I take this opportunity to pit the dumbass waitress at Don Pablo’s, who spoiled the movie Hide and Seek for me tonight. My wife and I used to go out to movies all the time, until we had children. Now we go out to movies about once or maybe twice a year.
Tonight we had arranged for my mom to watch the kids so that we could go to dinner and a movie. At dinner, we mentioned to the waitress that we were going to the movies. When she asked us what film, we told her Hide and Seek, to which she says:
Isn’t that the one with Robert DeNiro? Doesn’t he play the bad guy?
Well, I wouldn’t know. I HAVEN’T SEEN IT YET!
I was hoping that she didn’t know either, that she had gotten it wrong, or something. I kept willing the film to go in a different direction. But nope, that was that. Not that it was impossible to have seen it coming, but still…
While that is very jerkish, I would hope that the movie could hold up knowing that, since the trailers seem to imply it in some cases, and flat out show you that in others.
I was listening to a talk radio program some years back, and they spoiled The Sixth Sense for me. Granted, it was a bit after its release, but it was not yet consigned to video or cable…
Same deal with books. A gazillion years ago, I was reading Of Mice and Men, and a friend asked “Did you get to the part where he kills the dog?” Um, no, I hadn’t… grrrrr
The best spoiler I ever heard was The Sixth Sense on a train trip. There was a bunch of teenagers sitting behind me and one was recommending the movie to his friends, “The ending is a real surprise.” One of the other kids piped up and said, “I’ve seen it. What surprise?” Then after a moment he said “Oh, you mean that he was dead.” all the others groaned and began abusing him. He defended himself by saying,“You know he’s dead all along - he would have bled to death when the guy shot him at the start.” I was kind of intrigued by his concrete viewing of the movie - he just assumed next time you see Malcolm Crowe, he is dead.
Funny thing about The Sixth Sense is that for awhile I thought the writer spoiled it for me. Remember his Oscar (I think it was Oscar) acceptance speech? He said something along the lines of:
Some kid came up to me and said, “Dude, I get it! The mother’s dead, right?” And I just said, “Yeah, man”.
And I was like, "Ack! You fool, I haven’t seen it yet! Why did you just spoil your own movie?!? I told a friend and she just smiled and told me to rent the damn thing.
Wait, we’re in the pit, aren’t we? Then yes, that waitress was a dumb whore.
My ex-husband spoiled The Sixth Sense for me. That contributed directly to our divorce. To be fair, though, his asshole friend had told him the twist, and he really didn’t know it was supposed to be a big deal. I still coulda killed him.
I did, however, get to see The Crying Game unspoiled. Me—> :eek:
I usually ASK people to spoil movies for me, especially scary ones, but I would be furious if someone spoiled it for me without my asking them to! In the particular movie in the OP, I wouldn’t actually consider that a spoiler, because it’s a question, and it sort of comes across as though the waitress wasn’t sure she had the right movie in mind. On the other hand, she DID put the question into your mind, which means you were probably tuned in to the answer sooner than you wanted to be.
I hate it, hate it, hate it when someone spoils a movie for me, and Hide & Seek was recently spoiled for me:
In the damn preview!! Argh! They said something along the lines of: “with a twist you’ll never see coming!” then you hear Robert DeNiro softly saying “Come out, come out, wherever you are!” I mean COME ON! I was in the kitchen, simply listening to the television, and I went “WHAT … THE… FUCK? Well, there goes the movie for me!” Cheeerist on a cheese doodle.
Then an ex spoiled “Unbreakable” for me. He says:
“Okay, this is a movie you have to see, but you can’t know what the twist is. You can’t even know that there’s a twist, or you’ll guess it.” I can’t be the only one who would immediately start putting the clues together, however involuntarily. “Hmm… all I know if the movie is called Unbreakable. There is a twist I shouldn’t even know about, and yet all I know is the title… oh. Well damn. There goes THAT movie’s secret.”
I had a roommate in college who saw the Crying Game and said “It was good, but what was the twist everyone was talking about?” I told her and she said:
“WHAT? Who couldn’t tell that was a man?!?!” I had to laugh because I thought the exact same thing.
Yeah, my partner and i were really pissed about that. They’ve shown a few different trailers now, and if you’ve seen them all i reckon that some of the key aspects of the movie have been given away. I now have no interest in paying to see this film; i hope the movie studio and the advertising people are happy.
Well, I wouldn’t necessarily know the second sentence was supposed to be a surprise going into the movie. Of course, I wouldn’t see that movie anyway, since it looks incredibly routine and I’m tired of previews with children whispering earnestly.
Yes! That’s why I hate spoiler boxes. Even though I haven’t seen Hide and Seek, and I know I want to eventually, I just had to highlight that fucking box! :rolleyes: Oh well.
You’d probably realize it was spoiled as the movie got under way though. (I haven’t seen it, I’m just assuming that fact is a “surprise twist” at the end of the film.)
To be fair to the waitress, she didn’t sound very sure about what she was saying. Just because she thinks that person is “the bad guy”, doesn’t mean he is. She could easily have been mixing it around with another film - it’s not like he’s never played a “bad guy” before.
I already know the “twist” to that movie and it was just so remarkably stupid, with a big plot hole in it. Like, why didn’t the daughter tell anyone about how strangely her father was acting? It would have made so much more sense if “Charlie” had been the mother’s paramour; then it would have actually made sense that the daughter was going along with him. Such a small change to the plot, but it would have made a better, more solid story. Less lurid though, so I guess that’s why they did it the way they did.
