By Lee Pfeiffer
When I was a teenager, there was a guy in our group, Joey, who would go to highly-anticipated movies with us. He had a juvenile habit of peering through the doors at the end of the movie before the next screening began. Thus, I got to know in advance that James Bond tossed a villain over the side of a ship after placing a time bomb on him in Diamonds Are Forever. I also knew that Sean Connery got shot at the end of The Anderson Tapes. Joey also peered through the doors of the Loews State Theatre on Times Square to graciously inform us that Charlton Heston had just been killed by a spear in The Omega Man. We ultimately excluded Joey from our movie-going excursions but according to researchers at The University of California, he was actually doing us a favor. According to the bizarre conclusions of their recent study, people who are exposed to shock endings in advance reported they had enjoyed a film more than those who were not aware of how the film would end. Maybe- but even after forty years, I still have no intention of seeing another movie with Joey. Click here for more