Script Leaks - The Scum of our Day

Leaking scripts before a big movie comes out is not new, but it is worse now. The vast amount of YouTubers, Bloggers, and Independent Media that we are now swimming in have made script leaking nearly impossible to avoid for a fan who would rather be surprised.

The Star Wars script was leaked recently and I have nearly ruined the film for myself. Allowing YouTube to run while you go to the bathroom or make dinner will eventually lead you to a site of screaming nerds, all rejoicing that "This person is really this person!" or "That's EPIC that they kill that person!". Just kills the hype for me.

In low-tech days, the guys were the douche-bags who ran around the office or classroom spouting out the endings to films before you got the chance to watch them. We hated those people. "I'm not spoiling anything, I'll just let you know that there are 2 people that come out right at the end and do something".... THAT RUINS IT pending what the film is and what it's about. Why do we glorify these people now with responses, subscriptions, and views? What changed where we once crucified people for ruining the final episodes of shows for us and now we support it?

It drives me nuts I tell ya. My only hope is that the spoilers are all incorrect. Personally, if I were a director or producer, I would leak a fake script and then blow them out of the water on premier night. You would get so much more success in the first week if word of mouth said that the leaked script was completely wrong. Everyone would go to see it just to believe it.

It drives me nuts I tell ya.

the internet is a cool at-home reference liabrary as long as you can deal with the fact that there are no liabrarians and editors keeping assholes from publishing disinformation AND anyone can get their artwork out in a public forum for critical and consumer feedback, pretty cool.... inexchange for all this connectedness we have traded in surprises at the movies or even on the sofa during prime time, we have traded in most of the big record stores and independent book stores, we've sacrificed the amazing independent art supply stores and a lot of the mom and pop music stores, we don't have so many massive "teple of sound" recording studios anymore, we don't have VHS tape so a lot of tape manufacturers are gone which means hardly anyone makes 1/4", 1/2" or 2" reels so most of us are stuck with protools as tape is prohibitively expensive even though there are tons of affordable old decks out there that just need some servicing....

I could go on! I have a love/hate thing with technology. When I am playing a great old guitar and amp with o effects with my phone and PC turned off I really feel like I was better off as a kid before all this BS, then I go on youtube on my apple TV and pull up this Pixies doc I never finished watching (for free I might add) and I am all giddy with excitement that I can just watch any old shit I want when I am bumming around with a bad head cold.... I dunno. Its easy to idealize my teen years from my late 30s I guess, but Iw as a miserable gen X fucktard then and I am a lot happier now, so who is to say if the times were as cool as I remember them.

but yeah, I hate assholes too and the internet makes them virtually unavoidable... you're going tog et people's nonsense opinions blurted as fact at you or here plot spoilers or get misinformation that sounds true to you until you try to apply it, assholes really rain on a lot of the internet's promise.... before I got online in the late 90s I gotta tell ya I could really cut most assholes out of my life through avoidance.... EVEN AT SCHOOL, just cut the assholey classes unless its a test day, right? Go places where right-thinking, interesting people hang out and you are good.... with the internet though I have to voluntarily move in under a rock whenever I want to reduce the asshole invasion into my thoughts..... gah.