[EveningStar]

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[Dallas59]

Last “modern” movie I watched was that Monkey movie Planet of the apes 2011....poor. Glad I watched it on the net before I plunked down money in a theater.

[NoGrayZone]

Awwww, poor hollyweird. They get to make 15 million instead of 20 millions because of “spoilers”?

Perhaps if they made an actual GOOD movie, people would flock to see it.

[MattinNJ]

Setting aside my loathing of Hollywood leftists and my patriotic bent to say the US is the best at everything, I can honestly say Foreign cinema-especially German, Scandinavian, and Chinese flicks, are far, far superior.

Go to Netflix and rent the German "Lives of Others" and "Counterfeiters" or the Scandinavian "Inheritance" or "After the Wedding" and tell me I am wrong.

[Revolting cat!]

An easy solution: stop watching the Hollywood trash. Then no one will be able to “spoil” it for you.

[patriot08]

Speaking of movies, I just saw a great movie the other day;
House of Sand and Fog.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0315983/

It is the story of an emotionally broken woman, deserted by her husband, who suddenly finds herself homeless after her house is wrongly repossessed and auctioned.

Seeking respite from his marriage, Lester, a sympathetic sheriff’s deputy comes to the aid of the woman and becomes intimately involved in her situation.

Soon, Behrani, a boastful, greedy emigrant Iranian snaps up the house for a ridiculous sum with the intention of reselling it and making a bundle.
(Typical of his ‘religion’, he beats his wife and tells Kathy that in his country she would not be fit to look upon him)
He and his family move into the house only to find that the woman, Kathy, and her new friend, the deputy, aren’t giving up her house so easily.
The once prosperous colonel denies Kathy’s crying and pleas
to do the right thing, for he knows his recent purchase promises a profitable return and a better future for his adolescent son and extravagant wife.

Things spiral out of control and end tragically for all who want the House of Sand and Fog.
Great movie.

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[AnotherUnixGeek]

There is nothing for critics to spoil anymore. Everything is revealed.

Well, yeah - 99% of Hollywood movies can be categorized as:

(1) Remakes of old movies or TV shows
(2) Adaptations of comic books
(3) Crap-tons of CGI that doesn't want something like a story or plot getting in the way

There really is nothing to spoil - either the story is already known or there is no story.

[RetiredTexasVet]

I rarely go to movies anymore. I just wait and pick up the DVD as used at the local book/dvd/music store. Most are a couple bucks, if you wait them out, and the Hollywood pukes don’t get royalties off used DVDs.

[Baynative]

Most movies are so shallow these days, the trailer is all you need to see.

[AZLiberty]

I noticed that a few years back: if you saw the trailer, there was no reason to shell out for the movie.

[longtermmemmory]

The only good parts are in the trailers because those are the ONLY good parts.