Wow. Has nobody on here
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Kay_Rock — 10 years ago(July 22, 2015 12:36 PM)
You are at a website devoted to discussing films. You open threads for a specific movie (a movie which is SIX YEARS OLD), and you're upset that they're DISCUSSING THE FILM?
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whatsthisnow — 10 years ago(November 30, 2015 03:41 PM)
There are moments when life offers you an opportunity to evaluate how well you're using your mind. You've been given a gift. Learn from this. Try thinking things through.
That's some patronising nonsense from someone who appears to have missed that OP was talking about spoilers in the post titles, not the threads. Besides,
there's a spoiler tag
. Most film forums have them, and people use them. It's called
"not being a dick"
. Think about it. There are moments when life offers you an opportunity to evaluate how well you're using your mind. You've been given a gift. Learn from this. Try thinking things through. -
Scooby52 — 10 years ago(July 25, 2015 05:55 AM)
If you want to check out whether a movie is worth watching or not, then just read through the dozens of user movie reviews, or the critics reviews that are always linked If you go to a movie's message board designed for people who've already seen the film and wish to discuss it then you get what you deserve.
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outterspaces — 10 years ago(September 14, 2015 12:10 PM)
The OP isn't complaining about people discussing the film with spoilers. He simply said that it's awful when people feel the urge to write spoilers in the freaking title! I watched the film long ago but, as newspapers, if you haven't read/watched it, it's news.
Scrolling down to the reviews section reveals the discussion boards as well, often with CAPS ALL OVER, FROM LONELY PEOPLE SCREAMING SPOILERS.
It will always be a dick move that's why I don't even bother with reviews from the internet, cause the spoilerists are everywhere, enjoying ruining it for others. -
carl_johnson-1 — 10 years ago(September 16, 2015 09:01 AM)
Even before the Message Boards section, there's the Cast, Storyline, Did You Know? (with Trivia, Goofs, Quotes, etc.), Frequently Asked Questions, and User Reviews, ALL of which contain spoilers. So it seems dishonest to blame message board users for spoiling, when essentially the ENTIRE PAGE has spoilers.
The more you scroll down, the more you'll be spoiled. At least the Message Board section is last.
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Spielburger — 10 years ago(September 16, 2015 05:11 PM)
Even before the Message Boards section, there's the Cast, Storyline, Did You Know? (with Trivia, Goofs, Quotes, etc.), Frequently Asked Questions, and User Reviews, ALL of which contain spoilers. So it seems dishonest to blame message board users for spoiling, when essentially the ENTIRE PAGE has spoilers.
I cannot speak for the other sections, but as the person largely responsible for the
Triangle
FAQ I have to hold my hand up and say I do what I can, but I've found from experience that this sort of film is extremely difficult to discuss in any meaningful way without spoilers. I once posted a review of the
Black Mirror
episode "White Bear" here WRT its similarities to
Triangle
, and virtually the entire (rather long) post was a black spoiler tag. No matter how hard you try, it's easy to miss something: the most recent update to the FAQ page was by another user who removed a spoiler for
Timecrimes
that I'd accidentally left in.
At least the FAQ answers are on a separate page that you can only get to via a Spoiler Alert on both the Home and FAQ pages. I did make some attempt to use spoiler tags as well, but found that they could often render the entry unreadable.
The real problem is the titles. I think that over the years we've become a little lazy and careless on this board, but it
is
possible to hide a thread's topic within the main text (The OP for this thread is a good example).
However it's much harder in the FAQ where the questions
need
to be fairly detailed if they're to serve the purpose of having a FAQ in the first place. This wouldn't matter so much if it wasn't for IMDb displaying a random selection of FAQ questions on the Home page. Looking over the current FAQ page, I think the only question heading that could be considered a genuine spoiler is the one regarding
"The sinister and determined Jess"
. Seriously: if anyone can think of a better way to word this question while keeping it relevant, I'd love to hear your suggestions (although it's probably best if you post them on the FAQ's "Discuss" page) -
carl_johnson-1 — 10 years ago(September 17, 2015 09:20 AM)
Hey, don't take it personally. I was speaking more in general, for all movies and their IMDB pages. I'm just of the mindset that when you visit a film's IMDB page, you'll be spoiled. And if you start scrolling down, you be even more and more spoiled the more you scroll.
So keep the FAQs as they are. It would really be silly to see every movie page with a "Why did You-Know-Who do You-Know-What in the You-Know-Where" question in their FAQ. -
tbonesays — 10 years ago(September 16, 2015 05:40 PM)
This isn't an M Night Shamylan film where you only have to spoil the last 5 minutes. This is a triple time loop exhibition where each scene is intertangled with the other two loops. We simply cannot analyze the film and block out the spoilers and expect to end up with an intelligible post.
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Thought_Criminal_J62377 — 9 years ago(July 13, 2016 05:58 PM)
you read the user reviews, if you wanna find out if a movie is good or not, you don't read the message boards, duh!
user reviews: spoiler free (or spoiler alerts), right on the movie's main page, just scroll down.
message boards: a place people can discuss a movie they've finished watching, you have to click the link to get there.
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