# The Sixth Sense: Was it spoiled for you before you saw it or no? (SPOILER WARNING) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 6, 2009, 12:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sixth-sense-was-it-spoiled-for-you-before-you-saw-it-or-no-spoiler-warning/505521 "2009-08-06T12:42:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2009, 12:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sixth-sense-was-it-spoiled-for-you-before-you-saw-it-or-no-spoiler-warning/505521/1 "2009-08-06T12:42:43Z")
There are four types of people who have seen _The Sixth Sense_, I find. 1. Those who didn’t have it spoiled for them (in any way) and was surprised at the ending. 2. Those who did have it spoiled and already knew the ending before they watched it (or as they were watching it). 3. Those who didn’t get the ending (spoiled or not) and either had to have it explained to them or “got” it later on. 4. Those who didn’t have it spoiled but figured it out for themselves over the course of watching the movie. Which group are you in? I’m a 2. I had it spoiled (by my own Mom, no less) before I saw it. ---
**Author:** ![MsWhatsit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb8c5e/32.png) [@MsWhatsit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsWhatsit)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2009, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sixth-sense-was-it-spoiled-for-you-before-you-saw-it-or-no-spoiler-warning/505521/2 "2009-08-06T12:48:53Z")
Group 1. I figured out the twist at the end before it was revealed, but only by a couple of minutes or so. It was very surprising to me. I saw the movie fairly early on in its run, and did not even know that there WAS a big twist ending, prior to seeing it. ---
**Author:** ![Southern\_Yankee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/southern_yankee/32/2800_2.png) [@Southern\_Yankee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Southern_Yankee)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2009, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sixth-sense-was-it-spoiled-for-you-before-you-saw-it-or-no-spoiler-warning/505521/3 "2009-08-06T12:49:41Z")
This game is no fun at all. ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2009, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sixth-sense-was-it-spoiled-for-you-before-you-saw-it-or-no-spoiler-warning/505521/4 "2009-08-06T13:01:24Z")
I’m a number 3. I figured it out about halfway through the movie, the restaurant scene. ---
**Author:** ![Wheelz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wheelz/32/5718_2.png) [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2009, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sixth-sense-was-it-spoiled-for-you-before-you-saw-it-or-no-spoiler-warning/505521/5 "2009-08-06T13:05:41Z")
I’m a 2. You know who spoiled it for me? Nathan Lane. He was a guest on Letterman, and during some weird, manic, stream-of-consciuosness rambling that was supposed to be funny, he blurted out something like “and in the Sixth Sense, Bruce Willis is the dead guy!!!” for no apparent reason. Jerk. The film was only about a year old, and I had just procured the DVD but had yet to watch it. :mad: ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2009, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sixth-sense-was-it-spoiled-for-you-before-you-saw-it-or-no-spoiler-warning/505521/6 "2009-08-06T13:07:21Z")
I’m a 1. I tend not to go looking for/expect surprise endings so it came as a complete shock to me. ---
**Author:** ![Koxinga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/4af34b/32.png) [@Koxinga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Koxinga)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2009, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sixth-sense-was-it-spoiled-for-you-before-you-saw-it-or-no-spoiler-warning/505521/7 "2009-08-06T13:12:06Z")
I’m a 1. It made me feel like a bit of rube, too, because in the course of the movie I actually thought to myself: “Gee, the way Bruce Willis is hanging around and watching that kid hit on his wife but not finding the courage to go up and confront them – it’s almost as if he’s acting like a ghost himself!” ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2009, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sixth-sense-was-it-spoiled-for-you-before-you-saw-it-or-no-spoiler-warning/505521/8 "2009-08-06T13:20:01Z")
Between #1 and #3. When the final revelation happened, other people shouted out what had just happened before I had a chance to process it, so it sort of ruined the fun of figuring it out for me. But, having known that there _was_ a twist beforehand, even though I didn’t know what it was, I was able to pinpoint when the twist _started_ – when the caption stated “9 months later”, I thought to myself “whatever happened, or didnt happen, in those 9 months is critical to the ‘twist’. As is the fact that they never showed us what happened to Bruce, because normally they don’t just jump around like that in movies without some explanation.” I just never thought about it more until the end of the movie. ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2009, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sixth-sense-was-it-spoiled-for-you-before-you-saw-it-or-no-spoiler-warning/505521/9 "2009-08-06T13:45:34Z")
#1 here. Note that I don’t feel that not knowing the “twist” is essential to enjoying the film. On at least one occasion I felt the filmmaker didn’t quite play fair-when they’re in the restaurant, and she appears to glare at him. Turns out when I watched the DVD some people were shouting in the background, hence her reaction, but I still think the glare (in retrospect) was a bit of a cheat. ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2009, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sixth-sense-was-it-spoiled-for-you-before-you-saw-it-or-no-spoiler-warning/505521/10 "2009-08-06T13:47:38Z")
Group 1, and I got goosebumps. ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2009, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sixth-sense-was-it-spoiled-for-you-before-you-saw-it-or-no-spoiler-warning/505521/11 "2009-08-06T13:48:58Z")
