his parents.

Perfect example: Peter drops finding out why Ben had to die for finding out why his parents had to die.

These writers are terrible and I don't think Marc Webb gets the character at all.

What on earth are you people talking about?

Peter spent half of the first movie looking for Uncle Ben's killer. There is no "why Uncle Ben had to die". Peter knows why he died. Because he let the robber who killed him walk out of that store. It wasn't a mystery. It was about revenge for him. The reason he stopped looking for the killer had nothing to do with his parents. He stopped when he saved those people on that bridge and realized that he had a responsibility to use his powers for good instead of revenge. Honoring Uncle Ben's words to him.

In case you missed it, Peter is not looking for answers about his parents out of love. He's angry at them for abandoning them. He doesn't understand why they left. It has absolutely NOTHING to do with how much he loves Uncle Ben and Aunt May. NOTHING. He blatantly says this when he's talking to Aunt May. It's about getting answers and resolution. Something any orphan would want to know. He still loved Aunt May and Uncle Ben just as much. But his parents were connected to Oscorp and they were causing problems. Not to mention that's where be became Spider-Man. I think anyone would be insane not to be interested in their parent's connection to that place.

I don't understand how you people are getting "Well he's so interested in finding out about his parents, he MUST love Uncle Ben and Aunt May less than them!". The two ideas are completely unrelated. He knows that Aunt May raised him. He loves her. He made it very clear that she is everything to him. But she isn't connected to a company that's caused him and his girlfriend a lot of problems. She didn't disappear mysteriously when he was 8. He mourned Uncle Ben the entirety of the first movie. And in the second, he is honoring his memory and his wishes for Peter by becoming the hero he has the power to be.

 

[chaseter]

Yet he didn't look for Ben's killer at all in ASM2. Shows how important Ben is to him when Ben's death is unresolved. He did not honor Ben the whole first movie lol. As soon as the Lizard showed up he isn't mentioned until the ending voicemail over the police sketch. Here he's mentioned like once??? Not to mention Peter is a dick about it too.

 

[ThePhantasm]

Its because these particular writers are obsessed with conspiracy theories, and so the conspiracy about Peter's parents is more interesting than the tragedy of Ben's murder.

 

[chaseter]

Ben died over chocolate milk hahahaha.

 

[Voices]

Yet he didn't look for Ben's killer at all in ASM2. Shows how important Ben is to him when Ben's death is unresolved. He did not honor Ben the whole first movie lol. As soon as the Lizard showed up he isn't mentioned until the ending voicemail over the police sketch. Here he's mentioned like once??? Not to mention Peter is a dick about it too.

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Ok. I'm done. I don't believe you actually watched the first movie. Or you just didn't comprehend what happened. Either way, there's no use in defending it. Gotta admit, I almost laughed out loud at you expecting him to still be looking for Uncle Ben's killer in the second movie. I don't even... just... what?

 

[Kahran Ramsus]

It seems Peter loves Ben and May less because they are less interesting than his parents.

Perfect example: Peter drops finding out why Ben had to die for finding out why his parents had to die.

These writers are terrible and I don't think Marc Webb gets the character at all.

Bravo! You are absolutely right. Webb doesn't seem to understand this character at all, and he's now had two films to show it.