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I care about spoilers and there's heaps of films that I'd like to get around to seeing when I get a chance, including quite old films. I really hate it when I

• gruseom 14y ago
  I sympathize wholeheartedly. Few things are more maddening than finding out the ending to a plot you would otherwise have enjoyed. I recently read The Man Who Was Thursday by G.K. Chesterton – a thriller that I ran across a spoiler to years and years ago and was hoping I would forget. Eventually I had to admit I never would and read the book. I enjoyed it anyway. The Kids in the Hall used to have a couple of comedy characters whose schtick was that they were trying hard to be evil but could only ever manage to be a little bit evil. One of the only-sort-of-evil things the characters did was give away the endings to movies. A friend told me that he saw them perform it live, and they picked some movie that had only just come out and actually gave away the ending. The entire audience yelled "Evil!" I thought it was taking the joke much too far.