Recently the Harry Potter spoiler thing (yes it's some time ago but I read some spoilers concerning HP 7 days before it was released and I wished I hadn't) has got me thinking... do spoilers really ruin it for you? The press and the pressure around keeping Deathly Hallows secret has been amazing... and probably record-sitting. An article in Time records exactly how the manuscript is treated from the time Rowling finishes the last word to the moment it is released at midnight. A few days before the book's release a file on the internet containing photographs of the alleged entire book (bad grammar? :arf: ) surfaced... I read the spoilers (which turned out to be true) and it didn't really ruin it for me although some of the surprise was gone. However I enjoyed reading DH so much, mostly because of the small things that I have always loved in JK's writing... so tell me do spoilers ruin it for you?
Yes, thats why they are called spoilers. I dont see why you would read it then watch the movie (im talking to all you spoiler-readers) if you already know the surprise. Pointless.
Well do you just watch a movie or read a book purely for what goes on in it? Don't you enjoy reading each individual chapter, paragraph, etc, the writer's style, the jokes in it, etc.? I think that is much more important than just knowing the main events of a story... it's just my opinion but I believe that even if someone had told me a list of all the people who die, what happens, how many kids Harry and Ginny have (lmao) it still doesn't ruin for me.
I hate spoilers... especially in movies I don't even like watching the trailors most the time. I avoid them like the plague! Because in movies... 1/2 the time they show all the funny or good parts in the previews. lol so I watch the initaial preview that gets me interested then I run for cover every time I start to see another
Spoilers are the worst. They ruin surprises and can make the book/movie dull because you know what is going to happen. For me the best thing in books/movies is the suspense and storyline. If I already know this information then it just won't be as enjoyable for me.
I suppose it depends if your one of those people who shake their christmas presents Or hate surprises Then its Ok So long as you dont tell the whole world
It really depends. I was watching G4TV's Attack of the Show, and they showed a clip of some jerk broadcasting what happens on opening night. He wasn't whispering it to one person, he was driving around with a bull horn announcing it to people. He even went in the store and read some parts out loud to customers. I think in situations like that where you can't run too far, it sucks, and it does ruin it. But, if you go out of your way and read it, then it really doesn't because you're the one who ruined it for yourself.. Do spoilers ruin it for me? Not usually.
By definition, spoilers spoil things. I read the spoilers for Harry Potter, and it did ruin it, cause I was like "Well, yeah, I knew that." Which took out a lot of the surprise, which I like.
For sure... I hate suprises, like suspensful ones... so I had to have someone tell me /exactly/ what happened in the harry potter movies, or I would have peed my paints... I am a wimp in dark places with lots of people
Of course most spoilers aren't forced on you... if you read a spoiler usually there is a big bold sign going "Spoilers follow..." but the temptation to read them is sometimes hard to overcome I would know
i think they do. because when i started hp 7, i flipped to the end, ONLY to see what the last WORD was. and i accidentally saw 19 years later, so i knew that harry didnt die. it sort of upset me. but with the movie-book thing, i dont think a book is a spoiler for the movie, because a movie just brings the book to life and makes it that much mor interesting. and they are really different too.
I do try to avoid spoilers, but sometimes spoilers are predictable, so they don't make that much of an impact.