Anthony wrote:
On 6/21/07, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote:
They don't spoil good stories. Shawshank Redemption, Citizen Kane, Fight Club, three examples of movies which were *better* the second time around.
Sure, but would the first time have been better had you been simply told the ending? Watching a film a second time and watching it for the first time having been told the ending are very different things.
I don't know, for those three movies I think I would have enjoyed the first time of watching them more if I was told the ending.
I think that's a great thing for you to decide for yourself, and I have no issue with that.
Some have expressed a view that we should decide that for all our readers, against the obvious wishes of the artists whose works we cover. I think that's a mistake, and a large one.
William