It’s a fine line for sure but it’s the unavoidable spoilers in unanticipated places that get me. I was listening to a commentary on a disc I was reviewing and the commentator barely spoke about the movie on the disc, but did spoil the endings of probably half a dozen other films that were...
I agree - I find it to be a vastly different experience rewatching something I’ve seen before vs watching something I’ve never seen where I already know what to expect.
On the movies section here at HTF, the unofficial rule of thumb is ten days for spoiler tags on new releases in their own threads, and not to blow another movie’s ending in an unrelated thread ever. That gives two weekends for a film, which I think is fair. And I think in general it’s just in...
I’d almost call that a spoiler by omission and my radar is up for that. Anytime someone tells me (or if i see a clickbait headline that says) “You’ll never see the twist coming” then I’m on the lookout for it from the start and I do see it coming.
Then there are times with a movie like “The...
I don’t really worry about direct spoilers from individuals as people are usually pretty decent about not revealing stuff one-on-one.
What’s more troublesome to me is this entire cottage industry of “weaponized spoilers” that pop up immediately as a film is opening or a show is airing, so that...