Reviews are a person's thoughts on the basic aesthetics of a movie--from the cast to the direction to the performance and overall execution of a film/TV show. Yes, that's a fairly traditional view of reviews, but to me, there is something in telling me about the media without telling me the exact details of the story itself. Telling without telling. Generating interest and then letting the viewer ultimately decide by taking in the venue themselves.

Spoilers do exactly that, they spoil. And what's point of spoiling someone's enjoyment? To gloat? To feel you have one up on them? How childish is that? What does it say about you? What does it accomplish? Exactly nothing. Why was RETURN OF THE JEDI such a big to-do? Because it was called BLUE HARVEST and under the tightest wraps at the time.

Just that titillation of knowing I was being kept from "big secrets" in JEDI made me want to jump right in line everytime I saw it on a marquee as a kid. And the movie was everything I hoped it would be when I finally saw it. I enjoyed it immensely. But if a grown up had walked up to me and said, "Ah kid, Leia gets shot and Vader kills the Emperor", I would have been crushed and mad. I would have felt like something was taken away from me.

So my point is this, keep the spoilers to yourself or your close friends who also like that kind of stuff. Your buddies may enjoy that one-upmanship game, but I don't. I'm not your friend. I don't know you. And I tend to think "you stupid jerks" everytime I see a spoiler.

/opinion

Kindest regards,
Brent