What planet are Richard and Judy on to show the ending of the film the Wicker Man. Its a brilliant film and I just cannot see how or why they would spoil the film for anyone who had'nt seen it yet. To me it was like telling everyone the end of the latest Harry Potter book.

This doesn't surprise me in the least.

There must be viewers who still haven't seen this film.

Nice one guys!

Totally agree !!

I know many people on here diss the book club ...but as someone who needs to have books recommended i think they do exactly the same on that .... i switch off just in case i decide to read one of the books featured as i dont want to know the WHOLE story !!!

I agree that was an unforgiving bad mistake. I can't see what all the fuss is about this film. I much prefer Woodward in the detective series.

i haven't seen the film myself yet...not that i am really interested at the moment...
i missed the show today, but i wouldn't have been pleased at that...
nobody wants to know what the ending is...in film or book...that is what the synopsis is for....to get the apetite and watch or read it to the end in our own time...
do they not understand these things...?
oh well.....tomorrow is another day...

I totally agree with you all. No-one wants to know the end of either a film or a book and I can't understand why they showed it!

Without wishing to offend the posters complaining about R&J giving away the ending to the Wicker Man; let’s face it, the film is nearly 40 years old. If you haven’t seen it by now, then you’ll probably never see it.
It’s an over-rated film anyway. It was made as a B-movie and that’s just what it is. The scene with Britt Eckland doing that “dance” is comical, as it’s so obvious it isn’t her, but a very much less attractive stand-in. The “twist” at the end is pretty obvious as well. Don’t waste an hour and a half of your lives watching it.
Watch the Sixth Sense instead. Now here’s the twist. Bruce Willis is really a............

I enjoyed "Death on the Nile" on ITV3 yesterday.
Obviously I won't say who was responsible for all the deaths, but I often wondered what
Ole Blue.....

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f you haven’t seen it by now, then you’ll probably never see it.

My 17 year old brother watched it for the first time a few months ago and it's been his favourite film since. I'm still yet to see it though. We have it on DVD now but for some reason I just can't bring myself to watch it. So maybe you are right...

corkman, that doesn't make any sense. As not everyone is "nearly 40 years old" some viewers will just be getting to an age when they want to watch it.

Makes perfect sense to me.
The film is 40 years old.
It would have been shown many times in that 40 years, and the chances are someone under 40 years would have heard about it from family or friends.
My parents told me who won the Battle of Hastings.

Surely there has to come a point where, at some stage, it is ok to reveal an ending or a twist? Obviously it would be wrong to reveal something about a recently released film or book, but I think it’s safe to reveal the ending of the Wicker Man, particularly as it was part of the main topic of conversation between R&J and Ewar Woowar.

The 39 Steps ends with...eeuug-gah!-uhhhh.....

What do you call a man with a wooden head?
Edward.
What do you call a man with three wooden heads?
Edward Woodward.

"It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known. ..."

Oops! Sorry if I gave away the ending....

Now THAT was an unbelievable ending. Funny, wasn't it, how Sidney Carton was a dead ringer for Darnay!

If Dickens was around today he'd be writing for Neighbours!

They should adapt the old You Say We Pay format for movie endings. An example - The Usual Suspects:

CALLER: Er, the Keyser Soze bloke...
JUDE: 'My kitchen heater broke'???
RICH: Nah, nah, um...oooh: Ray Winstone, um, um, discovered the woman - the chick - was actually, um, a man!
CALLER: No. He slipped away.
JUDE: What about the kitchen heater?
RICH: Move on, move on! Um...did they find Soze in a trunk?
CALLER: NO!!!
JUDE: I just don't get this. I don't remember any of them ever being IN a kitchen!
RICH: Leave it!