# Movies that tell you what's going to happen **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 1, 2016, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-tell-you-whats-going-to-happen/756262 "2016-06-01T23:35:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2016, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-tell-you-whats-going-to-happen/756262/41 "2016-06-02T18:50:37Z")
> [@Richard\_John\_Marcej](#): > > I’ve seen the original 1967 _The Producers_ several times. > I’ve never seen the stage play version of _The Producers_ that came out last decade or the movie version based on that stage play that came out in 2005, so I don’t know if these latest versions differed from the original version. Aha! 🙂 I love that movie. I’ve seen it _at least_ ten times! No interest in the reboot whatsoever. ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2016, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-tell-you-whats-going-to-happen/756262/42 "2016-06-02T18:50:43Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > There’s a second movie?!? Good Lord, why even bother?!? :mad: :smack: ☹ The second movie is a fairly faithful version of the Broadway play, which is significantly different than the original (1967) movie. The play was a musical; the only song in the original movie was “Springtime for Hitler”. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2016, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-tell-you-whats-going-to-happen/756262/43 "2016-06-02T19:05:21Z")
> [@Telemark](#): > > The second movie is a fairly faithful version of the Broadway play, which is significantly different than the original (1967) movie. The play was a musical; the only song in the original movie was “Springtime for Hitler”. **[Voice of Derek Jacoby]:** Yes … I know. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2016, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-tell-you-whats-going-to-happen/756262/44 "2016-06-02T19:10:07Z")
> [@Smitty](#): > > In the original **Total Recall** Arnold is half sedated when the dream techs ask him what kind of fantasy he wants. He tells them, and that is the exact plot of the movie. There is a second moment like this in Total Recall when the bald executive tries to talk Arnold down and he shoots him because he was sweating. What he describes is exactly how the remainder of the movie plays out. Related: When I rented The Game. I took the disk out and put it in my player as it was loading I said to my friend, “I bet a whole lot of weird shit happens that the guy thinks is real but in the end he finds out it’s just a game.” I should have ejected the disk right then. ---
**Author:** ![Nightfall1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ecd19e/32.png) [@Nightfall1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nightfall1)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2016, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-tell-you-whats-going-to-happen/756262/45 "2016-06-02T19:39:56Z")
Gandhi He gets shot at the beginning, all the rest of the movie is a flashback of his life. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2016, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-tell-you-whats-going-to-happen/756262/46 "2016-06-02T20:38:24Z")
> [@iamthewalrus\_3](#): > > Of the ones I’ve seen, I’d say the scene in True Lies and the description in Shaun of the Dead and are the closest to what I’m thinking of. True Lies is just one scene, but it’s literally spelled out. Shaun of the Dead is some clever word play, but does basically tell you the whole structure of the movie. There’s a classic movie that fits with those – but _as the twist ending,_ so I’m spoilering even the title. And so HERE BE SPOILERS! [spoiler] **Witness For The Prosecution** : the defense attorney tells the defendant’s wife that “your husband’s entire defense depends on his word and yours” but adds that “the jury will be quite skeptical of the word of a man accused of murder, when supported only by that of his wife.” After all, what would you expect a wife to say? Don’t you know that, “under British law, you cannot be called to give testimony damaging to your husband?” She harshly replies that, in point of fact, their marriage is null and void. “He is not my husband,” she explains with absolutely no warmth. She then adds, while sounding (a) sarcastic and (b) not at all like she means it, that “I will give him an alibi and I shall be very convincing; there will be tears in my eyes”. As per the title, she’s called to the stand not as a bland defense witness to rubber-stamp his alibi – but as a witness for the prosecution, who _destroys_ his alibi. And then, on cross-examination, she gets shown evidence of her guilt and breaks down and confesses that she was framing him for murder – and, with tears in her eyes, gives him a very convincing alibi. And it gets him acquitted! So his defense _did_ depend on it, and it _was_ way more convincing than the approach that would’ve induced skepticism![/spoiler] ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2016, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-tell-you-whats-going-to-happen/756262/47 "2016-06-02T20:48:11Z")
> [@RealityChuck](#): > > …In _The Usual Suspects_, Mr. Kobayashi hands out packages to the group. The order in which they get the packages is the order in which they die. Ooo, I never realized that before. Nice one! ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2016, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-tell-you-whats-going-to-happen/756262/48 "2016-06-02T22:33:20Z")
> [@Telemark](#): > > The second movie is a fairly faithful version of the Broadway play, which is significantly different than the original (1967) movie. The play was a musical; the only song in the original movie was “Springtime for Hitler”. nitpick - there was also the hippie flower song \*Love Power \*and a few fragments of other songs during the Hitler auditions (“with a bing-bang-bing-bang-boom”) and it finished with _Prisoners of Love_. ---
**Author:** ![TroutMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troutman/32/6721_2.png) [@TroutMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroutMan)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2016, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-tell-you-whats-going-to-happen/756262/49 "2016-06-02T23:50:01Z")
> [@iamthewalrus\_3](#): > > Of the ones I’ve seen, I’d say the scene in True Lies and the description in Shaun of the Dead and are the closest to what I’m thinking of. True Lies is just one scene, but it’s literally spelled out. If scenes count, then [Drew Barrymore in Charlie’s Angels](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcviqZhXnNo) describes exactly how she’s going to defeat all the guys while tied to a chair. ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2016, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-tell-you-whats-going-to-happen/756262/50 "2016-06-03T00:00:18Z")
And as far as single scenes go, probably my favorite from **The Rocketeer** : Timothy Dalton has just gotten the upper hand and strapped on the rocket pack, and as he prepares to escape the burning zeppelin, he smiles and says “I’m going to miss Hollywood.” Then he flies off, but he didn’t realize the rocket pack had a leak, and he careens out-of-control towards the HOLLYWOODLAND sign…crashing into and taking out just the letters LAND. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2016, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-tell-you-whats-going-to-happen/756262/51 "2016-06-03T02:59:28Z")
Titanic Yes you knew what was going to happen at the end, but there was the scene where they had the video animation showing the ship sinking. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Greenjeans](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr.greenjeans/32/551_2.png) [@Mr.Greenjeans](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Greenjeans)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2016, 11:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-tell-you-whats-going-to-happen/756262/52 "2016-06-03T11:39:59Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > _Sunset Blvd._ begins with the narrator face down and fully dressed and dead in a swimming pool. (Not a spoiler because it is literally the first scene in the movie.) Well, kind of a spoiler, I think. Do we know the guy in the pool is the narrator at the beginning of the movie? (Sorry, it’s been many years since I’ve seen it.) ---
**Author:** ![iamthewalrus\_3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/258eb7/32.png) [@iamthewalrus\_3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iamthewalrus_3)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2016, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-tell-you-whats-going-to-happen/756262/53 "2016-06-03T18:07:36Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > Titanic > > Yes you knew what was going to happen at the end, but there was the scene where they had the video animation showing the ship sinking. Yeah, but the plot of Titanic is not “the ship sinks”. It’s about what happens to the main characters before and as the ship is sinking. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-tell-you-whats-going-to-happen/756262.md?page=2)