It has been a week since we watched it, and I still can’t stop thinking about it! Which means it is a great film.
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My DS hasn’t been to the movies in ten years but went to see it last week. DD couldn’t get tickets since it was sold out everywhere in a Bay Area, but she got tickets today for a next week show.
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I’m seeing the Elizabeth Holmes movie tomorrow. I’ll post my thoughts.
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Saw it Friday night and am still thinking about it!
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Agree with all the above. I went to see it yesterday afternoon and thought it was excellent film making. It left me with lots of questions.
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So the Holmes documentary was really interesting. I thought it got better as it went on. Lots to wonder about and I did read the book about her so I knew the basics.
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I really want to see this, but I will wait for it to stream as I’m appalled that she will profit from it given that her partner negotiated a profit-sharing deal while she was in prison.
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SPOILER ALERT!
I believe he later agreed to not accept profits from the movie.
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Good to know, but will still wait. Nothing to trust about those two.
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Yes, it says so at the beginning of the credits. Some people could have missed that because that’s when the lights get turned on, and people head for the exit to beat the crowd that packed the theater.
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I know you had no idea this would be a spoiler alert, but … it is. For those of us that were only marginally aware of her/Theranos, it was a big “oh, damn!” moment in the film when that was revealed. Maybe edit your post to include the spoiler alert warning?
Sorry, no idea what the spoiler alert would be. Elaborate?
It’s a thing, on message boards, threads…where people give others a heads up if what they’re posting is going to reveal something before others have had a chance to see something. If I were writing your above post, I’d post it like this:
I really want to see this, but I will wait for it to stream as
Spoiler Alert
I’m appalled that she will profit from it given that her partner negotiated a profit-sharing deal while she was in prison.
End Spoiler Alert
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There’s no need to do that. CC has a spoiler tag.
spoiler
you can go under the + and find “blur spoiler” or type [ spoiler ] and [/ spoiler] without the spaces around the words you want to blur out.
I don’t think what @ChoatieMom said qualifies as a spoiler, though.
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Yeah, I know how to use the spoiler alert function, just no idea what in my post was a spoiler. Her whole story is pretty common knowledge IMO. Do people not know she went to prison? Not sure how I could reveal anything about a movie I haven’t even seen.
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I know her whole story, and know that she went to prison. The detail you mention about potentially profiting off of the documentary was a pretty big yikes! moment in the film, with a bit of screen time devoted to it (people in the theatre actually vocalized surprise and disgust at that scene). But, the cat’s out of the bag here, so no use beating a dead horse.
@DeeCee36 it was @FallGirl who said
@ChoatieMom did not know that and so gave no spoiler at all. @FallGirl gave the spoiler with a kind of spoiler alert (although not as good as the real spoiler alert tag.
@DeeCee36 you are barking up the wrong tree on this.
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@Sweetgum you are correct.
I added the “ spoiler alert “ after a poster said something. Personally as a documentary, I don’t think there are really “ spoilers “ per se. it’s factual and can easily be looked up. Just my take.
I have no idea how to do the blurred out part.
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you can go under the + and find “blur spoiler” or type [ spoiler ] and [/ spoiler] without the spaces around the words you want to blur out.
It didn’t strike me as a spoiler either and I agree that since it’s a documentary it’s kind of hard to really have a spoiler, but I haven’t seen the movie.
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A bit off-topic, but all the discussion about “spoiler alert” has reminded me that I really need to figure out how to handle all those blinking lights on my refrigerator.
On topic: Really want to see The Last Pickpocket in New York. Thanks for the recommendation.
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