> [@notfrommensa](#): > > I’m a number 3. I figured it out about halfway through the movie, the restaurant scene. OOPs, misread your ratings, I am number 4. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2009, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sixth-sense-was-it-spoiled-for-you-before-you-saw-it-or-no-spoiler-warning/505521/12 "2009-08-06T13:51:52Z")
I am group 1. The thing is, it’s not enough to not know the ending. I saw it opening weekend and didn’t know there was a twist to be looking for. Because there was no twist and the movie didn’t really seem to be the kind of movie with a “shocking twist ending”, no one in the theater seemed to know or was looking for it. I remember the moment when everyone realized he was dead. Great movie viewing moment. The whole theater gasped and talked to one another at the same time. I’ve never seen another movie do that to a crowd. Too bad M. Night had gotten worse over time. ---
**Author:** ![Mops](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mops/32/16494_2.png) [@Mops](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mops)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2009, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sixth-sense-was-it-spoiled-for-you-before-you-saw-it-or-no-spoiler-warning/505521/13 "2009-08-06T14:19:30Z")
Group 1. I saw a review in the local paper that said something on the order of ‘pay attention to the ending’, but I did not see it coming - I only understood when Willis’ character bends over his sleeping wife, and her breath clouds ---
**Author:** ![Gukumatz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/74df32/32.png) [@Gukumatz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gukumatz)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2009, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sixth-sense-was-it-spoiled-for-you-before-you-saw-it-or-no-spoiler-warning/505521/14 "2009-08-06T14:27:03Z")
Thread moved to Café Society by request. ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2009, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sixth-sense-was-it-spoiled-for-you-before-you-saw-it-or-no-spoiler-warning/505521/15 "2009-08-06T14:27:30Z")
1. but wish I was a 2. so I didn’t have to watch that piece of crap. Dear filmmakers: if your movie sucks up until the last 2 minutes, it is a failure, no matter how good those 2 minutes are. Would’ve been the greatest short film ever but the concept wasn’t enough to carry 2 hours. ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Scud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f08c70/32.png) [@Tom\_Scud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Scud)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2009, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sixth-sense-was-it-spoiled-for-you-before-you-saw-it-or-no-spoiler-warning/505521/16 "2009-08-06T14:28:57Z")
Combo of 1 and 4: I guessed what was going on, but I probably wouldn’t have if I didn’t know there was a secret twist ending. ---
**Author:** ![SciFiSam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/47e85d/32.png) [@SciFiSam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SciFiSam)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2009, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sixth-sense-was-it-spoiled-for-you-before-you-saw-it-or-no-spoiler-warning/505521/17 "2009-08-06T14:30:53Z")
I sort of got spoiled for this film - I wasn’t told what the twist was, but I was told that there was a twist, so I guessed it pretty much straight away. ---
**Author:** ![Raza](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/raza/32/213_2.png) [@Raza](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raza)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2009, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sixth-sense-was-it-spoiled-for-you-before-you-saw-it-or-no-spoiler-warning/505521/18 "2009-08-06T14:31:43Z")
#1. I also did not know there was a twist-ending. In fact, I only rented the movie because of all the good press/award nominations. Before viewing, my impression was that the movie involved (don’t laugh) Willis battling aliens or something. After the ending, Mrs. Raza and I immediately re-watched the whole thing. During the first viewing, I knew there were a few things that were odd, particularly when Willis and the boy’s mother were sitting in her living room awaiting the boy’s return home. And they just sat there, not talking with each other, which I thought really odd. I also didn’t know about the ending of **The Others** , and enjoyed it as well. ---
**Author:** ![randwill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a3d4f5/32.png) [@randwill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/randwill)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2009, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sixth-sense-was-it-spoiled-for-you-before-you-saw-it-or-no-spoiler-warning/505521/19 "2009-08-06T14:35:19Z")
> [@Wheelz](#): > > I’m a 2. You know who spoiled it for me? Nathan Lane. He was a guest on Letterman, and during some weird, manic, stream-of-consciuosness rambling that was supposed to be funny, he blurted out something like “and in the Sixth Sense, Bruce Willis is the dead guy!!!” for no apparent reason. Jerk. > > The film was only about a year old, and I had just procured the DVD but had yet to watch it. :mad: Nathan Lane spoiled it for me too, but he did that on Letterman while the film was still in first run at theaters. ---
**Author:** ![Skara\_Brae](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f0a364/32.png) [@Skara\_Brae](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skara_Brae)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2009, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sixth-sense-was-it-spoiled-for-you-before-you-saw-it-or-no-spoiler-warning/505521/20 "2009-08-06T14:38:03Z")
#1 - I knew there was a twist before I saw it, but while watching the movie, I was so engrossed, I forgot about it. I was floored… [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sixth-sense-was-it-spoiled-for-you-before-you-saw-it-or-no-spoiler-warning/505521.md?page=2)