Tonight, Star Wars II: Attack of the Clones, opens in theaters nationwide. (Tonight, that is, as in right after Midnight.)
Margie and I aren’t scheduled to see it until Sunday evening.
And Friday evening I join a bunch of ubergeekfreunden to play … Star Wars.
What do you think the chances are that I will stay un-spoiled until I get a chance to see the freakin’ movie?
I’ve already turned away from two radio reviews, and I suspect that I’m going to have to serious reel in my blogosphere antennae, too, lest I inadvertently read someone’s gushing over the details — especially where couched in the middle of a post on something else: “So we ordered pizza tonight, but the guy brought pizza with anchovies on it, which was just as unwelcome a surprise as finding out that Princess Amidala was the one who killed Mace Windu …” or “Yassir Arafat is as much of an evil genius as Jar-Jar Binks, whose canny and unexpected ascent to the position of Emperor caught everyone by surprise in Episode II …”
So if you need to gush, please: spoiler warnings are always welcome, and Moveable Type, at least, has a very nice Extended Entry feature that lets you hide part of your post until someone clicks on the “More …” tag.
Please have respect, courtesy, politeness and restraint for those who haven’t seen the movie quite yet.
At least until Monday morning ….
We’re not seeing it until Sunday night either.
But fortunately, we have a con to keep us in the dark for most of the weekend.
Unless a lot of folk see it Thursday night, pre-CON. Here’s hoping.
I have tried to seal myself in a “no Star Wars press” bubble until tomorrow at 1:35P.M. (especially after 1999’s amazon.com PM soundtrack spoiler debacle) You wouldn’t believe where I saw a spoiler – a Wal-Mart flyer! They had a two page spread of SW merchandise with some stills from the movie behind it – and one of the images was a spoiler in my opinion.
I can’t even read the Sunday ads. Oh, the humanity!
Doyce commented that, unlike with “Phantom Menace,” Lucas has allowed a lot more out regarding “Clones,” in terms of stills and so forth. And, yes, I’ve heard that a full review of certain merchandise has “spoiler” material in it, which is why I’ve avoided it.
*sigh*
I’m seeing it at noon tomorrow.
I figure anything I say is a potential spoiler, but I don’t actually really have anything to say about the movie, just the theatre crowd.
(I’m not an uber-geek. But my father hasn’t missed an opening night, so I kind of reaped the benefits of his uber-geekdom. [grin]
Well, and detriments. I need to go to work now.)