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So I was listening to a movie podcast and they were talking about spoiler alerts and at what point is it others responsibility to NOT be spoiled.
I was recently sitting around with some friends and we were talking about a bunch of random stuff and someone said something that made me say
Spoiler
Soylent Green is people!
. Then someone asks me what the hell that meant and I told them and they replied " god spoiler alert!"
How old does a movie have to be before we can reference it, not spoil it or be able to just talk about it without getting yelled at or ripped a new one for spoiling it?
One guy on the podcast made a joke saying he was just going to shout SPOILER ALERT every day and that should just cover him for the whole day.
Even before the term "spoiler alert" was a "thing," I always tried to be considerate and ask if the person I'm talking to had seen the movie I was going to reference, and if they had plans to see it. If they hadn't seen it, the reference likely would have made no sense to them anyway, so there would be no point in referencing it.
How old does a movie have to be before we can reference it, not spoil it or be able to just talk about it without getting yelled at or ripped a new one for spoiling it?
There should be no age. Because I still scratch my head to know that they had this, and still have this for the DVD cover art for the 1968 version of Planet of the Apes:
There should be no age. Because I still scratch my head to know that they had this, and still have this for the DVD cover art for the 1968 version of Planet of the Apes:
I mean, it's like: Why bother seeing the movie after seeing that image?
Also, nice topic, FluidFreedom.
Oh wow...yeah that poster says it all doesn't it?
I try to be respectful of the fact that people probably do not watch as many movies as I do and so I will be careful about spoilers, but that podcast just really got me thinking about spoiler alerts.
And thanks...I hadn't seen this topic on here, so I thought it would be interesting to get everyone's view on it.
I don't worry about it all that much. The art from Planet had a similar image on the re-release posters IIRC. I don't see kids getting ticked because they have seen a Jack In The Box work once, and now know the outcome.
Spoiler alerts were intended for cozy mysteries, where much of the fun was seeing the action and trying to figure out whodunnit before the reveal. The best spoiler alerts were Tim Hutton's in the "Ellery Queen" tv series, where he broke the fourth wall to announce the reveal was coming up.
The big spoiler alert for Soylent Green is not that it is people, but that it looks suspiciously like the genesis of Al Gore's thesis.
I don't worry about it all that much. The art from Planet had a similar image on the re-release posters IIRC. I don't see kids getting ticked because they have seen a Jack In The Box work once, and now know the outcome.
Huh?
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Originally Posted by harry chickpea
Spoiler alerts were intended for cozy mysteries, where much of the fun was seeing the action and trying to figure out whodunnit before the reveal. The best spoiler alerts were Tim Hutton's in the "Ellery Queen" tv series, where he broke the fourth wall to announce the reveal was coming up.
But the planet that they had crash landed on in the 1968 POTA was a mystery.
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Originally Posted by harry chickpea
The big spoiler alert for Soylent Green is not that it is people, but that it looks suspiciously like the genesis of Al Gore's thesis.
I was SO glad no one spoiled 'The Matrix' or 'The Usual Suspects' before I'd seen them, and when I would suggest friends see those or similar films I made it a point to insist that they avoid ALL spoilers, just see the films with no outside input whatsoever (people have afterwards thanked me for this).
On the other hand it's quite foolish when some moron clicks on a thread clearly labeled 'SPOILERS!!!' and then complains about being spoiled.
How old does a movie have to be before we can reference it, not spoil it or be able to just talk about it without getting yelled at or ripped a new one for spoiling it?
I can only answer for myself - there is no time limit. If you haven't seen it, it can be spoiled. Just because one of The Plant of the Apes (1968) posters contained an ending spoiler, it's still unacceptable.
In one review I recently read, in the first two sentences he says:
I rarely see a movie so original that I want to tell people to just see it without reading any reviews beforehand, including my own. David Lowery’s “A Ghost Story” is one of those movies. So I’m urging you in the first paragraph of this review to just see it and save this review for later.
I had always heard the term "rosebud" said in a knowing sort of way. I won't say what I thought they were referring to, lol. Anyway, once I watched that very old movie, I was REALLY glad I had never heard a spoiler about it.
On a side note, we were in line for tickets at the theater a couple weeks ago. A guy behind us was bellowing at someone he knew and had spotted there. They both had seen "mother!" Neither one had enjoyed it, apparently. Then the guy behind us shouts across the entire courtyard area:
Spoiler
"How'd you like it when they ate the BABY?!"
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And I should have thought of that before I repped you. 
