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Message: <blockquote data-quote="reapersaurus" data-source="post: 1290971" data-attributes="member: 1194">Good catch, Barsoom, but you obviously missed the gist of my statements.(he's referring to my post where I pointed out the stand-ins for the hobbits being obvious in RotK.)There is a huge difference between noticing something and letting it ruin the experience for you.In addition, you quoted me out of context with the "Most everyone else does NOT watch those movies with all their antennae up...." line.What I was attempting to get across with the post that was quoted from was that most people don't go into movies with all their senses on alert for story tricks, or Meta-Story elements like "Never trust the Narrator." Most importantly, you and Kid Cthulu have forwarded the opinion that figuring out the movie spoils the experience for you.Thus, your own words and experiences make clear that an average filmgoer should NOT be attempting to short-cut around the plot using guesses based on Writing Rules.Hell, the way almost all movies are made nowadays PREDICATES that the audience member is not jumping to coclusions about the story, but is instead watching the scenes play out and enjoying the pretty pictures and sounds parading by. The proof of this statement is to look at the movies that are made: Romantic Comedies, Action movies, now superhero and fantasy movies. You know the guys gonna get the girl and that they good guy's going to win in 95% of the films. The point of the movie is seeing how it all unfolds.The point is NOT to guess how it is resolved ahead of time.I think many people who have responded in this thread have tried to get across our sympathy for you 2 (or so) who can't seem to experience (and enjoy) movies the way the rest of the world does.(But I'm going out on a limb there...)  <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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