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33 Movie Moments We Should Have Been Able to Predict

October 17, 2023

There are some movie moments that we should have been able to predict. We all know that they’re coming, and yet, we still get sucked in by the suspense or drama on the big screen. Here are a few of those moments — the ones where you watch and say to yourself, “I knew that was going to happen.” (Spoiler alert: There will be spoilers for a lot of popular movies below, so read on at your own risk.)

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MOTSI9 95 In Cars, when Not Chuck leaves, Lightning McQueen wonders how he'll find anyone else who can fill him up with gas. Later on, he gets stuck in Radiator Springs because the locals have siphoned his gas tank and just keep giving him daily gas rations. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Foreshadowed Huge Plot Points In Iconic Movies

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In Captain Marvel, when the Skrull in one of Carol's memories becomes slightly more human-like, that's intended as a tease. It hints at the fact that that person is going to turn out to be Yon-Rogg. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Foreshadowed Huge Plot Points In Iconic Movies

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STAY-OUT In Dana's first encounter with ghosts in Ghostbusters, her eggs are ruined. And they're sitting on the counter right next to Stay-Puft marshmallows, of all things. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Foreshadowed Huge Plot Points In Iconic Movies

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In Coraline, at their first meeting, the Other Mother asks Coraline to get her Other Father. He must be hungry as a pumpkin, the Other Mother says. Later on, Coraline sees his real form: a weird pumpkin-like creature. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Foreshadowed Huge Plot Points In Iconic Movies

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When Baby Driver's Doc tells everyone his heist plan, Baby is playing with toy cars. When Doc gets to the part about Baby being in the car waiting in the back, Baby crashes his toy car ... and he does the same with his real car in the actual heist. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Foreshadowed Huge Plot Points In Iconic Movies

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In the classroom scene in Raiders of the Lost Ark, a student closes her eyes. I love you is written on her eyelids, and he loses concentration for a moment. Which is pretty big foreshadowing, since Indy and Marion survive the opening of the Ark by closing their eyes. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Foreshadowed Huge Plot Points In Iconic Movies

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In The Last Jedi, Rey horizontally cuts a rock in half, making the top part slide down. Not long after, Snoke's body gets cut in half in a pretty similar way. Snoke's body even slides down in a pretty similar way. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Foreshadowed Huge Plot Points In Iconic Movies

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oF BASY BOOM each Jurassic Park's Nedry has a photo of J. Robert Oppenheimer stuck on his PC. Oppenheimer unleashed the nuclear bomb, and Nedry later lets the dinosaurs loose. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Foreshadowed Huge Plot Points In Iconic Movies

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Hot Fuzz

SONUM COMMUNE COMMUNITATIS WELCOME to SANDFORD BONUM COMMUNE COMMUNITATIS The Welcome to Sandford sign in Hot Fuzz has the village motto bonum commune communitatis. It means the common good of the community, and it's what the villagers chant in the finale. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Foreshadowed Huge Plot Points In Iconic Movies

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Darth Maul

Solo hinted at the Darth Maul cameo before the reveal. Dryden Vos, the guy under Darth Maul, has face markings vaguely similar to Maul's. Plus, he's armed with a two-bladed red glowstick knife that's very similar to Maul's double-bladed | lightsaber. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Foreshadowed Huge Plot Points In Iconic Movies

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Blade Runner 2049

In K's memories in Blade Runner 2049, he has a full head of hair, unlike the kids around him (their heads are shaved). When he visits the orphanage from his memories as an adult, we see that only girls don't have shaved heads. Which amounts to a pretty big hint that those are a woman's memories (Dr. Ana Stelline's, we later find out). CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Foreshadowed Huge Plot Points In Iconic Movies

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When Benny meets the three-breasted prostitute in Total Recall, he says, Baby, you make me wish I had three hands. We find out later on that he does. He's a mutant with a third, mutated arm. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Foreshadowed Huge Plot Points In Iconic Movies

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Annihilation's first scene foreshadows what the alien organism does. In the first scene, Natalie Portman's character explains how cancer cells spread by duplicating. Later on, she goes to an alien-infected zone called the Shimmer, where she finds out that the alien organism on Earth is just making warped duplicates of everyone it encounters. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Foreshadowed Huge Plot Points In Iconic Movies

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Miranda keeps quoting Ra's al Ghul in The Dark Knight Rises. She talks about restoring the balance, like he did. At one point, she tells Bruce to do what's necessary, and Ra's al Ghul kept scolding him for not doing what's necessary (he meant killing people). Somehow, the World's Greatest Detective never figures she might be linked to him (or, say, his daughter, as we find out). CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Foreshadowed Huge Plot Points In Iconic Movies

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Moon

WAKE MF WHEN IT'S QUITING TIME Sam Rockwell's shirt in Moon telegraphs the twist. Toward the end, we find out that he's one in a long line of clones that get replaced every three years. His shirt says Wake me up when it's quitting time, and that's what every clone does: it wakes up whenever the previous one is forced to quit. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Foreshadowed Huge Plot Points In Iconic Movies

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GET OUT During the very first scene, Chris worries about meeting Rose's parents, saying: I don't want to be chased off the lawn with a shotgun. In the end, it's Rose doing the chasing. CRACKED.COM — Source: 18 Horror Movies With Diabolically Clever Foreshadowing

