The Spoilers Thread – Spoilers!

Oh, so it was Kevin Spacey all along!

I knew Donna was Susan. I KNEW it!!

And who would ever have thought that Voldemort would end up killing Hermione like that??? I mean…THREE TIMES?? And he didn’t even sharpen it??? Brutal.

This reminds me of that text track on the last disk on the Bodysnatcher Collection. I found it quite amusing, then I suddenly realized some of the spoilers were for films I actually hadn’t seen…

Oh for a bucket, water, nipple clamps and some electric current. And possibly a large nobbly sponge-like object…. ;}

It’s worth noting that RTD still has opportunity to use the ‘it was all a dream’ ending. It dissolves to Tennant’s grinning face, slowly zooms out to reveal he’s in a hot tub with Billie, Freema, Tate and Barrowman. Suddenly distracted he looks over to the side saying ‘Mum, I’ve just cleaned that sun lounger!’ pan over to Lis Sladen felating a real dog K9 while Christopher Eccleston takes her firmly from behind yelling ‘Fantastic!’

Or is that just my dream…?

> (yes, saw it on DVD recently, and BLOODY FANTASTIC it was as well)

I thought it was technically brilliant, but pretty shite writing.

Crikey – goggling a version of Seb’s post (“knocked off a bridge, one explodes, one helicopter, one bitten in half, two blown up by army”) actually found me the answer to that one!

Even seeing it in the cinema, I didn’t recognise the description…

X Files spoiler- the aliens did it.

Turns out it’s a hula-hoop. You know, for the kids.

Where were you guys when I was writing that bloody commentary track?!

I haven’t and now it’s been spoiled. The irony.

I’m still saving series’ 2 and 3 with the track on for a rainy day.

I think we’ve experienced this period of time before.

And that one.

AAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGH!!!

I have problems with that scene now…

However,

(how many people actually watched all three series with that track on, then? I did?)

I DID!

I would have if I wasn’t bored.

I didn’t guess that he was dead all along. Personally I think most people who say they knew straightaway had already had the ending blown for them and were just trying to be clever. You’ve got to admit it soon became common knowledge that he was a ghost. It IS one of the best twists of all time. I thought the similar twist at the end of The Others was also pretty good.

I really wish I had been in the audience of the first screening of Empire Strikes Back. ‘Obi-Wan never tollllld you what happened to your father…’ Sadly I saw Jedi WAY before I saw either ANH or ESB. That particular twist is only really any good if you only consider the first two movies. In retrospect it’s a bit full of itself. Luke’s reaction is close to breaking the fourth wall. ‘Noooooooo!’ is what the audience’s reaction is rather than what Luke’s should be.

The Happening is the worst of his I’ve seen so far. It’s not the lack of twist a clever twist that let’s it down, it’s the dialogue, acting, plotting… actually just about everything.

I’ve never actually seen Sixth Sense. I was all set to when Chris Moyles thought it would be really funny to reveal the ending whilst the film was still playing at cinemas.

I disagree with the consensus about Lady in the Water. It worked for me as a gentle, but dark children’s fairytale.

> I didn?t guess that he was dead all along. Personally I think most people who say they knew straightaway had already had the ending blown for them and were just trying to be clever.

I genuinely guessed the twist in the Sixth Sense from the trailer.

> I genuinely guessed the twist in the Sixth Sense from the trailer.

I see this experience as a statistical inevitability – if 100 people see the trailer knowing there’s ‘a twist’ and they all take a guess at what it might be, at least one will guess correctly.

I have a friend who guessed it in the cinema at about the 40 minute mark…and told her guess to the friends she was watching with. The logic being that nobody would believe she’d guessed it if she waited until the end of the film and just told them ‘I figured it out ages ago’. Better, apparently, that EVERYONE gets the experience ruined…

It’s a good screenplay, well-constructed, so inevitably the solution is there from the start. Some people are very tuned in to that. Me, I kinda…try not to think that way when I’m watching. Films are a ride, and I’m generally happy to be taken.

>Cheers I?ll check later out later and add you to my RSS aggregator.

Good luck getting updates ;-)

> Oh it?s a dead blog then?

Yeah, I packed it in long ago, I’m afraid!

>I?m exactly the same – with films, telly, anything. I try not to predict what?s coming up, because I?m generally busy enjoying the moment.

Yeah, and anyone who tries to TELL you their predictions whilst you’re watching something is a pain in the fucking arse.

Yeah, and anyone who tries to TELL you their predictions whilst you?re watching something is a pain in the fucking arse.

3:09 into this.

>I also watched The Wickerman for the first time yestrday.

Which version? And what did you think?

You have to watch the original asap