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briandmyers  ·  3475 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Anyone else aggravated by the surge of leaks and spoilers in the digital age?

This is not a new thing.

A long, long time ago, I went to see a new movie, that I'd heard nothing about. It was sci-fi, and I was expecting (possibly) something similar to "Alien", which I'd seen recently.

That movie was "E.T". The movie is 100% better, if you have no idea what E.T. looks like, or if he's good or bad. You don't even get a glimpse of him for a good 30 minutes or so (it's actually pretty creepy up until his nature is revealed to Drew Barrymore). I am one of the very few people who have seen that movie as it was meant to be seen, just because I saw it that first weekend it came out.