Have you ever had a movie spoiled to you?

[Star Lord]

I had Force Awakens spoiled due to some YouTube comment on a video that had nothing to do with the movie.

BvS second trailer because it showed them teaming up.

[thecynical_drummer]

Someone told me the end of Toy Story 4 and just about every other thing that happened in that movie. Luckily it was my 8 yo son so I suppose I'll let it pass

[PS-RagE]

When I first saw Aliens in the theater, some little prick behind me kept telling his friend what was about to happen in every scene. I was furious by the end of the movie.

My wife spoiled The Da Vinci Code when I was about half-way through the book. "Oh, I thought everyone knew what that book was about"

[PS-RagE]

Originally Posted by snipemonkey

I have had many, many movies "spoiled" for me, but I could not care less. To me it's like reading a book when you already know how the story ends: If it's worth reading/watching at all it shouldn't make a whit of difference. If the only thing that makes a book or movie worthwhile is the ending/plot surprises/twists then you are looking at a piece of crap that isn't worth your time. "Surprise" is a cheap and transient experience that adds nothing whatsoever to my appreciation of a work of art.

Completely justified, IMO

[snipemonkey]

My wife spoiled The Da Vinci Code when I was about half-way through the book. "Oh, I thought everyone knew what that book was about"

I don't know... this sounds kind of like worrying that a scum of fungus on top of a week-old casserole might "spoil." Is that even possible?

[Noremac Mij]

Originally Posted by PS-RagE

Completely justified, IMO

People who take spoilers seriously are crazy, this just proves it, lol.

[halloween5309]

I don't care if someone describes the complete movie, it don't effect my enjoyment of it

[BlueRagtop]

I've been racking my brain (and carefully reading this thread) but I honestly can't think of a single film that has been spoiled for me. There are several reasons why:

I tend to see movies on their release days/weekends. This practice goes back decades. For example, I saw Empire Strikes Back on opening day at 5:00 in the morning. Other commonly "spoiled" titles like The Crying Game, The Usual Suspects, Se7en, and The Matrix were all seen on opening night, so their surprises were still intact. (In the case of The Sixth Sense, I figured that one out myself within the first 10 minutes. Although I guess you could say that the trailers spoiled that movie for me. "I see dead people." What could be more obvious?)

In the case of older films, my first experience of them was frequently on TV in the pre-cable, pre-Internet days. I first saw Psycho as a kid on my local station's 11:30pm Saturday night movie. (It was uncut and I had absolutely NO idea what was coming.) Ditto Vertigo, Citizen Kane, Planet of the Apes, etc.

While movies have been unspoiled, television shows are another matter. Quite a few of them have been spoiled over the years. It got particularly bad several years ago, when every online news or entertainment website would post crap like "Behind that Shocking Death on Game of Thrones" -- with a picture of the newly deceased.

[Monterey Jack]

Originally Posted by BlueRagtop

While movies have been unspoiled, television shows are another matter. Quite a few of them have been spoiled over the years. It got particularly bad several years ago, when every online news or entertainment website would post crap like "Behind that Shocking Death on Game of Thrones" -- with a picture of the newly deceased.

This is the major reason I stopped watching The Walking Dead a season-and-a-half ago. It's also the reason I gulped down season 3 of Stranger Things in two days.

[wallendo]

I actually spoiled myself last week with Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. I wasn't sure if it was too violent for my wife, and while trying to assess the level of violence

[Show spoiler] found out that not even Quentin Tarantino could do anything mean to Margot Robbie.

[NeoVisionist]

Well, I went to the cinema here in Italy to see Godzilla: KOTM (It sucked balls) in English at its only English screening. I forgot my headphones, and during the trailers I say there fully knowing that I would get screwed with Endgame spoilers by the new Spiderman trailer.

And I was. It was also the cinema's fault I hadn't even seen Endgame, as for some inexplicable reason they hadn't showed it in English.

The Bluray cover for Life is very spoilery. I suggest you don't read it if you blind buy that film like I did.

[Cremildo]

The ending of Touch of Evil was spoiled to me thanks to a boring comedy everyone seems to like called Get Shorty - which I didn't even finish watching as I was so pissed off.

[Todd Tomorrow]

I’ve had plot turns or twists spoiled for me but a great film should have more going for it than surprise reveals. So a genuinely good films will still be compelling, despite spoilers.

Some movies with plot twists actually get better in a repeat viewing, when you can see how it’s all been set up. A recent example Pe for me was the horror film Hereditary. Many seemed to be thrown by the swerve into supernatural horror in the last twenty minutes after the bulk of the movie was a dark family drama, but on a rewatch there are lots of clues which set up the end.

Hitchcock’s Vertigo is a classic movie which gets much richer once you know the twist and see what leads up to it.

[BladeRunner2007]

Friday the 13th - Someone told me who the killer is before I have ever seen the movie.

[stvn1974]

I shot a man in Reno once after he spoiled a movie for me.

[HD Canuck]

Homer Simpson spoiled Empire Strikes Back for me.

[baheidstu]

Originally Posted by BladeRunner2007

Friday the 13th - Someone told me who the killer is before I have ever seen the movie.

The movie Scream also does that.

[ArrestedDevelopment]

Not a movie but I did spoil the Red Wedding ep of GOT for myself. That was a bummer.

[Bn43]

Originally Posted by ArrestedDevelopment

Not a movie but I did spoil the Red Wedding ep of GOT for myself. That was a bummer.

I kept hearing that something really shocking happens in the middle of the book A Storm of Swords. When I finally got to the red wedding, I wasn't that impressed. Mostly just numb.

[GoneJoel]

The Others - I read an article about The Sixth Sense and the twist ending of The Others was compared to it.