One of my earlier Hero Worship columns was Are We Ruining Moves For Ourselves?, discussing the idea of overanalyzing early promotional material for the movies we are most looking forward to. Back then, I was talking about the first images of Henry Cavill's Superman and Anne Hathaway's Catwoman (I know, right?). But looking back at that piece, it's sort of like stomping on a few random ants but never bothering to take out the ant hill. Over analytical fandom is just a symptom of a larger epidemic.
While I've expressed time and again how I love shared universes and the like, seeing Paul Giamatti talk about the Rhino's role in The Amazing Spider-Man 3 and 4 (!) when we're just over a year removed from Amazing Spider-Man 1 is just a little bit grating. That's not a slight on Giamatti, either, as interviews are typically conducted in a fashion to try and land scoops about these big new franchises. Being a good interviewee, Giamatti answered as best he could. The larger issue is: were we better off knowing nothing about movies until we saw the trailer?
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