This is a prime example of why I hate pretentious film buffs.
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!!!deleted!!! (19664510) — 10 years ago(July 02, 2015 10:18 PM)
This is a prime example of why I hate pretentious film buffs.
Then you're a needlessly melodramatic twat who requires a copious dose of medication.
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!!!deleted!!! (19664510) — 10 years ago(July 03, 2015 08:06 PM)
You think I need medication because I hate when people spoil a movie for me,
No. That's not what I said. You're melodramatic because you're using the word "hate" to describe film buffs.
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Synergetic11 — 10 years ago(July 06, 2015 09:14 AM)
The DVD and Bluray menus themselves have a Statue of Liberty buried in the sand design as part of the rotating images that come up. So, straight up, they're already spoiling it for anyone who watches this for the first time.
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DryToast — 10 years ago(July 14, 2015 11:10 PM)
I usually don't mind plot spoilers because I don't think plot is the most important element of a movie, and it's only an inferior movie that depends on the surprise of a plot twist for its primary value. If the movie is any good in the first place, the twist should still be satisfying.
To use the example of a slightly more recent movie, "I'll have what she's having" should still be funny when finally seeing it in context in
When Harry Met Sally
even after seeing the out-of-context clip a hundred times.
As Dr. Gregory House once said, "If the wonder is gone when the truth is known, there never was any wonder."
Also, you're talking about
Planet of the Apes
here. This is not just some obscure murder mystery from the 1930s, this is an iconic classic that had a huge impact on the culture of its day (including the young up-and-coming generation) and entered the world's consciousness as few movies do, in a way that makes it impossible to hide from its plot twist over forty years later.
This is like someone being annoyed that he knows about Adam and Eve and the apple before reading Genesis for himself.
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svenrufus — 10 years ago(March 17, 2016 05:11 PM)
Depending on how you saw the film, the spoiler might have come from the film makers themselves! Check out the cover to some home media launch.
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jsm-33292 — 10 years ago(March 30, 2016 03:37 PM)
I was annoyed when apprised of the twist too, but sober reasoning calmed my agitation.
I mean reasoning such as this:
(1) A twist ending is ephemeral. You are only surprised once. Since the high quality aspects of a film can be enjoyed repeatedly, any elements that give enjoyment only once don't qualify as high quality. So you're not losing out on much.
(2) I've often felt that knowing a twist ending before I first watch it can be more satisfying than being surprised. That's because my brain can concentrate on the meaning of the ending rather than being distracted by surprise. And the more meaningful the ending is, the less important its 'surprise' element is.
(3) Knowing there's a twist ending to a film, without knowing what the twist actually is, can raise expectations too high. You may well then find the ending anti-climactic.
(4) As mentioned by someone earlier in the thread, plot belongs on the lowest tier of a film's attributes. And surprise belongs on the lowest tier of a plot's attributes. Clarity, credibility, economy, and balance are all more important aspects of a plot than surprise (which is really just decorative frippery). -
Fletcherj119 — 10 years ago(March 31, 2016 02:32 AM)
I didn't see Burton's 2001 film in theaters, so I went out of my way to avoid reviews or any kind of spoilers so I could see it unbiased when the disc was released. But I did hear that it had a twist ending.
When I finally watched the movie, as soon as Wahlberg launched the ship toward the end, I knew what was going to happen, having read the original novel.
That movie doesn't bother me as much as it does some people; it's inferior, of course, to the original movie series, but I didn't think it was that bad for what it was. -
laplante-co-672-297856 — 9 years ago(April 10, 2016 04:22 PM)
Did you just return from deep space on a mission of your own or what?
This movie has been part of pop culture for over forty years. The ending has been mentioned and spoofed over and over again even the cover of the DVD has given away the ending for a decade or more that I know of.
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JamesA-1102 — 9 years ago(April 11, 2016 07:55 AM)
even the cover of the DVD has given away the ending for a decade or more that I know of.
Only one release of the DVD in 2001 had a cover that gave away the ending. All subsequent releases in 2003 (
http://www.potamediaarchive.com/images/HVcovers/DVD_Planet-1968b.jpg
), 2006 (
http://www.potamediaarchive.com/images/HVcovers/DVD_Planet-1968c.jpg
) and 2008 (
http://www.potamediaarchive.com/images/HVcovers/bluray_planet.jpg
) had different covers.
