tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16398571.post4790605565821486937..comments2023-10-30T11:57:26.749+01:00Comments on SCREENVILLE: Critical Fallacy 12 : Spoiler alertsUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16398571.post-40942059047990930992012-03-19T10:34:39.387+01:002012-03-19T10:34:39.387+01:00Official Spoiler Etiquette by Celebrities (College...<a href="http://www.collegehumor.com/video/6739482/official-spoiler-rules" rel="nofollow">Official Spoiler Etiquette by Celebrities</a> (College Humor; 12 March 2012)HarryTuttlehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10721542203087536185noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16398571.post-50740036530542749972011-08-24T16:14:45.276+02:002011-08-24T16:14:45.276+02:00"Plots are just excuses for great writing. Wh..."Plots are just excuses for great writing. What the plot is is (almost) irrelevant. The pleasure is in the writing [..] <br />It’s also possible that it’s “easier” to read a spoiled story. Other psychological studies have shown that people have an aesthetic preference for objects that are perceptually easy to process. [..]<br />The overall findings are consistent with the experience most of HarryTuttlehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10721542203087536185noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16398571.post-71686054994192336642011-08-16T14:01:16.389+02:002011-08-16T14:01:16.389+02:00"Surely people want to know something about a..."Surely people want to know something about a film’s story. Viewers clamored for the most basic information about Super 8. And evidently many moviegoers would feel less disgruntled about The Tree of Life if they had known in advance a little bit more about what they would encounter. It seems we want to know about the story’s basic situation, but not too much about how things develop"<brHarryTuttlehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10721542203087536185noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16398571.post-46439215403573315132011-05-02T21:44:38.896+02:002011-05-02T21:44:38.896+02:00Should you know beforehand whether the documentary...Should you know beforehand whether the documentary you're about to watch is a mockumentary/fake or will it spoil it for you? Should you be told in the end credits, or ever? <br />Could a film lie to you about anything, in order to artificially build up a later revelation, or the misdirection of a candid viewing experience? Is it OK to retain any type of information if it's for effect?HarryTuttlehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10721542203087536185noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16398571.post-66939411619647876942011-04-30T00:31:55.415+02:002011-04-30T00:31:55.415+02:00Dante's internet at NCOTB (10 Feb 2010)<a href="http://72dotsperinch.blogspot.com/2010/02/dantes-internet.html" rel="nofollow">Dante's internet</a> at NCOTB (10 Feb 2010)HarryTuttlehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10721542203087536185noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16398571.post-444630407430167332011-04-20T09:50:05.624+02:002011-04-20T09:50:05.624+02:00"At a still more microscopic level comes the ..."At a still more microscopic level comes the shot that everyone remembers from Le Quattro Volte. It’s so salient that critics who seldom notice imagery can’t help but mention it. I won’t describe it in detail, so as not spoil the surprises, but suffice it to say that it involves a church procession, some intransigent goats, a pickup truck, and a resourceful dog."<br />review of <i>Le HarryTuttlehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10721542203087536185noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16398571.post-9718238611375574242011-04-19T13:15:58.519+02:002011-04-19T13:15:58.519+02:00"Nobody wants to ruin another person’s fun of..."Nobody wants to ruin another person’s fun of course, and that presumably is why the spoiler warning is becoming so ubiquitous. But this caps-lock shorthand is clumsy, it’s ugly, and it’s used indiscriminately. Before Usenet, didn’t critics, reviewers, anybody writing about a narrative containing a surprise, deal with the issue of not giving away that surprise in a slightly more elegant HarryTuttlehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10721542203087536185noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16398571.post-42484395718267681422011-04-18T08:59:13.491+02:002011-04-18T08:59:13.491+02:00Roger Ebert : "Trailers. Have nothing to do ...Roger Ebert : "Trailers. Have nothing to do with them. Gene Siskel hated them so much he would stand outside a theater until they were over. Trailers love to spoil all the best gags in a comedy, or hint at plot twists in a thriller. A trailer is not a movie." Thus, when urged to select your "picks of the week," you must never pick a trailer for an upcoming film. You must HarryTuttlehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10721542203087536185noreply@blogger.com