{"id":5955,"date":"2021-10-18T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-10-18T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goldmanstate.com\/?p=5955"},"modified":"2021-10-17T17:18:30","modified_gmt":"2021-10-18T00:18:30","slug":"spoiler-alert-dont-tell-me-what-movies-ill-like","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goldmanstate.com\/2021\/10\/18\/spoiler-alert-dont-tell-me-what-movies-ill-like\/","title":{"rendered":"Spoiler Alert: Don’t Tell Me What Movies I’ll Like"},"content":{"rendered":"

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When you really don’t care about whodunnit<\/h2>\n

[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.0.3″ custom_padding=”0px||0px|||” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.0.3″ global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text admin_label=”Author” _builder_version=”4.0.1″ header_4_text_align=”center” header_6_text_align=”center” header_6_font_size=”13px” custom_margin=”||2px|||” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n

By Ed Goldman<\/h6>\n

[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.6.0″ module_alignment_tablet=”” module_alignment_phone=”” module_alignment_last_edited=”on|phone” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.0.1″ global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.11.3″ global_colors_info=”{}”]I<\/span>f you love movies, whether you see them on a big screen or on your Fitbit, perhaps you\u2019ll agree that there are far worse spoilers than learning the true identity of Rosebud long before the final moments of \u201cCitizen Kane,\u201d one of the greatest films ever made.<\/p>\n

For example, I find that when someone has heard or read entirely too many reviews of a movie, their blathering about them can be far more ruinous for my ultimate enjoyment than if I learn a key plot point before it presents itself.[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_image src=”@ET-DC@eyJkeW5hbWljIjp0cnVlLCJjb250ZW50IjoicG9zdF9mZWF0dXJlZF9pbWFnZSIsInNldHRpbmdzIjp7fX0=@” alt=”Edgy Cartoon” title_text=”Kitchen Confidential” show_in_lightbox=”on” align=”center” _builder_version=”4.9.7″ _dynamic_attributes=”src” width=”80%” width_tablet=”93%” width_phone=”95%” width_last_edited=”on|phone” max_width=”95%” max_width_tablet=”” max_width_phone=”” max_width_last_edited=”on|desktop” module_alignment=”center” border_width_all=”1px” box_shadow_style=”preset3″ global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text admin_label=”Caption” _builder_version=”4.11.3″ text_font=”Georgia||on||||||” text_font_size=”14px” text_orientation=”center” custom_margin=”-16px||||false|false” text_font_size_tablet=”” text_font_size_phone=”” text_font_size_last_edited=”on|phone” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n

SpaceBook<\/p>\n

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This is especially true for me with old-time mysteries. I get so caught up in the acting, atmosphere and dialogue that I can watch a movie I\u2019ve seen multiple times\u2014like anything based on books by Agatha Christie, Raymond Chandler, James Ellroy, James Cain or Dashiell Hammett\u2014and still be surprised by the denouement<\/em> (i.e, whodunit. I was trying to impress you. Like when I pronounce niche as “neesh” instead of the Bronx version, “nitch”).<\/p>\n

Think I\u2019m kidding? One of my all-time favorite shows remains \u201cColumbo,\u201d with my fellow Jew Peter Falk playing a deceptively bumbling Italian-American LAPD lieutenant. That show\u2019s conceit was to show you the murder being committed\u2014and by whom\u2014in the first 20 minutes of each 60-, 90- or 120-minute installment (the length varied as the show shifted from NBC to ABC). We would then watch as Columbo arrives on the scene, pretty much figures out who the culprit is immediately, then spends the rest of the show turning the perp to pudding as he interrogates him or her, fakes ignorance and then closes in for the moment of reckoning. Falk said in his dictated and quite charming memoir that being inspected by his character was like being \u201cnibbled to death by ducks.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Okay, here\u2019s the thing. I’m still surprised by the ending sometimes. Even when I’ve seen the particular episode multiple times. Not every time, of course. I mean, that would be plain silly.<\/p>\n

But this rant is more about criticism than plot development.<\/p>\n

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I think it’s wonderful that the Internet has given everyone who ever saw a movie the chance to become a little Roger Ebert, Pauline Kael, John Simon, or my all-time favorite film critic (and the only one of the four still living), Anthony Lane of The New Yorker. He loves movies even more than Ebert did, which is saying something. Kael had an occasional ugliness in her writing that negated her insights\u2014though she wasn’t as bad as Simon, who evidently loved everything about the movies he saw except the movies he saw. <\/p>\n

What I think is less wonderful is that we cede the joy of discovery or disgust to someone else: If someone trashes a movie we might have intended on seeing, we believe it and change our evening plans. On the other hand, just because someone tells you the latest Marvel or DC cinematic superhero megaballoo is “the best one yet,” that really doesn’t guarantee you’ll adore a film in which men and women wear their underpants on the outside of their tights.<\/p>\n

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