jimbow8 Wrote:Cheers to you Maggers for being a spoiler-buster. I'm a wee bit upset that there was a spoiler (I'm still psyched about seeing this movie, anyway). I read your thread knowing that YOU wouldn't post a spoiler (at least without notice). May I suggest that you post a similar warning in Post #1, ABOVE the spoiler as well as in this one below the spoiler.
Thanks, Jim, it's good to see you back! While the person in question posted a spoiler notice, he said it was a minor spoiler. I disagree.
Many years ago, my high school buddy told me the surpise ending to THE PLANET OF THE APES. It was a hell of a surprise ending, too. I've never forgotten how knowing the ending of that movie affected my viewing of the entire film. Throughout the film, I knew what was coming and it colored every scene. It made the movie a completely different experience for me than it would have been had I not known that extraordinary ending.
That's why I have so little respect for people who blithely let loose the endings or surprises in a film, or a book, for that matter. But in watching a movie, I think it's important that we know only as much as the director wants us to know. Then it's up to us to put the film together in our mind and our experience of it and try to figure out what's coming next.
What is destroyed in letting loose a spoiler is the thrill of discovery in that awesome moment when we experience the suprise FIRSTHAND.
When Rosie O'Donnell had her talk show, she used it as a platform for her points of view, one of which was to spoil surprises in movies because she doesn't like surprises. She blatantly told the surprise in FIGHT CLUB because of that odd point of view. What sort of self-centered nonsense is that? I lost what little respect I had for her.
I will go back and add a big spoiler alert to my first post, even though I am not the spoiler.