How many saw the movie without having been spoiled? (no spoilers) by loggerhead

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How many saw the movie without having been spoiled? (no spoilers)

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Thursday, October 6, 2005 10:12 AM

I did. I'm not sure how, since I lurked here and elsewhere a good bit, but I made it into the theatre with nothing that wasn't in the series or the trailers. I can still think back on my raw emotions and break out in a cold sweat.

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Thursday, October 6, 2005 10:18 AM

NINGJING

I did. The only things I knew were what I saw in the trailer.

And the experience was pure pleasurable surprise and enjoyment.

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Thursday, October 6, 2005 10:19 AM

INEVITABLEBETRAYAL

Me, too. I somehow managed to stay almost entirely spoiler-free. Man. My nerves were shot comin' out of that theater. I loved it!

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Thursday, October 6, 2005 10:35 AM

JAEDE77

There was an incident that was sad that I kind of knew was going to happen...

And then one that blindsided me... my heart was beating out of my chest and I was breathing like someone having a heart attack.

I have NEVER had a cinematic experience like that. I saw it again last night... same heart beating, but my breathing eased a little since it didn't catch me off-guard.

Whew... GREAT STUFF JOSS!!!! EVERYONE SHOULD SEE THIS MOVIE!!!

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Thursday, October 6, 2005 10:37 AM

DONCOAT

Not me. I hit The Big Spoiler right here on FFF.net just days before the premiere, in a thread that gave absolutely no warning. And I had tried very hard to avoid the spoilers up till then.

I am very angry with one of our bretheren here (who shall remain nameless). It didn't ruin the BDM for me, but it did reduce the impact greatly.

It was in a thread titled "A Message From Joss", though possibly the spoiler has been hidden or a warning added since I saw it.

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Thursday, October 6, 2005 10:41 AM

REALLYKAYLEE

i made it out great! though i put a few things together from intense analyis of the trailer.

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Thursday, October 6, 2005 10:47 AM

SHOJOHOLIC

After months of dedicated spoiler avoidance, I was spoiled THREE DAYS before the premier by some merchandise on CafePress.

Suffice it to say, I did not make a purchase.

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Thursday, October 6, 2005 10:52 AM

BAPTISMO

Luckey buggers, I have another month before it is released in New Zealand...its such hard a tiring work trying to remain spoiler free..though I have seen a couple..some wanker put spoilers in a "p.s." remark at the end of his spoiler free post.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!1

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Thursday, October 6, 2005 11:02 AM

KIZYR

I saw it without being spoiled on all but one point.

To avoid having to mark spoilers, I'll say it was listed as most people's "number two" shock, not the "number one" shock. So, there was still some huge things I was floored by.

I was spoiled, though, by looking at the Serenity soundtrack's track names. Somebody even warned me (on these boards) before I did it! But no, like Lot's wife, I just had to take a peek. KF

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Thursday, October 6, 2005 11:03 AM

BROWNCOATMONK

I watched it without having received any spoilers. I did have to avoid reading any posts that remotely sounded like they reviewed or otherwise discussed the movie. Same for news articles.

Browncoat Monk

Ain't no place I can be since I found Serenity...

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Thursday, October 6, 2005 11:14 AM

NEILM

Only saw the trailer. Was totaly engorged by the move, was terrified by the near end, thaughtthat was it for the crew.

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Thursday, October 6, 2005 11:23 AM

JASONZZZ

Quote:
Originally posted by loggerhead:
I did. I'm not sure how, since I lurked here and elsewhere a good bit, but I made it into the theatre with nothing that wasn't in the series or the trailers. I can still think back on my raw emotions and break out in a cold sweat.

heh? what spoilers? You mean about Jodie Foster finding out the Stews and the Marshalls were the bad guys?

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Thursday, October 6, 2005 11:30 AM

MER

I managed to come across an LJ regarding comments of the prescreened movie.
Also there were the pics, dsiscussions, and trailers for the movie. Oh and the visual companion...I only read a few lines of the script. Not to mention read ahead confirming what was discussed on the lj thingy.

