# Names some films with famous spoilers **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** movies\ **Created:** [August 27, 2023, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/names-some-films-with-famous-spoilers/989204 "2023-08-27T22:34:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2023, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/names-some-films-with-famous-spoilers/989204/61 "2023-08-29T05:46:59Z")
> [@Steven\_Maven](#): > > When this movie came out in 1974, in the review in _The Chicago Tribune_, Michael Wilmington gave away the ending **in the first sentence** Did he like the movie? ---
**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2023, 5:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/names-some-films-with-famous-spoilers/989204/62 "2023-08-29T05:48:42Z")
Excuse me, that should be “the _2001_ movie with Nicole Kidman.” Nicole would’ve been too young for the role if it had been made in 1981. ---
**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:** [August 29, 2023, 6:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/names-some-films-with-famous-spoilers/989204/63 "2023-08-29T06:07:47Z")
> [@iamatractorboy](#): > > Oh and in the same vein, does a certain other Bond film count as having a well-known spoiler by now? I don’t know. Which Bond film do you refer to? Several of them have twists that break the formula in some way, and would be a spoiler if revealed. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2023, 8:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/names-some-films-with-famous-spoilers/989204/64 "2023-08-29T08:28:45Z")
Sleepaway Camp? ---
**Author:** ![iamatractorboy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iamatractorboy/32/21261_2.png) [@iamatractorboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iamatractorboy)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2023, 10:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/names-some-films-with-famous-spoilers/989204/65 "2023-08-29T10:36:40Z")
The twist in the Bond film I am talking about would be the one that leaps to mind for virtually everyone who’s seen it, but for the benefit of those that haven’t seen them all, I shall blur, so be warned… Bond dies! ---
**Author:** ![slicedalone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slicedalone/32/12515_2.png) [@slicedalone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slicedalone)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2023, 10:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/names-some-films-with-famous-spoilers/989204/66 "2023-08-29T10:51:51Z")
I haven’t seen, or have forgotten the spoiler in, some of these films. Could someone summarize (in blurred form) in a very few words the essence of the spoiler in Fatal Attraction, The Sting, Who Framed Roger Rabbit?, The Prestige, Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? Seven, The Maltese Falcon or Shutter Island? ---
**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:** [August 29, 2023, 11:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/names-some-films-with-famous-spoilers/989204/67 "2023-08-29T11:44:10Z")
> [@slicedalone](#): > > The Sting Per the negotiation we already saw, guys with guns and badges (a) swoop in right after Paul Newman and Robert Redford pull off their big con, to (b) explain that the FBI will now bust Newman thanks to help from Redford. With a betrayed look, Newman pulls a gun on Redford and fires before a gun-and-badge type does likewise to Newman. At the sight of all that blood, the guy Redford and Newman had just separated from his money gets hustled away from the scene by a local cop — who’d been hunting Redford but now figures that’d no longer make sense. The End. No, not The End: Redford and Newman faked their deaths; that isn’t real blood, those weren’t real bullets, the FBI was never here, the win for Best Picture ensues. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2023, 11:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/names-some-films-with-famous-spoilers/989204/68 "2023-08-29T11:50:05Z")
When I first saw the movie in the theater in 1973, and the thing you describe in the first paragraph happened, my head positively exploded. One of the great moments in movie history! ---
**Author:** ![iamatractorboy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iamatractorboy/32/21261_2.png) [@iamatractorboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iamatractorboy)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2023, 11:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/names-some-films-with-famous-spoilers/989204/69 "2023-08-29T11:54:24Z")
I think there are two in _Who Framed Roger Rabbit?_… One being that Judge Doom is in fact the crazy toon that dropped a piano on Eddie Valiant’s partner’s head, and the other being that Marvin Acme’s missing will wasn’t really missing at all, it had been written in disappearing-reappearing ink and Roger had written his love letter to Jessica on the same piece of paper and was carrying it around with him the whole time. ---
**Author:** ![iamatractorboy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iamatractorboy/32/21261_2.png) [@iamatractorboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iamatractorboy)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2023, 11:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/names-some-films-with-famous-spoilers/989204/70 "2023-08-29T11:58:14Z")
_The Prestige_ has two as well… One, that Angier’s clone has effectively been murdered each time he performs his trick (or is it not the new clone???), and two that Borden is in fact identical twin brothers, with the other brother assuming the identity of Fallon ---
**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:** [August 29, 2023, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/names-some-films-with-famous-spoilers/989204/71 "2023-08-29T13:10:07Z")
> [@TreacherousCretin](#): > > I can’t believe this hasn’t been posted yet: **Blade Runner**. What’s the spoiled thing in Blade Runner? That Rachel is a Replicant? Because they never say that Deckard is one. And, as we’ve hashed out often enough on this Board, I don’t believe he is, either. If he had been, Ridley Scott would’ve been complaining that very summer that nobody “got” the real point of his movie. And he didn’t. Didn’t mention a word of it until decades later, after he added the “unicorn dream” sequence that wasn’t in the original release. ---
**Author:** ![Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/q.q.switcheroo/32/5713_2.png) [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.Q.Switcheroo)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2023, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/names-some-films-with-famous-spoilers/989204/72 "2023-08-29T13:38:40Z")
> [@slicedalone](#): > > Shutter Island The two main characters are actually a doctor and patient performing a role-play exercise to help the patient recover his true persona. ---
**Author:** ![F.U.Shakespeare](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aca169/32.png) [@F.U.Shakespeare](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/F.U.Shakespeare)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2023, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/names-some-films-with-famous-spoilers/989204/73 "2023-08-29T13:59:36Z")
Damage (1992) ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2023, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/names-some-films-with-famous-spoilers/989204/74 "2023-08-29T15:13:48Z")
Titanic. Yeah, most people know the boat sinks. I’m talking about dropping the necklace in the ocean at the end. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2023, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/names-some-films-with-famous-spoilers/989204/75 "2023-08-29T15:25:37Z")
THE BOAT SINKS? BUT IT’S UNSINKABLE! 😲 I was never sure if Old Rose _deliberately_ dropped the jewel or not. The thought that kept going through my head was **Great, now that rich Texan is going to go find it and live even larger.** ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2023, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/names-some-films-with-famous-spoilers/989204/76 "2023-08-29T15:29:00Z")
_Brasil_ _Primal Fear_ ---
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**Clue** ---
**Author:** ![griffin1977](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/977dab/32.png) [@griffin1977](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/griffin1977)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2023, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/names-some-films-with-famous-spoilers/989204/78 "2023-08-29T15:41:43Z")
Twelve Monkeys. Both the fact the virus was released by Dr Peters not Goines, and the fact that actually it was released by Goines in the original timeline (as seen in Cole’s childhood memories) but Coles actions changed that so it was released by Dr Peters. Such a good movie. ---
**Author:** ![Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/q.q.switcheroo/32/5713_2.png) [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.Q.Switcheroo)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2023, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/names-some-films-with-famous-spoilers/989204/79 "2023-08-29T15:51:32Z")
And the fact that the boy and the shooting victim at the airport are both Cole. ---
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