http://www.theraider.net/news/fullstory_indy4.php?id=696

I agree with him — they don’t ultimately detract from the movie — but it’s a shame he didn’t take that to heart with the prequels. Many of the actors didn’t get their scripts until the day of shooting, simply to guard against the plot being leaked out on the internet. In my opinion, this is partially why the performances are so stiff and void of emotion. The characters don’t have enough time studying their characters because so much of the details are kept secret.

Am I just noticing it recently or has this always been a fanboy blog?

Some people like to know what’s coming and that doesn’t seem to ruin their movie experience at all. For me, I want everything to be a surprise.

I don’t find it all that difficult to avoid spoilers on the internet though.

I wish trailers would not reveal the whole movie and what was going to happen.

Half of the movies that are in theaters these days you can already tell what is going to happen without going to the theater.

Directors/whoever should only take material from the first half or if they must, first 2/3 of a movie to make a trailer.

Just set up the premise of the movie and let us enjoy it.

I realize that these trailers are important for the public mass of people to go see these movies, but for people that really want to experience the movie it sucks.

-Little bastards who talk during the movie

-Fat bastards who make a ton of noise shoving gross food down their puffy throats.

is anyone here old enough to remember the excitement when you saw one of his trailers? for example: raiders of the lost ark, back to the future, jurassic park?

raiders trailers showed some quick shots and then the cryptic title. “what the hell was that?” “i don’t know but i wanna see!”

the back to the future just panned across the delorean, talked to MJF, then blam! fiery trails and then the title.

jurassic park didn’t show you one jot of the dinos just had people look in wonder.

when i watch BSG i fast forward the opening clip sequence because i want to be surprised.

as much as i love tracking the movies coming this summer, i doing what i can not to have these summer flicks spoiled. I LOOOVEE NOT KNOWING WHAT’S GOING TO HAPPEN IN A MOVIE. that’s what makes it engaging for me. if a movie is predictable, isn’t it then boring?

i know exactly where both of them are coming from too, if you show last act scenes in your trailer, everyone is waiting for it because they saw it in the trailer… and if it’s based on a book people that have read it are waiting to see if you coveresd all the beats and what you changed. so it that sense there have ALWAYS been spoilers.

Oh, and the people who made Anchorman were geniuses. They created a trailer that drew people in, but had next to none of the scenes from the trailer which were later put into that second movie but still. They had tons of scenes they didn’t use which made people wonder where that scene was and stuff until it finally was there on DVD.

Oh, again, another example was Funny Games. It was a remake but a ton of Americans never saw it but when in the trailer or clips online there was a bloody scene that was important, people kept thinking it was a huge fucking spoiler and I saw it and it wasn’t at all. It included a gun and a huge wall BTW if you didn’t know the scene I was talking about