It's getting harder to keep a secret these days. Just ask anyone connected to a big-budget movie. Movie set snoops make filming secretive projects a nightmare. Even if a movie makes it to your local theater without major plot revelations leaking out there's always some blogger who saw a sneak peak of the movie who spoils it for the rest of us.

And this doesn't include the modern movie trailer, which often tells the entire story in under three minutes.

The new "Hancock" offers a major plot twist, but I wonder how many people who saw the movie this weekend truly had no idea what to expect.

I still burn at the memory of someone spilling the beans to me about Darth Vader's relationship to Luke Skywalker while I waited on line to see "The Empire Strikes Back" many years ago. It robbed me of the movie's emotional high point, and I wish that fool had kept his mouth shut.

Today, in our media saturated environment, fewer and fewer filmgoers can enter the theater and expect to be completely surprised.

(Photo: Will Smith plays a drunken superhero in "Hancock," a movie with a major surprise awaiting viewers)

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