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The Amazing Spider-Man: A Spence Edit (Released)

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Hey guys, this one is nearly finished. This is the first edit ive done of a movie that i honestly don’t like very much. There was some good stuff in Spider-man, but it is all covered with a thick layer of cheese that is hard to get around. There’s corny dialogue, horrible acting/characterization, and some rather iffy special-effects by today’s or any standards. This edit tries to fix some of the things i thought were absolutely terrible about this first spider-man film.

  • Most of the opening credits are gone. The film is retitled “The Amazing Spider-Man”
  • The badly written and unnecessary scene between Harry and Norman in the car is Kaput.
  • A lot of the real groaner lines are gone.
  • The first part of the film is all about Peter’s transformation into spider-man. The transformation of the green goblin is left till after Peter graduates.
  • A lot of unnecessary and long effect shots are removed.
  • The subplot of Green Goblin trying to turn Spider-man to his side is removed, as it was completely useless and just added to the runtime.
  • The film now runs about an 1hr 45min. and is an enjoyable adaptation of a legendary comic book.

If this goes over well, i may work on an edit of the sequel, which is far superior but could still do with a little tune up. I had fun making this one and am pleased with the end result.

This shoudl be up on demonoid by friday.

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Sounds interesting, Spence. I for one will download it once it torrented. It sounds like some of your changes will help this film along.
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Niiice... looks great and you seem to have addressed many of my own issues with the film. Those opening credits were always a chore to sit through and the cheese, good lordy lord, the cheese...

I'm going to check this out when it's up. If it were my edit, you don't have to do this, but if it were my edit, I'd somehow edit in the old WTC trailer footage back into the movie. I didn't think it was disrespectful to the victims of 9/11, in fact it kinda to me anyway sort of honors the towers by giving them this role to help capture badguys in spidey's web- seemed cool to me.

btw has that extended cut of Spidey 2 aired on fx, yet? Anybody know?
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Are you gonna add any deleted scenes in?
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Sweet edit. If you're thinking about things to edit out of Spider Man 2, the first thing to go, for me, anyway, is the superfluous scene where the girl across the hall eats cake with them. I still don't get the point of the scene, and it kind of slows the pacing down.
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Originally posted by: Darth_Evil
Sweet edit. If you're thinking about things to edit out of Spider Man 2, the first thing to go, for me, anyway, is the superfluous scene where the girl across the hall eats cake with them. I still don't get the point of the scene, and it kind of slows the pacing down.

That sequence was to show Peter another option. A life without any problems, just with a nice girl that likes him for who he is. A very calm life, not the hectic Spider-Man life that gives him so much problems in his private life.

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I think something that both the Spider-Man movies suffered from was the attempts to make it a typical teen drama with superpowers. There are too many scenes in these movies that show Peter's inner struggle, overkill Peter's crush on Mary Jane, etc, and having the villians/actual point of the movie to be secondary to the action. For example, in Spider-Man 2, it always seemed like to me that Doc Ock was a minor character, and it was in many ways a two-hour teaser trailer to whatever movie they finally have Harry Osbourne take on Spider-Man as the Green Goblin. I understand that some of the drama is very nessicary for the movies, but I think they really went overkill with it.
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Where you uploading the torrents to, demonoid and pirate bay?
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This could make for an interesting edit. It's always been a film that I felt could benefit from one. It's funny. I usually do little edits for myself and I love Spider-Man and was pretty disappointed by the film, so one would think I'd tinker with it. But it's never been a priority for some reason. Since the second film came out, I haven't even watched the first one all the way through. I love Spider-Man 2, so I can't really think of a thing I'd change with it.
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Originally posted by: Wesyeed
I'm going to check this out when it's up. If it were my edit, you don't have to do this, but if it were my edit, I'd somehow edit in the old WTC trailer footage back into the movie. I didn't think it was disrespectful to the victims of 9/11, in fact it kinda to me anyway sort of honors the towers by giving them this role to help capture badguys in spidey's web- seemed cool to me.

btw has that extended cut of Spidey 2 aired on fx, yet? Anybody know?


