# 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:** 5
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2023, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/names-some-films-with-famous-spoilers/989204/81 "2023-08-29T16:15:09Z")
I’m so happy people are mentioning this. I argued this at length with people who didn’t understand it ---
**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, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/names-some-films-with-famous-spoilers/989204/82 "2023-08-29T16:59:59Z")
A lot of this stuff about **Twelve Monkeys** is also true for the French movie that inspired it, **La Jetée** ---
**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, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/names-some-films-with-famous-spoilers/989204/83 "2023-08-29T17:02:04Z")
In The Conversation, who says the crucial line, stressing a different word than Harry Caul thinks he hears? The guy or the girl? ---
**Author:** ![Steven\_Maven](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steven_maven/32/3272_2.png) [@Steven\_Maven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steven_Maven)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2023, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/names-some-films-with-famous-spoilers/989204/84 "2023-08-29T18:37:49Z")
> [@NDP](#): > > > [@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? I have no idea. I stopped reading after that. ---
**Author:** ![Steven\_Maven](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steven_maven/32/3272_2.png) [@Steven\_Maven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steven_Maven)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2023, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/names-some-films-with-famous-spoilers/989204/85 "2023-08-29T18:42:30Z")
> [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#): > > I was never sure if Old Rose _deliberately_ dropped the jewel or not. I understood that she did it on purpose because it belonged there. When she went up on deck I thought, “Oh $#!+…” because I knew what she was going to do. ---
**Author:** ![muldoonthief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldoonthief/32/3188_2.png) [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2023, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/names-some-films-with-famous-spoilers/989204/86 "2023-08-29T18:54:02Z")
> [@slicedalone](#): > > Fatal Attraction At the end of the movie, Michael Douglas has drowned his mega-stalker/pet-boiler/child-kidnapper Glenn Close in a bathtub. The audience thinks it’s over, Douglas turns away, and Close leaps out of the tub with a chef’s knife about to stab Douglas, Suddenly we hear a shot, Close has a bullet hole in her chest and collapses, and the camera pulls back to show Douglas’s wife Anne Archer holding a pistol. Here’s the scene on [youtube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDsdZjK1EHc) ---
**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, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/names-some-films-with-famous-spoilers/989204/87 "2023-08-29T19:24:08Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > And that those in charge in the future made sure that it happened. That’s debatable (and one of things that makes it so awesome), she could be saying insurance to mean ensuring the pandemic happened (and the pandemic is inevitable as the powers that be make it so), or she could be saying insurance in the sense of making sure they get a sample of live virus (which was the purpose of the trip back in time mentioned at the start of the movie) in case the grunts like Cole failed (and the pandemic is actually inevitable in the sense of being humanity’s unalterable fate) . ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2023, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/names-some-films-with-famous-spoilers/989204/88 "2023-08-29T20:29:08Z")
Not “decades.” - Original Theatrical Release: 1982 - Director’s Cut (including the Unicorn Dream, and without both the voice over and the happy ending): 1992 Beyond that nitpicking correction, I won’t argue your points because nothing either of us says will ever change the other’s mind. The fact that people still debate the Deckard-Replicant point so vociferously illustrates what a powerful film BR was and remains. Go in peace, I hope you enjoy BR as much as I do regardless of which Deckard we believe in. ---
**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:** [August 29, 2023, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/names-some-films-with-famous-spoilers/989204/89 "2023-08-29T23:30:25Z")
_ **Casablanca** _ _ **The OdeSSa File** _ _ **The Day of the Jackal** _ _ **Three Days of the Condor** _ _ **The Boys From Brazil** _ Maybe _ **Marathon Man** _? (I still haven’t figured out the connection between the father, the house, and the Nazis.) ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2023, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/names-some-films-with-famous-spoilers/989204/90 "2023-08-30T00:08:39Z")
OMG!! How could I forget _THELMA AND LOUISE_! ---
**Author:** ![Steven\_Maven](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steven_maven/32/3272_2.png) [@Steven\_Maven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steven_Maven)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2023, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/names-some-films-with-famous-spoilers/989204/91 "2023-08-30T00:21:21Z")
> [@slicedalone](#): > > Could someone summarize (in blurred form) in a very few words the essence of the spoiler in … > > The Maltese Falcon It was Mary Astor’s character who shot Miles Archer. I didn’t write “Bridgette” because by the end of the movie it seemed likely that wasn’t her real name any more than the ones she used earlier. ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2023, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/names-some-films-with-famous-spoilers/989204/92 "2023-08-30T02:17:04Z")
