That's the one good thing about Alzheimer's. You no longer have to worry about spoilers.

Million Dollar Baby - thanks to Rush Limbaugh..grrr.

The only movie that was ruined for me was the crying game, and that was spoiled by Siskel.
Incidentally, how long do we have to keep using spoiler tags? Is there a time frame that most people should have seen a film by, so that we no longer need to put spoiler warnings? I find it hard to believe that there are people out there that don't know teh twist at the end of Citizen Kane. Even if they havent seen the film, that twist has been mentioned in so many other places, that most people must know it by now.

The problem is that screenplays have largely become so uninspired that they simply rip off other movies to the point that the marketing department feels the only way it can even promote the thing is to tell everyone what they did different to the premise this time.

Screenwriters:
"What if Lawrence of Arabia had vampires?"
"Yeah! Let's make that!"

Marketing department, handling the eventual film:
"Okay, so they're in the desert in WW I, fighting the Turks and they blow up a train...that belongs to vampires? Alright...."

Trailer narration:
"As World War I raged, one man led a revolt in the desert. The world would know him as 'Lawrence of Arabia.' Here now is the untold story of his battle against....
Vampires of the Desert!"

And, no, I don't believe such a film exists, and yes, I'd probably go see it.

I was just browsing through some threads and stumbled upon this one. I'm sorry, this is the epitome of stupidity. Members getting reprimanded for not putting spoiler tags in their posts - in a spoiler thread! Spoiler tags or not, if a member is dumb enough to read or click on spoilers (in a spoiler thread), they deserve to have the movie ruined for them. What right does some moron have to scold someone for giving away the ending of a movie (in a spoiler thread), when they were stupid enough to click on the spoiler in the first place, knowing full well the ending would be revealed (duh!). Rules or no rules, I guess some people are just a few twists short of a slinky. Wow.

What are you talking about? A general spoiler thread doesn't give license to reveal spoilers. If this were a discussion thread about a particular film and warning was given that spoilers would be discussed, that's one thing. A general thread discusses all sorts of films not all readers have seen, in which case spoilers should be hidden and the reader has the choice.

Before calling the actions of others stupid, you might want to take a look at your own thought process. You see, this is a GENERAL thread. In order to facilitate discussion, specific spoilers need to be spoilerized. This thread covers any movie that has a plot element which should be left unknown to the viewer prior to screening the film. This encompasses pretty much everything.

Thanks for your useless post, however.

Erm...OK...

If you don't want to know the end of a movie, it's quite simple; don't click the little button! What would someone expect to hear if they were told this beforehand:



HELLO! McFly!

What little button? The quotes you scoffed at were from those complaining that various posters did not put spoiler tags on their posts and openly spoiled movies. No one complained because they clicked the spoiler button for what was clearly a spoiler and got despoiled. Unless you are considering going into the thread itself as "clicking the button", in which case the posts stand.

Friendly piece of advice?

You won't last very long here insulting forum members, standards or rules. I suggest lightening up a tad.


That having been said, a general thread ABOUT spoilers is NOT a license to spoil movies without reserve. Otherwise, I'd have no inhibition to tell everyone the aliens in MONSTERS VS. ALIENS were actually clones of monsters the government kept in hiding, the ghost in THE HAUNTING IN CONNECTICUT is actually the neighbor's still-alive missing son, the premonitions in KNOWING are actually not from the past but from a parallel Earth, the secret of the WATCHMEN is that the killer is actually a separate identity constructed by Dr. Manhatten, and that the guy who actually arranged for the kidnapping in TAKEN was Liam Neeson's old Army buddy.











And in case you're shocked and flabbergasted, all the spoilers in the previous paragraph are bullshit. I made them up outta nothing just to make a point.

I guess it would be The Sixth Sense or The Crying Game for me, even though I wasn't particularly bothered by it. I'm not the type of person to go all apoplectic over being "spoiled."

The odd thing is that even to this day I don't really think the shock from The Crying Game is worthy of all the attention it received. I think The Sixth Sense was much more of a trick on the viewer which completely makes or breaks the movie.

