Comments on: Spoil Yourself

Spoil Yourself

Jim Jones — Wed, 09 Mar 2005 13:03:16 -0800

It's all about the journey, not just the ending.

By: Jim Jones

Jim Jones — Wed, 09 Mar 2005 13:07:36 -0800

Ooops, meant to add this link.

By: wendell

wendell — Wed, 09 Mar 2005 13:31:38 -0800

Curses. Spoiled again.

By: graventy

graventy — Wed, 09 Mar 2005 13:36:48 -0800

This is NOT a spoiler. It is a plot synopsis. And, it's probably funnier than the movie.

By: rafter

rafter — Wed, 09 Mar 2005 13:41:22 -0800

A triple-link that links back to the original two links in the post itself? My head is spinning.

By: gwint

gwint — Wed, 09 Mar 2005 13:43:39 -0800

Don't forget this classic.

By: BlackLeotardFront

BlackLeotardFront — Wed, 09 Mar 2005 13:48:51 -0800

Aintitcool has totally redesigned their site with the idea of spoilers in mind - whereas before there was a SPOILERSSS WARNING!!!!!!1 before posts with spoilers, now there is a fancy little outline (which sometimes just says "poile"). Obviously there is a growing concern on this topic. Could it be that since movies today rely more heavily on twists near the end, there is more pressure on reviewers to keep quiet about them? There are less movies today which maintain a premise from start to finish, opting instead to refresh the premise to keep up with our waning attention span. Was it here that there was a discussion about this very topic?

By: Jim Jones

Jim Jones — Wed, 09 Mar 2005 13:54:59 -0800

rafter, I wanted to post about moviemuckers.com and thebookspoiler.com but they're incomplete without the other two and if I'm going to mention the other two then I have to acknowlege their previous incarnation.

By: Dallasfilm

Dallasfilm — Wed, 09 Mar 2005 14:07:23 -0800

I whole-heartedly approve of Spoiler warnings, but I think The Pacifier plot twists can pretty much be guessed before walking through the door. Personally I love the surprise - a nice unexpected twist at the end can, in my eyes, redeem an otherwise boring movie (Hello Be Cool). Truth be told, I have been known to pester friends for endings if I have no intention of seeing the movie (I'm talking about you, The Village). However, if you are the sort who wish to zealously monitor what sort of messages you/your children/whomever else see in movies, such sites could be a tremendously useful resource. The long term psychological benefit such actions provide may be open for debate.

By: psychotic_venom

psychotic_venom — Wed, 09 Mar 2005 14:20:26 -0800

Dallasfilm: The way to monitor what your kids are seeing (without spending the cash) is going to Kids in Mind [warning : some annoying ads].

By: Dallasfilm

Dallasfilm — Wed, 09 Mar 2005 14:25:17 -0800

Personally I'd rather go see the movie without knowing and debate the merits of the ending afterwards, maybe examining other viewpoints or possibilities. But then, I don't have kids yet.

By: goatdog

goatdog — Wed, 09 Mar 2005 14:37:38 -0800

I am so so so so sick of twist endings. Especially now that they've become so common that you're taken out of the movie trying to figure out what the twist is going to be. More often than not, the twist is a creative crutch, a gimmick, an admission that there just isn't enough to the movie to risk a straightforward presentation.

By: BlackLeotardFront

BlackLeotardFront — Wed, 09 Mar 2005 15:43:49 -0800

Last-act twists are a trend - but their preponderance now doesn't mean they are without worth as a film trick. It's only if the trick is meant to make up for shoddy writing in the rest of the film that it is bad news. Cause if you don't care about the film up to the point of the twist, you won't care for the twist either - I can't think of a movie that was liked only for its twist. Good writing and interesting stories are what make the best movies - sometimes it has to be one or the other. So you get something like The Matrix, which, lets face it, was written ok but kind of cornily, but the story itself was so engaging that people loved it almost universally. Then you have something like Dumb and Dumber, which is basically empty story-wise, but the jokes were genius so people liked it. Sometimes you get fusion, but not often.

By: unsupervised

unsupervised — Wed, 09 Mar 2005 16:03:23 -0800

He was dead the whole movie.

By: stbalbach

stbalbach — Wed, 09 Mar 2005 16:42:04 -0800

Wikipedia is a spolier motherload

By: graventy

graventy — Wed, 09 Mar 2005 17:47:22 -0800

BlackLeotardFront : "Then you have something like Dumb and Dumber, which is basically empty story-wise, but the jokes were genius so people liked it." Stop it. Just stop it.

By: BlackLeotardFront

BlackLeotardFront — Wed, 09 Mar 2005 18:08:54 -0800

Okay. Maybe Dumb and Dumber wasn't the best example for good writing. Rushmore, then. I love that movie. No twists.

By: SisterHavana

SisterHavana — Wed, 09 Mar 2005 19:13:17 -0800

Titanic spoiler: The boat sinks in the end and lots of people die!