I've been slightly spoiled...but not entirely. The movie still caught me by surprise though.

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Thursday, October 6, 2005 11:37 AM

KINGPAUSE

I was spoiled by a dork on the 'versal board who used the spoiler AS the topic of his thread. It was a BIG one, too (you know the one I'm talking about). Even so, I was still able to feel the appropriate emotions when it happens (and continue to feel them even after 5 viewings). Such is the greatness of the movie, I think.

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Thursday, October 6, 2005 6:54 PM

FLAMELILY

I was lucky - had to stay the hell away from the boards and anything remotely mentioning Serenity on the internet for about four days, but it worked!

The impact is MUCH better not knowing....

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Thursday, October 6, 2005 7:03 PM

SAMWIBATT

My wife and I actually managed it. Unfortunately, we managed it by taking no risks and avoiding FFF.net for about a month before the release date.

Glad to be back.

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Thursday, October 6, 2005 7:09 PM

SIGMANUNKI

Me too!

I got kept away from FFF.net for about a month and a half b/c of move then no net then busy with honours project stuff, etc. Also, we still haven't gotten around to getting cable (any tv really) yet, so that saved me commercials.

Total, I got two shots of on set where I saw an Alan and Ron in "uniform" but, Ron was wereing something that wasn't in the movie. Aside from that, I caught literally two seconds of commercial while at the parents place before realizing and changing channels.

That's entering pretty clean if you ask me

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Thursday, October 6, 2005 7:10 PM

EMBERS

well I did, but I did it the easy way...
I knew I would go balistic if I got spoiled,
so I drove 400 miles to Chicago to see the BDM as an
Advanced Screening on May 5th....
and boy was I glad I did!
the next day the official board was covered with spoilers!

Seeing it unspoiled was amazing, I was so beside myself with excitement going into the theater,
not having a clue as to anything that was coming...
and going out totally over-whelmed...
I couldn't think about anything else for days!

I'm planning to see the film for the 5th time this weekend!

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Thursday, October 6, 2005 8:08 PM

CRANSTON

Quote:
Originally posted by SigmaNunki:

I got kept away from FFF.net for about a month and a half b/c of move then no net then busy with honours project stuff, etc. Also

Likewise. I avoided the boards for quite a while, because even the "non-spoiler" threads talking about the preview screenings felt like they veered a bit too close to the edge to me.

I did know this: that there was a "big spoiler" out there, and that it was bad rather than good. I suspected the general nature of the event, but didn't know anything more than that.

Then I saw the movie. When what I'll call "surprise #1" happened, I thought, "Oh, that was the 'it' I've been worrying about."

And then I relaxed. And then "surprise #2" happened, and I just sat there for the next several minutes with my mouth hanging open, watching the screen but not really catching what was going on. Can't...believe...what...did...I...just....see....?

I am now a solid convert to the "no spoilers" school. Wow.

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Friday, October 7, 2005 1:40 AM

PATSRULE

I only watched 1 trailer...didn't have any spoilers other than that.

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Friday, October 7, 2005 1:46 AM

MAI

I too was a Serenity "virgin" up until premiere night. I saw a few of the commercials while sci-fi was running the series and but that's all. It was more than worth waiting for.

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Friday, October 7, 2005 3:09 AM

AJAXMINOAN

You know what sucks? I know this isn't Firely, (which I seen with no spoilers), but I read only the Hobbit growing up out of all Tolkien's books, and seen the cartoon 'Lord of the Rings.'
All those years and I don't know how the story ends, but after seeing the film Fellowship of the Ring; some dude tells me how Frodo gets his finger bit off, and Golem falls into the fire at the end of the last book. This was after I asked him to not spoil the story. Grrrr!

Of topic some I know.