The WTC trailer was a standalone trailer--the footage in it was never meant to be a part of the film, but rather, serve as a teaser, while at the same time, giving nothing about the film itself away. Another example of this type of trailer was the Godzilla trailer that showed the kids inside the museum looking at a T. Rex skeleton, and then having Godzilla's foot come through the roof and stomp the skeleton (an obvious reference to the Jurassic Park movies).

So yeah, never a part of the film.

And the extended cut of Spiderman 2 (which'll likely only be a couple minutes longer) airs January 2nd, I think.
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Originally posted by: Number20
I think something that both the Spider-Man movies suffered from was the attempts to make it a typical teen drama with superpowers. There are too many scenes in these movies that show Peter's inner struggle, overkill Peter's crush on Mary Jane, etc, and having the villians/actual point of the movie to be secondary to the action. For example, in Spider-Man 2, it always seemed like to me that Doc Ock was a minor character, and it was in many ways a two-hour teaser trailer to whatever movie they finally have Harry Osbourne take on Spider-Man as the Green Goblin. I understand that some of the drama is very nessicary for the movies, but I think they really went overkill with it.

IMO, the first one didn't go too overboard with it, and was ok, but they totally went overkill on the soap opera romance of Spider Man 2. I was kind of glad when it was over that we wouldn't have any more of this overdrawn romance in SM3, because they were already together, and then SP3 could finally be a pure superhero action movie. Then I watch the trailer for SM3 and yup...more soap opera. Why can't MJ just give him a kiss on the way out the door and let Spidey kick ass. I loved SP2 because it mixed intense action and drama fairly well, and while it went overboard on the romance drama, I knew it was so they had it out of the way for SM3. SM3 still looks awesome, but I hope they didn't do overkill on the romance again. It's unnecesairy at this point.

Originally posted by: maurice2029
That sequence was to show Peter another option. A life without any problems, just with a nice girl that likes him for who he is. A very calm life, not the hectic Spider-Man life that gives him so much problems in his private life.


You're right, but I still find it slow and unnecesary. She likes Peter, which is cool, but this "enternal conflict" was the point of the movie anyway, so reinforcing it with that scene just seems overkill. It's a good scene that makes sense in the end, really, but it's kind of repetitive.



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I will be running a PIF of this edit as soon as I get my dvd of it from Spence. If you want copies, let me know and PIF.

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Cool! A spence edit I can actually download now since I own the film. I always wanted to do a Spider-man DVD cover. Time to look for some materials.

[edit] How does this look so far?

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Dude, nice cover! Fits my edit nicely!

I apologize for not having this up already. It's almost christmas and i work at a theme park in Florida so ive been busting my ass as of late. I'll try and get this up as soon as possible.
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Thanks guys. Once I know more about the details and such I'll add more. Keep up the great work Spence.
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Do you have any other good Spider-Man images i can use for menu purposes?
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That was the one I liked the most and it was from www.gamewallpapers.com . I do have it with a lot more of the building (it wouldn't fit on the front so I had to crop it big time). If you want that, send me a pm with your email and I'll send that your way.
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my e-mail is my name on here with @aim.com at the end of it.
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Recieved my dvd of this in the mail today. Haven't watched it yet, but I'm going to skim through it at work tonight, and try and watch it on my days off (Tues/Wed).

That being said, I'm offering to start my PIF chain of this as of right now. I will be doing 3-5, maybe more, but you have to keep things going. Copies can be mailed out as early as Friday. hit me up on my email if you want to be part of this PIF chain (drgonzo369 at gmail dot com).

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I've also just posted this up on demnoid. It's also most likely going to be the last torrent that I personally post. There's another topic about the reasons for this.

As always, I'm up for trades as well.
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I watched this cut last night (as well as alot of the dvds spence sent me in the past 18 hours). The edits on this are almost flawless. I love how Peter's story is the first 1/2 of the film, and Goblin isn't being all namby-pamby about turning Pete to the dark side. At first, with the exception of a few edits that I noticed, I thought I was watching my official dvd, it was that fluid. Great job, Spence.

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thanks for the feedback!

If you finish downloading this a) seed!! and b) let me know what you think once you watch it. I love feedback, both positive and negative.
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I finally finished the download and I am seeding. Is there any chance of finding a cover and disc art?????