Worst Spoiler Experience?

[Greg Cox]

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

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!

 

[captcalhoun]

what got me was people not knowing the frigging ship sinks in Titanic...

 

[Greg Cox]

what got me was people not knowing the frigging ship sinks in Titanic...

Please tell me you're not serious!

 

[Sephiroth]

^my worst experience? The 6th Sense, ppl walking out of the theater discussing the twist ending

 

[Satyrquaze]

I recall in high school some of my aquaintences completly ruining Alien 3 for me. Luckily it was a crap film.

 

[Gaith]

After watching the Rome S1 ep "Caesarion", I made the mistake of looking that same name up on Wikipedia, and was thus spoiled to find that little Octavian would kill him.

I was then pleasantly surprised to find the show contradicting that!

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

Wow. What a douche.

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.

The guy who revealed the plot point. He clearly took pleasure in ruining the movie for someone.

All I had to know was that "there's a surprise twist in 'The Sixth Sense'" to recognize it as soon as Willis was shot. It was unavoidable.

 

[Myasishchev]

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

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 you

Spoiler: New Testament

Jesus died for your sins.

 

[Skellington]

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 you

Spoiler: New Testament

Jesus died for your sins.

I wish that people would stop blurting that out. Anyway, they keep neglecting to mention the real spoiler, which is of course that

Spoiler: New Testament spoiler

it only lasts for three days!

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

Jesus stayed about as dead as a Marvel superhero.

 

[Sindatur]

Jesus stayed about as dead as a Marvel superhero.

Wow Man, you didn't even spoiler it

(Yes...Yes...I did push the other spoiler buttons and read them...SO?)

 

[Candlelight]

Spoiler - the Earth is round.

 

[Temis the Vorta]

After watching the Rome S1 ep "Caesarion", I made the mistake of looking that same name up on Wikipedia, and was thus spoiled to find that little Octavian would kill him.

I was then pleasantly surprised to find the show contradicting that!

Love those "historical" shows that still throw in surprise twists. Like The Tudors. Screw history, nobody knows how it really went, anyway.

Oh that reminds me, somebody told me that "one of the crew dies" in Nemesis. Well it took me three seconds to guess that it was the one crew member they could bring back if they ever made another TNG movie. They even introduced Data's replacement before killing him off! Make it a little more obvious, please.

 

[RoJoHen]

Spoiler - the Earth is round.

Prove it.

 

[Sindatur]

Spoiler - the Earth is round.

Link Please

 

[Joel_Kirk]

OK, by definition this thread is going to contain spoilers for lots of things [assuming anyone replies lol] so reader beware!!!

Here's the question -- in your time as a fan, what is the biggest regret you have about having read/seen a spoiler for something? The thing that as soon as you knew it, you said to yourself "Frak! I wish I didn't know that!"

For me, it was the classic blurb in Starlog magazine referencing the stolen script for ST:TMP that said, w/o warning, that V'ger was Voyager... I read it in utter disbelief that they'd printed it, and was instantly really angry. This was in the infancy of spoilers and I had never dreamed they'd print something like that and blithely read along until it was too late. I watched my friends in the theater figuring it out and got even madder that I'd never had the chance.

To be honest, it still pisses me off three decades later.

So what was yours?

When someone posted on the internet (back in 1980) that Darth Vader was Luke's father...

There was no suprise when I saw the film in 81'...

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On a serious note, movies, some trailers, and marketing photos today give so much away....where you kind of get an idea of what a film will be before it is even released.

 

[Aragorn]

If Citizen Kane were made today, the sled would be front and center on the poster. Right next to the floating heads of Ashton Kutcher, Taylor Lautner, Mandy Moore and Jessica Alba.

 

[Gaith]

If Citizen Kane were made today, the sled would be front and center on the poster. Right next to the floating heads of Ashton Kutcher, Taylor Lautner, Mandy Moore and Jessica Alba.

Those damn kids - when will they get off your lawn?!

 

[Joel_Kirk]

^^
Off-topic question which I hope won't throw of the thread: Rosebud was the sled, or the woman; Kane's wife? (It's been awhile since I've seen the film).

 

[Myasishchev]

^^
Off-topic question which I hope won't throw of the thread: Rosebud was the sled, or the woman; Kane's wife? (It's been awhile since I've seen the film).

Serious question? Rosebud was the sled (and, metaphorically, his childhood, and, moreso, innocence and happiness).