Spider Man ORIGINAL teaser Trailer

[Neon Noodle]

I was thinking about the Spider Man movie today and I realized that I had put my quest to find the original trailer on the back burner for almost 2 years. I realize this will turn into a rant, but please bear with me.

Back in 2001, the very first teaser trailer for Spider Man got the movie theater audiences cheering at the top of their lungs - and then the tragic events of September 11th occurred. For some strange reason, Columbia Pictures decided to pull the trailer from theaters and it has been extremely hard to find since then.

Now this is just my own opinion - but I do NOT like the idea of someone else deciding what I can and can't watch! This seems to be saying that I am not mature enough to handle the truth, that the Towers did exist and they were destroyed in a cowardly attempt to promote terror.

To live in fear of remembering that day and try to erase any mention of the Twin Towers is to let terrorism prevail.

So for you folks who have never seen, it, click the link below:

http://www.rantspace.org/blog/archives/000547.shtml

Special Thanks to Rantspace.org for keeping this trailer up for anyone who wishes to see it - and enjoy!

[Ash]

I remember this trailer.

The helicopter getting caught between a giant web that spans between the towers.

I didn't even have to watch this trailer you posted to remember it.

[BeyondTheGrave]

as some of the board knows i live in NYC and this p**sed me off when the took the trailer off. i agree neon noodle i dont like someone else telling me what i cant watch. also iam not sure but wasnt thier supposed to be a scene at the end of spider man that had the twin towers in it? i heard rumors that they took it out after 9/11.

"I know I know ive been exposed permeant psychoses..
at least the colors are nice"- Aeon Flux

[JohnL]

Thanks for the link. I've never seen this trailer myself, but I've wanted to ever since I first heard about it. I also don't think they should have tried to pretend that it didn't exist.

[Jay]

As an artist I can say  that there are sometimes things that you don't want to say;not because you don't think the audience can stand to hear it, but because you can't stand to say it

[Writer]

Well, they didn't take the towers out of that film completely: if you look carefully in one scene (in the middle, at the end of the part where various people are weighing in on Spider-man), the twin towers are reflected in his eyes for a moment right before he swings off.

[dean]

This was hard to find?  I've had this thing on my computer for over a year and a half, and I got it off a cousin who doesn't have much of a clue about computers.  So it shouldn't have been that difficult!

But regardless, I was annoyed when it wasn't included on the dvd, but hey, I can understand why they would be worried about it.  

But the bit about the twin towers being in the final scene for Spiderman doesn't seem right, I'm pretty sure that was Men In Black 2

[AndyC]

I downloaded it a year (or two) ago, and have it on a VCD somewhere. Great trailer.

I agree that taking the towers out is a little like wiping an actor out of his last movie because he was tragically killed before it was released. Nobody would think of doing that, and it wouldn't be fair. If a member of your family dies, you don't take him out of your photo album, throwing away happy memories, so you never have to be reminded he's gone. It's not healthy.

The one that bothers me more than the Spidey trailer is the Simpsons episode featuring the towers. It was a great episode, very funny, and I haven't seen it in at least three years. I can understand not showing it for a while immediately after the attack, but you can't just sit on it indefinitely. How long is long enough?

[The Shadow]

Seems to be the opposite in my area! I've seen repeats of the NYC Simpsons episode a bunch of times since then.
"Yeah, they put all the jerks in Tower One!"