Movie Spoilers
Well, I’ve said it before and I’ll probably say it again – I like knowing the answers.
So, because I don’t do movie theaters well, and because I don’t like knowing just the plot or story of a book or movie, I have a tendency to tell people who want to describe a movie experience to me to go ahead and give it all to me. I want everything … including the end. If you’re not going to give it all away, don’t tell me anything. I’ll wait for it to come to cable or go find it online or whatever.
With that in mind, there are several movies I’ve wanted to see over the past couple of years. Well … okay, I’ve wanted to know about them, not necessarily to sit through them. Some examples would be 9, a Tim Burton affair I believe, and Orphan, and Let the Right One In, and so on. So, when I want to know and don’t have the patience to wait for them not only to come to cable but to move to the premium channels or free movie selections (hey, I’m unemployed, all right?), I go check out The Movie Spoiler.
The problem with this site is, the spoilers are all written by site users. Anyone can do it. You go see the movie, you send them the trailer. They post it. Raw. Typos, grammatical nightmare constructs and all. It goes up. So, when you read the spoilers, you have to try and decipher what’s being described. Very interesting. A lot of work, sometimes. But in the end, I have an okay idea of what the movie’s about.
The good news is, I get the endings, and can decide based on what I see whether or not I want to watch the movie. Investing a couple of hours of my life into something that sucks doesn’t excite me. So I use this site to good effect. It’s how I knew I wanted to see the Nicolas Cage movie Next, and how I knew I didn’t really care one way or the other about the same actor’s movie Knowing. (If I catch it, great; if I don’t, meh.)
My wife is great at getting to the point with me about books too. She reads approximately sixteen gazillion books a year, and while her tastes and mine differ pretty widely, she’s very good at giving me the straight skinny (ha! me, “skinny”! rriiiiiiight!) on the ones I want to know about. So I feel I’ve read a lot more books than I have and I’ve seen a lot more movies than I have. Truth is, I just know how they end.
I spent some quality time with the spoiler for 9 and The Box this weekend. I’ll probably look up a few others while I’m there. What the heck? It only takes ten minutes and could save me hours of wasted viewing time.
How ‘bout you? Do you like to know the ending? I’m that way with all things, including life. I want to know the answers, know the future, know the twists and turns. Maybe you like things darker and more mysterious, or enjoy the discovery of what lies ahead whether in art or in life.
Sound off, let me know, and I hope you had an amazing and happy weekend.
-JDT-
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I am so with you on movies. I’m fairly critical in that realm so I want to know if it is worth the time investment. Also, there are some things I am just really uncomfortable watching and find far from entertaining. Luckily I live with 3 movie buffs that are pretty clear on what to help me avoid. Now books, that’s different. I’m in a couple of book clubs so I usually ask around as I am fairly aware of what my friends like to read. I ask them for a thumbs up or down but don’t want to know the end of something I’m going to invest more time with – plus, with a book I want to hear the characters in my head not from theirs – it seems like with a book the reader gets to be more a part of the creative process.
I don’t know if I’ve had someone tell me about a book I wanted to read. I don’t really talk books with anyone except Vanessa, and she’s not into reading what I’m into reading. I get her summations about the stuff she’s enjoying and I feel like I’ve read it too. But most people don’t talk books with me, just TV and movies.
So, it’s all good. 
Spy thrillers for me! Movies and books!
My wife loves ‘em too.
Try Brad Thor and Vince Flynn if you haven’t already. She loves them.
It’s about the journey, Knyt, the journey! Really, though, most movies have pretty predictable endings, don’t they? I mean, unless the whole point of the movie is the twist ending, things wrap up in a typical way. I don’t mind knowing the endings of those movies, but in, say, The Sixth Sense, I’m glad I didn’t know. I like the surprise, when there’s one to be had.
In my estimation, ALL movies telegraph the ending to some degree or other. I remember all the furor around The Sixth Sense and The Village when they came out respectively. I had TSS solved in the opening scenes. The second one was kept under wraps better. But as for the journey — well, the enjoyment of the movie itself, the actual seeing of the display on screen and the things going on, aren’t diminished to me by knowing the outcome. Y’know?
I think I can know whether a movie will be worth my time without knowing the ending. Like Sherri said, so much of the fun in the Sixth Sense was NOT knowing the end. I’m not often completely surprised, and in hindsight, don’t know why I didn’t see that one coming, but I didn’t so it was a great experience shared with most everyone in the audience, judged by the collective gasp.
LOL — that’s funny. I ruined the movie for my family by announcing the ending after the shooting scene. It became very obvious to me how they were going to handle it. Since then, my wife has become VERY good at unraveling the plots and twists for herself. We’re no fun to watch movies with anymore.
However, I am the type person who needs to know exactly how things work before I commit. I would never be a volunteer for the stage hypnotist, for example. And I have to watch someone play a video game before I’ll even try … and then most times don’t try because I know I can’t do it well.
I STINK at video games. Absolute suckage. Won’t subject myself to it. Heh.
But books and movies? Nah, just tell me what it’s about, but don’t get too particular and NEVER tell me how it ends.
You’re pretty normal that way. I’m the odd man out in this respect. Or just the odd man.
You like movie spoilers, here’s one for ya:
Titanic, the boat sinks
Really? Wow. Live an’ learn!
Love that site…MovieSpoiler.com..huge fan one of those site i go to bi weekly or so. As for life, Me i am into the journey and no so worried about the final destination (loved the original by the way) knowing the end all the time sometimes you miss life’s serendipitious turns….enjoy the ride even though it goes through a bad neighborhood or 2…zman sends
Sounds like a very Zen philosophy, Steve. Must make for a less stressful life, that’s for sure.
Thanks for stopping by.
Let me get this straight. You want the whole trailer what happens and the ending. Okay what happened to the girl without the toes in Jog in the Park, huh
J. Dane Tyler? ????? Huh? What happened to her, and I’ve worried about her for about 4 months now smart a*s. 
Ah, but the end is already there, Sara. All you have to do is write it in your mind for yourself. Is she rescued, sans a few body parts? Is daddy too late? Is daddy the one with the knife? You decide.
what a cop out
you’d make a good litigator
I prefer to let the story unfold, however, there are some real stinkers I’ve suffered through (both books and movies) so I could get to the end. I go for reviews that give an overview on what happens without giving away the ending. I do get completely annoyed at reviews that make the book or movie sound way better than it actually is…sort of like a preview of only the best parts of a major snore.