I’m talking about some of the plot points that you gave away in Paranormal Activity. I had no idea when I sat down to watch the movie that the main characters were going to end up dead, something that you already gave away by the end of the second paragraph in your review. And then going ahead and spilling the beans that yes, Micah filming at night was going to actually going to provoke the thing that was haunting them even more, that wasn’t great either.

Fortunately, I’d gotten the DVD from Netflix on Tuesday and it went right from mailbox directly into my DVD player that night so I’d actually already seen it by the time your review came out, but it’s very seldom that we actually have a new DVD release watched by the time the DVD Picks are reviewed in the Friday paper. So had this been a normal rental situation for us, your review would have completely blown the movie for us when we did sit down to watch it.

Needless to say, I skipped the rest of the DVD Picks for the week (“9″ is in my Netflix queue as well), and will probably continue to do so in the future if you’re reviewing a dvd that I’m planning on getting but haven’t seen yet. Not since a newspaper gave away the ending in “War of the Roses” way back when have I seen another DVD review give away an ending like that.

Normally I pick which DVDs to add to my queue based on the Sunday ads the weekend before vs adding them after the fact (I have a better chance of getting them from Netflix that way), but I do like to read the DVD Picks to confirm my choices in the Friday paper afterwards. This was the first time that so much info about a DVD had been given away like that, that I can remember.

In future columns, please just let the readers know in advance if you’re going go include so many spoilers?

Thanks.