Yes, I mind. Sometimes I mind a lot.
There are different levels of minding, but generally, unless the person asks me specifically, 'Do you want to know what happens in the end?' and I say 'Yes, tell me, please', well, yeah, I mind.
Level 1 Minding: Movies I'm not interested in. I don't want to see the movie anyhow and the spoiler is one of those sad people who can't help but tell you the entire film, beat for beat.
Jeez, people, I didn't want to see it up on the big screen, professionally made - I certainly don't want to listen to it told in your drunken slurring, punctuated by um, ah, you betcha and ka-BOOM!
Level 2 Minding: Movies I am interested in. This happens when I'm with a group of others who have seen the film and are so enthusiastic, they blurt out major plot points or even the ending before I can put my hands over my ears and shout, 'Lalala!' I still hate this but I consider it a crime of passion - tragic, but occasionally unavoidable given the circumstances.
Level 3 Minding: I am with someone who is a compulsive movie spoiler, who knows I want to see the film and yet can't help but tell me what happens. It makes them feel like they know something I don't. I shun these ego maniacs anytime there's a big release coming that I want to see.
Level 4 Minding: The person who quite simply gets a sadistic kick out of telling you the ending. They also blab the football score to people who have to work during the Big Game, before they get a chance to watch a re-run.
There is a Spoiler's Hell awaiting these Devil Spawn. In it, they are super-glued to a cramped vinyl seat in a perpetual rerun of Battlefield Earth. There's a lady with a crying baby that has crapped its nappy on one side, a man with B.O. and halitosis on the other, someone with no teeth and a bottomless bucket of popcorn behind and a woman with a Guiness Book of Records winning bouffant in front.
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Not only with movies. I see so many ads - amazingly, with spoilers in them - for TV programs on TV, that I'm totally over them by the time they come on.
ReplyDeleteI must admit that I head to IMDB for a peek at new movie trailers and avoid the details down the bottom of the page. It was so hard with Life of Pi. I didn't get to see it until very recently and really had to become a social wallflower to avoid spoilers.
Ha - I know what you mean! I remember when each Harry Potter book came out, my daughter would refuse to go to school till she'd finish it. She'd read it in one day the moment it came out to avoid the odious spoilers.
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