Oh, what a cool movie, let’s check what internet thinks about it.
“It’s the worst fucking movie ever produced”.
Well, OK then.
This is generally my experience with every movie and TV show. I’ve essentially stopped visiting any fan forums and just enjoy things on my own accord.
My wife does this… During the movie. Doubly so if it’s based on true events/people - scrolling through that wiki article as we go.
Or she just looks up the life story of every actor in it.
I can’t help but do this myself. Otherwise it drives me mad if I can’t remember where I know what guy from.
I don’t want to know anything about any celebrities ever again. People try to tell me why j shouldn’t like a certain artist and I’m like “shut up! Shut up! SHUT UUUP!”
I really have been trying to work on my tolerance of such. My partner would always do that, Google the movie and look up characters and what not and then see spoilers continuously and when you know someone fairly well, you can read their reactions to things. So now that she knows Kenny is going to die, I end up figuring out Kenny is going to die. Twists, plot lines, all of it I don’t want to know until I watch it. When I hear “oh I thought it was his best friend that died in spoiler” I just can’t understand why you would read that before you watched it???
Then there are the people who, after watching the entirety of the captain marvel movie in a theater, ask “which one was captain marvel?”
Or during the movie that you’re both seeing for the first time, “Why is that person doing/saying that?”
I don’t fucking know! Why don’t we watch and see what happens?!
My auntie is like this so every time we have a family get together watch a film absolutely everyone refuses to sit next to her.
Well…
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Which one was Captain Marvel?
The shiny one.
To be fair I think she uses and is referred to as Carol during the entire film. In the sequel two characters use the name “Marvel”, one “Ms” and one “Captain”.
Of course it’s still surprising that you could watch a whole film and not be clear. In the first film there a very clear main character, and you know what film you’re watching, so that’s simple enough. In the second film one of the main characters fangirls over the character named “Captain Marvel”, so that’s straightforward.
“The Movie’s clear-cut ending that has no room for interpretation explained”
Even worse when you accidentally see the video/article title before seeing the movie, and now expect an ending open to interpretation.
(After seeing movie) “What was there to explain??”
Sopranos ending
Pitch meeting, IMDb trivia,
reddit, hisheTvTropes
I’m literally considering installing the IMDB app (I don’t even know if they have one) because I’ve been doing this a lot lately.
They do. I use it all the time to look up who played a character and what else they have been in.
Some video games do this to me depending on how good the storytelling is. 10 Dead Doves still has me thinking about it two weeks after my second playthrough.
Reading backwards wow
I do this with every a24 movie I watch
Immediate IMDb trivia section GO
Ah, me and my wife.
lol I got excited/disgusted for a bit because I thought you replied to another thread…
I do this but I have to stop, not because it’s obsessive or anything, it’s because YouTube will just recommend me videos full of spoilers. Great.
I personally love the setting/world of a game/movie which is why I tend to read the “what you missed about x” kind of content. its like extra world building, at the same time it keeps the content fresh.
I’m the bottom, so is my wife. Only difference is she does it DURING the movie. It can be pretty annoying, hard to get used to.
Is there a third category for immediately rewatching the movie?
Back in the days of VHS we’d watch them in reverse while rewinding the tape.
