How not to spoil a film when coming out of a preview screening?

Published on 2 August 2016

Easy, you can:

• Discuss the quality of a screenplay.

• Talk about the film's general pacing.

• Talk about the acting of the actors and actresses.

• Discuss how interesting the characters are.

• Make general comparisons with other films (same director, theme, studio, actors/actresses)

• Describe the film's aesthetics, the cinematography, the special effects in general.

• Give your critical opinion on the film, quite simply.

BUT FOR FUCK'S SAKE:

• You avoid describing precisely the encounters between several characters.

• You don't give details about the screen time of an actor or a character.

• You don't recount whole scenes, even if one is brilliant or terrible.

• You don't give details about the places seen in certain scenes.

• You avoid giving fucking time-based details like "it was great for 14 minutes then after the killer scene it was terrible for 40 minutes until the final twist!"

• YOU DO NOT IN ANY WAY MENTION A POSSIBLE FUCKING TWIST OR "SURPRISE AT THE END." NOT EVEN WITH CRAPPY SMILEYS LIKE 🙊😟💀

• You don't get into the details of a character's changes of mood, of side, of goal.

• You buy yourself a brain and you stop believing that just because you didn't like the film, it's necessarily wise to recount it at length on Twitter.

Generally speaking, you're careful, at least the day before and the day of the release, not to drop crappy spoilers on the real fans who didn't have the chance to be invited to the preview screening, whereas you're not even the target audience but get invited everywhere because you have 400 followers, 250 of whom are Chinese bots on Twitter.

By Paingout