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[–] SmokedBillionaire@sh.itjust.works 32 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] tatterdemalion@programming.dev 1 points 3 months ago

A bit hard to avoid when they play it in the theater. I mean I guess you can stand outside the theater and periodically poke your head in to try to guess if trailers are over.

[–] Visstix@lemmy.world 31 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world 16 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Agreed.

everybody who's read the book already knows about.

No shit?

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Because we were all so ready to ruin it for our friends who hadn't read it

[–] Visstix@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Yeah I had to tell people to avoid all trailers and just go see it. But if anyone will go to a different movie in the cinema they will probably show it anyway.

[–] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 3 months ago

There's a reason I put on my headphones and listen to music during the trailers in the cinema

I hate trailers with a passion

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 31 points 3 months ago

And fucking ruined one of the best plot twists. Marketers are so fucking stupid

[–] sanpo@sopuli.xyz 16 points 3 months ago (3 children)

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...

[–] DagwoodIII@piefed.social 15 points 3 months ago (2 children)

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???"

[–] sanpo@sopuli.xyz 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Wow, yes, great argument.

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

[–] DagwoodIII@piefed.social 7 points 3 months ago

Or, if it's well done, the spoiler doesn't matter.

[–] Empricorn@feddit.nl 0 points 3 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] Crashumbc@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

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

[–] DagwoodIII@piefed.social 1 points 3 months ago

Or, you can know the spoiler and still enjoy the thing, if it's well done.

[–] Eyck_of_denesle@lemmy.zip 4 points 3 months ago

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

[–] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 3 months ago

It's a spoiler, but not a plot breaking one. The encounter happens quite early in the book

[–] shittydwarf@piefed.social 14 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

They always do this. Imagine if Darth Maul's

Tap for spoilerDouble lightsaber
had remained hidden until the theatre? It would have been madness and pandemonium

[–] MammyWhammy@lemmy.ml 12 points 3 months ago

Even having the glass tap I thought was too much...then BAM full body rocky shot

[–] IphtashuFitz@lemmy.world 11 points 3 months ago

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.

[–] Empricorn@feddit.nl 11 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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...

[–] Eyck_of_denesle@lemmy.zip -1 points 3 months ago

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.

[–] wizzor@sopuli.xyz 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 3 points 3 months ago

The producers: "it's a book and everyone reads they know already!"

[–] wildcardology@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

I really don't get why book readers are angry about the trailer showing Rocky.

[–] whotookkarl@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 3 months ago

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.

[–] MushuChupacabra@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The trailer convinced me to buy the book.

[–] HulkSmashBurgers@reddthat.com 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] MushuChupacabra@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 3 months ago

Next up, the classic continuation with: Bobiverse and Children Of Time

[–] HulkSmashBurgers@reddthat.com 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Are the second and third books in the RoEP trilogy better than the first book? I read the first and thought it was meh.

[–] MushuChupacabra@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] HulkSmashBurgers@reddthat.com 1 points 3 months ago

Ah ok. Some people have said that the second and third books were different and even though they thought the first was meh they liked the others better. That's why I asked.

[–] Olgratin_Magmatoe@slrpnk.net 3 points 3 months ago

It looks like it's going to be a decent movie. But yeah, that's a botched trailer.

[–] HulkSmashBurgers@reddthat.com 2 points 3 months ago

Fist my bump 😂🤣.

[–] sentient_loom@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 months ago

Now everybody will know that Mary was a ghost all along :(

[–] IWW4@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 months ago

Good news for me is that I have skipped all the ads. This will be one of those rare occasions where I will see this opening day. So no need to sell it too me.