I've been getting into this mode as well. I only read reviews later to see if my brain agrees with people or not, and interested to see if i got it wrong. Sometimes you can really enjoy a terrible film for your own reasons. But most films these days are based on books, or a rehash in a franchise, or a rehash of the first release or an english version of a successful 'foreign' film, so you know whats going to happen anyway. Like Tom Cruise tussling with the bad guy on the edge of a cliff over a detonator for a nuclear device/chemical weapon et al (yes, i've been watching the MI movies lately because the first time around i gave up on the second movie and never revisited . . . maybe saw the third one as i remember Rhames but not the story and surprised that they got a lot better. I think Simon Pegg as comedy relief helped the franchise)
It's the same with books. There are so many opinions out there and spoilers suck but are getting increasingly hard to avoid. The only way i seem to do books these days is off recommendations from groups i trust (have got a few good ones from this group). Probably means i miss out on a lot of surprises. But also i don't have to feel guilty putting down an unfinished book (life is too short and it took me a while to stop pushing through books that didnt click)
Oh man I am so relieved it wasn't just me that didn't like MI2; I'm attempting a MI marathon in preparation for seeing the final movie and having rewatched MI2 I realised I fucking hated that movie. I've just watched the 3rd one and realised that yes, I'd seen it before and yes, the casual misogyny and truly terrible dialogue throughout the movie cemented my dislike of the franchise and I stopped engaging with it.
That said I've been dragged to a couple of the later installments and enjoyed them more, but I know I'm missing bits, hence the attempt at a marathon to catch up and work out WTF is going on.
I kind of left my partner behind on the marathon, we watched MI1, then she got stuck watching crime procedurals based in the UK, usually a scottish island chain or the dirty streets of london, and all filmed in washed out dreary blue (which i'm not fussed on) so snuck off and watched the other ones by myself. She jumped back in on MI6 ( I have a sneaking suspicion because of Mr Cavill, lol) and there was a whole bevvy of questions about what was going on. Doesn't help that 6 was a direct sequel to 5 more than any of the other movies. I'm going to recommend she skip 2 possibly even number 3 so we can eventually move onto number 7, now i've been caught out.
As a fellow female movie viewer I would recommend she skip 2 and 3 because they've not aged well and are clearly targeted at an audience that does not include our gender. Plus, they're quite stand alone and don't really contribute much to the overall franchise as far as I can work out, so that's about 4 hours of her life that she can put to better use.
I cannot blame your partner for jumping back in to observe Mr Cavill, she is but human after all.
probably wont go to the cinema for 28 years later but i do love a good horror/thriller/zombie movie when the mood hits and the 28 movies have been pretty good. I'm still going to resist looking at that link though :)
Possibly the best movie experience I ever had was watching The Usual Suspects with no prior information about the movie. A couple of friends invited me out at the last minute to go see it, and I hadn't even heard of it before, never mind had any idea of what it was about, I just trusted their taste in movies and was in.
I spent the first half hour of the film trying to work out WTF was going on, and then my brain absolutely exploded at the end. I swear that movie destroyed my sleep patterns for a week afterward as I lay awake at night dissecting every element of the final 10 mins because it was the most extraordinary storytelling I'd seen. It's still one of my most favourite movies ever.
I've never seen another movie in such complete ignorance before or since, and to have it be THAT film in particular... the movie gods smiled on me- no, the movie gods probably got a bucket of popcorn and then laughed their arses off for 90 mins watching my facial expressions as I watched it unfold.
That was a very long way of agreeing with your thesis that people that don't think spoilers are an issue are cunts, and yes, I also read movie reviews after the fact mostly to see if I agree with them or not.
"you’re a fan of Alex Garland’s zombie opus" count me as one. I even went and saw 28 days later at the Cinema... with six other people in the 2nd week after it opened. Is it like that for all movies these days ? Is cinema not doing well? Spolier for Unforgiven? was it deserved? "Deserve's got nothin' to do with it".
