Spoilers and me

People often wonder why I am so anti-spoiler. I never used to be, I used to lap spoilers up for everything. For me, part of the fun of watching a TV show, or a film, was reading spoilers and imagining the results, then seeing it on the screen.
But that all changed one day.
Now I'll admit that while I'm anti-spoiler, I am NOT against other people having spoilers. No way. I'm more than happy for people to have spoilers for shows or films. All i ask is that you keep me out of it.

So, the tale of this fateful day that changed me. It was February 1995. The past few months I'd been getting excited for the new Star Trek film to be released: Generations. I was reading magazines and newsgroups about it, lapping up information.
Sure we all knew Kirk and Picard were in it. We knew Kirk was going to die. I think that was the worst kept secret in Hollywood that year.
Then a friend of mine got his hands on a draft copy of the script. He printed it out for me. I was dubious at first. It was one thing to read snippets, but to know the whole thing?
Then it was revealed that it was a fake script. So i read it. The story was pretty good. I gave it to a friend of mine who also read it.
We had made plans to see it on opening night, along with another friend. That night, standing in line, we see the poster for it. The 3rd friend said "Picard?? Is he in it?" We looked at each other. He didn't know ANYTHING, other than the fact it was a Star Trek film.
The film started and within 10 minutes we realised it WAS based on the script we read.
However, the moment Kirk died - the proper death - our unspoiled friend gave out a huge gasp. It was then that i regretted reading, in fact in any of the spoilers.
I wanted that rush he was getting, that emotion.
So it was that I stopped reading up on the big stuff.

A few years later it was announced a new Star Wars film was going into production. At that point I declared I wanted to know NOTHING about it.
I went to watch with zero expectations. ALL I knew about it was it was a prequel story featuring Anakin Skywalker as a young boy.
I think I must have been one of the few who enjoyed the film! It was well worth the hassle.

There were a couple of times when some news had been leaked and my friends wanted to discuss it, but being mature they said "We wanna talk Star Wars!" so I'd leave them to it for a few minutes. I think the main one was when the soundtrack album was released (a week before the movie opened) and it featured perhaps one of the biggest spoilers EVER. One of the tracks is called "Qwi-Gon's funeral".

My philosophy is: I'm going to watch it anyway, why ruin any surprises the writers/director have in store for me?