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  1. thatotherguy says:

    spoilt?

  2. djp says:

    Oh great! I still haven’t seen Fight Club. Spoilt.

  3. huh? says:

    Shouldn’t Keyser Söze be in the “still don’t know” category, nothing is resolved and every time I watch the movie I notice something new that makes me come to different conclusions.

  4. Your Mom says:

    This one was stupid.

  5. Liz says:

    Spoiled by chart, check.

  6. kelly says:

    “Mullholland Drive – What the?” – SO with you on that one.

    • pwner of n00bs says:

      you should see “Lost Highway”

      • adam antichrist says:

        the best way to feel dumb is to try and explain the plot of a lynch film yourself, then look up what he said it was supposed to mean.

    • Sakulati says:

      Being unfathomable goes a long way towards being deep. Apparently. Or perhaps just strange and unexplained (and inexplicable). Still: (1) it’s nice to see a movie once in while which does not have one of those typical run-of-the-mill plots, and (2) also nice that not all movies are like that!

    • vervain says:

      I think every film David Lynch ever made should be in the 5th column.

      • Fleur says:

        Than you have clearly never watched the Straight Story.

        Also: don’t mean to ruin to forever praise that The Usual Suspects gets, but I figured out who was Keyser Soze it was pretty obvious.

        “Rosebud = the sled” hahaha, I don’t think that spoils much for most on here. Yet another slightly overrated movie in my opinion. Both are good, just not as good as everyone claims they are.

      • Miss Knotty says:

        Except Dune! Lynch directed the 1984 Dune and while it did have certain ’still don’t know’ aspects, it did pretty much wind up in the end.

    • dudemanguy says:

      its just Wizard of Oz!

    • C-Leaguer says:

      Mulholland Drive is what it means to be a female actor in Hollywood. The lies you have to tell yourself, the parts of yourself that you have to murder, the pieces of your past that you must forget.

      As for “Lost Highway”, yeah, that stills gets a “Still Don’t Know”. It’s supposed to be a mescaline trip, so I guess in that respect it makes sense.

    • Destin says:

      Yeah, that movie gets pretty incoherent towards the end.

  7. Kit says:

    The creator of this chart either needs to get some new friends, or start punching people in the groin when they are about to spoil the movie.

  8. Jim says:

    Passion of the Christ – Surprise!

  9. 216 says:

    Oh look! A new kind of graph that sucks.
    Too-new-to-comprehend FAIL!

    • thepinkmenace says:

      I think the quality of graphs on this site has really gone downhill since its popularity skyrocketed in the past few months, though I thought this one was one of the better ones in quite awhile. But what really annoys the heck out of me are all the comments by apparent graduates of the Sarah Palin School of Discourse – full of nastiness with no thoughtful content. Take it elsewhere, please.

      • thepinkmenace says:

        If you’re so appalled by mediocrity and count yourself among “those with a clue,” then one would expect that you have something more substantial to say than “this sucks.” And don’t call me dear.

        • 216 says:

          Ok?
          If that’s your reply…we’ll just leave it there because you are way out of your league. I’m just saying, if you’re going to present something…make it good. It’s what I do every single day. Stop being subpar and stop picking fights with intellectual titans.

      • justin says:

        we all don’t have a little Sarah Palin in us (tho some would like it that way)

        others would rather have a little us in Sarah Palin.

        a luckier few would have a lot of us in Sarah Palin.

        a disturbing few would rather be in one of Palin’s kids.

  10. Trebel says:

    The “guessed” column is total fail. You cannot guess surprise endings. Anyone who claims otherwise is lying.

    • thepinkmenace says:

      I think the point is that it was intended to be a surprise but the movie was so predictable that the viewer was able to figure it out. And yes, you can guess at surprises. Really, I’m not lying.

    • LB says:

      Except – you can. Half-way through the dumb-ass movie where Nicole Kidman is a housekeeper with two kids I figured it out. (And no – I am not going to spoil it, cause I think posting spoilers is the eighth deadly sin).

  11. Melissa says:

    You forgot Donnie Darko!

  12. Tika says:

    What about Magnolia? That movie definitely should go in the “still don’t know” category. (or am I alone on that one??)

  13. Ted says:

    I had a friend who took at date to the second showing of Wrath of Kahn.

    As they approached the theater, the people who had seen the movie were exiting.

