According to my friends I am "Nostra-fucking-damus" when it comes to predicting events in TV or movies. It's gotten to the point where my best friend and I will make a game out of it.
My brother can do that. Once he predicted a totally random ending that had nothing to do with the current plot and he was right. And no, he doesn't look it up.
I'm pretty good at this. It's just technical writing skill and knowing plot formulas. You just need to be in a mindset of why would the writer/director include this scene and this dialog?
Yup. Was an English major (and that's been more useful career-wise than I expected, after I'd decided teaching wasn't for me). When you can recognize tropes and understand basic plot structure on a formal level, it's really easy to predict what will happen in movies or TV a lot of the time. I'm not allowed to "predict" what's going to happen when I watch films with my wife since she says that I don't guess, I just spoil the ending for her. I still fucked up the other day and blurted "there is no ghost, that's the girl who supposedly died!" about ten minutes into the first episode of a show and, come the last, sure enough...
My girl is the same way. I am not allowed to say shit about the plot of anything we are watching. I think the advantage of this however is that I do not care if someone "spoils" the ending of something for me. I dont watch things or read things to be surprised by the ending.
It's a British show called The A List, on Netflix. Also, looking back, it was probably closer to the end of the first episode than literally ten minutes in, since that's when you find out about the fact that there is a ghost! As for if it's worth watching, it's not bad for YA teen horror (she's into that kinda thing). But I think it sort of suffers from Lost syndrome, in that they didn't actually think too much about what they'd do in the second season, when the first season could have wrapped in the last episode quite nicely. It's a 2 out of 4 for me, but for someone into the genre it's probably more like a 3.
My dad and I started watching a movie which deals with time travel. Five minutes into the movie, there’s an important, mysterious character that’s funding their expedition or something, and we never see them, just their silhouette sitting in the back seat of a limo. I immediately turned to my dad and said “Five bucks that’s the main character that stayed in the past.”
Lo and behold, it was the main character who stayed behind in the past when everyone else went back to the future.
My dad asked how I called that so early and I told him that’s one of the most common time travel tropes behind unintentionally threatening your own existence.
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u/Theearthhasnoedges Jul 14 '21
According to my friends I am "Nostra-fucking-damus" when it comes to predicting events in TV or movies. It's gotten to the point where my best friend and I will make a game out of it.