Spoilers don't ruin movies. People do.

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Do spoilers ruin your life?
	Yes! They make me die the small death.
	No. Posting on an Internet forum is more important to me.

HoAssHo: Mar 10, 2005

redcheval posted:

I thought the issue with spoilers wasn't that they lessen the enjoyment you get from the story, but that it fundamentally changes the whole experience. I've definitely been spoiled or spoiled myself on plenty of movies I've gone on to really love and enjoy, but I have pretty fond memories of moments from shows and movies too.

Basebf555 posted:

Lets forget about measuring levels of enjoyment for a second. I think anyone would agree that when a film involves plot twists(i.e. almost every movie ever made), you would have a different experience watching it blind versus knowing the story ahead of time. You'd have different thoughts running through your head, different reactions to certain scenes, and probably feel different emotions than you would otherwise feel had the plot not been spoiled. Its also reductive to just say that if a film relies on a twist then it isn't very good. Effectively building to a twist and successfully surprising the audience isn't easy, and when its done right it can create extremely memorable cinematic moments. I wouldn't want to deprive myself of the possibility of one of those moments.

For me personally I want to experience a film in the way that the filmmakers intended me to, and I don't think most directors would recommend reading a plot summary before viewing their films.

Yeah, and deciding for people whether or not they should be allowed to have the experience that they want to have is lovely.

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HoAssHo: Mar 10, 2005

A Wizard of Goatse posted:

This thread was created because some guy ran to the mods because GBS briefly described some events from a 5+ year old, commonly read fantasy novel in a thread about the TV remake,

I agree that people get way too upset about spoilers but you're downplaying what happened here. Major spoilers were in the thread title itself in all caps - not in the thread. People were spoiled just by looking at the GBS index.

If you insist on spending hours online discussing a show or movie and are pissed when you come across spoilers, you really have no one to blame but yourself, but that's not what happened in this specific case.

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