Spoilers

[mneme]

willshetterly posted a set of rules for commenting in his blog/journal, including "no spoilers". Naturally, I had to post some.

I've numbered them, to make it easy to guess what they're spoilers -to- -- some are easy, some trivial, some pretty hard. drcpunk is ineligible because she guessed most of them already and was told the rest.

1. It's a sled. (fleetfootmike)
   
2. He's a she. (easy, but arguably devotedbear. Ambug was the first to name it, though)
   
3. They win. They win, but the king still dies. One wins, two lose, one doesn't play, all but one dies, and he's not the one that won. (kokoinai)
   
4. After going to the moon, they come home. (stormsweeper)
   
5. After going to the moon, they go into space and conquer the galaxy.
   
6. The big bad guys lose. The big good guys have left the building.
   
7. They do, in fact, find the promised land. And keep it for a while. Here are some rules for you to follow. (fiddledragon)
   
8. He loses, but gets a new job, and so do all his friends.
   
9. They win. But that's boring, so they start over again. (tirerim)
   
10. They die and go to heaven. (fiddledragon)
    
11. Five return, and one goes alone. (fiddledragon)
    
12. Some go, two stay and rule. And two stay for a long while, and then go.(fleetfootmike)
    
13. They live happily ever after.
    

(the last one's not worth guessing, but it's the only spoiler without a specific behind it)

Comments

[fleetfootmike.livejournal.com]

1 is obviously Citizen Kane.
4 is Apollo 13
Is 12 RotK?

[devotedbear.livejournal.com]

2. My biggest movie annoyance is that *anyone* was the slightest bit surprised by this. I can't believe the director even expected you to be. -shrug-

What, no "the bad guy is the hero's father"? :)

[tafkad.livejournal.com]

5 seems to be 2001: A Space Odyssey

Is 7 Camelot? No, that's the beginning of Camelot. 7 is Exodus.

10 is All Dogs Go to Heaven, isn't it?

[hms42]

6 - Empire Strikes Back
7 - Sounds like jewish history.. (Rules - 10 commandments)

[fiddledragon.livejournal.com]

2. Enemy Mine
6. Babylon 5?
7. Old Testament
10. Narnia?

[fiddledragon.livejournal.com]

11. The Dark is Rising

[ambug666.livejournal.com]

1. Citizen Kane
2. The Crying Game
3. Hamlet?
4. Apollo 13
6. The Blues Brothers?
7. The Ten Commandments?
8. Office Space
9. Jumanji? Zathura?

[fiddledragon.livejournal.com]

5 -- The Moon is a Harsh Mistress? I don't remember them conquering the galaxy, but I sort of skimmed the ending...

[kokoinai.livejournal.com]

Is #9 Dark Tower?
Is #13 The Princess Bride? (There are a lot of options here)
I've never read the entire 3 Musketeers trilogy, but I'd guess that for #3 based on similarity with the Paarfi novels (yes, this is backwards). I'd say the Paarfi books themselves, except the third one doesn't fit.

[tirerim.livejournal.com]

9 is The Worm Ouroboros. (Which I think I said to fiddledragon when I was there, but she didn't write it down.)

[womzilla.livejournal.com]

I know it's not what you had in mind, but #6 fits Moorcock's The Quest for Tanelorn extremely well.