Names some films with famous spoilers

[RealityChuck]

I’m so happy people are mentioning this. I argued this at length with people who didn’t understand it

[CalMeacham]

A lot of this stuff about Twelve Monkeys is also true for the French movie that inspired it, La Jetée

[slicedalone]

In The Conversation, who says the crucial line, stressing a different word than Harry Caul thinks he hears? The guy or the girl?

[Steven_Maven]

@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.

[Steven_Maven]

@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.

[muldoonthief]

@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

[griffin1977]

@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) .

[TreacherousCretin]

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.

[terentii]

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.)

[RivkahChaya]

OMG!!

How could I forget

THELMA AND LOUISE!

[Steven_Maven]

@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.

[RivkahChaya]

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.

[RickJay]

@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.

[Jeff_Lichtman]

@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

[JohnGalt]

How about The Good Son with Elijah Wood and Macaulay Culkin. Or is it just a good cliffhanger?

[NDP]

@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.

[RivkahChaya]

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.

[slicedalone]

Can anyone spoil Cape Fear for me?

[iamatractorboy]

Sideshow Bob steps on a rake. Then another rake. Then another. Then another…

[Dewey_Finn]

Nitpick but that’s Cape Feare.