*Spoiler* Alerts are taking over the community!!

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Permalink Reply by Phatz on March 29, 2009 at 11:27pm

These are just some of mine that were tagged with the inappropriate flag. I have noticed a particular member whose profile now went private but everything he writes a review of one I previously wrote a Flag shows up on mine. It's probably coincidence cuz we both write a lot of reviews. This is about much more than me though. hundreds of reviews are being polluted by this gang marking their presence. I'm surprised Netflix allows such malicious hateful activity. But I am mostly just awed at the pathetic childishness some reviewers will stoop to.


Choke
http://www.netflix.com/Movie/Choke/70084146?trkid=217220

Happy-Go-Lucky
http://www.netflix.com/Movie/Happy-Go-Lucky/70105126?trkid=217220

Shiver
http://www.netflix.com/Movie/Shiver/70107470?trkid=204764

Sex Drive
http://www.netflix.com/Movie/Sex_Drive/70104312?trkid=204764


Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008)
http://www.netflix.com/Movie/Vicky_Cristina_Barcelona/70097585?dmod...

Death Race
http://www.netflix.com/Movie/Death_Race/70098610?trkid=222336&l...

Let the Right One In (2008)
http://www.netflix.com/Movie/Let_the_Right_One_In/70099621?trkid=21...

Babylon A.D. (2008)
http://www.netflix.com/Movie/Babylon_A.D./70098331?trkid=204764
- which has also disappeared from the at a glance page.

Bangkok Dangerous (2000)
http://www.netflix.com/Movie/Bangkok_Dangerous/60022652?trkid=22233...


Resident Evil: Degeneration (2008)
http://www.netflix.com/Movie/Resident_Evil_Degeneration/70109473?tr...


Man on Wire (2008)
http://www.netflix.com/Movie/Man_on_Wire/70084167?trkid=222336&...


War, Inc. (2008)
http://www.netflix.com/Movie/War_Inc./70095734?trkid=222336&lnk...

Sukiyaki Western Django (2007)
http://www.netflix.com/Movie/Sukiyaki_Western_Django/70081097?trkid...

Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008)
http://www.netflix.com/Movie/Hellboy_II_The_Golden_Army/70075481?tr...


Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired
http://www.netflix.com/Movie/Roman_Polanski_Wanted_and_Desired/7008...


Outlaw (2007)
http://www.netflix.com/Movie/Outlaw/70084761?trkid=222336&lnkct...

Penelope (2006)
http://www.netflix.com/Movie/Penelope/70063591?trkid=222336&lnk...


Wall-E
http://www.netflix.com/Movie/WALL-E/70087540?trkid=222336&lnkct...

So alas, I am on the high road with a few others, and ALL I can do is assure the community I don't write spoilers. Read them anyway. It is just the jealous and the immature doing what they do.

And now I move on from this thread hoping one day Netflix will open their eyes but committed to stay the course regardless!

To the many many great friends and good people in the community, Thanks for making this such a great place!

Cheers ALL!
-Matt

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Permalink Reply by Phatz on March 30, 2009 at 10:08am

Two things in closing:

Colonel, you have more fans than I do and spent as much time on top of reviewer rank, with that exposure vulnerability are you feeling theses attacks too? I'm wondering if maybe its everybody in the top 10 at risk? I did see you were really being unfairly violated with Not Helpfuls so I left a little kindness behind. I didn't read all 1500 but in looking to see if you were spoiler hit I found your MMHA review and found it very big of you exemplifying quality character. Your a good writer this is one of the best IMHO. =)

One final thought in closing, if in fact anyone does see text that could be read as a spoiler in any of my reviews now or future, (Slumdog millionaire even popped up a spoiler this morning soon it will be all 650 for now I found 21) then please contact me and let me know I will edit it immediately. There are no spoilers in my reviews.

Cheers ALL!
-Matt

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Permalink Reply by JDoors on March 30, 2009 at 11:38am

Someone else said it (in this thread or another), and I do the same thing: I usually don't even include a snyopsis of the plot in my reviews. There's the Netflix synopsis RIGHT THERE if you want to know what the movie's about. I assume if you're interested in that movie you've at least read the synopsis already, why repeat it? How is THAT helpful? And if a preview's available, you've seen that too.

