i am serious. i mentioned i wasn't bothered about seeing it since 'i know the damn ship sinks at the end' and someone said to me, 'oh my god, you ruined it!'
i've never been sure if they were serious or not.
Worst Spoiler Experience?
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i am serious. i mentioned i wasn't bothered about seeing it since 'i know the damn ship sinks at the end' and someone said to me, 'oh my god, you ruined it!'
i've never been sure if they were serious or not.
No offense intended, though; I didn't know if I was missing a joke.
Funnily enough, Titanic spoils itself, a bit, with its framing sequences. I mean, it's possible that Jack might survive, I guess, but it ain't likely.
captcalhoun said:
Funnily enough, Titanic spoils itself, a bit, with its framing sequences. I mean, it's possible that Jack might survive, I guess, but it ain't likely.
No reason to believe he doesn't, only to die sometime later before the present-day stuff.
I dunno, I watch a movie about the Titanic, I expect some main characters to eat cold seawater.
Both of mine involved Star Wars: Episode I.
The soundtrack to the movie was released a bit early and I casually read the back of the CD just to see the listings and right there was track #16: "The High Council Meeting and Qui-Gon's Funeral."
D'oh!
(Note to self: do not look at soundtrack listings of movies I haven't seen yet)
But okay, okay. Just one spoiler. I can live with that.
Unfortunately, one of my fellow co-workers went to see the movie on opening day and couldn't wait to tell those who hadn't seen it yet that Darth Maul dies at the end.
I think we took turns beating the
out of him all day...
The soundtrack to the movie was released a bit early and I casually read the back of the CD just to see the listings and right there was track #16: "The High Council Meeting and Qui-Gon's Funeral."
D'oh!
(Note to self: do not look at soundtrack listings of movies I haven't seen yet)
But okay, okay. Just one spoiler. I can live with that.
Unfortunately, one of my fellow co-workers went to see the movie on opening day and couldn't wait to tell those who hadn't seen it yet that Darth Maul dies at the end.
I think we took turns beating the
out of him all day...
The Sixth Sense for me too... talk about rendering a movie pointless. I think I would have figured it out if I had gone in with the mindset that it's a twist anyway... but I remember at the time, it was a video game web site that spoiled me on it... Next Generation Online... I would send submissions for their mailbag through the web form fairly regularly, never getting published, but when I sent my scathing rant about their pointless spoiler in pursuit of a joke that wasn't even funny, skipping the mailbag submission and just sending it directly to an editor's email, THAT of course got published, along with a smug reply about how the movie had been out for months and everybody knew and how if I really wanted to see it I would've seen it already and all that nonsense.
Yeah, sorry, I lived in a rural area 60 plus miles from the nearest movie theater, and it wasn't on home video yet, and I was in high school without a car. Of course when I refuted all the stupid things they said in their mailbag response they didn't bother to publish that follow-up. When that magazine and site went under I had a nice big smile on my face.
Let's see.. with Episode I, and I guess really the prequel trilogy more broadly, one of the friends I was going to see it on premiere night with started talking about Padme, and how she was Luke's mom and all this... and I hadn't even been introduced to the character... I mean I honestly think I would've gotten through Ep I no problem without realizing that was where they were going to go with it, just because she was like, adult-ish and the kid playing anakin looked like he might still wet his bed. It's not really like a major twist or anything, but it's just being robbed of coming to that little realization when you see them getting snuggly in Episode II. Not that those movies had any value in the end... but the general principle applies. TVs/Movies/Novels are all more interesting the less you know what's coming.
I remember back in the day, where you'd have just the one HBO and Showtime, no onscreen program guide, no handy internet television listings... you could flip by one of those movie channels and miss them announcing the title and watch the whole movie without ever knowing what it was called. That was kind of great, not knowing what would come up once all the studio logos went away. No expectations whatsoever, just the movie standing on its own merits.
