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Re:Studios: Please Don't Spoil the Movie We Are Seated to See by mathgeek on Thursday October 10, 2024 @02:31PM (#41801802)
I’m sure the irony of the blog post spoiling several classic movie scenes is not lost on the blogger.
Re:Studios: Please Don't Spoil the Movie We Are Seated to See by Yizahi on Thursday October 10, 2024 @04:06PM (#41802952)
The issue is statistics. There are billions of blog posts and only a tiny fraction of them talk about content of story based media, and most of the ones which do so are prefacing spoilers or hiding them. Same on forums. On the other hand 99% of all cinemas show spoilers of various severity before 99% of all movies. I've stopped watching movie trailers on streaming services a decade ago and the issue was severe even back then. Cinemas show the same or even longer trailers with spoilers for practically every movie in current season. It is rather offensive for me - to pay money to watch movie and get worse experience than pirates have.
Re:Studios: Please Don't Spoil the Movie We Are Seated to See by toolz on Thursday October 10, 2024 @02:42PM (#41801952)
I personally had zero expectations that a blog post around the subject of spoilers wouldn't talk about spoilers. So, not ironic for me.
Re:Studios: Please Don't Spoil the Movie We Are Seated to See by tshaddox on Thursday October 10, 2024 @03:32PM (#41802591)
Just like I expect that visiting a web page about how frustrating malware is would infect my computer with malware.
Re:Studios: Please Don't Spoil the Movie We Are Seated to See by toolz on Thursday October 10, 2024 @04:56PM (#41803506)
Poor analogy imo. It's socially acceptable to talk about movies that were aired years ago with or without a warning. It's never socially acceptable to infect someones computer with malware prior to explicit consent. There's an expectation that someone writing about spoilers, will in fact detail the spoiler in question. Given that's an expectation you consent to being told about the spoiler by reading the article. If that isn't an expectation, I'm curious what you or anyone else had hoped the article would be talking about?
Re:Studios: Please Don't Spoil the Movie We Are Seated to See by Dylan16807 on Thursday October 10, 2024 @02:36PM (#41801868)
It's very vague about the other movies, I disagree.

Even for the subject of the post the only spoiler is the single word "chestburster".

Re:Studios: Please Don't Spoil the Movie We Are Seated to See by jonny_eh on Thursday October 10, 2024 @02:37PM (#41801894)
How many kids are reading it though?
Re:Studios: Please Don't Spoil the Movie We Are Seated to See by bredren on Thursday October 10, 2024 @03:06PM (#41802266)
And further, would a kid want to be surprised by the spoilers contained in the entry?
Re:Studios: Please Don't Spoil the Movie We Are Seated to See by tvaziri on Thursday October 10, 2024 @03:12PM (#41802342)
I was careful to word it in such a way that I would NOT spoil the movies I discuss.
Re:Studios: Please Don't Spoil the Movie We Are Seated to See by yunwal on Friday October 11, 2024 @03:54PM (#41813010)
"chestburster scene" isn't a particularly hard one to figure out
Re:Studios: Please Don't Spoil the Movie We Are Seated to See by saurik on Thursday October 10, 2024 @05:30PM (#41803781)
The article isn't saying "don't talk about these old movies at all as it spoils them"; it is, instead, very explicit that this is about "the movie we are seated to see".