re: Stand by Me (spoilers)

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Wasn't the Outsiders at least in a pretty big city?

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No. As I recall, it best fit a small town in North Texas.

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I never understand the age-of-movie argument against spoilers. There's tons of movies that I have never seen that I know nothing about. A good example is I didn't see No Way Out until about 2 years ago. And I was incredibly happy that I had not been spoiled.

ETA: I watched the movie last night with 2 people who had never seen it and knew nothing about it. Their experience would have been clearly much worse if I had said going in: "Oh, let's watch this one. You'll love it because of the following major plot points and reveals which I am about to enumerate for you in advance of your first-time viewing of the film. You shouldn't mind this because the movie is 24 years old."

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It's more about if you enter a thread about a 24 year old movie you should know good and well that plot points will be discussed. It is your choice to enter the thread. Watching an older movie with someone that has seen it before that gives away the ending is completely different.

For example I dvr'd tonights Southpark and will watch when I go to bed in an hour or so. I am staying the hell away from the Southpark thread because I know what's in it even though it isn't labeled spoilers.

However a thread about an upcoming Big Brother in which people know what will happen ahead of time because of BB After Dark should be labeled spoilers.

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It's more about if you enter a thread about a 24 year old movie you should know good and well that plot points will be discussed. It is your choice to enter the thread. Watching an older movie with someone that has seen it before that gives away the ending is completely different.

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Not everyone has heard of every movie. For instance, neither of the people last night had heard of it.

And plot point shouldn't be discussed if it doesn't have "spoilers" in the title. I don't understand why this is so difficult of a concept. If I had just wanted to talk about the cast, I would have not put spoilers, and the thread might have gone like "it's amazing to think where the cast of Stand By Me ended up" and then initiated a discussion about the cast.

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For example I dvr'd tonights Southpark and will watch when I go to bed in an hour or so. I am staying the hell away from the Southpark thread because I know what's in it even though it isn't labeled spoilers.

However a thread about an upcoming Big Brother in which people know what will happen ahead of time because of BB After Dark should be labeled spoilers.

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We've talked about it before, and I think it's pretty clear that TV shows are a different matter. I would certainly prefer "spoilers" to be written, but TV threads are just always going to have spoilers by definition, so I do what you do and stay out of them.

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I guess my remarks were more aimed at the older boys now that I think about it. Just 100% total delinquents without an ounce of human kindness.

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My older cousins were like that when I was eight.
They drank anything they could get their hands on, including spiking canned cokes with Dr. Tichners. They took money my grandfather gave them for haircuts and bought liqour and cigerettes with it. One time they camped out in our backyard and woke up the whole neighborhood fighting after one of them peeed in the other one's canteen.
These guys, like some of the younger and older kids in the movie had little adult supervision. Their dad left when they were little and they were too much for their mom and even my grandfather to handle. Even though they grew up in 1950-1960's small town Louisiana,they did not have an idealic upbringing.

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Set in Tulsa

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In other words, a pretty big city.

Castle Rock, on the other hand, only had 1300 people.

I thought it was not in OK because of a line near the end of The Outsiders when they're running off and Dallas (or someone) makes a joke about getting scalped in the Indian territory. Haven't researched this, just going off context clues from a book I read a long long time ago.

Maybe I need to read it again.