The Spoilers Thread – Spoilers!

[Pete Part Three]

Woah, I can’t believe Bruce Willis is a ghost.

And Luke and Leia are brother and sister? Ewww.

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[Ian Symes]

Oh, so it was Kevin Spacey all along!

[Phil]

The big reveal at the end of Matrix 3 is that even the first film sucked.

[pfm]

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.

[Seb Patrick]

Aliens? Seriously?

[ChrisM]

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…. ;}

[Danny Stephenson]

.. and it was all a dream.

From what I remember. One anime series actually had that as the ending, and although I was too young to realise how much of a cop out idea that was the anime itself as brilliant. Well, at least I remember it being brilliant.

[pfm]

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…?

[Seb Patrick]

One gets knocked off a bridge, one explodes, one makes it out on a helicopter, one gets bitten in half, two get blown up by the army.

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

[Jonathan Capps]

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

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

[Smeg4Brains]

> One gets knocked off a bridge, one explodes, one makes it out on a helicopter, one gets bitten in half, two get blown up by the army.

I don’t think I’ve seen that version of 101 Dalmatians.

[Andrew]

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…

[Pete Part Three]

I thought it was Short Cicuit!

[peas_and_corn]

X Files spoiler- the aliens did it.

[Pete Part Three]

Even the Priests died.

[Jonathan Capps]

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

[Ian Symes]

Oh, so it was Edward Norton all along!

[Pete Part Three]

They all die apart from him and the girlfriend.

[pfm]

He comes in her face. Who woulda thunk?

[Andrew]

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

[Seb Patrick]

I would GLADLY have helped. GLADLY.

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

[Dave]

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

[Jonathan Capps]

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

Ian, Mick and I got through a fair old chunk in one weekend.

[pfm]

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

[Seb Patrick]

Ooh, you cheeky monkey.

[Pete Part Three]

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

[Andrew]

And that one.

[Danny Stephenson]

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!

[Smeg4Brains]

> Woah, I can?t believe Bruce Willis is a ghost.

I think most people worked this one out 10 mins into the film.

[peas_and_corn]

I would have if I wasn’t bored.

[Andrew]

> I think most people worked this one out 10 mins into the film.

I don’t think this is even remotely true. The film didn’t become a box office smash, develop a career-defining structure, and end up a cultural touchstone because most people guessed the ending well in advance.

Whatever the guy’s subsequent flaws as a filmmaker – and The Happening is a nadir that would have killed the summer if Indy 4 hadn’t got there first – I don’t think ‘predictability’ is a reasonable change to level at that movie.

[pfm]

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.

[Pete Part Three]

Well, I knew…but only because it had been ruined for me by the time I saw it (on Rental rather than the cinema). I doubt I’d have guessed…but we’ll never know.

Still a great ending.

Sadly, M. Night Shyamalan’s batting average goes down with each subsequent piece of shit he releases. Unbreakable was good, Signs was worrying(!), The Village was dull (now THAT twist was obvious) and The Lady in the Water was…. (a word has yet to be invented that would describe it adequately).

I’m not exactly eager to see The Happening.

[Tarka Dal]

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.

[Andrew]

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

I liked a lot of it. Lots of well-directed tense moments, and Paul Giamatti’s great in it. It’s an okay film that needed a further script draft, really. But it’s not the career-killer it’s made out to be:

http://beforemyeyes.blogspot.com/2006/08/lady-in-big-shirt.html

[Zombie Jim Undead]

> 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.

[Tarka Dal]

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

I can’t remember having Lady in the Water having much of a twist either from memory. I’ve got it out from Lovefilm at the moment just need time to watch it again. I actually saw the band that feature in it live a few years ago.

[Andrew]

> 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.

[John Hoare]

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.

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.

Of course, if something is God-awful, then your attention wanders, and I start trying to guess what happens next. But then the problem there is that your mind wandered in the first place because you were bored.

[Seb Patrick]

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

Good luck getting updates ;-)

[Tarka Dal]

Oh it’s a dead blog then? Spreaking of aggregators – Hurry up and finish that article you’re writing! I want to know if it’s worth dropping bloglines for Igoogle + Google reader.

[Andrew]

> Oh it?s a dead blog then?

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

[ChrisM]

I had the ending of Sixth sense spoiled by a comedy show… I think it was the 11 o Clock show, but I’m not certain.

I still rather enjoyed the twist when it came mind, partly as it was fun to think through the the film and see the clues… Would I have guessed it if I hadn’t been spoiled? I just don’t know. It was certainly cleverly done.

[Tanya Jones]

>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.

[Phil]

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

Gah, my father used to do this all the time when I was little. Bugged the hell out of me. Mainly because, being little, I only watched programs that were very formulaic, so he always ended up being right.

Nowadays it still drives me nuts.

[John Hoare]

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.

[Smeg4Brains]

I remember working out the ending to Sixth Sence very quickly…mainly because nobody apart from the kid were acknowledging the existence of Bruise Willis.

I’m usually quite good at working out the endings to films but I love it when I can’t. In Bruges has a good ending but I won’t say anymore for people who haven’t seen it yet. I also watched The Wickerman for the first time yestrday.

[Dave]

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

Which version? And what did you think?

[Smeg4Brains]

It was the new version with Nicolas Cage. I wasn’t sure weather I loved it for having an amazing ending or if I should b pissed off because I realised that the majority of the film was pointless. Well, not pointless exactly but….bah, you know what I mean.

[Dave]

You have to watch the original asap

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