    One guy he didn’t know singled him out came up to him and said “Spock Dies!!!!”

    My friend always goes to the first showing of Star Trek movies.

    BTW Anikin becomes Darth Vader should be on the list too…

  14. Frank (aka the author) says:

    Glad..
    …it made it to the main page – thanks everyone..
    and
    …that it created a little discussion.
    I noticed that a lot of the graphs on here have musical references so I though I would look for something else, I wouldnt say I was 100% happy with what I was achieving from a graph point of view as my ind was looking for something akin to a survey result but I decided just to go with my own personal experiences.

    In reality a “Friend” actually did spoil titanic for us in telling us the whole scene with leonardo DeCap and the floating wardrobe – it was like thanks – well I new the ship was going to sink!
    As for the “Twist” Movies I left out -either I hadnt seen them, or couldnt see any humour in including them.
    Basically I was going for about three jokes/points..
    1 – remind everyone of their own stupid friends who spoil movies
    2 – that Mulholland drive was weird (I had to Google it to and read an analysis to understand what happened)
    3 – That Titanic isnt really a twist movie –
    the others are thrown in for good measure – in reality i dont normally guess M Night Shal. movies – although now that we know they are all twist movies they are somewhat spoiled because you go looking for them.

    Thank you all for your votes and comments – Glad to have given you something to talk about at least.

  15. Frank (aka the author) says:

    Also – apologies if I spoilt any of these movies – I debated leaving the spoiler off – but when I did wasnt quite as funny.

    There was also the option of a line graph with impact of twist vs likelihood of being spoilt on the axis, with Xs to mark the position of each movie – although not sure where Mulholland Drive would go?

  16. David Joyner says:

    Where’s the “Spoilt by GraphJam” column?

  17. Jacque says:

    I guessed that the monsters in “The Village” weren’t real from the moment they were first shown. Where in the hell do a bunch of “monsters” get identical red cloaks from, hmmmm? Did they dye the wool and sew them with their 4 inch long claws? M. Night Sham is made of FAIL. All of his other movies I didn’t guess because I fell asleep or refused to see.

  18. loravine says:

    I would like to disagree with the Fight club twist..

    I TOTALLY GUESSED IT!!

    My friends said there was a twist but not what it was… And AS SOON AS edward norton called Brad Pitt from the Phone booth, and then hung up and then the phone rang… I TOTALLY KNEW THEY WERE THE SAME GUY!! I spent The rest of the movie trying to reason that the twist should not have been that easy to figure out…

  19. getxAIDS says:

    FAIL

  20. Krispy Chaos says:

    I totally agree with the WTF for mulholland drive.

    I’ve watched it twice and still have no idea what the heck is supposed to be going on

  21. anon says:

    What about: Pulp Fiction – What’s in the Briefcase?

  22. Matt says:

    Mulholland Drive = true.

    Basically up to viewer interpretation.

    My guess – the end of the movie (when she is no longer Betty, but is Diane) is reality, whereas the beginning was a dream.

  23. JM says:

    If you want to know what’s happening in “Mulholland Dr.”, David Lynch gave 10 clues to solving it, and if you look it up on the internet you can see the answers that people gave to the clues that come to a rather cohesive conclusion. Amazing movie, by the way!

    “The Sixth Sense” was half-spoiled for me. Meaning that someone gave it away, but they sort of got the facts wrong, so I knew someone was already dead, I just didn’t know who. I get the feeling that in 10 years “The Sixth Sense” will be like “The Empire Strikes Back”–EVERYONE will know the twist before they see the movie, and nobody will realize how surprised audiences were when the movie first came out.

  24. thats easy says:

    The key to understanding Mulholland drive is to not be led astray by the red herrings, and not think too much.

    Before the pivotal point, the audience is literally told “everything you have just seen is an illusion.” Then a mysterious figure says wake up, (more than once). This is not just part of the plot it is also directed at the audience. Everything before that point was a dream, everything after actually happened.

    The main character moved to Hollywood to become an actress, failed, jilted by her lover, then kills her, has a strange dream, wakes up and turns herself in.

    Watch it again and you will see that it is blatantly obvious that it is a dream, then everything will make sense. One of the greatest things about the film is that upon first viewing you get so preoccupied trying to untangle the mystery, carefully examining each subtle part of the film that you miss the blatant clues that it is all a dream.

  25. Ashent says:

    You didn’t read fight club? Christ.


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