Next year’s two biggest comic book movies, The Avengers and The Dark Knight Rises, are both filming on location in Cleveland and Chicago respectively this Summer. And in this day and age of camera phones and video cameras and spy satellites, the people who live nearby have been filming the movie-making and posting it online. Not that they’re allowed on the actual sets, but they can stand nearby and close enough to get some pretty clear photos and videos.

I am not a fan of this practice.

I am definitely looking forward to both movies, and both are probably going to be awesome. But call me old-fashioned, I have no problem waiting for an official trailer or film photos that the studios actually want to release. Trailers are one of the funnest parts of a movie, and real publicity photos can capture the mood and style that the filmmaker wants. It spoils the mood and the atmosphere to see a picture of Bane in full costume from the next Batman flick just standing around drinking coffee in a gaggle of extras. And it spoils the surprise to know that, right now, Captain America and Thor are being filmed fighting aliens on a city street.

Though I will admit this is an awesome picture

Marvel Studios haven’t told us yet who the bad guys will be in The Avengers movie. I have my guesses, but I would rather it not be spoiled by some idiot fan and his iPhone. Obviously I don’t have to look at these things if I don’t want to, but they’re everywhere. One of my favorite geeky sites is all about comic book movies, and they post this stuff multiple times a day. There’s even been national news coverage of some of this filming. I know that the front page of Yahoo.com at one point showed the pictures of Bane in costume. These are going to be very popular movies, and everybody’s ready and eager to give fans a peak because that drives up viewership.

Well not me.

Go somewhere else for your spoilerific film shots. I’m more than happy to wait for the movies to actually come out before I see them.