I remember after I went and saw Peter Jackson’s King Kong, and I was telling a friend of mine how hard I cried when he died at the end.
She threw her hands over her ears and yelled “Don’t tell me how it ends!!!”
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A friend’s 16-year-old granddaughter told me how shocked she was when, in Titanic, the boat sank and lots of people died. This girl was an honors student in high school, but she’d never heard of the Titanic, and she wasn’t prepared for an unhappy ending.
I went to see The Aviator at the theatre. Some teen girls were sitting in front of me.
“So, what happened to the guy? was he, like, okay after?”
“What was his problem anyway?”
Sigh.
I first saw Psycho (or rather part of it) the worst way possible. My local TV station was showing it as its early afternoon (1 pm to 3 pm) movie and I, having just got home from school, tuned in at 2:45 so I could watch the Looney Toons cartoon show that started when the film ended. Of course in those last 15 or so minutes of Psycho we find out spoiler Norman’s mother is dead and he’s been keeping her preserved corpse; (2) Norman and his mother shared the cranial space; and (3) Norman (as his mother) was responsible for all the murders.[/spoiler] When I finally saw the complete movie from start to finish a few years later, I wasn’t shocked by any of it.
That was me! heh. And I still insist that it wasn’t a spoiler, not only because the books are fifty years old, but for the simple fact that they showed Gandalf returning in the freakin’ TV commercials! If it’s in their promotional materials, it’s not a spoiler, plain and simple.
I was sitting watching the movie with my wife. The lifeboats were all gone and Rose & Jack are hanging on the stern as it’s quickly going under.
I looked at my wife and said “Oh my gosh, they’re both going to die!”
I seemed to have forgotten the scenes with the oceanographers.
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[li]Sunset Boulevard (the musical). My wife and daughter were genuinely shocked when Joe was shot.[/li][/QUOTE]
I take it the musical doesn’t begin the same way the movie does?
Back in 97, when Baz Luhrmann remade Romeo and Juliet one of the faces on TV here was talking about the movie, and said that she was disappointed in the ending, because they should have lived happily ever after.
For the 'strayans playing at home, it was Tottie Goldsmith.
I was gonna post that :mad:
I think so, but even when the film came out, the person in the pool was not revealed and could easily give the impression it was someone else, especially since you generally assume the narrator makes it to the end.
I was another person who didn’t know Gandalf would A: die (apparently) in the first movie and B: come back in the second one. It was like being a little kid watching those movies – “oh my god, no!” and then a year later, “oh my god, yay!” I didn’t know Boromir would die either. I was under the impression these nine fellas got together and trooped across Lands of Adventure to get rid of the ring. I was surprised when the Fellowship was dissolved at the end of the first movie. I am an enormous geek in many ways, but I never was a Tolkein fiend.
Vaguely related:
Discussion over dinner amongst a group of friends about doing something after dinner–like playing games.
Person A: Says something about being in the middle of watching a movie.
Person B: Says “Yeah, but we know how it ends”
Person C: says “No, you don’t: You know how the third one ends”
Pause.
Exchange of baffled looks. It is then clarified that persons A and B were watching Sunset Boulevard and knew how it ended (better than I did when I watched it live on Broadway–I was shocked when Joe died. I’d been expecting Norma.)
Person C, on the other hand, was assuming that the Star Wars geeks at the table were thinking about the ending of The Phantom Menace, which was not quite out in theaters yet.