I woke up to a swarm of ‘Star Trek: Into Darkness’ reviews and posts in my reader. Now, people the one person in the galaxy that won’t get to see the movie until June 4th, I’ve spent the morning hiding from these posts. Nothing extreme. Just under the bed with an electrified brick wall around it. The reason for June 4th is that it’s my 8 Year Anniversary and my wife and always see the big sci-fi/fantasy movie and have lunch or dinner. One day we’ll have the money to go on a real trip, but we make due.
Anyway, this makes me amused about something. Before the internet (yes, children, there was a time before all this.), it was really hard to bump into movie and book spoilers. When I was a kid in the 80’s, you had to see the movie or be told in person by someone that Darth Vader was Luke Skywalker’s father. You didn’t stumble onto it because a friend of a friend posted about it on somebody’s Facebook wall. Assholes didn’t have the ability to run around IMDB forums and post spoilers as thread headings. Some jackass did this for the last James Bond movie. I was checking the forum on the Mel Brooks page and that was sitting right there. Still a little miffed about that one.
Still, it’s interesting how we have all this information at our fingertips, but it might have come at the cost of suspense. We never have to work harder to avoid spoilers than back when you had to work hard to find them. Seriously, you had some level of pride being the only kid that knew the plot twist because you found the information somehow. Now, the pride comes from being the only person in the room that didn’t rush off to Wikipedia to read the plot.
Good to get this sudden thought off my chest. Now, I have a character to kill off. Good day.
Legends of Windemere 
“We never have to work harder to avoid spoilers than back when you had to work hard to find them.” I love it! I stumbled on a spoiler for Season Three of Downton Abbey, and I was so bummed! Having now finished watching it, I’m thankful that at least I didn’t stumble on the REALLY rotten spoiler! And that’s all I’ll say about that in case someone still hasn’t seen it.
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Ouch. There are book spoilers that I still haven’t gotten over. Most of them revolve around Harry Potter. Rabid friends that read the new book in a week and asked me ‘Can you believe-‘ I never made it beyond the first book because of that.
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You haven’t read ANY spoilers? You’re in for a treat then.
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The local reviewer might have hinted at one. Said something about the villain’s ‘real identity’ without saying what it is. I have my suspicions, but not I’m going to spend the movie knowing there’s a twist coming. Takes some of the fun out of it.
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*spoiler alert* I heard this was based off of Star Trek :p
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Noooooo! Now, it’s just ruined. I thought it was based on Great Expectations by Charles Dickens. Or was that Man of Steel?
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You’re thinking of iron man, duh
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Well, I do have great expectations for Superman. Though, both might have to go to rental level due to limited babysitter usages per year. Need to save one for Ender’s Game. If I had to choose, I’d say Superman in the theater.
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Too bad you’re on the other coast. Little man would have fun with my boys:) then you could take the lady out more often.
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Money issues are part of the equation too, but it would be nice to have the option more often.
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Well you aren’t getting rich just sitting there talking to me. Go write a book!
*five minutes later*
Hello? I’m lonely. No one else can be the ass to my smart….
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I’m still here in all my . . . you know there is no clean way to accept that title. Taking a two minute focus break to get this amazing scene done. 14 years in the making for this one paragraph.
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Sending you focus and concentration
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Thanks. It spread further than a paragraph and the scene is closing up. Fingers crossed that I finish this entire chapter today.
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You will! I have faith and cupcakes
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good post, funny and true, happy anniversary for the fourth, charles! I love that you and your wife are going to the pictures for your anniversary, there is something very romantic about that. Like you, I was a child of the eighties and I was thrilled to take my eldes to a star wars movie, like my father did for me in my youth, looks like I will get to take my youngest to one too! I haven’t seen the new star trek movie either, charles but I hope you have a good time, it should be good if the last one is anything to go by. 🙂
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Thanks. I’m looking forward to the day I can take my son to see a Star Wars movie in the theater. Preferably a good one. 😉
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not so much a good day for the character about to be killed off. I live in the middle of nowhere so almost everything gets spoiled before I can see it, but I did manage to stay relatively in the dark about the Hobbit until I saw it last week… yes I know I am far behind on the times and it will probably be next year until I can see the second installment of Star Trek… so don’t spoil it for me when you see it on your anniversary… I still have to wait until the DVD release… I do have to admit I have read all the spoilers for the next 3 Star War films mostly because of the Disney factor…
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I promise to behave. I’m not much of a movie reviewer in the first place and I avoid spoilers when I do mention it. Good job on The Hobbit avoidance. Did you think it was worth the wait?
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I have to say when I first heard Jackson was going to break it into three movies as he did with LOTR I figured he was milking the franchise… LOTR made sense to do in 3 movies… The Hobbit I wasn’t so sure about until I saw the movie… I think it was the right choice… I enjoyed the movie, but part of me thinks they made some of the dwarfs too comical in appearance… but then I was always partial to Dwarves in the vain of Gimli… in fact I was looking for the resemblance in Gloin but found very little… in general I believe the film did the best it could with the magical way in which Tolkien weaved his tales..
