Worst Spoiler Experience?

[Set Harth]

I remember picking up the CD for The Phantom Menace and reading the tracks on the back...oh, Qui Gon's Funeral!

Actually, Qui-Gon's Noble End. But that was indeed a spoiler.

I was also spoiled for ROTS in 3 ways: Anakin kills Dooku ( spoiled by a family member, no less ); Mace vs. Palpatine; Obi-Wan kills Grievous with a blaster.

Gran Torino was ruined for me because one of my friends posted on his facebook status that Eastwood commits suicide.

Dammit, you just ruined Gran Torino for me!

And arguably, the person who said that he has never forgiven him is a "douche" in my opinion.

The douche is the guy who maliciously spoiled the film after he was repeatedly begged not to. You're blaming the victim.

 

[Robert Maxwell]

Gran Torino was ruined for me because one of my friends posted on his facebook status that Eastwood commits suicide.

Dammit, you just ruined Gran Torino for me!

And arguably, the person who said that he has never forgiven him is a "douche" in my opinion.

The douche is the guy who maliciously spoiled the film after he was repeatedly begged not to. You're blaming the victim.

Me too.

 

[Vendikarr]

I'm a little afraid to read this thread. I'll get something spoiled by accident. (I haven't seen the ending of Lost yet, for example.)

If it happens, the thread itself will be the answer to its own question. Strange thought.

It was all a dream of a little boy named Tommy. He's looking at a snow globe, and inside we see it's the two islands. All the characters were part of his autism-induced imagination.

And that's an ending I could live with.

 

[Alex1939]

Oh I forgot one, I was spoiled that Jadzia Dax would die in DS9.

 

[Aragorn]

Soundtracks are terrible!

I remember picking up the CD for The Phantom Menace and reading the tracks on the back...oh, Qui Gon's Funeral!

Track 14 of the Star Trek: Generations soundtrack is "Kirk's Death."

 

[Forbin]

The 1701-D saucer entering the atmosphere in the trailer for Generations. Made it fucking obvious they were destroying her.

 

[TheSeeker]

^I have to say some of the worst offenders for spoilers are trailers. They just give away too damn much now.

 

[Forbin]

Anybody remember watching TV in the 80s?
"Last week on Hill Street Blues" - and they'd show a wrap up.
"Tonight on Hill Street Blues" - and they'd show every single plot point of the upcoming show. I'd usually feel like I had no reason to watch the rest of the episode!

 

[Robert Maxwell]

^I have to say some of the worst offenders for spoilers are trailers. They just give away too damn much now.

Especially Zemeckis. It seems to be his belief that no one should pay for a movie without knowing exactly what they're gonna get, so his trailers always spoil everything.

 

[Aragorn]

^ He compared movies to eating at McDonald's. McDonald's!!!!

 

[OmahaStar]

Anybody remember watching TV in the 80s?
"Last week on Hill Street Blues" - and they'd show a wrap up.
"Tonight on Hill Street Blues" - and they'd show every single plot point of the upcoming show. I'd usually feel like I had no reason to watch the rest of the episode!

I seem to remember a show that did a wrap up like that, but it showed scenes that weren't in the episode, like it was a recap of another series. It was a comedy series, and I think from the 80s. Police Squad, maybe? Just reminded me of that.

 

[Chocolate Log]

Believe it or not, King Kong. I had never seen the original (blasphemy I know) and a local paper spoiled the ending (building, fall, death e.t.c) in a front page article about the new blockbuster (2005 remake) opening today.
I was on my way to see it.
I haven't bought the paper since (mainly due to a change in editorial policy, but this was the final straw)

 

[Hyperspace05]

Anybody remember watching TV in the 80s?
"Last week on Hill Street Blues" - and they'd show a wrap up.
"Tonight on Hill Street Blues" - and they'd show every single plot point of the upcoming show. I'd usually feel like I had no reason to watch the rest of the episode!

The most annoying trend to me is when some networks show previews for the next episode - right in the middle of the current episode, before it ends!.

Several late episode cliff hangers have been rendered meaningless that way, and basically spoiled how the episode will end by showing scenes from the next one.

 

[RoJoHen]

Throw me into the Sixth Sense camp.

 

[Jack Bauer]

Throw me into the Sixth Sense camp.

About 5 minutes into the movie my Dad goes "Bruce Willis is dead". He hadn't seen the movie or knew the twist before hand but it still spoiled it for me. 9 times out of 10 he'll figure out the killer on CSI or NCIS or any movie so it's hard watching stuff like that with him.

 

[Capt_Pickirk]

Star Trek 2 is a great thing in terms of spoilers. You can tell one of your friends, 'oh it's the one where Spock dies.' and because of the 'death' at the beginning of the movie, they think that you're talking about that

 

[Temis the Vorta]

Oh I forgot one, I was spoiled that Jadzia Dax would die in DS9.

Oh yeah me too. Too much PR about Terry Ferrell leaving, couldn't avoid it all.

 

[Mr. Adventure]

I wasn't explicitly spoiled with The Sixth Sense but just knowing there's a twist I was able to figure it out before the end watching it where I don't know that I would've otherwise.

One recent one I thought was a let down was seeing the A-Team van destroyed in the trailer, it wasn't a major plot point but it ruined the scene.

I haven't seen all of Buffy yet and a lot of the major events in that are liberally tossed out in a lot of threads and articles.

The guy who revealed a plot point of a film or the poster who said that he would never forgive him for revealing said plot point? Personally, I'd say the latter.

As for spoilers, reading what happens and then seeing what actually happens to me are two different things and I don't get bent out of shape if I know something already.

You might not be the best judge because of how you view spoilers but that guy's a douche for not just revealing the plot point but doing so after explicitly being asked not to.

 

[RoJoHen]

I haven't seen all of Buffy yet and a lot of the major events in that are liberally tossed out in a lot of threads and articles.

Well, the show did end 8 years ago.

 

[DeadmeatDiggory]

When I sat down with a friend to watch The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, but friend blurts out in the opening scene: "That's the bad guy" as the dude enters the building to hire Alan Quatermain, thus ruining the big reveal an hour and a half later.

There was also two actor spoilers that ruined movies for me, that still piss me off to this day. Liam Neeson announcing that he was retiring (yeah, right!) from films a month or two before Star Wars Episode I came out (thus revealing that QuiGon wouldn't live past the ending of pt1), and Keanu Reeves flat out revealing that Trinity dies in the Third Matrix, during a Japanese press conference to promote the film. Dicks!