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Friday, October 7, 2005 3:35 AM

EARLY

Quote:
Originally posted by AjaxMinoan:
You know what sucks? I know this isn't Firely, (which I seen with no spoilers), but I read only the Hobbit growing up out of all Tolkien's books, and seen the cartoon 'Lord of the Rings.'
All those years and I don't know how the story ends, but after seeing the film Fellowship of the Ring; some dude tells me how Frodo gets his finger bit off, and Golem falls into the fire at the end of the last book. This was after I asked him to not spoil the story. Grrrr!

Of topic some I know.

Man I hate those jerks. I have friends who like to sit there and tell you the whole movie. But I avaoided Serenity spoilers like the plague. The only spoilers I got were from the trailers.

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Friday, October 7, 2005 3:42 AM

PHOEBE

I saw the movie without being spoiled! ... mostly because I don't think anybody actually saw the movie before me. January, baby!

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Friday, October 7, 2005 4:21 AM

MER

lol am i a jerk?

i showed my friend the trailer and a picture from the movie. He too didn't want to be spoiled. but I did it anyway just to be evil. He only got a glance of it though. I didn't tell him anything about what i knew either.

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Friday, October 7, 2005 4:22 AM

SIMONWHO

See, lots of people think they were unspoiled. But it's like The Sixth Sense. Lots of people thought they were unspoiled but then claimed they worked out the twist ending before it was revealed. (Bruce Willis is a ghost by the way. Yeah, you really should have seen it by now.)

There have been dozens of forums posts with suggestive headers and of course there has been an absence of posts with headers suggesting something diffent.

I didn't have that. I went to the first preview screening that they held in the UK about seven months ago. I had no clue what it was going to be about. I knew reavers. I knew they were all back. I'd seen a couple of production photos. That was it.

I watched it with no spoilers, truly no spoilers. Blew me away. Absolutely blew me away.

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Friday, October 7, 2005 4:41 AM

SHUAIJAN

Quote:
Originally posted by Cranston:
Quote:
Originally posted by SigmaNunki:

I got kept away from FFF.net for about a month and a half b/c of move then no net then busy with honours project stuff, etc. Also

Likewise. I avoided the boards for quite a while, because even the "non-spoiler" threads talking about the preview screenings felt like they veered a bit too close to the edge to me.

I did know this: that there was a "big spoiler" out there, and that it was bad rather than good. I suspected the general nature of the event, but didn't know anything more than that.

Then I saw the movie. When what I'll call "surprise #1" happened, I thought, "Oh, that was the 'it' I've been worrying about."

And then I relaxed. And then "surprise #2" happened, and I just sat there for the next several minutes with my mouth hanging open, watching the screen but not really catching what was going on. Can't...believe...what...did...I...just....see....?

I am now a solid convert to the "no spoilers" school. Wow.

Ugggg. Surprise #2 ripped my heart out, stomped it into the ground and chopped it into tiny pieces. I saw it spoiler free on Oct 1st, and I'm still trying to put the pieces back together. I don't know if I could watch it again.

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Friday, October 7, 2005 4:53 AM

VERASNEWOWNER

Me and my girlfriend saw an advanced preview last night over here in England and all we'd seen was the trailers and a couple of tv interviews that were no way any type of spoiler and both our hearts dropped and were shocked, still are, at the movie.

But that aside from that, the movie was amazing, makes your heart work over time and is a real seat ballancer act but its worth seeing.

I bought the British version of the official movie magazine last week and my girlfriend deliberately hid it from me because we both knew full well that i would read it and be either disapointed, shocked, thrilled, saddened, happy, histerical and every emotion under the sun, so i was 'forbidden' to search for it and read it.
However, now ive seen the film, i can read it and read the spoilers etc.

Just hope she gives it to me cos i havnt the slightes idea in hell where shes put it.

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Friday, October 7, 2005 5:16 AM

DECLAN

Kudos to all the posters on this board, I was Big Spoiler free when I first saw the movie at the Premiere on 22 Sep. In fact, I was so Big Spoiler free I didn't even know that there was a Big Spoiler.

