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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kai Lord" data-source="post: 1584171" data-attributes="member: 3570">I was smart enough to not read this thread too carefully before seeing the movie, but that attitude just isn't cool.  So if a trailer gives something away, its okay to be a jerk to the next guy?  If you knew someone unfamiliar with LOTR who just started watching Fellowship of the Ring, you'd just give away the fact that Gandalf survives because it ends up in the trailer for The Two Towers?I stayed off all messageboards on the internet for months before Return of the King came out, because I knew there'd be a ton of posts like yours.  Its like if a movie is based on a book or has a revealing trailer common courtesy is just thrown out the window.  "Oh you haven't seen the trailer that spoils the end of Cast Away?  Well let me tell it to you then.  Oh you haven't read the book?  Well its been out for a few years so let me ruin it for you."Was the movie being discussed here ruined by any posts on this thread?  No.  But most people reading this forum are movie buffs, and we all like a good story.  Some people don't want the ending spoiled and some people don't want smaller surprises ruined like what kind of fantasy creature will be the focus of any given Harry Potter movie.  So why the snide attitude toward someone who just wants to preserve the maximum possible enjoyment of a movie when its so easy to not be inconsiderate?</blockquote>