Films The Official bit-tech Movie Thread - What have you seen lately?

It's seventeen year old film.

 

Too soon!

 

Helped!!!!!!


Although granted, it's 'only' a short story and has been way fleshed out to make it into a film

 

Ah I've only seen the film

 

To my eternal shame, I have to admit the same.

 

Genuinely swear it doesn't mention anything about SK in the opening scene credits? Obviously turn it off the minute the ending credits roll up though haha!

 

... That some people on here haven't seen.

And in fairness, as a one-off that might have gone under the radar, it's not something that would be in the general consciousness like Marvel might be.

 

I'm not gonna get in the middle of an argument if I can help it but I think Squid's right, spoiler tags are always a good courtesy no matter how old the film is. A lot of people haven't seen Citizen Kane. I haven't seen Gone With The Wind or Casablanca.

 

Citizen X was a savage classic too! I immediately thought of this by mistake when you mentioned Kane!

 

Spoiler

He doesn't actually say "Play it again Sam" the line is "Play it, Sam".

 

Yeah, I get it but...

..it's fair to say that when something has been out a long time the onus is on you to watch it, and it's not the rest of mankinds job to tiptoe around you.

Newer material, sure, but I'm not getting into a debate about what is new enough.

 

I'm rather surprised at you, mate - that seems a bit self-righteous, no? Sort of thing I'd have thought you'd call out yourself.

So rather than come to this thread looking for recommendations, we come to this thread looking for the endings so we don't have to waste time watching all those older films that we weren't responsible enough to have seen the first time around? Should we extend that to games as well? I haven't gotten around to playing Control or Prey yet, but I'd rather they weren't spoiled for me if that's okay.

And what about new films based on old source material, like Marvel? Ruin the latest blockbuster because the onus is on everyone to have done their reading up years ago? Everyone who follows Marvel knows who Kang the Conqueror is. Jesus - even some of the reviews called out the plot, but some people watching Quantumania on here weren't aware, although I'm guessing Peter Parker's "secret twist" wasn't a surprise, so should they in fact have been aware about Kang?

Given this is a cutting edge geek site, shall we go one further and say that if you're not up to date on the latest releases within a month or two, then that's your fault as well?

With The Mist, the characters spend half the film talking about whether the military were involved and whether there's any possibility of rescue or other survivors. You don't find that out until the end, which you've just given away. In fact, that's half the point of the ending (the surprise salvation) - up to then it's doom and nihilism, so you might as well just go the whole hog and describe what happens prior to that in the car (which action is driven by the overwhelming sense of doom). People should have watched it already, right? If you now know the military are about to arrive, that makes the whole previous few minutes in the car pointless, not to mention the entirety of the film leading up to that. You'd watch it going "Why do that? The army are coming".

Spoiling something for someone is spoiling it, regardless of its age.

 

Ok, the next time I watch Ben-hur I won't tell you how it ends.

No, but I absolutely will call out pious passive aggressive nonsense, like your response.

 

Nice.

I'll leave it there and go watch Ben Hur before it gets ruined then.

 

I've not seen Brokeback Mountain, is this like the plotline?

 

Jeez guys seriously, why does it get so salty in here on like a weekly basis, can't we just be a bit nicer to each other? Bit-Tech is down to about 10 active members, we can't afford to start eating each other.

And can't we just agree that using spoiler tags for endings and spoilers is, like, really common practice and basic etiquette when talking about films? I've literally never heard someone defend their right to throw unmarked spoilers around in a general discussion before, that's just such a strange hill to want to die on man.

 

I thought we were a bit busier than that. No?

 

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