'Nearly every film'? I can't think of the last film I watched where I saw a disclaimer like this. Maybe I just don't watch a lot of movies that could be interpreted as true, but this title seems hyperbolic.
Edit: it's at the very end of most films.
Edit: it's at the very end of most films.
Movies I checked that have this disclaimer:
- Despicable Me 2
- Django Unchained
- Inception
- Jurassic World
- James Bond: Spectre
- Avatar (extended cut)
- Spaceballs
Movies I checked that don't have this disclaimer:
- Tangled
It's usually among the very last lines of the end credits, among the statements about dedication to the environment, distance from the tobacco industry, lack of animal abuse etc. If you're not watching the end credits you will never notice it.
If you want these things to have any meaningful legal effect, people have to know it.
If you're concerned, after-credit scenes are a good way to force people to sit through the end credits. Then the defense "I left earlier and thus didn't read that" becomes "I was talking to my friend while that disclaimer was on screen and thus didn't read it".
The software industry has routinely been denied enforcement of their agreements by the way they make users agree to them
The reaction is some companies have slightly different agreement things such as making you scroll to the bottom first
But then everyone decides again that the risk is pretty low and user engagement matters more and the tos agreement stuff takes a backseat again