As Aragorn pointed out, Joe Washington is one of the great all-time spoiler monkeys. He didn't hit me personally too badly, but he did get me with one of his Breaking Bad threads. I got lucky that I just got caught up on Dexter before he hit the scene. OmahaStar took a big spoiler shit on the face of anyone who was participating in the Survivor discussion thread a couple of seasons ago...
One that didn't get me was the Lost finale. I'm glad I didn't fall behind on that show because the finale stuff was everywhere. And lots of posts around here from people who I guess were disappointed with the finale. Weird little rage-quips about it in every random fucking thread on the board.
I don't know, spoilers are one of those issues that really can get to me, and tend to lead to tldr walls of text like this.. I think I've maybe created a dozen topics in all my time on this board and 2-3 were spoiler rage topics
Yeah, sorry, I lived in a rural area 60 plus miles from the nearest movie theater, and it wasn't on home video yet, and I was in high school without a car. Of course when I refuted all the stupid things they said in their mailbag response they didn't bother to publish that follow-up. When that magazine and site went under I had a nice big smile on my face.
Let's see.. with Episode I, and I guess really the prequel trilogy more broadly, one of the friends I was going to see it on premiere night with started talking about Padme, and how she was Luke's mom and all this... and I hadn't even been introduced to the character... I mean I honestly think I would've gotten through Ep I no problem without realizing that was where they were going to go with it, just because she was like, adult-ish and the kid playing anakin looked like he might still wet his bed. It's not really like a major twist or anything, but it's just being robbed of coming to that little realization when you see them getting snuggly in Episode II. Not that those movies had any value in the end... but the general principle applies. TVs/Movies/Novels are all more interesting the less you know what's coming.
I remember back in the day, where you'd have just the one HBO and Showtime, no onscreen program guide, no handy internet television listings... you could flip by one of those movie channels and miss them announcing the title and watch the whole movie without ever knowing what it was called. That was kind of great, not knowing what would come up once all the studio logos went away. No expectations whatsoever, just the movie standing on its own merits.
As Aragorn pointed out, Joe Washington is one of the great all-time spoiler monkeys. He didn't hit me personally too badly, but he did get me with one of his Breaking Bad threads. I got lucky that I just got caught up on Dexter before he hit the scene. OmahaStar took a big spoiler shit on the face of anyone who was participating in the Survivor discussion thread a couple of seasons ago...
One that didn't get me was the Lost finale. I'm glad I didn't fall behind on that show because the finale stuff was everywhere. And lots of posts around here from people who I guess were disappointed with the finale. Weird little rage-quips about it in every random fucking thread on the board.
I don't know, spoilers are one of those issues that really can get to me, and tend to lead to tldr walls of text like this.. I think I've maybe created a dozen topics in all my time on this board and 2-3 were spoiler rage topics
No offense intended, though; I didn't know if I was missing a joke.
captcalhoun said:
Funnily enough, Titanic spoils itself, a bit, with its framing sequences. I mean, it's possible that Jack might survive, I guess, but it ain't likely.
Well it's kinda implied that Jack does survive by the fact that its mentioned Rose was once Rose Dawson, this suggests she and Jack married for a time, and hence both survived, rather than the fact that she just took his name to escape Billy Zane!
Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers.
I was not a fan of fantasy books. I didn't know anything about them at all. Until my brother excitedly pointed out a trailer for the Lord of the Rings I had never heard of it before. I had no idea that it was a very famous set of books.
Flash forward to the Fellowship of the Ring. My brother and I went to see it. He was a fan of the books and very very excited. We watched the film and I loved it. We were gushing over the film during the very cold walk back to the car when I said "It's too bad that wizard guy Gandalf died, I liked him." Without thinking he said "Don't worry, he comes back in the next one" He apologized right away because he realized that he spoiled a huge plot point for me. I was pretty pissed for a bit. Of course the trailer for the Two Towers gave that plot point away anyway so in the end it didn't matter.
