In today’s pop culture, avoiding spoilers is everything while awaiting a highly-anticipated
movie.
But sometimes, studios can’t contain themselves.
We’re not talking about trailers or advertising.
There are instances where the film will spoil itself.
Here are Screen Rant’s 10 Spoilers Hidden At The Start Of Popular Films.
21 Jump Street
21 Jump Street is full of twists, and a humorous one comes at the end when Johnny Depp reprises
his role from the TV show.
All through the film, he was unrecognizable as an undercover drug dealer, but he gave
up his secret in the film’s first act.
When Schmidt and Jenko investigate his gang in a park, a bearded man insults the two policemen,
saying that if they’re cops, he’s a DEA agent.
Turns out, that’s precisely what he is when he makes his reveal at the end.
If only the dealers had been paying attention, they may have been able to avoid a whole lot
of trouble.
Shaun of the Dead
Edgar Wright has confessed that Ed essentially sums up the plot of the film when he tries
to cheer Shaun up with a binge drink game plan before they encounter a zombie outbreak.
First, the two will have a Bloody Mary, then grab a bite at the King’s Head, followed
by a Couple, a Little Princess, and then stagger back to the bar for shots.
They do all of that, just not in the way they envisioned.
It doesn’t seem like much when you’re first watching it, but it’s a clever bit
of foreshadowing that spells everything out to an unsuspecting audience.
No Country for Old Men
Anton Chigurh is one of cinema’s most intimidating villains, and he’s essentially a human Terminator.
Llewelyn Moss thinks he has what it takes to bring Chigurh down, but he was doomed before
the two even crossed paths.
In the beginning of the film, Llewelyn is hunting elk, and manages to hit one with a
bullet.
But it doesn’t kill the animal, just wounds it.
It’s a tease of what’s to come, as Llewelyn cannot find a way to stop Chigurh from coming
after him, no matter what he does.
Llewelyn does injure his pursuer, but Anton is an unkillable machine.
Shutter Island
The big twist in Shutter Island is that Federal Marshall Teddy Daniels is in face a patient
at the Ashcliffe facility, and his partner “Chuck” is his head psychiatrist operating
a role playing exercise.
It catches moviegoers off-guard, but attentive viewers were clued in before all the action
takes place.
When Teddy and Chuck arrive on the island, they’re asked to hand over their weapons.
Chuck struggles with the holster of his gun, signifying that he’s not experienced with
firearms, and not a U.S. Marshall.
Teddy can’t believe what he’s seeing, but it all makes sense in the end.
Total Recall
When the citizens of Total Recall are looking to mix up their daily routine, they can have
memories of a trip implanted into their memory.
Doug Quaid is having visions of a mission on Mars, and goes to Rekall to live out the
Secret Agent fantasy.
Quaid opts to “go” to Mars, and when hearing the pitch, he’s told that he will “save
the girl, kill the bad guys, and save the entire planet!”
Once Quaid receives the memory and the action kicks into high gear, that’s exactly what
happens.
Quaid falls for a woman and saves the oppressed people of Mars by wiping out all the villains.
Spider-Man 3
After learning Peter Parker’s secret in Spider-Man 2, Harry Osborn swears to avenge
his father and take down his former friend.
That is, until he takes a nasty hit to the head and suffers amnesia.
When Peter and Mary Jane visit Harry at the hospital, they reconnect like it’s old times,
and the nurse notes that the trio has a strong bond.
Harry mentions that he cares about his friends so much, he’d die for them.
Turns out, he was actually predicting his fate.
In the third act as Spider-Man fights off Venom and the Sandman, Harry pays the ultimate
price.
Psycho
Norman Bates is far from a normal person, and his relationship with his mother is interesting
to say the least.
When Marion Crane checks into the Bates Motel, she overhears Norman having an argument with
his mother, who is acting emotionally abusive towards her son.
Marion suggests that she’s toxic, but Norman defends Mom, saying that she’s “as harmless
as one of those stuffed birds.”
Turns out, Mom has a little more in common with those birds than she would like.
It’s revealed at the end that Norman killed and stuffed his own mother.
But he wouldn’t hurt a fly, right?
Final Destination
A film built around gory kills should want to keep the grisly murders a secret, but the
makers of Final Destination had other plans.
In the opening credits, there are images of objects such as a guillotine, axe, and … They
look like things that just fit in with the tone of the movie, but they actually represent
the manner in which the main characters die during the course of the film.
At least audiences didn’t see who got killed by each weapon, but these are surprises that
would have been better served for a more satisfying reveal.
Jaws
As the town of Amity Island is under attack by a rogue shark, it’s up to three unlikely
heroes to find it and kill it.
For their hunt, Brody, Quint, and Hooper bring a variety of tools that could be useful in
their quest.
One item of Hooper’s is a tank of compressed air, and Brody wonders aloud how that can
help them get the shark.
Quint makes the offhand comment that the big fish could eat it, which ends up being a little
bit of foreshadowing.
When Brody is the only left to take out the shark, he gets the upper hand by tossing the
tank in the shark’s mouth and shooting it.
Star Trek Into Darkness
We mentioned this one is our other video “10 Amazing Clues You Missed In Movies” but
we just couldn’t leave it out!
When The Vengeance ship made its appearance in the film, audiences shouldn’t have been
surprised since much earlier in a scene where Kirk and Spock meet Admiral Marcus, his office
has a collection of every ship from the Star Trek Universe.
The camera dollies Through all of them and ends on… you guessed
it… the brand new Vengeance in the foreground!
Were they even trying to hide it?
So what do you think of our list?
Which movie spoilers do you notice early in the film?
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