I "allude" to specific twists and turns in the plot, never spelling it out, unless it's simply SO preposterous that it might be helpful for someone on the fence to know; this part of the movie is incredibly stupid, and why.

I might say something like, "There was a death that came as quite a shock," rather than, "Why'd they have to kill off the main character!?" It SEEMS obvious, but I guess you can't expect everyone to think, or even care, about spoiling a movie for others.

I've mentioned this elsewhere but it's a cute-ish story: I was one of the last people on Earth, it seems, to see The Sixth Sense. Fortunately, for many reasons, no one I knew who'd seen it had ANY temptation whatsoever to spoil the twist for me. People know when it's worth keeping their mouths shut. : )

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Permalink Reply by Phatz on March 31, 2009 at 7:49am

JDoors,

That may be true on a popular movie and is most CERTAINLY true if someone is reading a review on the Movie at a Glance page, its obvious they will have read the synopsis. BUT if someone is reading through your reviews pages they may not know the basic premise of the movie (they may only know the name and the cover art) and so a quickie line to say, this is about an assassin, for example would make sense. Obviously going into detail is less necessary because the reader can then scroll the mouse over the title or skip it knowing the don't like killing. So for the most part I agree completely. The on other circumstance is when the Netflix movie synopsis is so far off it needs corrected, or so incomplete that it leaves out things that could make or break a decision for some people e.g. pedophilia or rape in a movie are instant no-no's for viewers and if its skipped in the synopsis that could be a Helpful note. It happens more than I would have thought but still as a general rule I agree a synopsis is not a review.

People know when it's worth keeping their mouths shut. : )

Thankfully true most of the time. I REALLY HATE spoilers. I usually don't even read many reviews (unless really on the fence) before renting a movie. I like to know very little about it when possible. I think that is why these inappropriate spoiler alerts are SO damaging to the Netflix site. I'm not sure I've ever met a person who said they *like* spoilers, though very rarely a review could contain a mild spoiler and still be a very Helpful review. I just avoid it all together so there is never any question.

Thanks for your insights Jdoors!
Cheers!
-Matt

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Permalink Reply by JDoors on March 31, 2009 at 9:15am

"... BUT if someone is reading through your reviews pages they may not know the basic premise of the movie ..."

Doh! Hadn't thought of that, the reasoning is so sound I will have to start including more basic information from now on. Thanks.

(Wondering now how many 'not helpfuls' I might have received because someone found the review on a page with no further information about the movie ... that could explain quite a lot.)

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Permalink Reply by Andelora Deveroux on March 31, 2009 at 10:20am

I'm like deep in the 120,000s and some of my reviews in the same categories were tagged (I don't put spoilers either) so I think these people are targetting key words [for Choke, I think it's 'book'] or simply lengthy reviews.

But on the subject of who like's spoilers, I have family members who hate being surprised and if I give them 30 seconds to tell me about any given movie, within 25 seconds they've told me the ending. I find it extremely annoying and I can't have discussions about movies anymore for this sake, but luckily none of them know how to use computers. Lol.

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Permalink Reply by Drom John on June 12, 2009 at 6:54am

1) I don't see these as spoilers.
2) They seem to be at or toward the top with predominantly helpful votes.

So no big deal.

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Permalink Reply by Andelora Deveroux on March 31, 2009 at 10:07am

Agreed!! As well as Choke! [I got on this thing today to express my annoyance with the 'spoiler' tags] I'm teaked that people are doing this to begin with! The only thing I hate worse than getting my opinionated reviews allegedly flagged as spoilers are reading reviews that give away the whole movie and aren't flagged themselves! Grr, spiteful morons...

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Permalink Reply by Freakin Meow on March 31, 2009 at 10:26am

I read somewhere that one person just automatically clicks on all four boxes when they don't like the review, or if (s)he thinks that person is getting an inordinate number of helpfuls.

Lame.

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Permalink Reply by BuBBa on March 31, 2009 at 8:07pm

Totaly

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Permalink Reply by jumpspeed on April 3, 2009 at 1:14pm

Did you read that in Popular Machanics? because that would be weird if you read it in there. I mean, why would Popular Mechanics even be doing a story on netflix reviews.

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Permalink Reply by Pihk on April 3, 2009 at 4:40pm

Haven't we already discussed the pitfalls of posting while high??

;)

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