Spoiler boxes are cumbersome to read and the white-on-black text causes eyestrain. While I agree with DtC that they are inappropriate for this thread – which has a spoiler warning in the thread title – even if they were appropriate they aren’t the bastion of goodness some make them out to be.
They may be “easy”, but I dispute that they are always courteous. Even if it’s something I don’t want to be spoiled about, I’d much rather skim and skip. Once I’ve seen something that was heavily spoiler-boxed, I can’t really go back and read them because it hurts my eyes too much.
I had to skip much of this thread not because I hadn’t seen the movies in question, but because it’s just not worth reading a conversation in spoiler boxes. Way too much clicking and eyestrain.
I saw Raising Arizona for the first time in many years today, and realized I’d forgotten most of the movie other than the basic premise and some of the jokes. It was almost like watching a new movie, and I was in fact rather surprised at something that happened towards the end. I don’t know that I’d call it totally unfair, as the character in question was a horrible person, but the rest of the movie hadn’t prepared me for:The scary biker bounty hunter to get blown up with his own grenade.
I suspect that the moral code of at least some criminals is higher than those of some police enforcement and they don’t kill themselves in every day life. The author could have used some other technique to get the point across that Javert understood that he was flawed. People realized how flawed they are every day and don’t take their lives.
but I do understand your point.
Yeah, I meant that it was unfair of the author to choose that way to do it. It seemed to be an unfair ending to his character.
In Far and Away, during the Oklahoma Territory land run:Nicole Kidman’s parents come from Ireland to take her back. When she refuses to go and wants to run the race, they cheat and stake out their claim, running their horses around to make them tired and sweaty. Then when the other racers show up, they plant their claim flag, having cheated everyone. And they were rich as Croesus and had esttes back in Ireland. THey didn’t need the land.
When that scene happened, the theatre rang with cheers and laughter, and I just fumed. Cheaters.
