I watched the last episodes of Angel without DH, and had forgotten he hadn’t seen them when I casually mentioned that several weeks later, I was still really PO’d about a certain character’s death.
Yeah, I’m with you. I don’t give a damn about spoilers in books, I used to be downright criminal about checking the last page to see who lived before starting the book.
The older I get the more I enjoy being surprised. I don’t skip ahead in books any more and I’d rather not be spoiled for tv/movies.
All the same, people who freak out about spoilers irritate me a little. If you’re gallivanting around reading about a piece of media that you’ve yet to read/watch, you should accept the risks of spoilage or hie thee to the bookstore/theatre posthaste.
My best friend’s family still takes strips out of her hide over the time they decided to watch The Perfect Storm. Corn was popped, VHS in the deck, Why are we watching this? Everyone dies.Mind you, this was years after the release of the film.
I am with Athena … I don’t care about spoilers either. I can deal with knowing what happens, I am another re-reader/rewatcher. And like Athena I prefer character driven writing rather than plot driven ones.
Yeah, back when “The Passion of the Christ”, someone asked me if I was going to go see it, and I said “Nah… I know the ending- he gets resurrected”, and I got evil looks like I’d given away the ending of “The Usual Suspects”, or the interesting part of “The Sixth Sense”.
The mind boggles…
Arghh! I just realized I messed up the spoiler tag on my post!
Two non-spoilers that made some people unhappy:
1)Got back from seeing Titanic and my mother (who also enjoys having endings spoiled. There are some people like that!) asked me what happened at the end. “The ship sinks,” I said. Got a big ole :::eyeroll::: from mom.
2)I had seen The Village a week before I went out with someone to see another movie. She asked if I thought The Village was good and I said, “No way! It totally sucked.” Dude in front of me at the ticketbooth turns around and say, “Great. I just bought tickets for The Village. Thanks, man.”
I was staying with friends. Most of the DVDs were the wife’s. I.e., chick flicks. What the hell I thought, I’m bored, I’ll watch Steel Magnolias. Just at the point where Julia Roberts mentions casually she has a doctor’s appointment, Susan passes through the room, and says, “Oh this movie is sooooooooooo sad! Poor Julia!” Now granted, SM isn’t the best movie in the world. But if you already know what’s gonna happen, then there’s NO reason to watch it at all.
Same week, same friends house, I’m watching Sliding Doors. Susan, stops to watch for a moment: “Oh, this is before you find out she’s pregnant!” Eject.
Reprimanded is too strong a word. Reminded to err on the side of caution is more like it.
My worst one though was when Se7en was in the theaters. I was in the next theater over, and I wandered the the theater playing Se7en to sneak in and see it for free. I opened the door just in time to see the opening of the box.
Yeah, but that happens so often you could just play it off like you were talking about one of the other times.
I get really annoyed by spoilers. I love the tension of not knowing what’s going to happen next, and trying to put together the clues to see if I can figure it out for myself before the big reveal. So having someone take that away by casually revealing a major plot point is a HUGE pisser.
Which is why I de-friended an acquaintance on Facebook with extreme prejudice after she watched the Dexter finale and updated her status with:
RIP Rita Morgan. Dexter won’t be the same without you.
Seriously, who in the hell does stupid crap like that? I was two episodes behind at that point, so I had absolutely no reason to see that ending coming. Grrrr.
Years ago someone on this board got all bent at me for “revealing” that Gandalf reappears in The Two Towers. Got pitted over it, too. I maintain to this day that, since Gandalf appeared in the TV ads, it’s not a spoiler.
To me, half the fun of watching movies is guessing the plot points as we go along. My friends and I race to see who can nail it first. This is especially annoying to people who are new to the group and don’t realize we don’t ‘know’ we’re just guessing. Loudly. and competitively.
Like watching “Sixth Sense” with a large group, as soon as I saw the red doorknob I announced Oh! He’s a ghost!
Two people actually left the room and spent the next hour grumbling together in the kitchen.
I’m in the Army, and back in '96 or so I was in the South American jungle. My team had been there for about a eight weeks. We got mail once or twice a week and were anxiously awaiting a VHS tape from my buddy’s wife. She’d recorded the fight between up-and-coming Andrew Golota and Riddick Bowe. It was about two weeks after the fight and we’d avoided the little bit of live TV (especially sports) that was available to us. We didn’t even read newspaper sports pages so as not to be spoiled.
The supply aircraft arrived and my buddy excitedly tells me “It’s here!”
Some asshat bystander, who’d arrived only a few days earlier (but did know that we’d been there for months) asked “What’d you get?”
Ray: “My wife sent me the Bowe vs. Golota fight. I’ve been waiting to see this for weeks.”
Asshat: “Man, I still can’t believe Golota got disqualified for those low blows in the seventh. And he was beating his ass too. And the riot afterward…wow!”
Me and Ray: :mad:
I still say we exercised considerable restraint in not kicking his stupid butt all over the camp.
My friends, who were dating at the time, pulled one of the great false spoilers of all time. On opening day, they went to the very first showing of “Return Of The Jedi” (no Thursday/Friday midnight showings back then), and, while walking past the line waiting to see the next show, the girl sobbed:
“I can’t believe they killed Luke!”
…for all to hear. Man, people were pissed.
In college, I had avoided any spoilers for The Sixth Sense. I wanted to see it and everyone was talking about the twist but I made sure not to hear that.
Then i went to class. The second person presenting his paper got up and revealed the entire gorram twist in front of everyone. Ismacked my head (and I was sitting in front, so everyone saw it) and yelled out, “Dammit!”. Well, everyone laughed about it and he had the best Deer in the Headlights look - apparently he never considered that somebody might not have seen it.
I let a few years go by (though I have a VERY good memory) and finally saw it. I probably would have picked up on something being “off” but not the specific twist. The “Mom in the Red Dress” scene would have been worth the entire price of admission: absolutely fantastic direction there, and almost no talking in the entire sequence.
I was standing in line with a friend to rent a movie and saw that the couple in front of us was going to rent “Dead Poets Society”. Without thinking, I said to my friend, "I loved that movie…I can’t believe that guy shot himself at the end! My friend elbowed me in the ribs and I felt terrible! I don’t know if the couple heard me or not.
Who does this, you ask? My mother, who ruined the finale of Top Chef by posting her dissatisfaction with the winner as her Facebook status.
I was working at a video store, and one thing that had come out was Jacob’s Ladder. It was so popular that I had to wait a couple of months to see it.
One night a guy came in with his kid, and they were returning that movie. I said “Great, I’ve been wanting to watch this for a long time! I think I’ll take it home tonight and watch it.”
The kid said
“But it’s so stupid! It turns out that the guy was dead the whole time!”
So I murdered the kid right there. His father lent a hand.
People just got mad at Rainn Wilson on Twitter for expressing excitement over the fact that (minor casting spoil that’s already in the adverts but since he got in trouble I’ll put it in the spoiler box)
Kathy Bates is going to be the new boss
To his credit, Rainn told them to get a grip.