These are the ones I OPed > [@RivkahChaya](#): > > _The Empire Strikes Back_ > > Darth is Luke’s father > > Oh, and maybe _The Wizard of Oz_? > > She had the means to go home with her all the time (the shoes)-- but then, it was all a dream! > > And for that matter _The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari._ > > also a dream, but in a much creepier way > [@RivkahChaya](#): > > _The Bride of Frankenstein_ she’s disgusted by him too, so he blows up the castle-- with apparently the “castle-destroying lever” > > _Rebecca_ Maxim killed her (more accurately, in the film, “caused her death” but in the book, **murdered**. However-- she was dying anyway, from cancer. > > _The Lady Vanishes_ an inter-twist, not an end one, but once it is revealed, the pace of the film picks up considerably, and it’s quite brilliant the sweet old spinster lady is not only real, she’s a spy > [@RivkahChaya](#): > > Witness for the Prosecution The turncoat wife was lying. Because he was actually guilty, the best way to get him off was to lie on the stand, and be exposed as a liar. > [@RivkahChaya](#): > > Possibly _The Bad Seed_? another inter-twist, but with an end-twist as well. The sweet, perfect little girl is a serial killer; her mother figures it out and tries to kill both of them-- she fails, but then the kid drowns trying to retrieve the thing she killed one of her victims for > > oh-- and _Planet of the Apes_ they were on earth all the time-- not just there, but where New York City used to be > > and another duh-- _Gaslight_ Gregory is trying to drive Paula crazy by inventing a bunch of stuff (spoiler 1)-- the thing that bugs her the most is how the lights dim and rise with no one adjusting the gas. Turns out someone is-- Gregory, searching the attic for family jewels-- but he doesn’t even realize that is happening (spoiler 2). > [@RivkahChaya](#): > > Aliens Not as effective as when the film was new-- the cast dies in reverse order of fame-- the opposite of what normally happens in a Hollywood movie. So at the end, the one complete unknown in the film (Sigourney Weaver) is the only one alive. How is she going to die? HOLY SHIT! SHE SURVIVES! you don’t believe it until the credits roll. > [@RivkahChaya](#): > > _THELMA AND LOUISE_! Something like seven police cruisers are on their tail, so they turn off the road, hold hands, lock eyes, nod at each other, and drive the car over a cliff. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2023, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/names-some-films-with-famous-spoilers/989204/93 "2023-08-30T02:36:53Z")
> [@RivkahChaya](#): > > Aliens Not as effective as when the film was new-- the cast dies in reverse order of fame-- the opposite of what normally happens in a Hollywood movie. So at the end, the one complete unknown in the film (Sigourney Weaver) is the only one alive. How is she going to die? HOLY SHIT! SHE SURVIVES! you don’t believe it until the credits roll. That’s Alien, not Aliens. ---
**Author:** ![Jeff\_Lichtman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jeff_lichtman/32/1531_2.png) [@Jeff\_Lichtman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jeff_Lichtman)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2023, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/names-some-films-with-famous-spoilers/989204/94 "2023-08-30T03:47:54Z")
> [@slicedalone](#): > > In The Conversation, who says the crucial line, stressing a different word than Harry Caul thinks he hears? The guy or the girl? The guy ---
**Author:** ![JohnGalt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johngalt/32/184_2.png) [@JohnGalt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnGalt)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2023, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/names-some-films-with-famous-spoilers/989204/95 "2023-08-30T04:04:11Z")
How about _The Good Son_ with Elijah Wood and Macaulay Culkin. Or is it just a good cliffhanger? ---
**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 30, 2023, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/names-some-films-with-famous-spoilers/989204/96 "2023-08-30T04:24:29Z")
> [@slicedalone](#): > > Could someone summarize (in blurred form) in a very few words the essence of the spoiler in … > > The Maltese Falco > [@Steven\_Maven](#): > > It was Mary Astor’s character who shot Miles Archer. I didn’t write “Bridgette” because by the end of the movie it seemed likely that wasn’t her real name any more than the ones she used earlier. Also, more importantly, the falcon was a fake. ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2023, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/names-some-films-with-famous-spoilers/989204/97 "2023-08-30T18:50:08Z")
You are right. And Alien is what I meant to type in the first place. I CP’d the titles, so the mistake persisted. But both films could be on the list. ---
**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 31, 2023, 12:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/names-some-films-with-famous-spoilers/989204/98 "2023-08-31T12:37:53Z")
Can anyone spoil Cape Fear for me? ---
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Sideshow Bob steps on a rake. Then another rake. Then another. Then another… ---
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Nitpick but that’s Cape Feare. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/names-some-films-with-famous-spoilers/989204.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/names-some-films-with-famous-spoilers/989204.md?page=6)