I avoid them completely; personally, it ruins the experience of watching the film. I can't see how someone could have a film spoiled for them and claim that it doesn't affect there viewing experience. It totally does.

Even though I hate movie spoilers. I think TV and video game spoilers are much worse. Actually, I have an article about that I've been thinking about.

It depends on the movie for me. If it's more of a popcorn flick, like Transformers, I'm cool with it. If it's something I've waited years for, like The Dark Knight Rises, I'm much more hesitant. Do I want to know what species Loki's "army" in the Avengers is? Yes. Do I want to know who dies in "TDKR"? No.

I always kind of fluctuate on this issue, but for me, personally it's a moot point. Being that I'm now a movie journalist, in order to bring the news to others, I pretty much have to look at the spoilers.

Though I can't say I've ever thought a movie experience was worse because of it. A good movie is like a good book, it doesn't matter how many times you've read it (or that you know the ending) it's still a fun ride. If a story is good enough and the characters compelling, then knowing some of the details doesn't ruin things for me.

But then you have films like Cloverfield (which I loved), in which I knew nothing about, but loved the experience of learning everything as the characters did. So it's a tough choice for me.

Well, there's a fine line. Doing what we do and being who we are (movie buffs), we know much more than the overall population does about what's to come in a film. Honestly, I'm not sure it's our "responsibility" to cover all the potentially spoiler stuff. That's why I only covered certain things from TDKR; the big stuff was worth reporting, but the little spoils now and again weren't.

From a creative perspective, I'd imagine a director/writer would be pretty pissed if the whole world knew about their movie months in advance. I try to do my best not to report on spoilers for not just mine or our readers sake, but also the creators as well.

I personally dislike spoilers. If I had known about The Sixth Sense big reveal, I could not have enjoyed the film as much as I did. I'll go even further and say I refuse to even watch trailers of movies. There are some trailers that give away the biggest laughs from comedies. Some trailers practically summarize the entire film. The less I know about a film the better. I want to go into a movie lost in the world the cast and crew has created for me.

Wow, that's taking it pretty far. I love trailers personally. In fact, there are plenty of times I love trailers more than the movies. I think there's an entirely different art form to the trailers and I love watching/analyzing them.

Meh, I'm not afraid of spoilers, and most of the time I choose to read them. They don't really effect the impact a movie has on me. I mean, I watch the same film more than once if I like it, and knowing all the details doesn't make it any less powerful for me on subsequent viewings, so why would spoilers bother me on a film I haven't seen?