"Departed" Spoilers in the last column

[moebius]

I'm reading Wednesday's column, and suddenly they start talking about The Departed. Next thing you know, the fate of one of the main charcters has been revealed, despite me avoiding six months of spoilers in the run-up (and never watching Infernal Affairs.

I know, I know: you haven't seen the movie already? Well, I'm living in Europe, and we won't get it at least until December.

In the future, could columnists please drop some kind of spoiler warning for major plot points to pieces of media that haven't been out at least six months or a year?

[SoulOnIce]

I'm reading Wednesday's column, and suddenly they start talking about The Departed. Next thing you know, the fate of one of the main charcters has been revealed, despite me avoiding six months of spoilers in the run-up (and never watching Infernal Affairs.

I know, I know: you haven't seen the movie already? Well, I'm living in Europe, and we won't get it at least until December.

In the future, could columnists please drop some kind of spoiler warning for major plot points to pieces of media that haven't been out at least six months or a year?

I have been dying to see it and I saw the spoiler as well. :(

It really bites having something that major spoiled.

[moebius]

I also want to apologize for spoiling THE DEPARTED via the lettercol talk of events in the film, particularly the ending. That part was done very quickly as the deadline rushed toward me, and it just didn't occur to me. I tend not to care if I know how stories end; in my philosophy, films that can be ruined by knowing the ending aren't films that are worth seeing. Interested parties can find some comfort in THE DEPARTED not being such a film, and I'll try to keep such a thing from happening again. (At least within a month of release; if you haven't seen a film you're supposedly dying to see within a month of release, you're taking your fate into your own hands.)

Thank you, Steven. Duly noted.

[Steven Grant]

Unfortunately, my general view is that knowing the ending of a film that's worth seeing doesn't make it less worth seeing, and not knowing the ending of a film that isn't worth seeing doesn't make it more worth seeing. Not that I expect, or desire for, anyone else to take that same approach, but occasionally I forget that other people don't.

And in my experience a film that lives or dies on its ending generally isn't worth two hours...

- Grant

[FunkyGreenJerusalem]

And in my experience a film that lives or dies on its ending generally isn't worth two hours...

- Grant
The worst is when it's supposed to be a twist, and you pick it really early, so you think that's not the twist, and then it turns out to be the twist.
'Identity' has to be the greatest example of that I've ever seen, closely followed by 'Angel Heart'.
Both so obvious, you figured there had to be somthing else coming.

[bartl]

The worst is when it's supposed to be a twist, and you pick it really early, so you think that's not the twist, and then it turns out to be the twist.
'Identity' has to be the greatest example of that I've ever seen, closely followed by 'Angel Heart'.
Both so obvious, you figured there had to be somthing else coming.
The earliest on I figured out the twist in a movie was THE SIXTH SENSE; I figured it out from watching the previews.

Did you ever figure out the twist in a movie through a secondary association?

SPOILER ALERT!!!!!!

In THE CRYING GAME, I saw the two leads talking, and I said, "That looks just like a scene from KIDS IN THE HALL. Oh."

In THE OTHER, when the brothers are playing in the woods, I said, "That looks like a scene right out of CALVIN AND HOBBES. Oh."

[FunkyGreenJerusalem]

The earliest on I figured out the twist in a movie was THE SIXTH SENSE; I figured it out from watching the previews.

Did you ever figure out the twist in a movie through a secondary association?


Not sure that I've done it from a preview - not a film I actually watched anyway.
I had a friend unwittingly pick the Sixth Sense from a trailer.
He made the comment "Wouldn't it be funny if Bruce Willis was a ghost".
Didn't take too long for that one to creep back into everyone's mind while watching it.

[bartl]

SPOILER ALERT!!!


I had a friend unwittingly pick the Sixth Sense from a trailer.He made the comment "Wouldn't it be funny if Bruce Willis was a ghost".Didn't take too long for that one to creep back into everyone's mind while watching it.
Yeah, that's pretty much what happened to me, except I said, "I'lll bet that" instead of "wouldn't it be funny if." Which just goes to show that the trailers for that movie gave away too much.