I was not a fan of fantasy books. I didn't know anything about them at all. Until my brother excitedly pointed out a trailer for the Lord of the Rings I had never heard of it before. I had no idea that it was a very famous set of books.
Flash forward to the Fellowship of the Ring. My brother and I went to see it. He was a fan of the books and very very excited. We watched the film and I loved it. We were gushing over the film during the very cold walk back to the car when I said "It's too bad that wizard guy Gandalf died, I liked him." Without thinking he said "Don't worry, he comes back in the next one" He apologized right away because he realized that he spoiled a huge plot point for me. I was pretty pissed for a bit. Of course the trailer for the Two Towers gave that plot point away anyway so in the end it didn't matter.
That would be biologically impossible on several counts.
No offense intended, though; I didn't know if I was missing a joke.
captcalhoun said:
Funnily enough, Titanic spoils itself, a bit, with its framing sequences. I mean, it's possible that Jack might survive, I guess, but it ain't likely.
Well it's kinda implied that Jack does survive by the fact that its mentioned Rose was once Rose Dawson, this suggests she and Jack married for a time, and hence both survived, rather than the fact that she just took his name to escape Billy Zane!
Oh? Maybe I'm totally wrong. It has been a while since I've seen it.
I always assumed that Rose just took Jack's name. Either because she felt that as soul mates, they were married in spirit, or as a means of hiding from Cal. Jack died when he sank under the water. That was pretty clear, IMO.
I mean, really. She gives the name Dawson to the immigration officer as soon as she's rescued. How could there be any other interpretation?
I mean, really. She gives the name Dawson to the immigration officer as soon as she's rescued. How could there be any other interpretation?
They always did. No need to romanticize a spoiler-free past you only assume existed.
And hell, I saw PJ's Kong first too, but how could one not know how it ends?
It's weird. You'd think there'd be no such thing as spoilers for classic films, yet, in my experience, there are still plenty of people out there who don't know this stuff.
I saw PSYCHO in a theater several years ago, and I was stunned to realize that there were actually people in the audience who didn't already know that (SPOILER ALERT!) Norman was his own mother. They were genuinely shocked by the twist ending.
So I guess it's conceivable that there are still actually people who don't know about Kong and the Empire State Building . . . as hard as it is to believe!
After about five years or so, though, one should no longer have to take special precautions to avoid spoiling folks, just because they're culturally unaware. And people in the audience for van Sant's Psycho who weren't aware that it was a shot-for-shot remake of Hitchcock's probably fit that bill. (Or was it van Sant's? If it was the original, but being screened somewhere, who were these people who 1)wanted to go see a 50 year old black and white movie yet 2)were not already familiar with one of the most famous 50 year old B+W films there are?)
Now five years is what I think is about right, but there must be some sort of limit, otherwise you get absurd results, like screaming about spoilers whenever someone tells youJesus died for your sins.
Believe it or not, it was a screening of the original b/w PSYCHO on a college campus. Maybe some clueless students just wanted to see a movie for cheap?
I've also heard (from a reliable source) that, at first, Universal didn't want the novelization of the KONG remake to "give away the ending". You know, the bit with the Empire State Building. Thankfully, someone convinced them that was not exactly a deep dark secret . . . .
I'm not sure what the statute of limitations on "classic" spoilers should be. Yeah, it's silly to have to keep quiet about PSYCHO or KING KONG after all these years. On the flip side, however, are those annoying people who see every movie on opening night, and read every new novel or comic book the instant it hits the stands, and assume that "everybody" does the same. "But . . . but the movie opened a week ago! Everybody knows the ending by now!"
I just inadvertently spoiled myself. I haven't read much Star Wars EU stuff, but I've had the Heir to the Empire trilogy on my shelf for years. I'm finally reading it (nearing the end of book two), and read a bit where Han yelled something and the ch'hala trees changed color. I googled ch'hala trees and got spoiled that
Damned curiosity!
they are a part of the Delta Source.
Damned curiosity!
That scene takes place at the end of the movie, and hence is not an in-movie spoiler.
