This may sound strange, but I like reading spoilers. In fact, on some occasions, I actually prefer them to watching a movie. It saves me time from having to go see a movie that I'm only marginally interested in, and I can still feel like I know what people are talking about if it ever comes up in a conversation. This habit started back in high school, when I first started to fall in love with movies. I liked reading movie reviews back then, since I couldn't afford to go watch everything that I wanted to. Most times, I would wait for a film to make its way into the cheapie theaters. So I had to be much more deliberate about what movies I watched. Every once in a while, I would find a movie review that gave away too much plot detail. But rather than be angry, I felt the exact opposite. I felt as though I was getting the film experience shortened for me, like I was getting the Cliff Notes for the movie, so I didn't have to see it anymore. It wasn't until the Internet really took off that I found my predilection fully enabled. Nowadays, you can find everything you can possibly want to know about a movie online. There's resources like themoviespoiler.com which serves spoilers every week. And if you can't find a spoiler there, Wikipedia usually has an entry on the movie's plot, along with other tidbits about a production. And of course, if my curiosity is really piqued, I can even find a draft of the script for a film in advance of the movie's release. I find this technique especially useful for avoiding films that are poorly reviewed, but have a big twist in its plot. Like jumping to the end of a book, I can't help but want to know what that twist will be. For a movie like "Devil", based on an idea by M Night Shyamalan, I know there's going to be a twist at the end. It's his trademark. However, I have absolutely no interest in seeing this film, but I still want to know how it ends. And here comes Wikipedia to the rescue to let me know exactly what happens. In some rare cases, I actually find the movie so intriguing that even after knowing its full story I will go and watch it anyways. What I have learned is that a great movie is determined not by what it is, but how it is, to paraphrase a famous movie critic (I forgot who exactly said this. It might have been Ebert). The hallmark of great filmmaking is in how the director lets the story unravel, and in the tiny moments exchanged by characters, and the way the tensionsis ratcheted up. A movie can still have a great many surprises in store even when you know the plot.