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I've Been Spoiled!

Starbreaker

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Okay, my third and final thread in here for the day. I'm feeling adventurous. :lol:

What's the worst spoiler (intentional or not) that you've ever come across, and wish you hadn't? Did it ruin the episode/book/movie for you?

For me, some I wish I could get back:

Verbal is Keyser Soze
Totally ruined the movie for me. I didn't enjoy it for a second. I saw that exact phrase on a T-shirt, and remembered it.

The reveal that is was a flash forward
I read it on a website. I wish I had been more patient, because that was a big WTF moment.
 
Hmmm one spoiler was slightly amusing to me ....

Dumbledore dies! Page xxx

I saw several girls wearing t-shirts with that phrase in huge font at Dragon*Con a few years ago. I thought it was funny - since I'd already read the book. Others, not so much..
 
Being spoiled about the Crying Game before I saw it. Still enjoyed the film, but it might have been a more interesting, um, "twist" if I hadn't known.
 
OmahaStar said:
Hmmm one spoiler was slightly amusing to me ....

Dumbledore dies! Page xxx

I saw several girls wearing t-shirts with that phrase in huge font at Dragon*Con a few years ago. I thought it was funny - since I'd already read the book. Others, not so much..
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That one produced a real shitstorm in my circle of friends. Several of us were HP fans and when the 6th book was released a friend of mine couldn't read it immediately and knowing there was a huge event in it she stayed away from news and other potentially dangerous areas until she had time to read it.

Now we all get together in our own Irc Channel (a chat system amongst others) when one guy, in a dick mood apparently, spoilered that and all hell broke loose. She was really sad and upset to be spoilered and he just shrugged shoulders and said big deal. One of the worst dick moves i experienced personally since he knew the effort she put in to remain unspoiled.

Personally i don't know if it means that much to me to be spoilered.. it's just entertainment to me however i also believe that some moments wouldn't have been as effective if i knew what was ahead.

The first death in the movie Serenity was accidentally spoilered to me in a movie forum but the second one wasn't and it hit so much harder.. i really gasped out lout in the theatre and cried "No!..." which is really unusual for me. The 1st season finale of BSG was also one big hit.. my jaw literally dropped for a few moments.
 
The all-time absolute spoiler reveal for me came back in 1983 when some friends of mine and I were on a Saturday night all-night camping trip.

We had plans to go see a certain movie the following afternoon.

A certain movie that one of our chaperones had already seen the previous night.

We couldn't resist asking if the movie was any good and he replied...

"It was great! I still can't believe that Darth Vader is Luke's father!!!"

I kid you not!!! He actually said that!

Only the fact that he was the uncle of one of the guys on the trip, prevented us from chopping him into little bitty bits and burying him alive! We've never let him forget it though, even to this day!!

To this day it still cheeses me off, too!!! :scream:
 
YANA as the Master

I long for the old days, no internet, few magazines. Earth shattering stuff was really a surprise.
 
I didn't care for The Rosie O'Donnell Show, so I have no idea why I was even watching it (it might've been what was on the channel when I turned on the TV), but she had just watched Fight Club and hated it, so she went out of her way to bash it during her opening monologue. She was also annoyed by the twist at the end and how it supposedly didn't make any sense, and while she didn't come right out and say what it was, she did compare it to The Sixth Sense and said:

"Bruce Willis and Toni Collette never meet."

As soon as she said that it was really easy to figure out the twists of both movies. So I hadn't seen Fight Club or Sixth Sense and Rosie spoiled both for me.
 
Shannon's death.

Compared with a lot of the Lost twists, that one was pretty much a big so-what.

My worst spoiler experiences have been with Dexter, which finally convinced me to subscribe to Showtime and not wait for the DVDs!

Totally spoiled most of S1 - the prosthetics guy is the killer, and he's also Dexter's brother - didn't know whether Deb lived or died, though, so that made the final episode fun.

Spoiled that Dexter's dumping grounds in the bay had been discovered. From an interview with the actor who played Doakes, I inferred that Doakes doesn't survive the season, but I'd have guessed that just watching the show anyway.

Spoiled that Dexter kills someone by accident/self-defense in the premiere episode and that Rits is pregnant.

Fortunately, I was not spoiled on the big S4 ending twist. That justified the ole Showtime subscription. :D

How about faux spoilers? I had the weird impression before I saw B5 that Ivanova dies.
 
New York is not going to be nuked.

For me, it was the producers themselves who spoiled Heroes for me. Its lesson 101 in producing a show. If the hook for drawing viewers to your television show is going to be "Will New York City be nuked?", then don't repeatedly show New York City being nuked throughout the season. By the time I saw my third budget blowing nuclear explosion before the mid-season episode, I could already guess New York will be saved.

Heroes quickly became boring because I knew the remaining episodes would be spent getting all the heroes to New York. I was only left with figuring out who is going to prevent the explosion at the very last second, and again I made the right guess. *yawn*
 
The blurb on the back of the Bantam edition of Edgar Rice Burrough's "Tarzan the Terrible", which shamelessly gives away what is supposed to be a surprise at the book's conclusion.
 
Bruce Willis was dead. My friend casually told me one day, about a few weeks after the film had came out.

I still enjoyed the movie, but I consider one of life's great mysteries if I would've been smart enough to figure out.
 
I was spoiled on the other big twist in The Sixth Sense, and it toally blew my mind.

That the guy in the hairpiece was Bruce Willis the whole time. :lol:
 
Can it be sporting event?

If yes, it was the night Michael Phelps was going for the record 8th gold medal and I was watching a preseason football game. Stupid NBC wouldn't show the event live to the west coast, so I figured, what the hell surely they're not going to talk about the Olympics during this preseason 49er game so I'll be ok. Sure enough, about 20 minutes in, the announcer pretty much said that he had succeeded and that really pissed me off.
 
Aragorn said:
The VHS and DVD cover for the original Planet of the Apes has THE ENDING on it.
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The problem with such an iconic spoiler is that they assume everyone already knows what happens, and thus don't bother trying to hide it. Even if you've never seen the movies, who doesn't know who Luke's Father is, or what Charles Foster Kane's dying word meant? They're so parodied that most of the time they're spoiled for people even if they have no idea what it comes from.
 
I've got the same story as Starbreaker on "Through The Looking Glass." It was really my own damn fault though, I knew what I was reading. I just couldn't help myself. Bit of a silver lining: it made me swear off Lost spoilers for the duration. Sadly, they didn't have another trick quite that huge in their bag for me to experience fresh.
 
I was about to watch "The Other Guys" with Wahlberg, The Rock, Jackson and Ferrell, when someone told me:

The Rock and Jackson jump to their deaths right in the beginning.
 
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