Recently I was reminded of an incident (incident might be too strong a word) in which I was discussing the movie American Psycho with a small group of people. I revealed the end of the movie casually because I was making a point about it and one of my friends got mad at me for spoiling the ending. At the time the year was 2011, and American Psycho came out in 2000. I would like to propose a rule: pointing out a spoiler alert should only be necessary for movies that are under a decade old. This is a minor gripe, some might say "petty" and be completely right but it irks me none the less (this blog is just supposed to be about whatever I feel like writing about so petty bullshit it is!). Spoilers of a movie that is old are super common. I get getting huffy over a spoiler about last night's Game of Thrones you have Tivo'd or about a movie that came out last month, but there is a line.
I have never seen Pretty Woman, but thanks to pop culture references I know the plot is roughly analogous to My Fair Lady (or Pygmalion for the more traditional thespians out there). I know, thanks to the same type of reference that there is a penis where you would not expect to find one in The Crying Game. We live in a world where pop culture references are common (shit, there is even an entire movie franchise based on parodying scary movies "ironically" called scary movie) so I would argue that expecting a ten year old movie to be spoiler free may be too much to ask. That being said, I don't think people should spoil movies on purpose, just don't get mad at people for doing it to a 10 year old movie accidentally.
That being said, because I feel petty: Kevin Spacey is Keyser Soze
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