# Movie titles that are spoilers. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 29, 2012, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-titles-that-are-spoilers/645450 "2012-12-29T02:13:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![simster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/simster/32/1047_2.png) [@simster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/simster)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2013, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-titles-that-are-spoilers/645450/41 "2013-01-15T16:15:07Z")
> [@Inner\_Stickler](#): > > Kill Bill, if it’s anything, is a command or a statement of intent. Bill gets killed is a plot revelation. Right - if the name of the movie was “Bill dies at the end” - that would be a spoiler - “kill bill” is what the movie is about - the search to “kill bill” - but does not, in and of itself, say whether or not Bill does indeed die during the movie. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2013, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-titles-that-are-spoilers/645450/42 "2013-01-15T16:42:37Z")
_Naked Lunch_ I haven’t seen it, but the title tells me exactly what’s going to happen. ---
**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2013, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-titles-that-are-spoilers/645450/43 "2013-01-15T16:50:17Z")
“The Bus That Couldn’t Slow Down” ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2013, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-titles-that-are-spoilers/645450/44 "2013-01-15T19:14:36Z")
> [@NitroPress](#): > > You mean the film universally known in English as “The Bicycle Thief”? Now THAT’S annoying… I’ll see your “universally known as” and raise you an [IMDb](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0040522/combined). ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2013, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-titles-that-are-spoilers/645450/45 "2013-01-15T20:09:21Z")
> [@tdn](#): > > _Naked Lunch_ > > I haven’t seen it, but the title tells me exactly what’s going to happen. Personally I consider this the most misleading film title of all time. No nudity! No lunch! ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2013, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-titles-that-are-spoilers/645450/46 "2013-01-15T20:40:23Z")
> [@Quimby](#): > > Return of the Jedi Attack of the Clones ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2013, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-titles-that-are-spoilers/645450/47 "2013-01-16T22:17:47Z")
> [@simster](#): > > “The Search for Spock” was directly after his death due to the ‘Wrath’ of Khan - unless he was coming back, wasn’t a whole hell of a lot to go searching for, now was it? The Search for Spock says what they are out doing, not if they succeed, or if he comes back alive or in a pine box. > [@](#): > > THe “Voyage Home” was directly after the events of ‘Search’ - where at the end they were essentially fugitives - tells you they are going home - one way or the other - lessens the mystery at the least and pre-supposes a successful voyage. It says they are attempting a voyage home. It makes no statement as to whether they successfully arrive. Although one can surmise so, there is nothing in the title that is a step beyond expectation entering the film. My candidate - “The Impossible”. It’s the heartwarming true story of one family that survived the tsunami in Dec 2006. [spoiler]It’s called “the Impossible”, because that’s what happened. This one family is vacationing in Thailand when the tsunami hits and separates them in the flood. The mother and oldest son get swept away and manage to stay together, but are miles away from everyone else, and mom gets banged up. Their part of the story is surviving the flood, and getting help, getting her to the hospital, the boy losing her and thinking she’s dead before finally reuniting with her, and hoping for the rest of the family. Meanwhile, dad manages to find the two younger boys, but is searching for the mother and oldest boy. He sends the two younger boys with another couple for evacuation, and then they get pulled away with a bunch of other children, so now he doesn’t have any of his family. He’s surveying all the hospitals and such, and in the climatic scene, the two youngest boys and the dad all wind up wandering around the hospital and the oldest boy seeing them, and they reunite. But the clencher is that mom is greatly ill from the near drowning and impalement on sticks, she’s infected. They’re rushing her off to surgery. But she lives, and they all go home together. Thus, the impossible occurs - they all survive and find each other. [/spoiler] Except, of course, we know going in it is the true story of one family and it would be trivial to find out the spoiler that the title gives. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2013, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-titles-that-are-spoilers/645450/48 "2013-01-17T13:08:15Z")
> [@simster](#): > > “The Search for Spock” was directly after his death due to the ‘Wrath’ of Khan - unless he was coming back, wasn’t a whole hell of a lot to go searching for, now was it? > > . As Shatner said, when the film was being released, you KNOW that at the end they’re not going to turn around and say “Well, we couldn’t find him!” so the title really does kinda give it away, I’ll grant. But given all the buzz at the time about Nimoy directing, this wasn’t exactly a big surprise or secret. ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2013, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-titles-that-are-spoilers/645450/49 "2013-01-17T13:54:31Z")
Not in English, but allegedly the Japanese title for _Sixth Sense_ was _He’s a Ghost!_ complete with the bang at the end. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-titles-that-are-spoilers/645450.md?page=2)