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Monday June 16, 2008 | The Spoilening | Entertainment |
To all movie reviewers: you are not as clever as you think.
Yes, I hate spoilers [1 2], so I had to rant on yet another case of blatant spoilers contained in movie reviews from professionals who are supposed to know better. If you haven't seen The Happening (and I hear, you shouldn't, because it's really bad) then I'll bet that you, like me now, already know the movie's plot twist.
Watching Ebert and Roeper: At the Movies, they made a little "clever" joke that gave it all away. Roger Ebert himself (who isn't on the TV show anymore) gave it away in his printed review, as did the New York Times. These are four top movie reviewers with huge audiences, not some punk blogger, so why are they just giving away this plot twist? I'm no fan of M. Night Shyamalan, but even a bad movie doesn't deserve to be spoiled.
I had to laugh at this statement from the NY Times reviewer:
"I won’t say too much about the gimmick that Mr. Shyamalan has come up with this time around..."
Dude, too late! Seriously, the last half of that sentence is a spoiler, as was the frigging title of your review.
I'm not putting any links here so if you track down their reviews then you're inflicting the spoiler damage on yourself. Plus, they don't need the huge bump in traffic from being dev-null-kevin'ed.
Update: If you don't mind this particular movie being spoiled for you, then I recommend this "spoilerrific" review of The Happening. via Molly Wood.
Tags: happening movies rant reviews spoilers
June 16, 2008 09:07 AM PDT Permalink | |
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