And maybe some people can't get tickets or can't get 3 hours to see it. My policy, once it's released on media, I usually take Blu-Ray/DVD street date, then its free game.
I agree, if it’s important enough that you don’t want it to be spoiled, you will make the effort to see it, no matter the circumstances. People want to talk about the movie, so let them
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Let them talk about it, not proclaim it to the world... the people who spoiled it for me knew damn well that i hadn’t watched it, but still spoke in an exaggeratedly loud voice as they spoiled it. Also the reason i can’t watch it is because i am grounded, and have no control on when i can watch it.
If you spoil it for someone accidentally being too loud or close to them, their issue. If you knowingly spoil it for someone, you’re an asshole.
Yeah that’s an entirely different concept. I was thinking in morenof the internet sense
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Fair enough.
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Big. I feel like this is the one instance where most people saw it opening weekend and didn't feel like putting spoiler tags on everything after the first week, which I feel is reasonable. Marvel even started sprinkling one spoiler at a time into the trailers seemingly to encourage people to see it sooner.
Yeah yeah, "blah blah I couldn't get to the theater for this or that reason" look man that sucks, but that just means you gotta work harder to avoid spoilers. Sorry.
I feel like this is a very dated POV. A kid up there is grounded, a friend of mine had a kid and already has one and works full time and is going to school for work. Another person I talked to gets paid once a month, and goes to the movies on payday. My neighbor has joint child custody and is taking his kids but he doesn’t get them until near the end of May. And what about people in remote areas or with health problems etc? This is the Internet. There are literally people on here stuck on oil rigs or remote deserts or the Antarctic. So there are plenty of valid reasons not to see a film for a few weeks or more, and “pirate it and break the law and risk fines and penalties to avoid spoilers” is a moronic answer to those types of problems as is “avoid all human contact and media.”
So yeah- people want to discuss a film and they have the right. They are excited about a film they saw. But people who say it’s your responsibility to avoid spoilers- does that logic hold up? If someone brings their new born baby to the theater showing of Endgame you were in and it cries the whole film would you say “oh well. If I really wanted to see the movie without a baby crying I would have brought headphones or made sure there were no babies here...” if someone decides to shit their pants for fun on a long plane or bus ride next to you and tells you “well- if you didn’t want to smell my shit you wouldn’t have taken the bus. Comes with the territory..” would you say “yeah. You’re right.”
Likely not. Likely we can list hypothetical scenarios all day where someone could find a way to ruin something for you out of their own enjoyment and theory that it’s your responsibility to enjoy yourself and not their problem. Is that the kind of world you want to live in? Where it’s just acceptable for other people to do whatever they want and it’s your problem if you don’t like it? If people who dont want spoilers make the effort to avoid spoiler threads, and people who want to discuss it make a little effort to be considerate to others, no one is carrying a huge weight and everyone can be happy. At some point we do have to say there’s a limit- if you haven’t seen a movie that’s been out years we can’t expect the world to walk on eggshells about it- but I guess it’s up to individuals how self centered they want to be in the end.
If you spoil it for someone accidentally being too loud or close to them, their issue. If you knowingly spoil it for someone, you’re an asshole.
Yeah yeah, "blah blah I couldn't get to the theater for this or that reason" look man that sucks, but that just means you gotta work harder to avoid spoilers. Sorry.