Movie Spoilers

[Beano's Fourth Chin]

How much time must pass before it's ok to talk about the ending of a particular movie?

I remember reading reviews of Matrix Revolutions and in the opening paragraph it basically laid out the entire plot of Matrix Reloaded (if you can do that in a paragraph).

Now, it's perfectly acceptable to discuss the 'twist' of the Sixth Sense.

Is it just recent movies with a special plot twist that are not allowed?

It still feels a little wrong to talk specifically about the ending of "Usual Suspects" and that one's been out for years.

But with the tv show survivor, if someone found out the winner before hand, it would be big news and perfectly acceptable to talk about.

Your thoughts?

[Norm In Norman]

His whole life was a TV show! That's why everything was perfect!

We quote office space and christmas vacation all the time. isn't that a spoiler?

[bri]

*********SPOILER ALERT!!!*************

[Beano's Fourth Chin]

*********SPOILER ALERT!!!*************

Without one of those things, I'm talking.

[jreed13]

One of my friends gave away the ending of "the passion".

[Norm In Norman]

To actually address the issue at hand, I think the first month a movie is out is a given (Theater or DVD). After that, it's free game. There is always going to be someone who hasn't seen a particular movie, so if they didn't want it spoiled they should have watched the movie.

[crawfish]

Sadly, I never had the experience of watching "Psycho" without knowing that Norman was his mom in drag.

[Widescreen]

Sadly, I never had the experience of watching "Psycho" without knowing that Norman was his mom in drag.

WTF? I was going to watch that for the first time tonight.

[GDC]

I still don't understand exactly what happened in The Usual Suspects, and I have seen it 10-15 times.

[TopDaugIn2000]

Titanic - It sunk

[Boarder]

I think message board etiquette says that all discussion must be occompanied by a spoiler alert. Especially on movie sites. I know of one where there is a zero tolerance, even if you say that Dorothy was dreaming about Oz.

It depends on the crowd. This crowd is pretty movie spoiler liberal.

[picasso]

Both heroes die in Open Water.

Cold, wet and stupid is not the way I wanna go.


Oh yeah, Frodo gives all his buddies a gay stare down at the end of Return of the King.

[yermom]

Titanic - It stunk

yep.

[Jimminy Crimson]

There is always going to be someone who hasn't seen a particular movie, so if they didn't want it spoiled they should have watched the movie.

...or just don't click the thread?

[Jimminy Crimson]

One of my friends gave away the ending of "the passion".

But the book ended differently...

I kid, I kid!

[XingTheRubicon]

Depends, if the movie is a suspense flick with a surprise ending........then never.

[Pricetag]

I remember not long after the last Cheers episode was on, I was hanging out with some of my buddies, and said, "I can't believe Sam and Diane didn't stay together." One of my friends hadn't seen the episode yet, and he wasn't very happy about it.

[Reno]

Alexander sucked... ahem... was really bad.

[OU4LIFE]

2 weeks.

[Okla-homey]

Ray Charles got off heroin and became a beloved international super-star.

So there.