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    3 days ago

    Shit like this is why I stopped watching any movie trailers years ago and now I just go in blind to everything. Film marketers are dumb as hell sometimes. Luckily I’ve read the book but this is a stupid spoiler to have in the trailer.

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    They did what?

    I would literally pay 100e to read the book again for the first time and those fuckers spoiled the film?

    Good lord.

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    Weir says. “We want people to go now I want to know what’s going on.”

    Well, you spoiled it already, so I already know and I kinda lost interest in the movie…

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      Shakespeare tells you in the first five minutes that ‘Romeo And Juliet’ is a tragedy.

      ‘Titanic’ had almost a century of spoilers published before it opened.

      Did you really think that Luthor had a chance going into “Superman???”

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        Wow, yes, great argument.

        Some popular media is widely spoiled therefore no spoiler ever matters in any other media.

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        Do you really want to argue that any of those are twists or “big surprises”?

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          Shush with your logic and common sense!

          Many/most? People have never heard of this movie before a few weeks ago. And I didn’t know there was a book until I just opened this thread…

          But hey lets computer it to probably the 3 most un- spoilable movies in the last century /s

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      Did you stop reading the book into the 8th chapter? It’s a spoiler only for the quarter of the story.

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    I think the trailer would have generated far more interest if it stopped at showing Rocky’s “hand” and didn’t show all of him.

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    And Money won out. Don’t pat yourselves on the back for debating it, the end result is you produced a worse product and experience, that wasn’t consistent with the original vision. For more profits…

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      The trailer made me read the book. I think the spoiler is fine cause no one would want to watch another cliche space interstellar movie.

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    They always do this. Imagine if Darth Maul’s

    Tap for spoiler

    Double lightsaber

    had remained hidden until the theatre? It would have been madness and pandemonium

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    Surprise twists can add some fun but I don’t think the entertaining narrative or reasons why PHM was so engaging depended on it being a surprise at least for me. Like if a horror movie has a couple jump scares it’s adding a little fun engagement but if that is all the movie depends on for being scary it’s kinda flat and one note.

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        It was a joy to read!

        It was also the perfect book to read after finishing Cixin Liu’s Remembrance of Earth’s Past trilogy.

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            I bought and read the books because I watched season one on Netflix, and simply couldn’t tolerate not knowing what that joke meant, and why the Trisolarans wanted to kill the one Wallfacer so badly. I mowed through the books in about a week, and enjoyed all three books.

            There are profound events, and the scope of the story becomes absolutely grand over the next two books, with some scenes and events that are now seared into memory.

            But I was one hundred percent enthused and sold on the books before they arrived, based on the ideas that captivated me in the Netflix show.

            The escalation and stakes go up considerably, but if you weren’t feeling the first book, I’m not sure if you’d enjoy the other two.

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      Don’t let it. It’s a phenomenal book, and the other adaptation of Weir’s work, The Martian, was very well-done. I suspect Project Hail Mary will be an excellent movie. Just don’t watch the trailer.

      (But honestly even if you do, it’s a spoiler for the first, like, quarter of the story. If that. It’s not some massive twist or anything, it was just a really awesome reveal in the book.)

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        I couldn’t finish Artemis though. It was around describing the domes of the lunar colony as looking like a pair of boobies is when I couldn’t go on. Felt like Andy needed to rub one out before sitting down at the keyboard for that one.

        Some authors should just not write protagonists of the opposite sex…

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          I didn’t clock her as badly written. He sufficiently hangs the lampshade, with other characters surprised by how forward and open she is about sex. And sex itself is very much not a present part of the plot, though it is part of her character’s backstory.

          But also I’m not a woman, either.

          I loved that book, but not as much as The Martian or Project Hail Mary.

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          I got through two chapters of Artemis before I gave up. Project Hail Mary, however, is very good.