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The dwarves did come off a little too goofy at times. I wasn’t too thrilled with some of the liberties. Mostly, that albino orc. Didn’t really see the point in him.
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I kind of agree with bringing Azog into the story as he is dead by this time, beheaded in the battle in which Thorin gets his oakenshield moniker, this appears in the appendixes of LOTR and I believe also in the Silmarillon if I remember correctly… I think the point was to add to Thorin’s backstory and to inject a little more action into the movie… and maybe to create tension
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Definitely. It gives Thorin a more solid enemy to face in the Battle of Five Armies when the third movie comes around. Let’s face it. We can all see that one coming.
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I couldn’t agree more. I’ve been thinking this for a while… but on the (very) rare occasion that I get to see a film without knowing anything about it (except that it’s supposed tobe good) then it’s such a more enjoyable experience. I have avoided trailers and reviews for films in the past – but you seem to absorb info about them anyway!
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Trailers have gotten so much worse. I forgot what movie or television show we saw a preview for, but my wife was livid that they blatantly showed the ending. Those are the previews that the world could do without.
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I took my mom out for her birthday opening night! We are both big fans and I am glad I heard nothing about it. You’re in for a treat. I promise not to give it away!
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Thanks. I’m really looking forward to the movie.
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Good day to you, I was a new born child in the 80’s. I guess that means you’re not that old after all. It’s true though, back then the pride was in being the only one knowing the twist. The internet sure has allot of cons as much as its pros! I wonder how things will be in another 50 years or something..
Thanks for sharing!
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In another 50 years, I’m guessing images and movies right into our brains. The pride will come from having the fastest mental download time and the computer virus will have a whole new meaning. 😀
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Lol Yeah I love to believe so! 😀
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I am the same way. I haven’t seen the movie yet but have been trying my hardest to stay away from spoilers. It’s almost impossible with the hundreds of reviews in every corner of my reader. I hope it is as good as everyone says.
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That’s the other thing that worries me. The hype can kill a movie for the late-comers. Books too. I’ve been so disappointed by things that are ‘amazing and unique’, but they turn out to be simply okay.
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Exactly, I hope Into the Darkness doesn’t turn out to be like that for me
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I’ve actually gone into movies with the strict goal of being entertained. All great plot, great twists, great characters, and other boons are just extra. Makes the movies a lot more enjoyable for me.
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We saw it on Sunday….won’t say what we thought. Will wait until you see it to compare notes. I’m looking forward to the new Superman movie now.
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Superman is definitely on the list. Just started seeing commercials for it. I’ll have to be careful talking about Star Trek though. I’m learning there are people who haven’t seen it and might not see it by the time I do. I’d hate to become ‘that guy’.
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Have a great anniversary. 🙂
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You HAD to get this off your chest!!!
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Pretty much. Best to do it before someone spoils the movie for me instead of after.
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Hahaha! Right you are! 😀
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I think you should kill off the spoiler alert characters! lol I have a friend that will text me the results of shows, the end of movies, etc. I think I’m finally getting her trained…after 40 some years! lol
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The spoiler alert people don’t have characters. I’d make them and kill them, but I use death as a rare, meaning event in my books. At least this one. When Clyde’s series starts, I can toss in people I don’t like for brutal beatings as much as I want. Sparkles the School Trolling Vampire better watch out.
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Can I give you a couple for Clyde’s series? lol
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Sure. We talking celebrities, commoners (people like us), or fictional characters?
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oh my gosh…I’m a “commoner?” When did that happen? lol
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We all are until the paperwork goes through. Then we get up-graded to peasant. 😛
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and all of my life I thought I was a Princess…sigh…sad face
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If you have a tiara then you are. I learned that from Big Bang Theory.
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I have one up in the attic!! Lol
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We’ll count it, Princess Kira. 😉
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Wait! What! Darth Vader is Luke’s father?! NNNOOoooooooooo!!! You should post the words “Spoiler Alert” on your blog titles. I hate the internet!
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I guess I shouldn’t mention Cain killed Abel either. 😉
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Abel’s…..dead? Oh lord!
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I hope no one spoils that little twist in the movie where you find out that Eggs Benedict Cucumberbatch’s character is actually KIRK’S FATHER!!!!
Oooops…
🙂
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If you’re telling the truth then you’re dead to me. 😀
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Ha! I guess you’ll find out June 4th. 🙂
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Oh i hate spoilers.
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I found out Harry Potter lived one day before the books came out ( we pre-ordrered, and got in line at 10 PM at Borders.). It was courtesy of Wikipedia. I had been wanting to know if he would live or die for years , so I didn’t really mind. the suspense was killing me.
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I don’t know if I could do that. I love the suspense of something like that. Though, I was saying that I had no faith in Rowling killing him off, so it wouldn’t have surprised me.
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