I watched this site in the week leading up to the US release on 30 Sep and I didn't see anyone divulge any Big Spoilers. I think this shows a lot of class.

Many years ago, a person -- after I explicitly told him not to -- divulged to me the Big Spoiler in "Alien". May he burn in that Special Hell.

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Friday, October 7, 2005 5:16 AM

DECLAN

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Friday, October 7, 2005 5:40 AM

THANATUS

Same here...no spoilers at all. Don't watch much TV, so I never saw the trailers/ads. Didn't come to the boards until after I saw the movie. I went into the theater (second ticket purchased in my area) completely untainted and anticpating an exceptional entertainment experience!

Oh well...At least I wasn't spoiled :)

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Friday, October 7, 2005 6:15 AM

MRSEMBASSY

I was totally unspoiled for the advance preview I went to in June. TOTALLY. Unspoiled. As a result I practically had a nervous breakdown on my way out of the theatre! It took me a LONG time to recover and want to see the film again ...

But now I've seen it 3 more times, and I've decided I love it. In fact, I think it's a gorram masterpiece. I plan on at least twice more this weekend.

-Mrs. Embassy

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Friday, October 7, 2005 6:18 AM

ZEEK

I'm a big no spoilers guy. I hate any bit of spoilers now that I've tried it.

So, I didn't see the trailer or anything before seeing the 5/5/05 advance screening. I loved it!

I went no spoilers for Episode II and thought it was way better than most people did. Same thing with Episode III and I still thought that stunk. I did it for all the matrixes and I liked them all well enough.

Basically I'm way too into solving puzzles. I'll know good and well if I saw a bit of something in a preview that hasn't happened yet. I'll be trying to figure out when that will happen and what it means. I'm much happier seeing the movie move along and having the moment where I go..."oh my gosh there's gonna be a fight between those two guys! Cool!" rather than "hmmmm, those guys haven't fought yet so their gonna live through this at least".

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Friday, October 7, 2005 6:59 AM

MCDUFF

Quote:
Originally posted by ShuaiJan:

Ugggg. Surprise #2 ripped my heart out, stomped it into the ground and chopped it into tiny pieces. I saw it spoiler free on Oct 1st, and I'm still trying to put the pieces back together. I don't know if I could watch it again.

I hear you. I left the movie depressed and am still not sure if I ever want to see it again...

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Friday, October 7, 2005 12:32 PM

CHRISISALL

It was a combination of luck, and fast clicking that kept me spoiler-free, although after becoming familiar with Buffy and Angel, I had it in my mind that one of the BAD things was gonna go down- then...AGHHHHHH!!!!!!

Most intense moment of my film-goin' life right there.

Chrisisall, still in shock some

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Friday, October 7, 2005 12:36 PM

RAKARR

I knew every thing that was going to happen. Not real shocking or any thing. Still a good watch. I guess the first time I watched it just spoiled the movie for me some the 2nd time i watched it

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Monday, October 10, 2005 7:36 AM

VERASNEWOWNER

When we left the theatre i was constantly in deep thought trying to make as much sense of it all as possible, and a little depressed at some certain 'UNDISCLOSED POINTS' that im still pissed about, and im still trying to figure it out.

But i went in there spoiler free, but was shocked by a number of things.

In the words of Jayne...

"It jus' don't make no sense"

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Monday, October 10, 2005 8:06 AM

198505

I mangaed to see it without any spoilers geting to me, took some willpower, but there you go, and then twice in 2 days, I got hit with it.
Damn this is a fine film.

Bit about me while this is my first post:
31, male, live in Lanacshire England, bought the boxset on the strengh of the film trailer wasn't :disappionted:, sneeked out of work early to see the film on thursday when it came out over here, took eldest daughter on friday.
Sometimes feel likethe only Browncoat in red rose country.

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Monday, October 10, 2005 8:55 AM

DIETCOKE

You know, they say you never forget your first time.....I'll never forget seeing Serenity on 5/5/05. Just amazing! I feel so sorry for people who were spoiled. They just don't experience it the same.

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