we go after the initial rush, second or third week - guaranteed choice of seats, and it's not like the old days where everyone stands around talking about the latest movie "you havent gone to see xxxx yet? Oh man, you have to walk away because we are talking about it now and for the next week will blurt out random spoilers. See you at the end of it" lol
I've been getting into this mode as well. I only read reviews later to see if my brain agrees with people or not, and interested to see if i got it wrong. Sometimes you can really enjoy a terrible film for your own reasons. But most films these days are based on books, or a rehash in a franchise, or a rehash of the first release or an english version of a successful 'foreign' film, so you know whats going to happen anyway. Like Tom Cruise tussling with the bad guy on the edge of a cliff over a detonator for a nuclear device/chemical weapon et al (yes, i've been watching the MI movies lately because the first time around i gave up on the second movie and never revisited . . . maybe saw the third one as i remember Rhames but not the story and surprised that they got a lot better. I think Simon Pegg as comedy relief helped the franchise)
It's the same with books. There are so many opinions out there and spoilers suck but are getting increasingly hard to avoid. The only way i seem to do books these days is off recommendations from groups i trust (have got a few good ones from this group). Probably means i miss out on a lot of surprises. But also i don't have to feel guilty putting down an unfinished book (life is too short and it took me a while to stop pushing through books that didnt click)
Oh man I am so relieved it wasn't just me that didn't like MI2; I'm attempting a MI marathon in preparation for seeing the final movie and having rewatched MI2 I realised I fucking hated that movie. I've just watched the 3rd one and realised that yes, I'd seen it before and yes, the casual misogyny and truly terrible dialogue throughout the movie cemented my dislike of the franchise and I stopped engaging with it.
That said I've been dragged to a couple of the later installments and enjoyed them more, but I know I'm missing bits, hence the attempt at a marathon to catch up and work out WTF is going on.
I kind of left my partner behind on the marathon, we watched MI1, then she got stuck watching crime procedurals based in the UK, usually a scottish island chain or the dirty streets of london, and all filmed in washed out dreary blue (which i'm not fussed on) so snuck off and watched the other ones by myself. She jumped back in on MI6 ( I have a sneaking suspicion because of Mr Cavill, lol) and there was a whole bevvy of questions about what was going on. Doesn't help that 6 was a direct sequel to 5 more than any of the other movies. I'm going to recommend she skip 2 possibly even number 3 so we can eventually move onto number 7, now i've been caught out.
As a fellow female movie viewer I would recommend she skip 2 and 3 because they've not aged well and are clearly targeted at an audience that does not include our gender. Plus, they're quite stand alone and don't really contribute much to the overall franchise as far as I can work out, so that's about 4 hours of her life that she can put to better use.
I cannot blame your partner for jumping back in to observe Mr Cavill, she is but human after all.
probably wont go to the cinema for 28 years later but i do love a good horror/thriller/zombie movie when the mood hits and the 28 movies have been pretty good. I'm still going to resist looking at that link though :)
Possibly the best movie experience I ever had was watching The Usual Suspects with no prior information about the movie. A couple of friends invited me out at the last minute to go see it, and I hadn't even heard of it before, never mind had any idea of what it was about, I just trusted their taste in movies and was in.
I spent the first half hour of the film trying to work out WTF was going on, and then my brain absolutely exploded at the end. I swear that movie destroyed my sleep patterns for a week afterward as I lay awake at night dissecting every element of the final 10 mins because it was the most extraordinary storytelling I'd seen. It's still one of my most favourite movies ever.
I've never seen another movie in such complete ignorance before or since, and to have it be THAT film in particular... the movie gods smiled on me- no, the movie gods probably got a bucket of popcorn and then laughed their arses off for 90 mins watching my facial expressions as I watched it unfold.
That was a very long way of agreeing with your thesis that people that don't think spoilers are an issue are cunts, and yes, I also read movie reviews after the fact mostly to see if I agree with them or not.
I think the last movie I went to was Harold and the Purple Crayon. I won’t give away any spoilers but OMG wait until you see the big twist at the end!
On my list of people who deserve to die are those that post something like this.
“I won’t give away any spoilers but OMG wait until you see the big twist at the end!”
"you’re a fan of Alex Garland’s zombie opus" count me as one. I even went and saw 28 days later at the Cinema... with six other people in the 2nd week after it opened. Is it like that for all movies these days ? Is cinema not doing well? Spolier for Unforgiven? was it deserved? "Deserve's got nothin' to do with it".
we go after the initial rush, second or third week - guaranteed choice of seats, and it's not like the old days where everyone stands around talking about the latest movie "you havent gone to see xxxx yet? Oh man, you have to walk away because we are talking about it now and for the next week will blurt out random spoilers. See you at the end of it" lol