I won’t pretend I didn’t watch the latest round of leaked movie trailers. I’m human, and it’s always interesting to get a peek behind the curtain of your favorite franchises. However, I would be lying if I said that this most recent turn of events didn’t also annoy the piss out of me. I’ll try and spare you a sermon on a soapbox, but ultimately this comes down to an aura of entitlement. With all the technology at our disposal, the current culture and attitude tends to be “if we can, then we must,” and that just doesn’t hold up. As Jordan Crucchiola states (via Wired), “this philosophy of 'because I can' is as lazy as it is damaging.” I tend to agree.

Movie studios rake in an enormous amount of money. The actors involved don’t have to pinch pennies either, at least typically, and no one is necessarily saying you have to feel sorry for them, but you do need to at least recognize that the thing you love talking about, sharing memes of, and dissecting over an hour-long podcast is simply not yours to do with what you wish. They made it, financed it, and took on all the risk if it flops. We do nothing but either gush about it on our social media and websites, or rant and rave about how bad it is and what they did so wrong. We have no skin in the game and yet expect to be treated as if we do. We then have the nerve to get irate that someone asks us to politely set aside our weird perceived sense of ownership of this thing (that isn’t ours) and not share it with the world before they are ready.