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What happened to Star Wars fans crying about "spoilers"?

posted 4 years ago by ReelReviews14 (1030)
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I remember when The Force Awakens was released, Star Wars fanboys were so damn secretive about the WHOLE damn movie that you probably get more information from the government about Area 51 than you could from freakin' fanboys about ANYTHING in the freakin' movie! One Star Wars fanboy even REFUSED to tell me if JJ Abrams put LENS FLARES into the movie until I saw the film for myself. I wish the fanboys had "spoiled" me in advance to let me know the climax was another "blow up the death star" premise and Luke Skywalker's big "reveal" at the end was a pointless non-speaking 20 second cameo.

Jump ahead to 2019, its the ultimate climax, end of the Saga, MASSIVE payoff we were all promised and NOBODY cares about ANY spoilers anymore. I haven't seen one second of the film and yet I already know ALL the details of the plot. Even Disney doesn't give a damn about "spoilers", they even put a HUGE image of Darth Sidious ON THE POSTER ITSELF, and mention Ian McDiarmid in the cast list for articles published about the movie, so NOBODY is going to be surprised to find out he's not really dead and shows up in the movie.

It would like if The Empire Strikes Back was released with the tagline "Darth Vader is Luke's Father!" in commercials and promotional posters.

What's with the 180o degree reversal on "spoilers"?

WEIRD!

[–] Guitar King (4355) 4 years ago

Because the sequel trilogy has no value.

[–] ReelReviews14 (1030) 4 years ago

That's NOT what they said when Force Awakens came out! Numerous fanboys swore up and down it was 10X better than the prequels and a return to the TRUE Star Wars of their childhood and blah blah blah.

[–] JimmyFishCakes (451) 4 years ago

Correct. Then Ruin Johnson directed TLJ and SW went to shit.

[–] [deleted] 4 years ago

"Numerous fanboys swore up and down it was 10X better than the prequels and a return to the TRUE Star Wars of their childhood and blah blah blah."

That's probably because TFA basically allowed the fanboys to go to the cinema and watch what was essentially ANH on the big screen all over again to relive their childhoods that way. No wonder it was popular. They knew that ANH would never be shown on the big screen ever again, that's what they wanted, so they accepted TFA as a modern substitute! Quite ingenious of KK and JJ to choose that plotline over all other proposals.

[–] [deleted] 4 years ago

Probably because there are only about half as many fans now as in 2015. The ones still around are probably numb to the disappointment and thankful that they didn't have to sit through it.