Unofficial Tex Murphy

In another thread it was mentioned how some people spoil endings for us. Let me give you two examples from my past.

1. Early in our marriage we were visiting my in-laws and watching an old murder mystery movie while waiting for dinner to be served. Right in the middle of all the suspense my mother-in-law (may she RIP) walked out of the kitchen and said: "oh! That was a good movie. The butler (or whoever) did it." She spun on her heels and walked back into the kitchen. Gee, thanks, Mom.

2. We were unable to see The Empire Strikes Back when it first came out and, needless to say, we didn't want anyone to tell us anything about the movie. I happen to be talking with a friend about going to the show when his young son said (you know what's coming): "Darth Vader is Luke's dad!" Up until that moment I never really experienced murderous thoughts before in my life, but I have had them since.

So, tell us about someone who spoiled a movie or game ending for you! Oh, and try to keep it clean and civil. j/k

1. The fate of Aeris in Final Fantasy 7. 'Twas a friend of mine in junior high school. The scene was still cool, but since I knew about it before hand, it wasn't quite as big as it could have been.

2. The ending to Open Water. Although that may not count since I never wanted to see Open Water.

This didn't happen to me, but a friend of mine was pretty pissed when someone ruined the big secret in The Sixth Sense for him. (Those who have seen it know what I'm talking about) I can imagine I would have been pretty pissed too.

Let's see, I know a lot of things that have been spoiled in my life.

1.) The ending to Sixth Sense of course ...

2.) The night I taped the Raiders vs. Buccaneers superbowl game, I had to work, and I had managed all night to not even hear a word about it. I worked at a fast food place, and finally after I was closing everything up for the night, and prepared to go home and watch an unspoiled game of football, three buccaneers fans were screaming, hooting, and hollering about how their team won across the street at Arby's. I wanted to run them over.

3.) The first time I ever played Resident Evil, I was walking down the hallway at the beginning of the game, and my friend ribbed me and said, "Get ready for those dogs that jump through the window" .... Talk about deflating a scary moment.

4.) *recent* When I went to see the fourth Potter movie (I haven't had the pleasure of reading all the books. I think I've only read the third one.), someone sat next to me who had obviously read it, and seen it opening day. So before everything happened each scene I was treated to what happened, and the way it was supposed to happen, before it happened. Damn kids.

5.) And finally, the spoiler of all spoilers. The one thing that made my heart grow cold, and never trust the boy scouts again ...

The night I ate at pizza hut when I was like five or six, and a whole troupe sat down the way, and convinced me through their conversation that there was no such thing as Santa Claus. Or the Easter Bunny. Or the Tooth Fairy. I lost all my beliefs in one night, and cried myself to sleep.

""When God passed out brains,
I thought he said Trains,
And I missed Mine.

When God passed out looks,
I thought he said books,
And I didn't want any.

When God passed out ears,
I thought he said beers
And I asked for two long ones.

When God passed out noses,
I thought he said roses,
and I asked for a big red one.

When god passed out legs,
I though he said kegs,
And I asked for two fat ones.

When God passed out heads,
I thought he said beds,
and I asked for a big soft one.

When my brother was born, they passed out cigarettes.
When my sister was born, they passed out cigars.
When I was born, they passed out."

Malloy

I gotta echoe Thomas Malloy's Harry Potter experience. I've personally stumbled upon two HUGE spoilers for the enxt two movies!!! AAAAGH I just hope I still enjoy the movies as much... Call me crazy but it may be years before the 5th and 6th movies are out but I know I'll STILL will rememebr the spoilers, since they were big >_< It was vecause I wanted to know what people thought of the 4th film and of one of the actor's performance during it (NOT the next two films!). And then people end up talking about each characetrs fates because they've already read up to the 6th book

Also had the ending to Plague Dogs animated film recently spoiled for me whilst reading what people thought about a different film.

I've had other stuff spoiled for me but these recent ones are the only ones I can remember right now. usually its by reading blabby reviews or online discussions that I find spoilers....
Trying not to get the Doctor Who christmas special spoiled for me too... They keep showing tons of clips on TV in the run up to it. I think they've already showed most of the special in clips! According to someone I know who doesn't mind learning things ahead of time.