Damn! I thought I'd just gotten a free pass to skip some of those movies (esp. Haunting in Connecticut - your version sounds much better than what's apparently in theaters now).

Saw 3

I was reading Comic Con news on Zap2it. They had a page of topics/headlines listed of the day's news. One of them was for Saw 4, but they mentioned a Saw 3 spoiler. The spoiler was in the headline. So it's not like I wanted to read news on Saw 4 and set up myself for a Saw 3 spoiler. They just put it out there.

not too terrible, but shameful for Zap2it.

I was reminded of a somewhat subtle spoiler from my childhood recently. In the poster for The Transformers: The Movie,


Granted, it's kind of small and your attention really isn't drawn to it at first. And, going into the movie, no one knew what his transformed mode looked like, anyway; by the time we saw it in the film, we had long since forgotten what it looked like in the poster.

Still, after I saw the movie, I eyed that poster image until eventually my seven year old brain realized the spoiler. I was annoyed, even then, that they would show something from the end of the movie like that.

Mod Note: Bärpfeife, it is unacceptable to insult or attack other members of this forum. Calling people "morons" is not a good way to get started at DVD Talk. Reconsider your posting choices or your stay here will be short lived.

I thought it was really stupid that Entertainment Weekly revealed the ending of I believe "LOST" Season 4 on the front cover the summer after it had aired. I don't watch the show, and in the magazine would be one thing, but on the cover? Not everyone is able to catch the episodes on TV.

I can't say I felt too bad about it, but I remember being in a Sam Goody in late April 1999 and there was an Episode I children's book sitting on the rack, so I was idly flipping through it, and the last page was and I said "damn it" to myself.

The endings to The Sixth Sense, Unbreakable, The Village, Lady in the Water and The Happening were all revealed to me prior to my seeing them (although I still haven't actually seen Lady in the Water or The Happening). I was most disappointed knowing the ending to Unbreakable.

A "Mystery Science Theater 3000" episode (I think "Time Chasers", a great episode) spoils the ending to The Usual Suspects. I can't actually remember my first viewing of the movie very clearly, but I feel like I knew the ending, and I know that episode spoils it, so it was probably for that reason, but I'm not sure.

I was watching Reno 911 and in one scene a guy was talking to the Jones and Dangle about movies and he started talking about a sounded like a surprise ending for "Don't Look Now". I fumbled for the remote and changed it real quick. I still don't know if the film has a shocking ending but since i'm an idiot and have waited so long to watch such a horror classic I honestly don't want it ruined.

It does, and you don't. Wise move.

DONT LOOK NOW is a great movie, but I don't think knowing anything abuot the ending can significantly impact one's enjoyment of it. It's more about tone and foreshadowing and subtle, psychological terror than what the big "plot twist" is (if there is one, and I'm not saying one way or another). Although I must say, I love when Donald Sutherland is revealed as being his own uncle. That scene ROCKS! *










* Total BS spoiler again. I'm on a roll here...

That reminds me of the ending of the Sixth Sense, when the kid gets so tired of seeing dead people that he goes on a violent rampage and shoots all his loved ones, including Bruce Willis. Then right after you find out that Bruce Willis was the kids dad the whole time.

A classic twist, indeed. Almost as good as "Murder On The Orient Express", where EVERYBODY on the train turned out to be Kaiser Soze.

^A yes a classic twist indeed. How about The Departed, when at the end Leo and Matt Damon get totally gay on eachother and Jack Nicholsan films it? That was something intriguing that I never thought I'd see in a Scorcese flick.

The rat symbolized amyl nitrate!

I don't recall attacking anyone, I was merely making a general observation. Even so, I will indulge you and rearticulate the word moron, and employ oxymoron in its place. And yes, I see it as oxymoronic to admonish someone for spoiling a spoiler; as it were. And those who are hypersensitive to being spoiled should perhaps distance themselves from high risk spoiler thread spoilers . Anyway, most should be able to handle this small insignificant pustule of basic common sense.