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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 17,330 |
| | Posted: | | | | On this....  Would you consider "It's all fun and games until someone gets stabbed with a tire iron." ... A tagline and don't belong? Part of the Overview? If part of the overview... would you separate it from the rest? As it is now in the database like this... Quote:
It's all fun and games until someone gets stabbed with a tire iron.
When a pledge week prank goes terribly wrong and one of their own is killed, the popular, hard-partying sisters of Theta Pi vow never to speak of the tragedy again. But the past comes back to haunt them in the form of a homicidal maniac seeking revenge during the out-of-control graduation festivities. Not sure what... but something here just not sitting right with me? But even if it is part of the overview... I am not convinced on the blank line between the sentence and the rest of the overview. Thoughts on this one is much appreciative. | | | | Pete |
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| Registered: May 26, 2007 |  Posts: 186 |
| | Posted: | | | | In any case, the blank line is wrong.
But I would characterize it as a tagline. Since a tagline is a kind of an explanatory subtitle, in addition to the actual movie title, this would fit in my opinion. | | | | "The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself, with desire for what its monstrous laws have made monstrous and unlawful." |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 17,330 |
| | Posted: | | | | That was my initial thought as well... but sometimes it is hard to tell for sure when it comes to taglines. | | | | Pete |
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| Registered: March 29, 2007 | Reputation:  | | Posts: 2,737 |
| | Posted: | | | | It feels like a tagline to me. In any event, if it stays, I don't think it's a separate paragraph. | | | | Marty - Registered July 10, 2004, User since 2002. |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 17,330 |
| | Posted: | | | | Yeah... I am pretty sure that if it stays (which I am doubting)... it wouldn't be a separate paragraph. Can a single sentence even be a paragraph? Language class was soooo long ago!  | | | | Pete |
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| Registered: March 20, 2007 | Reputation:  | | Posts: 2,850 |
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| Registered: June 21, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 2,621 |
| | Posted: | | | | I can't call it and could make arguments for both sides of it.
The one thing for sure, the space is wrong. |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 17,330 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting scotthm: Quote:
Tagline.
--------------- Thank You... this helps. Can you tell I really don't use IMDb? Tagline it is. With a source that it is a tagline at that.  | | | | Pete |
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| Registered: February 12, 2014 | | Posts: 57 |
| | Posted: | | | | I would leave it in and bold it - which is exactly as it's displayed on the case. It's the intro to all that follows in the rest of the text. But ... others with more experience appear to disagree. *shrug* |
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| Registered: March 14, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 1,819 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Early Memphis: Quote:
I would leave it in and bold it - which is exactly as it's displayed on the case. It's the intro to all that follows in the rest of the text. But ... others with more experience appear to disagree. *shrug* This. In my opinion, if a tagline is included as part of the overview it should be left. It wouldn't be left out if it was in the middle so I see no difference if it's at the beginning. |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 17,330 |
| | Posted: | | | | Is it the beginning of the Overview? or Is it just right above the overview? That can definitely be debated. If it wrapped around to the next line with some of the next sentence on the next line with it... then it would be definitely part of the overview.
Unlike if it was in the middle of the overview, then it would unquestionably be part of the overview. But just above the overview like this... I automatically read it as separate from the overview. As obviously so did the original contributor since he separated it with a blank line.
Though what you say is why I wasn't 100% sure and opened this thread. | | | | Pete | | | | Last edited: by Addicted2DVD |
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| Registered: June 21, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 2,621 |
| | Posted: | | | | They make locks for this reason. If you want the tagline as part of your overview, just lock it before the submission gets approved or before you accept it.  Everybody wins, everybody supper-happy!  |
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| Registered: March 14, 2007 | | Posts: 5,734 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Pantheon: Quote:
It wouldn't be left out if it was in the middle I would, now that we have the definitive source for Text vs. Taglines. The Rules leave no room for interpretation: Never include Taglines in overviews. | | | | Don't confuse while the film is playing with when the film is played. [Ken Cole, DVD Profiler Architect] |
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| Registered: March 14, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 1,819 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting bbbbb: Quote:
Quoting Pantheon:
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It wouldn't be left out if it was in the middle
I would, now that we have the definitive source for Text vs. Taglines. The Rules leave no room for interpretation: Never include Taglines in overviews. And THIS is why the current rules are utterly useless and why more and more users keep their data local. Before long it will get to the point where this program is no better than others that just download rubbish from third party database. That's not what I paid for and it's not what I want. But, hey, at least I CAN lock my local. |
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| Registered: May 29, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 3,475 |
| | Posted: | | | | The only problem with that link is the source. IMDb is not only not allowed per invelos' rules, but posts in these forums have consistently lambasted that site for it's inaccuracy. |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 17,330 |
| | Posted: | | | | No one ever said it was a definitive source. At least not me. But it does show that the sentence in question was one of the taglines used in the movie... to help me decide what on the back cover was or was not part of the overview.
From there it is all a matter of opinion. | | | | Pete |
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