11th June 2015, 7:57 AM
With the first Spiderman (and Metal Gear Solid 2) the editing made sense. Both of those were being made before the attack, but were released after it, and it was a good call to make those edits considering what had just happened. I'm not sure that removing the towers for the sake of "modernizing" an old movie makes sense. Old movies will always be old. It would be like trying to edit Back to the Future part 2 to make it seem like it isn't dated, and realizing you'd basically have to remove pretty much everything that made the future interesting in that movie.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)