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How long after a movie releases is it acceptable to talk openly about spoilers?


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I'd say two to three weeks.

If you aren't going to a film within two weeks you aren't a huge fan. Spoilers hurt people who are big fans and excited.

For instance, I accidentally saw a spoiler, like for a second, about what happens to Thor in the latest Avengers. That ruined the "joke" when I saw the film, which was only three days after it came out.

That's just shitty.

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Yeah I try my best not to spoil it for those who haven't seen it yet. I ran across a spoiler before I saw it too. For some reason I was caught off guard when it happened still though.

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It was about Thor's physical condition, which should have been a surprise. I also saw who died.

This was all in a facebook post that my eyes flicked across but it was too late. Anyway, while watching the film I knew what was going to happen before it did. The film wasn't ruined but it was less fun.

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We who aren't in US doesn't always get a movie to theaters until later. How are we gonna go watch a movie that isn't released yet?

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That's different though.

US films are foreign for people outside of the US. I like Japanese and French films, for instance, but it takes months or years for them to get to the US. They aren't meant for me to immediately see, so I'm out of consideration for French and Japanese people who want to talk about these movies.

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So your opinion is foreigners doesn't deserve to enjoy movies without having them ruined because they live in another country.

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It's never too long. How hard is it just to include *Spoiler* in the thread title? There are numerous classic films that I haven't seen yet.

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This is typically what I always do for newer films so people who don't want to know will stop reading or it's their own fault.

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Don't forget that this site allows you to cover certain key words like this [spoiler]bet you looked, lol[/spoiler] under the formatting help link, so there's really no excuse.

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Respectfully I disagree 100 (and 80) %. Not much point in discussing a movie, let's say like Gone With The Wind, at all then. There are so many possible spoilers and the movie was made in the 40s I believe. Anyone who literally doesn't want some movie ruined for them should stay off social media completely. Seriously. I just read an article about the ancient epic poem The Odyssey. Should I not have read it for fear of spoilers? Anyone who is afraid of something spoiling a movie needs to get a life.

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Reading back, I can see that I didn’t explain myself very well. The point I was trying to make was, whilst there’s nothing wrong with discussing spoilers, it doesn’t hurt to give a warning beforehand and also, that there’s really no excuse to put a blatant spoiler in the title of a thread either.

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My point is that good older films shouldn't be perceived as spoiled because some detail is revealed. You want a WWII spolier? Germany and Japan lost !! So there you go, every WWII movie spoiled.
Seriously, it annoys me no end when this subject comes up. One of my favorite movies is called Junebug. I would love to share it with one of my female friends and I would never dream of saying what happens in the end. So why do I want to share this movie with her? Isn't it spoiled for me? The onus is on the person to not expose themselves to sources of spoilers, not mature adults wanting to discuss a movie. All These Spoiler Alert stuff is fine and I try to use them, but for instance, I just described something from the Mary Tyler Moore show. What if someone hasn't seen this? I didn't print any warnings, just described a funny thing that happened in an episode. What if no one watched Cheers before and hear that Diane gets replaced. Aww, boo hoo. (I forget how they explained that one. I liked Diane more than Rebecca.)

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Ok, I’ll continue to give spoiler warnings and you can do whatever you feel is appropriate. Peace and love.

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I think that spoilers can be discussed the day after a movie comes out. BUT put a spoiler warning in the title and if you aren't going to do that use the [spoiler] formatting.

I understand that people think that just because a movie has been out for a long time spoilers should just be fair, but when you consider that over 12000 movies come out every year there is a good chance that someone out there hasn't seen the movie. Then you could also have younger people that are just coming of an age where the movie might interest them and they want to see some comments on a movie to see if it's good and worth watching and right there on the page the whole movie is spoiled. Not cool.

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100% agree.

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I am guilty of this with older movies. I assume everyone has seen Casablanca.

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I have found myself guilty of it too, but when my 13 year old niece was asking me about Psycho and she didn't know the twist, I was surprised that there was a single person on this planet that didn't know and thought that it might be pretty cool if she watched it not knowing. That didn't happen, it was spoiled and I felt a little sad.

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It’s on my ‘get round to it list’. I know, I’m ashamed of myself.

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Oh boo hoo. Someone spoiled my movie. No matter how good the script, cinematography and acting, the movie is now a waste of time. Good. That leaves the rest of us to have a good serious discussion away from the whining babies.

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I'm fine with you having a discussion, but why is it too much to ask for a simple spoiler warning?

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I think the onus is on the person who doesn't want the information. Who knows what a spoiler is these days? Knowing the title of the next Star Wars movie might be a spoiler for some delicate creature. They are just effing movies, for gosh sakes.

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Negative infinity. People only watch these kinds of movies twice. Once to see them, then once again knowing the twist. Then the mystery is gone and it's worthless. Spoil the movie and save people the trouble of seeing it that second time. Then we can all get back to watching Ace Ventura over and over and quoting every line.

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