Not absurd at all. A decade ago I finally got to see Mrs. Miniver (1942) for the first time. A classic. A Best Picture winner. And therefore new to me. I wanted to be surprised and taken away, just as the original audience had been and who were impacted by the unfolding narrative. But damn it, during my first outing there was an elder watching the film with me; not only couldn’t she say enough about the film, but said too way too much in the moments before a crucial scene. A flesh and bone spoiler was in the room declaring, “Don’t be foolish, I’ve seen this film a dozen times”.Really? It's verboten to talk about the plot of a film that was made in 1983? That's absurd.