Thing about that is, the movie business is all about risk deference sometimes: making a dumb obvious move now, so you can afford to take the bigger risk later.

Thing about that is, the movie business is all about risk deference sometimes: making a dumb obvious move now, so you can afford to take the bigger risk later. And remember too that while the sequels of both SM film series have been largely crap, the originals were big risks in some respect. The first Spider-Man gave a massive budget to a director largely known only for low-budget shlock, and the ASM reboot meant deciding only a few scant years after the last one to completely dump and start over a franchise that was circling the drain.