This thread got me thinking. What is the SDMB statute of limitations on spoiler warnings? Will someone get mad if I say that “Rosebud” was the sled? That Dorothy makes it back to Kansas? I can understand such warnings about first-run films, but if something has been out on home video for five years, does anyone really have cause to get upset about potential spoilers?
I suppose 10 years is a good, round number. After a decade, if you haven’t seen the movie, you’re probably not gonna care…
I guess you can go with five years if it was a lousy movie, or if nobody cared about it.
Or, if you’re gonna discuss the ending of something, why not take the 10 seconds it takes to hit 15 characters (including the space) and put SPOILER WARNING in your title or the first line. What does it hurt?
The point is that just because, say…Citizen Kane is a classic that’s been around for decades, it’s still possible that someone hasn’t seen it. I first saw Hitchcock’s Suspicion about 3 years ago and I’d have been pissed if someone ruined it.
I don’t see the harm in adding the warning.
Fenris
In IMHO, putting “WARNING-SPOILER!” in the thread title, or in bold letters at the top of the post, is good enough.
A stupid sled??? That’s all it was? Man, that’s a dissappointment.
Well yeah, but the sled was Luke’s father. And was really a woman in drag.
A dead woman in drag, you mean.
One vote here for keeping the words “Spoiler Warning” in the thread title, no matter how old the movie may be. It takes me a while to work my way around to seeing some movies, more than 10 years sometimes, and I’m still annoyed that a while ago someone here at this end “spoilered” The Crying Game for me.
Isn’t Kansas a bit warm for sledding, though?
The sled was made of people.
It’s really Earth. There’s a half-buried sled. Damn you all to hell!
She’s really a man. She has a sled.
The sled lives with his mother.
The one-sledded man did it.
The butler did it.
All the butlers did it.
Killed in the opening scene, no less. But we don’t find out until the end.
… When we find out that her new friend is the one that killed her!