This week is going to drag.
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Canāt wait for the hopefully spoiler-filled reviews!
People already pissed in the comments but blame Covidā¦
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I just opened the amazon.de page - and a short trailer for NTTD is part of the promotional banner.
Sure, the marketing budget will allow to place it there.
But, hey, other forces might be at work here, too.
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Iāll be trying to resist spoilers, but itās going to be hard with a month or longer until itās out here.
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Itās still an easy task compared to what I had to go through with Skyfall: I didnāt catch a Premiere ticket, but knew loads of people who were there. Met up with them afterwards, and we went to our usual after-premiere-place (those of you who were there know where itās at). How many were there? 20-25, many CBners, but also others, from all around the world, and everyone had seen the movie and was talking about it.
Half of the evening, I was litearally running away from peole, or holding both my hands on my ears, singing āLalala canāt hear youā. Almos made it, but at one point I caught the fact that M was going to die (wasnāt that bad, thought it would happen, anyway).
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Official anti-spoiler campaign starting
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I never understood this fear of knowledge because nothing in a movie can spoil my fun if the movie works.
The adrenaline rush of being surprised - yeah, I get that.
But if it is just about the surprise and āspoilingā it will ruin the experience of the movie, then the narrative is bland and uninvolving - and the surprise is just a shock which will only work once, like a paper handkerchief.
OHMSS worked for me despite having knowledge of Bond going undercover in a kilt, getting married and widowed at the end. In fact, since I knew the ending before watching the film for the first time the whole experience was even more involving because I dreaded the ending and saw the tragedy coming.
I was lucky to read the CR script before watching the film and still, to actually see how it was turned into a movie, how the story was told cinematically, how Craig played Bond and so on, made everything feel fresh.
In the old days - grandpa alert! - we did not know the term spoiler. My friends and I read voraciously everything that was published about a movie. Then, when it was finally released here in Germany (back then almost never at the same time as in other parts of the world, more like months or half a year after the US/UK release) we knew already a lot and had seen many pictures published in magazines. Still, it was absolutely exciting to see the movies after all.
I will respect the contemporary FEAR OF SPOILERS, of course. But with me, donāt hold back, please. At this point I am like a villain interrogating Bond:
I want to know everything.
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I mean itās one of the big ways discourse changed in the 6 years since SPā¦now spoilers and avoidance thereof being a massive part of marketing and the whole process - itās why the press screenings on this are only tomorrow, embargoes signed by journalists forbidding them from talking about plot point Z, Y and Zā¦
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Two clips here - very good ones!
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And just because it is just as fun (look at his entrance):
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Brilliant. That joke about āI wouldnāt go back for herā (referring to Barbara Bach) had me in stitches! Ahhh Rogerā¦!
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Iāve never much cared for spoilers either. I read a draft of the Spectre script before the film and it still didnāt adequately prepare me for how bad the ending is.
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Has anyone notified EON that they only have a day to push NTTD back to April?
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Theyāre waiting until everybody arrives for the premiere. Once theyāre all seated, theyāll break the news.
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Thank you secretagentfan - this has actually made me feel a bit better.
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Does anyone know when the reviews are coming out? Tonight? Tomorrow?
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Reviews are embargoed until 29th, 1AM. Thatās for the German press screening, Iām assuming itās midnight GMT worldwide (as the press screenings take place at the same time worldwide).
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That said, Iām not certain how Iām gonna be able to ā¦ermā¦ communicate tonight. My old iPhone wonāt load CBn properly, my Macbookās display is out of order. Not certain if I really should go through the ordeal of taking the iMac with me.
Shameless bragging, this is what Iāve got:
Press screening tonight. Yay!
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