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Message: <blockquote data-quote="WizarDru" data-source="post: 842087" data-attributes="member: 151">I'm assuming you're referring to the movie, not the book?  In the book, there's quite a few reasons why the teachers never cotton to the monster...but the fact is that they don't have all the information that we, as the audience, has.  Even in the movie, you can easily assume the teachers have information they clearly don't have, and then assume they're just not thinking.  Since the movie streamlines some events (and leaves others in that probably could have been sacrificed), it's easy to miss some of the subtext of what's going on.  In the Harry Potter books, as the readership ages (and the characters), they become more privy to what is and has actually been going on.  A lot of the political conflict really doesn't become as evident until the third and particularly the fourth book, as the kids are then being pulled into the actual conflict that their parents have, for the most part, shielded them from.  Malfoy's father in the second movie is part of this.As to gamers being more clever than other movie goers, I don't see it.  I knew there was a twist coming at the end of the Sixth Sense....and it still punched me in the gut when it happened.  It took a basic assumption that I'd had the whole movie...and threw it out.  The Usual Suspects and Fight Club were the same way.  Because the movie was good enough that I stopped caring about a plot twist, and more about what was happening right then.  A movie like Heist, on the other hand, just keeps you guessing about who knows what, and what's going to happen next.  I think that Jemal has it right: many people with that kind of mindset become gamers...gamer themselves aren't inherently more clever about movie plots than anyone else.And quite frankly, a plot twist or unexpected event doesn't make a movie good or bad...it's just an element.  I don't watch 'Robin Hood', 'Roman Holiday', 'Destroy All Monsters' or 'On the Town' to be suprised...I watch it to be entertained.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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