MAJOR SPOILERS!!!
wtf! no spoiler warning at all.
Grave of the fireflies was one of the few Ghibli films I hadnt got around to seeing yet.
Plot is totally spoiled in the first few sentences.
fuck you author!!
I agree; some stories are more damaged by spoilers than others. If the primary appeal of a story is a shocking surprise, the spoiler takes much of the fun out of it. But some stories aren't particularly hurt even if you know the details.
However, in this case, the spoiler (which I read long ago) told me that it's a film I want to skip; I don't enjoy stories with bad endings, no matter what message they're trying to convey or point they're trying to make. There's too much of that in reality already to seek it out in fiction.
I mean, it's an 18-year old movie. What did you expect? That nobody ever talks about the plot of movies forever and all time? There's a time when we have to say "okay, people have probably watched it, it's safe to talk about it freely now", and 18 years is definitely more than enough time for that to be the case.
> It's a 27 years old movie actually. Get your facts right.
That... I mean... That just proves my point more. Jesus. I'm sorry that I apparently made a blunder in my quick mental math and provided a more conservative answer than the truth. Stop making it sound like it ruins my entire argument, especially since my argument wasn't even based on the exact number of years.
Instead, my argument was that after a certain amount of time, it's pointless to worry about spoilers because enough time has passed to actually give a person a chance to have watched the movie if it interested them. Stupidly declaring everything a spoiler just makes it so that it's impossible to talk about a movie and have a real discussion, as this article does. If we worried about spoilers for a 27-year old movie, this article wouldn't exist.
Yes. They had several years as teens to have watched the movie if they so choose. They decided not to, maybe because they hadn't heard of the movie (and, really, would have probably heard of the movie based on the interests before seeing the spoiler), maybe because it didn't interest them (in which case, whatever, the spoiler won't ruin anything). Too bad for them. They had their chance, they didn't take it. It makes no sense for everyone else to suffer for this absolutely ridiculous hypothetical. And it is ridiculous. It won't happen, and if it does, then big fucking whoop. It's a spoiler. It's not the end of the world. You're making this seem like a far bigger deal than it actually is.
Plus, many platforms don't have spoiler tags by default, so have fun putting these magical spoiler tags in.
Edit: And you know what? If you were a 15-year old teen with an interest in Miyazaki's movies, or war movies, or whatever interests you to want to watch said movie, and you've just been let onto the internet, what are you going to look for first? The movie that you so desperately want to see, or an article about it that could potentially spoil it? Like seriously, that's how ridiculous your hypothetical is right now. The chance of it happening is so absurdly low.
> Plus, many platforms don't have spoiler tags by default, so have fun putting these magical spoiler tags in.
you dont need spoiler tags, you simply write down in words:"careful spoilers" in case you can't even be bothered finding a CMS that does spoilers.
> what are you going to look for first?
What if you are on HN, you stumble on this article you had no idea of, and did not know about Ghibli movies - and poof, you are spoiled without warning. That's how ridiculous your point is. The possibility is very real. If you don't see it, no point discussing it further.