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The Guardian gives you the 'low down'. Do you read spoiler sites? How do they affect your enjoyment of films? Do you go to see films for the plot anyway?

― Tom, Monday, 29 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Nope! Don't like spoilers. I like to try and puzzle things out for myself, and spoliers do really ruin the enjoyment of a film, book etc.

Latest Star Wars theory: R2D2 = Jedi!

― jel --, Monday, 29 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Well, R2 can fly through the air and all, so yes, the Force is with him. ;-)

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 29 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Yes, I like rumour sites, and I like to know what is happening with a film - but it depends on the project. It does not matter seeing spoilers for the Spider-man film since I know exactly what is going to happen in that. Wheras whilst I get the general direction it is going in - I'll generally avoid Star Wars ones. I'm interested in the way a film is put together - the points of compromise where it all goes shit... Generally it will not affect my enjoyment of films - standard film reviews are far too nbarrative as it is.

That article breaks the biggest rule of spoilers anyway spoiling without giving adequate warning or ability to avert eyes - so Mark S warning - do not read it.

― Pete, Monday, 29 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

My flatmate saw the Comic Relief sketch with Victor Meldrew that ends up with a Sixth Sense sting (and done v well in my rub POV) BEFORE he had seen Sixth Sense or had heard what the twist was.

Then there was the time he was going out with the bird from The Crying Game...

― Alan T, Monday, 29 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I absolutely ADORE spoilers, especially Buffy ones and I wuv SpoilerSlayah/Buffy Cross and Stake/the wildfeeds! The same thing with Dawsons/Popular and most of the MightyBigTV (Dawsons Wrap Television Without Pity whatever blah) targets. They actually enhance my enjoyment as when I *finally* get to see the program (usually years behind the USA and MONTHS behind Sky) I've had a chance to think about them and can enjoy them more fully. Thassworrisay anyway.

― Sarah, Monday, 29 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

OOoh there is a wildfeed summary of Seeing Red up!! YIKES!

― Sarah, Monday, 29 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I need them because I am too dumb to work out what is actually happening in films anyway. I'm not very good with details. Or general things.

― alix, Monday, 29 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"You mean it was the SHARK that was killing those people?!"

― Alan T, Monday, 29 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Reading the end of bks before you've actually finished them - classic or dud?

I never ever watch a film where I've missed the opening [x] minutes.

― Andrew L, Monday, 29 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Nothing wrong with spoilers. If the only thing that a movie has to hold your interest is the turns and twists of its story, then it's a dud.

― Christine "Green Leafy Dragon" Indigo, Monday, 29 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

What Sarah said.

― JC, Monday, 29 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Bring them on! Since I'll only see the spoiler a couple of times anyway, it probably won't change my mind. Once I decide to see the flick, only the movie itself will influence whether (or not) I liked it.

― Nichole Graham, Monday, 29 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

eight years pass...

grown men who whine abt spoilers: c or d

― cozen, Sunday, 30 May 2010 19:56 (sixteen years ago)

haha -- i live for spoilers, at least for some films.

― Aspergers Makes My Pee Smell Funny (Eisbaer), Sunday, 30 May 2010 19:59 (sixteen years ago)

When The Sixth Sense came out I studiously avoided any spoilers and settled down at the cinema to watch the film, knowing nothing. About 15 minutes in, a cheery stage whisper from seats right behind ours announced:

"Oh, that's it! BRUCE WILLIS IS DEAD!"

― Bill A, Sunday, 30 May 2010 20:34 (sixteen years ago)

well, people who blurt out shit in theaters is something else -- b/c then it's unwanted. (my mother used to do this when i was a kid, and it annoyed me to no end.) if i look for a spoiler, it's because i don't have the time/patience to find out how a movie ends up.

― Aspergers Makes My Pee Smell Funny (Eisbaer), Sunday, 30 May 2010 20:37 (sixteen years ago)

no spoilers

― NUDE. MAYNE. (s1ocki), Monday, 31 May 2010 17:20 (sixteen years ago)

six months pass...

Is there any general etiquette on writing about TV shows as you're watching them, Facebook/ Twitter etc, when they would spoil it for people that haven't seen it yet? Particularly in this day and age of Sky+, torrenting etc. I managed to get through 8 episodes of the Apprentice with no-one spoiling it on FB (even though most ppl seem to watch it) although I try and avoid Twitter as I have some TV writers in my feed. One of my lovely friends has just spoiled today's ep, though... I was wondering whether I'd gotten this far as there was some kind of unspoken rule, or if ppl are just being nice to me in particular. (One friend actually posted that he'd learned his lesson about posting about X-Factor or whatever after he got a serious telling-off from some of his friends last year for doing exactly that).
I'm not talking about TV websites or e.g. ILX threads, just "social media" sites. And I'm not trying to be arsey to my friend, I'm just curious as to what the general consensus is!

― Not the real Village People, Thursday, 2 December 2010 01:04 (fifteen years ago)

three years pass...

― Not the real Village People, Wednesday, December 1, 2010 8:04 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

So....want to re-open this. IMO, you should avoid posting spoilers on social media in the wake of a show's conclusion, unless you're a douche. I get tired of people saying "stay off of social media, then!". I mean, often I try to do just that when I don't want something spoiled, but where does it end? should I not go to work in case a colleague spills it to me, too? much much easier to just, y'know, private message about the shit, or at least post about it in a private place where spoilers are expected.

really doesn't seem that difficult to exercise self-control, and many people use the internet for various purposes so people can't be expected to always avoid it anytime they can't see a show right away.

but I welcome 'other' thought on this as well.

― Neanderthal, Tuesday, 1 April 2014 03:03 (twelve years ago)

three years pass...

this has come up a lot lately due to GoT, lol

― Neanderthal, Tuesday, 29 August 2017 00:16 (eight years ago)

I've had the same person spoil two Star Wars related deaths, plus now he broke me with GOT. I'm like dude, I loved working with you ten yrs ago, but consider yourself unfollowed.

― Manitobiloba (Kim), Tuesday, 29 August 2017 02:47 (eight years ago)

I would never purposely post spoilers on social media but I actually enjoy reading them in advance for most things

― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Tuesday, 29 August 2017 17:47 (eight years ago)

I do read them on wikipedia for shit movies I never plan to watch

― Neanderthal, Tuesday, 29 August 2017 18:05 (eight years ago)

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