I’ll probably open a spoiler if someone puts it right in front of me, but I don’t usually seek them out. I have a selective memory for movies, tv and books - I can watch/read them over and over, and enjoy them every time. I kinda sorta remember what goes on, but not completely.
Mmmm, movies are a bad medium for this because they’re so short. But in a book or TV series, you’re still on this adventure with the characters even if you have a spoiler. I prefer not to spoil everything, but ‘this character dies’ leaves a lot open. You don’t know when or how or why they die.
I don’t like to have things spoiled, but if somebody spoils something for me, I blame myself for not having discovered that book, movie, TV show, whatever before having it spoiled.
I hate, hate, hate people who demand that I take all precautions against spoiling things for them. If it’s so important for you to never have anything spoiled, it’s incumbent upon YOU to avoid situations that may spoil things for you.
I reserve a special spot in hell for people who visit forums for ongoing TV shows and then get angry when people deign to discuss what happened in a time zone before somebody else.
God, I feel better having written that.
I like knowing what’s going to happen as soon as I can. If there’s some piece of info out there that’s related to something I’m interested in I’d like to know it. Whether it’s a movie plot, a scientific experiment, or just current events that’s the way I am. I can understand why some (maybe most) people would prefer to get surprised by plot twists or unexpected endings, and I will respect their wishes to not be spoiled. However, I do get irritated with and avoid people who get riled and vociferous when a spoiler is inadvertently dropped in a conversation. Come on, it’s just a movie or TV show!
I usually don’t actively seek out spoilers, but if I come across the ending it really doesn’t effect me. It’s about the journey.
Geez. I really hope we never end up in a movie, TV show, or book discussion thread together.
(For the record, I’m pretty damn careful to “avoid situations that may spoil things for [me].” That being said, I’ve participated in more than one spoiler-free (or spoiler box) thread where one random person decides that his or her personal acceptance of spoilers should apply to everyone else as well. And, well, I “hate, hate, hate” those kinds of people because not only are they rude, but also self-absorbed and disrespectful to the point where they think their own preferences override those of their fellow message board users.)
Movies, usually. Books, never.
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This is the one upside of my lousy memory 
As for spoilers - I like to read them after the fact to see if I missed anything.
Ditto.
Yeah, really. I got a little ahead of myself and posted some spoiler-ish things (nothing too bad, mostly stuff in the books) in the Walking Dead thread. The way some people acted you’d think I’d killed their pets. Yeesh.
I’ve seen the movie West Side Story oodles of times. Yet, every time Chino bursts from the darkness to shoot Tony, I yelp and jump. Watching any sort of drama where the audience knows or thinks they know a character is in peril makes me so anxious I want to throw up. Finding spoilers and reading plot synopses let me relax enough to actually watch the show. But there’s a reason I don’t watch much beyond comedies. (The third episode of the BBC’s Sherlock was awful. I so badly wanted to see what would happen but it got me so tense I had to watch it in 15 minute bites with 10 minutes of some less stressful activity mixed in.)
According to this logic, no one would ever reread a book, watch a movie twice, or watch reruns.
If I’m looking forward to a movie, I’ll avoid spoilers as much as possible. If it’s a popular movie that I have no interest in seeing, I’ll look up the spoilers so I can follow what people are talking about. Once in a great while, the spoilers sound so interesting that I’ll change my mind, and watch the movie just so I can see how it builds up to what I read.
Up until around 1980, movie theaters let people in and out at all times. There were no ropes to block the way until the start of the next show, and no ushers kicking people out at the end. Very often we would arrive around the middle of the film, watch the end, then stick around to see the first half (which was the origin of the catch phrase, “This is where I came in.”). Sometimes if it was a really good picture, we’d stay and watch the whole thing twice. Management didn’t care.
I remember sneaking around through various theaters well into the 90’s, but I think the actual “open theater” kind of practice stopped around the time of Psycho.
We definitely still popped in to see other movies, or at least see a few minutes of them, until the 1990’s.
WHAT?!? Chino shoots Tony? Thanks for nothing! :mad:
(I’m just kidding - I haven’t seen “West Side Story,” and I probably never will. I don’t care what happens to any of them. )
I got spoiled on the big one from Harry Potter, and I for a second I actually contemplated murder on the person who told me, and she was a person whom I liked a lot. I wanted to punch her in her face.
I hate spoilers. That doesn’t mean a work is completely unenjoyable if I do know them; the journey is still there, but it does make it less fun.
The trouble I am having these days is with Doctor Who. I watch all of the shows abotu six months behind, when they get on Netflix, and assiduously avoid spoilers. What’s hard to avoid, however, is the jokes on the various i can has cheezburger sites - they come quick and unexpected, and lots of people aren’t respectful to the fact that others may not have seen the particular episode referenced before.
This infuriates me, btw. I feel like you can shut your damn mouth at least until it’s available on DVD. Even then I feel like you should have some respect, but I understand all bets are off.
I will often read the first couple chapters of a book then skip to the ending.
Movies too, I don’t seek them out usually but I never mind knowing. In fact I’m looking for someone to tell me if that horse in War Horse lives at the end.
Spoiler by PM please!
I tend to avoid spoilers but try not to be too hepped up about it. I’ve never hated on anyone because they blurted out the ending. I’ll actively seek spoilers for really scary movies, because somehow I find it helpful to be thinking in the back of my mind, “OK, he dies, but she’ll live” as I watch - but I tend not to see many of such movies.
I was talking about the days before multiplexes, when a theater showed only one movie at a time.
Come to think of it, the practice of enter-anytime-you-want ended around the same time that most theaters converted to multiplexes. I guess that’s the reason for the change in policy. It’s not as tempting to watch the same movie two or three times in a row as it is to sneak into another room and catch a different movie.
(Psycho? That was 1960. I was still in diapers. The “open theater” policy was still commonplace when I was a college student.)
I prefer to know as much as possible about everything before I actually experience it. I don’t know why, but my mom is the same way.
Not a hoor but not a virgin; perhaps selectively slutty where spoilers are concerned?
The Times recently ran a honking huge spoiler about the next season of Doctor Who–in a headline on the front page of their online edition. Quite unavoidable & very tacky.
I’m pretty good about not spoiling particular plot twists in newish media but think that once a show has been broadcast in the USA it’s fair game–on a Mostly US board. Anyone saving themselves for the DVD’s needs to avoid the thread. (Dropping a big, early spoiler into an unrelated thread is Not Nice.) Exception: When somebody starts a thread as, say, a Buffy virgin & wants opinions on the first season, I won’t discuss what happened in later seasons. (Actually, I often avoid that sort of faux virginity as boring.)
Movies? I’m usually not the first to see them. I do remember an obscure arty thing that was spoiled here as being horribly downbeat. It’s the sort of thing I might catch on Netflix Streaming & I was very glad to be warned against it.
Oh, Steven Moffat appeared on BBC Breakfast today. He discussed Sherlock & had a couple of brief clips of “Scandal in Belgravia”–premiering over there on January 1st. A tiny bit spoilery but definitely worth a click for fellow non-virgins…
This crap about “it’s just a book or a movie” has got to stop. Yeah, to you. To us? It’s entertainment in a pretty crappy world. It’s one of the joys in our life.
Fuck, I don’t even turn the calendar until the day/month. I like life’s little surprises. You may not like them, but people who deliberately go out of their way to destroy them for other people are acting jerkishly.
And yes, posting spoilers about Walking Dead in a thread is acting like a jerk.