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[Joey Bond]

... to, for the first time in my life, giving the whole spoiler-free thing a go with Bond 23.

Anyone else with me?

[Vauxhall]

Good luck. I don't have the self control to avoid spoilers. I enjoy piecing together the puzzle in the run-up to a movie.

[Judo chop]

... to, for the first time in my life, giving the whole spoiler-free thing a go with Bond 23.

Anyone else with me?

Yes. There are others. We meet in this thread, Joey:

Confessions of some virgins

(EDIT: Though now I realize you're talking about Bond 23... to which I say, it's easy to make promises when the trial hasn't even begun!)

[Mister Asterix]

... to, for the first time in my life, giving the whole spoiler-free thing a go with Bond 23.

Anyone else with me?

Advice: Don’t become a moderator of a James Bond forum.

[zencat]

Bond saves the world in the end.

You've been spoiled.

[SPOTTER]

I always try but with the internets accessibilty I always find it too hard to resist. I would love to see Bond 23 without knowing a single thing about it though.
I think I'm going to try as well.

[dee-bee-five]

... to, for the first time in my life, giving the whole spoiler-free thing a go with Bond 23.

Anyone else with me?

The funny thing is, although I haven't avoided any spoilers for QoS, I still really don't have much idea what I'm going to see on the 31st...

[Mister Asterix]

Bond saves the world in the end.

You've been spoiled.

Spoiler

If you are reading this then give up now.

[Bondian]

The funny thing is, although I haven't avoided any spoilers for QoS, I still really don't have much idea what I'm going to see on the 31st...

Exactly. Even if we had read the script, what appears on the screen would be different.

Only EON could 'spoil' a Bond film if they made a film based on our spoilers.

[00Twelve]

Bond saves the world in the end.

You've been spoiled.

Spoiler

If you are reading this then give up now.

That was awesome.

[Quantumofsolace007]

Bond saves the world in the end.

You've been spoiled.

Spoiler

If you are reading this then give up now.

no way i can do it iv wanna know EVERYTHING

[Doubl07]

Easier said than done. It's going to be hard enough avoiding the internet from Oct. 31st to Nov. 14th. If you can do that, you might have a chance....

Edited by Doubl07, 08 October 2008 - 03:20 AM.

[The Richmond Spy]

Easier said than done. It's going to be hard enough avoiding the internet from Oct. 31st to Nov. 14th. If you can do that, you might have a chance....

So what are we all going to do for that 2 WEEK span? I can maybe keep myself busy with the election for the first few days, but then what?

[bondrules]

Good luck. Have a nice trip

[Joey Bond]

Bond saves the world in the end.

You've been spoiled.

Spoiler

If you are reading this then give up now.

Great. I've already failed.

[Joyce Carrington]

[Completely off-topic: Wow, Mr. Asterix's a commodore now? ]

I first went spoiler-free with Casino Royale, but seeing as I had already read the book, it was slightly pointless. This time round, with QoS, it's really working out for me so far. I'm excited and prepared to be surprised in the cinema. Good or bad, I just like the tension of not knowing yet.

Give it a try, I'd say, and if you don't like the experience... well, there's always Bond 24.

[Bryce (003)]

... to, for the first time in my life, giving the whole spoiler-free thing a go with Bond 23.

Anyone else with me?

Advice: Don’t become a moderator of a James Bond forum.

What he said.

I was actually talking about this to someone the other day. I think the last Bond film I didn't know much about was FYEO other than that there was a ski chase and the bits that made the headlines when the monks protested.

After that, I joined the JB FanClub run by Richard Schenkman, started reading Starlog regularly and going to Sci-Fi and genre conventions.

..and then came the internet.

Goes with the territory in being a Bond fan.

Wouldn't have it any other way, but as we're about to be bombarded by the massive PR blitz, for those of you struggling to stay clear, I understand and wish you the best, but in about five weeks (less for those of you in the UK) it'll be over.

