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Friends In Your Head | Forums → Off Topic → [BOAT] What's in a spoiler? (spoilers marked)
Extended Edition did an episode on Spoilers.
Just sayin' ![]()
Nah, we released it back in October.
Someone I follow on Twitter was tweeting out BAFTA results today, and someone got mad at him for "spoiling" the awards. People are so obsessed with getting information exactly the way they want it and exactly when. You're going to find out one way or another, so who cares?
In the context of a story, it's different, obviously. If an artist or storyteller wants you to learn something at a certain point in their story, then it does ruin it (to a degree) to learn it beforehand. Then again, a friend of mine once got extremely agitated when I tried to tell him a tiny detail from The Hunger Games. It wasn't a plot twist, it wasn't even an aspect of the plot. It was just a thing that was in the movie, and it was relevant to the conversation we were having. He doesn't want ANY knowledge of a film before he goes in. I think that's a little extreme.
I'm a bit like your friend, except I can acknowledge when something's not a spoiler. Still, I like to hear as little as I can about a movie or TV show if I am to watch it. I want the story itself to show me everything, in its own time and manner.
That's part of what I find so curious. Based on what most people seem to regard as a spoiler, goddamn trailers spoil movies left and right, sometimes in really big ways. It's rare that I hear folks complaining that about a trailer giving away too much. People just kind of accept trailers as they are.
I'm all for more in-depth analysis, but "film critic" is a job. Their job description is to tell people how good the movie is and why. If they want to do analysis, they write books, which Rosenbaum and Ebert and most well-respected critics have done, but Ebert kept that separate from his "thumbs up/thumbs down" reviews.
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