32 Movies Best Watched in Complete Ignorance
The logic of movie marketing suggests that we should know everything about a movie before we fork out for a movie ticket, but that doesn’t mean it’s the right way to see every movie. There’s a lot of competition for our attention these days, meaning many of us do a lot of security checks before we actually sit down and watch something. But trailers too often telegraph the entire plot, even the ubiquitous social media discourse analyzes your best minds moments to death before you get a chance to fling for a ticket.
“Corruption” is harder to do with a movie like Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert all, everywhere all at once , the genre-bending action/sci-fi/thriller/family drama is currently earning rave reviews, punching above its weight at the box office, and packed with great the number of surprises that could be spoiled by the two minutes of the trailer. It’s a trip and far from playing to your expectations, GOOS out of its way to undermine their ever wild twists. This is a film with depth for dozens of views, but your first should still be as fresh as possible; I wouldn’t even recommend watching the great trailer (which I’ve embedded below against my best judgment), even if it doesn’t give away as much as you might think it does.
Some movies just seem to be made to watch as little foresight as possible, untainted by expectations. Sometimes even knowing the premises is a spoiler. Some of them have twisted endings, but none of them are just about twist endings. You should have a start to twist and a middle one too. Turns everywhere, all at once. (In the spirit of the piece, you’ll forgive me if I don’t say much about the plots of these films.)