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IT FOLLOWS At the beginning the kids play CRACKED.COM Old Maid, the point of which is to get rid of the old maid by passing it off to other players. The person with her as their last card loses. The rules of the film's curse act in a very similar manner and the first time Jay sees it... it's an old woman. — Source: 18 Horror Movies With Diabolically Clever Foreshadowing

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The Descent

DESCENT In the beginning scenes of The Descent, Sarah has a vision of her deceased child blowing out 5 birthday candles, and one-by-one. Each candle represents one of Sarah's 5 friends who will die a gruesome death as they embark upon their journey through the cave. CRACKED.COM — Source: 18 Horror Movies With Diabolically Clever Foreshadowing

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KILL LIST (2011) ENDS WITH ITS PROTAGONIST BEING TRICKED INTO KILLING HIS WIFE AND SON IN A WAY THAT'S HINTED AT IN THIS EARLY PLAY-FIGHT SCENE. CRACKED.COM — Source: 18 Horror Movies With Diabolically Clever Foreshadowing

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CRACKED.CO Early in Fatal Attraction, Alex tells Dan she loves animals and she's a great cook. Her words prove horrifying later in the film, when she ends up boiling a bunny. — Source: 18 Horror Movies With Diabolically Clever Foreshadowing

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THE CRACKED.COM LOSTBOYS IN THE FIRST SCENE, WHEN THE VAMPIRES HARASS THE BLONDE ON THE MERRY-GO-ROUND, THEY ENTER THE FRAME IN THE REVERSE ORDER IN WHICH THEY WILL DIE: FROM RIGHT TO LEFT: MARKO, PAUL, DWAYNE, DAVID — Source: 18 Horror Movies With Diabolically Clever Foreshadowing

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SCREAM When we meet boyfriend (and killer) Billy during the famous PG-13 Relationship scene, a song plays in the background, hinting at his secret identity. WHICH SONG? (Don't Fear) The Reaper. CRACKED.COM — Source: 18 Horror Movies With Diabolically Clever Foreshadowing

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Shutter Island

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CRACKED.COM THE SHiNiNG Early in the movie, Danny's stuffed teddy bear can be seen sitting on the floor next to his tricycle. This is the exact same spot where Dick Hallorann is killed, later in the film. — Source: 18 Horror Movies With Diabolically Clever Foreshadowing

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The Texas Chainsaw Massacre

During one of the first scenes in THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE a character explains how slaughterhouses kill animals using sledgehammers. The animals don't die instantly. and they squeal while being bashed two or three times. This is exactly how the first kill goes down. * insert squeals CRACKED.COM — Source: 18 Horror Movies With Diabolically Clever Foreshadowing

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Jaws

JAWS FOR A MOMENT, WE GET A GLIMPSE OF THIS ILLUSTRATION FROM A BOOK BRODY IS FLIPPING THROUGH WHICH FORESHADOWS JUST HOW THE SHARK GETS KILLED IN THE END. CRACKED.COM — Source: 18 Horror Movies With Diabolically Clever Foreshadowing

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The twist ending. of Final, Destination Five revealed that it was actually a prequel. NEW 203 NEW were B598C4 Perhaps the biggest hints throughout the movie were the New York license plates depicting the Statue of Liberty, that had been discontinued for a decade. YORK 950 SZU I 766 CRACKED.COM — Source: 18 Horror Movies With Diabolically Clever Foreshadowing

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SAW TELEGRAPHS JOHN'S PLANS FOR THE WORLD TO SEE, LONG BEFORE THE END OF THE FILM. DURING THE FLASHBACK OF DR. GORDON AND THE MEDICAL STUDENTS, JOHN'S NOTEBOOK SHOWS A SKETCH OF THE REVERSE BEARTRAP WHICH WOULD BE USED ON AT LEAST HALF A DOZEN VICTIMS THROUGHOUT THE SAW FRANCHISE. CRACKED.COM — Source: 18 Horror Movies With Diabolically Clever Foreshadowing

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THE CRACKED OTHERS Grace scolds her sulking daughter, Anne, saying, 'Stop breathing like that... Stop breathing! It is revealed at the end that Grace has murdered her children... ...by smothering them with a pillow. — Source: 18 Horror Movies With Diabolically Clever Foreshadowing

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Halfway through 2017's It Bill wakes up to water dripping from the ceiling. The water splashes on his drawing of Beverly making it look like blood. Later on, Beverly wakes up in It's lair and blood drips on her face... recreating Bill's drawing. CRACKED.COM — Source: 18 Horror Movies With Diabolically Clever Foreshadowing

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AMERICANPSYCHO (TEXAS CHAINSAY MASSACRE) Patrick Bateman's VHS viewing CRACKED.COM a clue next chain of events. of — Source: 18 Horror Movies With Diabolically Clever Foreshadowing

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Of all the rings in the ring in Aidan's drawings, on the rims of water glasses, even on clothing the most prominent - portent of death is the ring left by Noah's coffee cup just before Samara appears in his studio. 1131 CRACKED.COM — Source: 18 Horror Movies With Diabolically Clever Foreshadowing

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Early on, in Alien, Kane says Oh, I feel dead. Parker replies: Anybody ever tell you you look dead, man? Kane is the first crew member to die, in the famous chestburster scene. CRACKED.COM — Source: 18 Horror Movies With Diabolically Clever Foreshadowing

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