I've Been Spoiled!

[Robert Maxwell]

Back when The Matrix Reloaded came out, there was a meme going around on Slashdot where people would randomly insert into blocks of text:

Spoiler: Matrix Reloaded

"Trinity dies at the end of the Matrix Reloaded."

What made it even funnier was that it wasn't true. Well, it was sort of true, but not really.

I think I even did it a few times, just because I thought it was funny.

 

[TheSeeker]

Not really a spoiler but a friend of mine who went to see Lethal Weapon 2 had this to say as he walked by the people waiting in line to see the next showing:

Spoiler: Lethal Weapon 2

"I can't believe he died!"

A pretty effective prank to play on them since you only find out he lives at the very end as credits roll.

 

[Spot's Meow]

I protect myself from spoilers at all costs if it's something I really care about. So I can't remember being majorly spoiled very often, though I suppose you can count Star Wars because by the time I watched the movies it was common knowledge who Luke's father was.

The only time I can remember in recent history that really pissed me off was when someone on this board spoiled who the winner of the last season of Survivor would be, weeks in advance, and didn't give any warning or use spoiler code. Something like that really ruins the whole season because there is no anticipation or excitement left as to who makes it to the end, which is really the whole point of watching. That was really irritating.

I read all the Harry Potter books as they came out and shut myself away from society for a month until I finished them, so I was never spoiled. But my boyfriend was reading the books for the first time a little while ago and he heard several spoilers that I convinced him were not spoilers at all. Two years ago he heard about

Spoiler: From book 6

Dumbledore's death

and when we went to see one of the movies someone behind us in the theater was telling her friend the entire plot to the last book. In both cases I convinced my boyfriend that the author would be absurd for writing those into her books and that

Spoiler: Books 6 and 7

Dumbledore appears in the last book so obviously he can't be dead, and they've said several times it isn't possible to die and come back to life, so it doesn't happen to Harry.

I said people were just throwing out fake spoilers to trick people. He bought it and was shocked when these events actually did turn out to happen.

 

[Jax]

Spoiler: Worst... Spoiler.... Reveal.... EVER!!

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

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

He so deserved a big ass kicking for that

 

[Trekker4747]

Spoiler: Inception

The fucking top begins to FALL OVER!

 

[DeafPoet]

Spoiler: Inception

The fucking top begins to FALL OVER!

Eh, maybe. I don't know why people have a problem with ambiguous endings. It was obviously written and shot to be that way.

 

[Deckerd]

Someone posted A PICTURE of the Dee thing (will say no more) from BSG, long before it aired in the UK. It was in the Zone so there was no warning or anything. It was the single meanest thing I've ever seen in there.

 

[TheSeeker]

^that sucks.

I actually find the biggest source of spoilers on this board to be avatars. I go out of my way to avoid previews of movies I want to see and then I come here and people are using images from the trailers as their avatar. I find that extremely annoying.

 

[scnj]

Someone posted A PICTURE of the Dee thing (will say no more) from BSG, long before it aired in the UK. It was in the Zone so there was no warning or anything. It was the single meanest thing I've ever seen in there.

Eh. I was downloading them as they aired in the US by that point, after being spoiled on certain events from the end of season 3.

 

[Starbreaker]

I remember reading about the Dee thing, too. I thought it was a powerful scene, though.

 

[JiNX-01]

Thelma and Louise: I didn't care much for the movie itself, but I read about the ending before I had a chance to see it.

 

[Christopher]

For me, some I wish I could get back:

Spoiler: The Usual Suspects

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.

I didn't get spoiled on that, but I saw it coming a mile away when I saw the movie. Well, I was aware that there was a twist ending, so I was primed to question the way things appeared to be, but I found it quite easy to predict the twist. I find it surprising that something so predictable is held up as this great archetypal shock ending.

 

[milo bloom]

While The Sixth Sense was still in theaters, before I saw it, someone online spoiled it for me. When I complained to a friend that had seen it, she laughed it off and said that wasn't it. So imagine my surprise when I finally saw the movie.

 

[JarodRussell]

For me, some I wish I could get back:

Spoiler: The Usual Suspects

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.

I didn't get spoiled on that, but I saw it coming a mile away when I saw the movie. Well, I was aware that there was a twist ending, so I was primed to question the way things appeared to be, but I found it quite easy to predict the twist. I find it surprising that something so predictable is held up as this great archetypal shock ending.

Hm... I think that all endings are predictable when you know that there is a twist.