Then we can all argue about it for the next year until Bond 23 starts up.

[Blonde Bond]

As Michael Caine would put it ; Nevah!


I will never go spoiler free as long as the internet is up and running. I promise to spoil myself moderately and perhaps only stumble upon some spoilers I will wish to have never stumbled upon... by mistake. Of course.

[dinovelvet]

Easier said than done. It's going to be hard enough avoiding the internet from Oct. 31st to Nov. 14th. If you can do that, you might have a chance....

So what are we all going to do for that 2 WEEK span? I can maybe keep myself busy with the election for the first few days, but then what?

Well, the new CR 3 disc DVD/Bluray will be out, as well as Craig's "Flashbacks of a fool", so we can watch those. Well that's two days taken care of...it'll be a tough two weeks apart from that! I do want to log into CBN to read some non-spoiler reviews (presumably there'll be a Spoiler review thread and Non-spoiler review thread)

[Professor Dent]

Don't forget the Collector's Edition of the 1967 Casino Royale will be out too. There should be countless gems in there to occupy your time.

[mccartney007]

I've done pretty well at avoiding spoilers for QUANTUM thus far. It's the first time I'll be going into a Bond film without having previously read the script or known nearly every detail about it in many, many years.

[The Richmond Spy]

I've tried my hardest to avoid spoilers and it's been tough seeing thread titles promising "the fate of Camille" or the true story behind Mathis (assuming the one told in CR is false I guess....)

Overall, I'm utterly clueless as of right now and I love it

[DaveBond21]

Me too. I kept spoiler-free for Casino Royale and QOS, too. I find it much more enjoyable knowing virtually nothing about the movie. And I think this site is great because there is a spoiler section and a non-spoiler section, and hardly anyone who knew the spoiler gave away too much in the rest of the forum. Of course, living in Australia, where we get the new Bond movies 3 weeks late, I also had to avoid this site completely from 30th October until 22nd November.

I did it. It can be done.

[BlackFire]

I will try to keep spoilers to the minimum (hahaha yeah like if I could restrain myself).

[AgentBentley]

I don't want to know too much about the story, and with QoS I only heard the theme song while I was watching the movie.
Otherwise, yes I am curious, and I will want to see photos from the shooting and hear about where they're shooting and what kinds of car they use.

[Captain Tightpants]

... to, for the first time in my life, giving the whole spoiler-free thing a go with Bond 23.

Anyone else with me?

I tried with QUANTUM OF SOLACE, but then some moron from AOL gave away the ending in July by revealing the fate of Dominic Grene and for no reason other than no-one else was reporting it.

[havok_007]

Id love to try with you son! ill keep you posted

[Bucky]

good luck. it is not an experience i would like to go through again myself as i did it for quantum of solace, although i will probably try to do it again for the next film.

while people are right that you are going to see the film many more times in the future knowing what is going to happen, you only see it a first time once so why go into that one knowing what is going to happen? it definitely provides for a different experience as there are obviously more surprises. for quantum of solace i didnt watch any previews for the movie on tv or at the theater so i didnt even know what the action scenes would be like which was nice.

[DaveBond21]

for quantum of solace i didnt watch any previews for the movie on tv or at the theater so i didnt even know what the action scenes would be like which was nice.

That's cool. I remember being the same when I first saw The Living Daylights in the cinema. I hadn't seen any trailers.

For Goldeneye, I had only seen Tina Turner's music video for the title song, and that features clips of the movie.

[dinovelvet]

The only way to do it is to leave this forum completely. I did my best to avoid spoilers in here, only taking in mild stuff like "what the film is about", where they were shooting, and what kinds of action scenes were in it, but somehow I sat down to watch QOS knowing that Mathis would die, Fields would be drowned in oil in a Goldfinger homage, Bond had Mr. White in his trunk all through the car chase, who Yusuf was, the gunbarrel was at the end, and various other stuff. I didn't go looking for any of this info, but people just casually drop it into non-spoiler conversations anyway.