Adverts for stuff these days give too much away... Sometimes I watch an advert to a film and then think "Whats the point in seeing it now? You just told me the beginning, the middle and blatantly hinted at the conclusion... waste of time"

Great poem, Malloy.

I kind of had a reversal of this one back in high school. There were two guys in one of my classes who kept tormenting me, except that they were monumentally stupid so it usually didn't turn out right. So we spent a few days of this class watching a movie, and since I knew they'd go for the old yarn of spoiling every single part of the movie bit by bit if I claimed I had never seen it, I claimed I had never seen it.

Of course, I HAD seen it.

Three days of these guys dedicating their blabbing to spoilers ensues. Clever grins, post-class guffawing, 27 8x10 color glossy pictures with the circles and arrows on the back of each one (hopefully you caught this joke), the whole nine yards.

Climax of the film, day three. Right at the ending. One of the morons turns to me to spoil the ending, and I shout it out a second before he can.

A long pause while he assimilates what just happened.

"#@^&ing Idiot." I say, shaking my head. Then the bell rings. My timing has been flawless.

Mr. Thomas Malloy wrote:convinced me through their conversation that there was no such thing as Santa Claus.

My goddaughter, all of six years old, might have just had this spoiled for her. We won't know for sure until Christmas day.

It sucks, man.

27 8x10 color glossy pictures with the circles and arrows on the back of each one

.....to be used as evidence against us.
Your honor... I cannot tell a lie, I put that envelope under the pile of garbage.

One of the greatest songs of all time.
Well.. longest anyway.

jen

Planet of the Apes... It was Earth all along!

The Simpsons ruined that one for me actually when they did the send up of the film in a musical form, and it gave most of it away... same with Star Wars (Darth Vader & Skywalker) which I found out on the Simpsons when they were sending up people who ruin movies, kinda in a similar way to what you mentioned Jim.

What I find annoying is, when you go and see a great film with a great twist, and you try and convince a friend to go and see it... so they agree, but they take their sweet time in actually getting around to it, gradually being exposed to more and more revelations about the film they should not know! Arrgghhh! And then they have the nerve to come back and say "it did not impact me as much as you said it would"!

...Another pure example of how "idiot-proofing" the world would be an amazingly impossible task.

-Cub. =o)

Cubase wrote:What I find annoying is, when you go and see a great film with a great twist, and you try and convince a friend to go and see it... so they agree, but they take their sweet time in actually getting around to it, gradually being exposed to more and more revelations about the film they should not know! Arrgghhh! And then they have the nerve to come back and say "it did not impact me as much as you said it would"!

What annoys me in those situations is when the person keeps asking you "how" or "why" or even "what will happen to him?" to every single bit of the movie and I have to keep saying "watch the damm thing!". But that's not the worse, the worse is going to a movie with someone who tries to guess the rest of the plot from every little turn every scene makes. The butler looked strangely to the window? HE DID IT! Ha! I knew it! Can we go home?

Jim the old guy wrote:2. We were unable to see The Empire Strikes Back when it first came out and, needless to say, we didn't want anyone to tell us anything about the movie. I happen to be talking with a friend about going to the show when his young son said (you know what's coming): "Darth Vader is Luke's dad!" Up until that moment I never really experienced murderous thoughts before in my life, but I have had them since.

Hahaha that's classic. A great simpsons joke too, when Homer walked out of the theater, passing the crowd waiting in line and says out loud "Who would've thought Vader was Luke's father"

I think there should be some kind of year limit on spoilers though. Like, you can't be upset about this being spoiled cause this film has been out "this many" years.

I reckon it should also apply to certain movies made from other source material.

Good example, after seeing Fellowship of the Ring with 2 friends when it came out, one of my friends and I started talking about what certain scenes from the next 2 books would be like when the movies came out. The 3rd friend started whinging about spoilers. We remarked that the books have been around for decades so he had no just cause.

Penny Arcade did a good strip on this recently.

Great comic, Atomic Veg. I really laughed out loud!

The biggest spoiler I see all the time are the trailers for the movie. If you watch them again after you've seen the movie you realise you see most of the end part of the movie.

The trailer for Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets showed Hermione opening up the chamber of secrets in the ... well, for those that haven't seen it.... but if you don't know it's a spoiler you might not think much about it until after you've seen the movie.

That's a great poem by the way.