In today’s Weekend Press: Epstein in Neverland. Meet the thinking man’s trucker. Should Kanye West be banned? The death of the paperback. Watching ‘The Drama’ with a school shooting survivor. And more!
"We won’t give away the ending to "Planet of the Apes", but here's the iconic final frame from the stunning twist -- so while we technically have not given away the ending, you'll now spend the entire runtime wondering how a faraway planet of sentient apes also has the Statue of Liberty and when it finally happens, you'll have already figured out the twist."
C'mon, the movie is 58 years old, the ending has been spoofed for decades and it even had a remake with a silly twist reveal.
More to the point, there's gotta be a statute of limitations on spoilers. If you haven't seen something that's decades old, it's not on the rest of us to leave you unspoiled for some hypothetical future viewing.
And in that vein:
-- The Planet of the Apes is Earth
-- Soylent Green is made of people
-- Rosebud is his sled
-- The psychiatrist in the Sixth Sense dies in the first scene
-- The Matrix is a VR world being run by our robot overlords
-- Darth Vader is Luke Skywalker's father
[Aside: you want spoiled? My next-door-neighbor saw the Empire Strikes Back on opening weekend and blurted out to me the very next day the Vader-Luke's-father thing. In those pre-Internet days, THAT was a secret that caught audiences by surprise. Except me, no thanks to Frank. ]
[That said, I'm not going to spoil the secret of "The World's End", because one of my all-time favorite movie-watching experiences is going into that film knowing the secret, sitting with a dozen good friends and then watching their incredulous expressions when the film takes that amazing left turn in the middle of the bathroom bar fight. IYKYK.]
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Parting shot: the thing you're showing AIN'T the final frame of the movie. Is it AI?
Helps to remove one of the Dems. God forbid they split the vote such that two Republican end up in runoff. Nice to see the Dems go after one of their own, but, in this case, it was to serve themselves.
"We won’t give away the ending to "Planet of the Apes", but here's the iconic final frame from the stunning twist -- so while we technically have not given away the ending, you'll now spend the entire runtime wondering how a faraway planet of sentient apes also has the Statue of Liberty and when it finally happens, you'll have already figured out the twist."
C'mon, the movie is 58 years old, the ending has been spoofed for decades and it even had a remake with a silly twist reveal.
More to the point, there's gotta be a statute of limitations on spoilers. If you haven't seen something that's decades old, it's not on the rest of us to leave you unspoiled for some hypothetical future viewing.
And in that vein:
-- The Planet of the Apes is Earth
-- Soylent Green is made of people
-- Rosebud is his sled
-- The psychiatrist in the Sixth Sense dies in the first scene
-- The Matrix is a VR world being run by our robot overlords
-- Darth Vader is Luke Skywalker's father
[Aside: you want spoiled? My next-door-neighbor saw the Empire Strikes Back on opening weekend and blurted out to me the very next day the Vader-Luke's-father thing. In those pre-Internet days, THAT was a secret that caught audiences by surprise. Except me, no thanks to Frank. ]
[That said, I'm not going to spoil the secret of "The World's End", because one of my all-time favorite movie-watching experiences is going into that film knowing the secret, sitting with a dozen good friends and then watching their incredulous expressions when the film takes that amazing left turn in the middle of the bathroom bar fight. IYKYK.]
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Parting shot: the thing you're showing AIN'T the final frame of the movie. Is it AI?
There are people who have not seen the original "Planet of the Apes"?!
I blame their parents.
Swalwell?
Helps to remove one of the Dems. God forbid they split the vote such that two Republican end up in runoff. Nice to see the Dems go after one of their own, but, in this case, it was to serve themselves.
Nothing to see there Robert. Move along now.