Ghostface180

Thankfully, I saw Sixth Sense opening night, not knowing anything about it other than it had ghosts. Same thing with The Others.

Fight Club and The Usual Suspects were spoiled to me, because when they first came out I wasn't really interested in seeing them, so I didn't care when people told me the twists.

I recently an upcoming film sort of spoiled to me thanks to Aint-It-Cool-News' discussion of how if one watches its trailer closely, they can catch the twist.

ChefWinduAZ

I was watching an epsiode of MAD TV and one of their skits involved this geek selling movie tickets and this one woman wanted to see "The Others" but he kept suggesting she see "Shrek." So at the end of the skit he yells out the ending of "The Others" so she would go see "Shrek." At the time I wasn't sure if it was the real ending until I saw the movie on DVD. I was so pissed.

starfish

Some ******* on Usenet posted the secret of THE OTHERS when it first came out, in a message header so it was unavoidable.

I don't understand why people consider Kevin Spacey's appearance in SEVEN a spoiler.

Rypro 525

because, this person was a reletive unknown to the general public, and he was not in the credits at all until the very end.

xraybies

This always happens to me when people at work discuss a movie and I haven't seen it yet, especially since I loathe going to theaters and usually wait for the DVD. Since I'm stuck at my desk I just have to stick my fingers in my ear!

Also I've learned to be careful reading forums due to idiots who think it's funny to intentionally spoil movies by putting the gimmick right in the subject line so you can't miss it when browsing a forum. This just happened to me on Rotten Tomatoes for an upcoming summer movie...argh!

bothanspy

This is why for the six months prior to a star wars film, I quit the internet cold turkey.

mrglass

When I was in college, "Scream" was playing on campus, and I was going with a couple of my friends. As soon as I was about to step out the door, one of my roommates blurted out:


I turned around, took off my coat, and went to sleep.

antennaball

a-hem.

harpoonipa

My mother acually told me the end of Citizen Kane

Fincher Fan

Nathan Lane did a skit on Letterman that spoiled the end of Sixth Sense. What a dumbass.

JasonF

Somebody absolutely ruined the end of Tim Burton's Planet of the Apes for me:


When I was 9, Return of the Jedi came out. Being an over-eager 9 year old, I couldn't wait to see it, so I read the novelization before I saw the movie. I then proceeded to ruin the movie for my family by telling them that


My wife refuses to watch Citizen Kane because she knows the secret of Rosebud, and no matter how hard I try, I can't convince her that it's a great movie regardless, and the secret isn't really the point.

Tommy_Harn

I read an interview of Robin Williams in EW the day that I was going to see Insomnia. Williams gave away the ending, that rat bastard!

DRG

Not the ending, but an hour before I went to see Deep Blue Sea someone who had already went had the nerve to say something along the lines of Well not anymore, *******!

Another thing I hate is when someone (or a review) tells me beforehand "It's got a real twist ending!!!" After I hear that I subconciously keep my eye open for the "surprise" and usually catch it. I'm so glad I saw The Sixth Sense on opening day.

mikehunt

yes. this is why I avoid the movie forum for the most part and won't read any threads about a movie until after I've seen it. I didn't even read the track names from the Episode 2 soundtrack until after I saw it since the Episode 1 one spoiled the ending

NoxHaveN

This is kinda OT... but damn, this thread was resurrected after over a year, with the last post before 5/10/4 dating back to January of '03.

Interesting thread though....so good job Rypro 525.

Trelach24

I accidentally ruined the ending of The Sixth Sense for my sister. She was headed out to see it opening weekend and I asked her where she was going and she told me so we talked a bit about the movie (I had no intention of seeing it) and at some point like a moron I just said wouldn't it be cool if I knew nothing about the movie other than "I see dead people" so I was just making a dumb comment (I thought)

Needless to say when she got back she wasn't too happy with me. On the flip side I gave her an experience watching that movie that very few people have probably had. I didn't give it away in knowledge that it was the ending, so she didn't know I was right.....but she said that throughout the movie she was looking for anything that would disprove my theory.

Also, that bastard Jay-Z ruined The Usual Suspects for me. I never saw it in the theater and pretty much didn't know anything about it. But Jay-Z had to re-create the ending for one of his videos. I didn't even know it was from a movie but when I watched The Usual Suspects for the first time, it wasn't hard to figure out

Rival11

A friend of mine ruined "The Game" (Sean Penn Michael Douglas) for me - to this day I wonder how much better it would have been if the bastard didn't give the ending away.



F****** idiot.

scott shelton

I can't really relate to any of this, since I don't mind spoilers. I find it helps to get into the mindset of what you're about to see.

Coming into a film cold is a very special experience (one we don't get very often today), but it also creates trouble when you can't get a hold on the mood of the film. Sometimes I prefer to know what's coming so I can enjoy the picture.

Rival11

Even if they tell you the ending of a film before you see it?

what about certain parts that would wow you a lot more if you didn't know about them before hand?

I mean if that's your thing cool, but me personally, I would be pissed beyond belief if this happened to me often.

FuzzyBallz

Doesn't really matter to me. I like to read the last chapter of books and watch last chapter of movies first (thank you for DVDs, except god damn mulholland dr.). Tell me everything, I promise I won't bitch slap you like all the anal retentive people.

renaldow

I was a jackass as a kid. I'd walk out of a theater and tell people waiting in line the ending. I remember walking by going, "Darth Vader is Luke's father!!"

I'd like to go back in time and kick my own ass! I don't like spoilers at all now. Since I don't go to the theatre much and rely on DVD, sometimes it's hard. Sixth Sense was a movie I avoided knowing anything about at all costs.

Rypro 525

sorry to bump an old thread at 3 am et but what the hell.
Blair Witch Project, as many of you know there was a big campaign about how it was all real and shit, and the fact that the movie takes place in maryland has a big intrest in me and my family. So we go opening night, shitty lowes valley cetner 9 theater, there was a big line to get into the movie. When the showing before ours ends, a bunch of people were saying out loud so that kind of ruined the expireince.

story

I love how people were upset about that. ^ What sort of snuff film were they expecting?

My college prof, God bless him, completely spoiled Blood Diamond last week. I told him, "Terry, your class needs to come with spoiler warnings in the syllabus." It's not the first time he's done that sort of thing.

The youth group I work with would not shut up about the "twist" at the end of Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest. Thanks, kids.

rw2516

This movie was so predictable you can guess the twist half way through.

MANBREASTS

My friend spoiled Miami Vice for me by telling me how it completely sucked.