Nick Danger

"It's his sled!"

I wish I could have seen the move without haven't heard the spoiler over and over from the age of ten.

Alan Smithee

I had Citizen Kane spoiled by the song "The Homecoming Queen's Got A Gun" where the ending of the movie is casually mentioned. I had the ending of Planet of the Apes spoiled by the Simpsons episode where they do a musical version, but sort of my fault for not having seen it yet by then anyways.

The first few waves of RCA SelectaVision videodiscs put out in 1981 describe literally the ENTIRE movie on the back covers. Yes, the one for Citizen Kane does give away the ending.

During my projectionist days, there was this weird old guy who subbed for the main projectionist on occasion and for some reason told me how the Robin Williams movie "Father's Day" ended before I had watched it (having to do with who the father really was). Never forgave him for that, even though he's dead now.

And I REALLY hate it when someone tells me the main character dies. Unless they die right at the beginning then the rest of the movie is a flashback, I don't want to know til it happens.

bluetoast

I forgot, I had this spoiled for me too.

Tarantino

This one was spoiled for me as well, although I don't remember why.

mhg83

Terri Schiavo

Shannon Nutt

I remember this show...there was a huge fight because Siskel asked everyone who didn't want to know the "secret" to turn down the volume on their TV sets...and Ebert went ballistic, yelling "no one is going to turn down their volume!"

arminius

I would never have thought that of Siskel. I wonder what his reasoning was.

n.phelge

There was a guy I used to work with that would always give away the ending to a movie immediately - someone mentioned they had never seen 12 Monkeys and he said

He did the same thing with 6th Sense and just about anything else he had seen. Anytime someone mentioned a movie around him, I would walk away as quickly as possible.

hasslein

It was the shot that sold the movie, but I was always irritated The Fugitive trailer included the waterfall shot.

Hokeyboy

I'm always bemused by those who don't realize people DVR shows to watch at a later time, or perhaps don't realize that people live on the West Coast and won't get to watch something for another 3 hours or so, and the very second the show ends its "live" broadcast, they jump onto Facebook, Twitter, etc. and proceed to share their shock and awe and joy over that show's rather severe spoiler element.

A really good friend of mine did that with "American Horror Story" last fall. The show ended at, what, 10pm... 10:01 PM on Facebook "OMG I can't believe [so and so] was [massive plot twist]!!! I LOVE American Horror Story!!!" The resulting beatdown was one for the record books. She didn't even do it maliciously or purposely. She was just a dumbass.

TimeandTide

Not a spoiler necessarily, but the day after the opening of Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure, the kid who sat in front of me in U.S. History class recited the movie's funniest lines word-for-word. Hilarious then, but when I saw the film the next weekend, all the best jokes/sequences had been ruined.

mhg83

Yeah same thing happened with a FB friend with AHS. I and a few others that didn't watch it yet ripped into her. Some other idiot friends defended her with some shit about "It's her wall. She can write whatever she wants" I stopped going on FB till after I finished watching an Episode.

Jon2

It's been a while since I saw the Fugitive.

Can someone remind me how the waterfall shot spoils anything.

Geddlo

My best friend is notorious for spoiling things. I've gotten him to stop saying stuff to me for the most part but he still does it around our other friend. And he doesn't do it on purpose either.

The worst one he spoiled for me, though, was probably SCREAM.

Geddlo

wasn't it

Dr. DVD

I actually think that Psycho and Planet of the Apes are the two biggest spoilers ruined by pop culture. Hell, the VHS re-issue of PotA in the late 90s had Heston cowering before the Statue of Liberty on the cover!

While I don't know what this says about me, I never bought Darth Vader as Luke's father until it was confirmed by Yoda in ROTJ. I always considered it the villain trying to screw with the hero. Of course now it's no secret, especially if you watch Star Wars from Phantom Menace.

A big TV and books spoiler for me was

Bobby Shalom

Siskel and Ebert gave away the midway twist to Wetherby on At The Movies. I was pretty pissed when I saw the film knowing what was going to happen. I understand being upset by ending spoilers but midway twists deserve to be saved to first viewings as well.

All I can say is god bless next week on: for Madmen, now that's the way to do it!

Bobby Shalom

Siskel and Ebert gave away the midway twist to Wetherby on At The Movies. I was pretty pissed when I saw the film knowing what was going to happen. I understand being upset by ending spoilers but midway twists deserve to be saved to first viewings as well.

All I can say is god bless next week on: for Madmen, now that's the way to do it!

Maxflier

The worst one I can think of offhand is a guy at work spoiling in the 3rd Matrix movie.
And on the subject of spoilers, I have long since stopped reading the DVD Talk reviews because of reviewewr giving away too much of the plot.

Boba Fett

I've come to the rule of if it's a plot development that occurs after the first act, I'll be as vague as possible if it must be mentioned. The only time I won't spoil a first act plot point is if it's an unexpected character death from a big name attached to the film or something like that.

hasslein

Ash Ketchum

PLANET OF THE APES: Back in 1968 when the film came out, a friend of mine told me the ending, but I completely misunderstood him, thinking he was simply referring to an ape version of the famous landmark. Only when I saw the film and it got to the end did I realize what he meant. So, in this case, it wasn't spoiled for me.

Hokeyboy

HOLY CRAP.

I forgot the worst offender of all.

Alias: The Complete Second Season on DVD.

When you put in Disc 1 to start watching, there's a short promo that plays before you get to the Main Menu.

In in that promo they played a one-minute ALIAS promotional reel...

THAT PROCEEDED TO SPOIL EVERY LAST PLOT AND STORY BEAT FROM THE ENTIRE SECOND SEASON!!!

The same very season YOU JUST BOUGHT to watch for yourself.

Every last twist, every last surprise, every last death, every last shocking development, THE SEASON FUCKING FINALE... EVERYTHING.

If I hadn't already seen Season 2, I would have destroyed the entire pigeon population of Oconomowoc, Wisconsin.

bluetoast

Oh yeah what sucks is menus....like for The Godfather

sydonesia

EW doing an article about Charlize Theron's role on Arrested Development and revealing the big plot twist a month or so ahead of time (I think unaware that they were spoiling it.)