Is the internet ruining movie going experience for highly anticipate and well known properties?

[Devilinurear]

I mean just in general, do you think the ability for fans to share predictions on highly anticipated and well known properties ruin the perception of the end product?

For example,(and these may be bad examples, but fukk it) if there were not thousands of fan prediction videos and threads on the last season of Game of Thrones or the Rise of Sky Walker, would they have been better received?

Or is a shytty product just a shytty product regardless of widely shared fan expectations?

I mean End Game delivered, but not too many do.

I’m just thinking out loud.

Naw critics use to do the same thing. The internet now makes everyone a critic.

 

[Robbie3000]

It is but more for some creators instead of fans imo.

I was a young kid before Phantom Menace came out and everyone was doing exactly what they're doing now, theorizing about young Obi-Wan and young Vader and whether Yoda would be in it etc.
NOBODY predicted "Star Wars will start because of taxation laws and we'll see a slimy politician scheme his way to being elected Chancellor of the Republic " or "We'll see more of a CGI rabbit creature than we will of Obi-Wan, also Obi-Wan will be kind of a douche and his master will actually be the one who discovers Anakin".
George had a vision and stuck to it, for better and worse - I don't like some of the decisions, but I respect him for telling his story.

Rise of Skywalker is like the opposite where it seems JJ and Terrihoe literally read all of the theories and tried to please all of them at the same time.

Game of Thrones, in turn, felt like the writers took some turns just to avoid theories - I know George gave them the overall ending but I'm pretty sure Arya killing the nightking was the writers going "haha nobody will see this coming!" instead of "hmmm does this make sense".

Naw critics use to do the same thing. The internet now makes everyone a critic.

Ya'll get what I was trying to say. Some nikkas thought I was talking about actual spoilers.

 

[Jello Biafra]

I mean just in general, do you think the ability for fans to share predictions on highly anticipated and well known properties ruin the perception of the end product?

For example,(and these may be bad examples, but fukk it) if there were not thousands of fan prediction videos and threads on the last season of Game of Thrones or the Rise of Sky Walker, would they have been better received?

Or is a shytty product just a shytty product regardless of widely shared fan expectations?

I mean End Game delivered, but not too many do.

I’m just thinking out loud.

I have never watched one prediction video for any movie or TV series so I'd say the best way to not let stuff like that ruin things is to just ignore them.

 

[mastermind]

I just avoid the topics for content I’m excited over. It’s not worth it.

 

[ThirdAct]

The internet is ruining everything lol.

 

[Ribbs]

Game of Thrones, in turn, felt like the writers took some turns just to avoid theories - I know George gave them the overall ending but I'm pretty sure Arya killing the nightking was the writers going "haha nobody will see this coming!" instead of "hmmm does this make sense".

Thats what happened with Westworld.

 

[dora_da_destroyer]

it's pretty easy to not engage in speculation (don't read the blogs, don't follow the hashtags, don't go on certain forums)