Ben and Dave have been away for three weeks but they are back with a range of reviews from classic movie Revolutionary Road through to modern movie rundowns like Toy Story 4, X-Men Dark Phoenix and Yesterday. That is until … Continue reading Views from the Sofa Podcast: Season 3 Episode 14 – Spider-Man Far From Home Special
Another fortnight and another podcast! Following the Dwayne Johnson special comes the Mission: Impossible – Fallout special which has plenty to discuss. As well as a full review of the movie, Ben and Dave also discuss pertinent questions such as; Can … Continue reading Views from the Sofa: The Movie Podcast! Spoiler-filled Mission:Impossible – Fallout special
The Views from the Sofa Podcast returns but with a shortened, Spoiler filled Infinity War Special! After making Ben wait for two and half weeks, Dave finally returns to England and lets him geek-out about Avengers: Infinity War. In this … Continue reading Views from the Sofa Podcast: Infinity War Special
As you’d imagine, an article about spoilers will contain some spoilers but only for films that have been released for a long time and spoiled for many if they haven’t already seen it. The statute of limitations on spoilers for … Continue reading Can you enjoy a movie which has been spoiled?
There is a huge problem in movie marketing these days. Studios are vying for the huge audiences and trying to get everyone to see their movie so have started to “spoil” their own films. Trailers and posters are giving away … Continue reading Why the Cloverfield series is the best example of movie marketing
The beginning of the year is when the blockbuster trailer season starts in earnest. We get all the huge trailers for the biggest movies, offering explosions, booming music and cool pieces of nonsensical dialogue; and I love it! Over the years … Continue reading Could you give up trailers for good?
It is a long standing complaint but trailers are giving too much of the movies away. Watch any of the recent trailers for the upcoming summer blockbusters and you feel like you’ve seen most of the movie, or at least the … Continue reading What if… Trailers could only use the first thirty minutes of the movie?
This week, James Gunn, director of The Guardians of the Galaxy, hit back at attempts to publish a “scoop” about the upcoming sequel, titled very imaginatively Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2. His point is a very valid one; not only … Continue reading Why are we “spoiling” movies before they are released?
Terminator Genisys was actually made worse by it’s spoiler-filled trailer. One of the biggest plot points to the movie, the reveal that John Connor was actually the film’s villain, was spoiled very clearly in the trailers for the film. This meant … Continue reading Should trailers have a spoiler rating?
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