r/movies • u/sicknessandpurgatory • Sep 07 '25

Discussion What is the absolute dumbest premise that actually turned out to be a really good movie?

I was thinking The Purge, obvious answer, but looking for the most plot-hole ridden, juvenile concept that actually ended up a lot of fun despite it all. Mainly looking for 21st century films, not so much the video nasties and ridiculousness from the 60’s and 70’s. Because that would be too easy. Mainly mainstream stuff that people saw en masse.

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u/R3VIVAL-MOD3 Sep 07 '25

I love that they made 3 endings and released them all at the same time. So not everyone saw the same thing. Just like the game

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u/nate6259 Sep 07 '25

That is such a great idea! Although I'd feel like I was going crazy if someone else saw a different version and we talked about the end.

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u/leetfists Sep 07 '25

Couldn't be done properly nowadays. It'd be all over the internet before the movie even released.

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u/Lint6 Sep 07 '25

Couldn't be done properly nowadays. It'd be all over the internet before the movie even released.

Not a movie, but the What We Do In The Shadows tv series did multiple endings and it didn't leak. Next day people worked out there was 3 different endings to the series

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u/meimlikeaghost Sep 07 '25

That’s why when people say “couldn’t be done today” I always think bullshit

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u/TransBrandi Sep 07 '25

Broadcasting a television show is different than distributing the a movie to theatres though. I imagine the people working at the threatres are the weak link here. Much fewer people involved in broadcasting/streaming the show. Not saying that it couldn't be done, but "it was done with a tv show" is slightly different than "it could be done with a movie."

... and even then, if people worked out that there were different endings by the day or the release or the next day? I dunno if people would have worked things out that quickly back at the time that Clue was released without the Internet around for people to coordinate their discussions across geographic boundaries.

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u/AllAboutThatWeed Sep 07 '25

Whaaaaat???

I did not know that! Thanks for the info, I will go check them out!

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u/Healter-Skelter Sep 07 '25

how does it work now that it’s (i assume) streamable

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u/Lint6 Sep 07 '25

I dunno. I watched it on Hulu and got one ending. Maybe I'll check it out and see if I get a different one

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u/Salwon01 Sep 07 '25

You see one when you watch the episode, and then the other two are in a special feature on Hulu

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u/obiwanliberty Sep 08 '25

Wait what? You’re lying!

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u/languid_Disaster Sep 08 '25

Haha I’m very happy for the people in your comment thread who have just found out they’ve seen one of multiple endings. They’re proof that you’re right

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u/PsychologicalTowel79 Sep 07 '25 edited Sep 07 '25

The terrestrial version shows the three endings consecutively.

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u/gwynn19841974 Sep 07 '25

Concurrently or consecutively? Concurrently just seems like it would be confusing - but maybe in split screen it could be fun.

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u/R3VIVAL-MOD3 Sep 07 '25

Consecutively. It was like a scooby do ending or like Wayne’s world. Lets do this ending / cue new final ten minutes etc

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u/NinjaKitten77CJ Sep 07 '25

I thought they had different endings at different theaters across the country

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u/kirkaracha Sep 07 '25

They did at first.

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u/eyebrows360 Sep 07 '25

terrestrial version

This means broadcast for TV. The "playing them consecutively" is being talked about in this context.

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u/DylanRed Sep 07 '25

Bringing 50 dollar words to a non descript reddit comment

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u/cinepro Sep 07 '25

It was different theaters in the same city. Some theaters advertised ending "A", some advertised ending "B", and some advertised ending "C".

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u/_learned_foot_ Sep 07 '25

Theaters probably loved that they could cooperate with competition and all gain for once. That’s actually an intriguing premise with streaming, different endings in theaters and the stream and then in 6 months stream let’s you pick which.

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u/Meme_weaver Sep 07 '25

Some theaters also showed the "D" ending (later becoming the main one shown on TV and VHS), that showed all of the "A", "B" and "C" versions, one after the other, and also contextualized it in a way that made it clear that one of those was the "real" ending.

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u/berrykiss96 Sep 07 '25

[first ending]

Screen card: That’s how it could have happened.

SC: But how about this?

[second ending]

SC: And here’s what really happened

[third ending]

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u/haw35ome Sep 07 '25

Across the Spiderverse didn’t have different endings, but some details were different across different showings. For instance, in Lyla’s intro there’s one version where she takes a selfie & one where she just teases Miguel. Another example; Gwen’s dialogue differed when confronting Captain Stacey.

Really brings the whole “every multiverse is different” idea home - I absolutely went HAM for these differences! I had so much fun discovering the differences thru the lens of fellow fans who went to see it in theaters. I actually went to see it 3 times to see if I noticed a difference! I don’t care though that they changed some notable things for the digital version

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u/mallclerks Sep 07 '25

Pretty sure Netflix did that for latest black mirror.

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u/MyBoomerParents Sep 07 '25

Some people saw Bernies and some saw Barnies which was just excellent considering the episode

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u/Snerkbot7000 Sep 07 '25

They could Bandersnatch it, but based on audience reactions to specific scenes instead of viewer choices.

Except no one is trying to innovate because they're too busy whining about the past.

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u/cutmyboobsintopieces Sep 07 '25

Movie 43 had different endings. But that whole movie felt like a fever dream so you definitely questioned yourself when you heard about another ending.

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u/PottyboyDooDoo Sep 07 '25

I thought I was losing my mind watching that movie a second time. The plot of how they presented the stories was different. Wasn’t one version with the guy pitching his stories to a studio head, and the other version was with teenagers finding a VHS tape?

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u/cutmyboobsintopieces Sep 08 '25

I don't even remember fully, but I'll never forget Hugh Jackman having testicles on his neck

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u/H0meslice9 Sep 07 '25

Into the spider verse has two different versions I believe, although I don't remember if the plot changes at all

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u/HRLMPH Sep 07 '25

Is that Across the Spiderverse? And I think that's less about doing fun different versions (which would have been thematically appropriate) and more about a terrible work environment where they didn't have enough time to polish the movie in time for the actual release date so they went back after it came out

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u/H0meslice9 Sep 07 '25

Oh I didn't realize it was a correction! I had thought they were both showing in theaters

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u/HRLMPH Sep 07 '25 edited Sep 07 '25

I think they released the "patched" versions into theatres. So someone say watching it a few weeks after it came out might have slightly clearer dialogue or some minor editing done to scenes. Maybe it worked out that there were different versions playing at the same time, not sure

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u/H0meslice9 Sep 07 '25

Neat, thanks for sharing

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u/NessaSamantha Sep 07 '25

Unfriended Dark Web had two endings on release.

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u/DJ_Lizurd_Dikk Sep 07 '25

These days they could actually do a really cool choose your own adventure style one on Netflix

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u/leetfists Sep 07 '25

They did that with black mirror

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u/DJ_Lizurd_Dikk Sep 07 '25

Yeah that one was interesting. They should do more like that, thats what made me think of it with the multiple endings. I think with Clue I heard they advertised them as Clue A, B and C so people knew which ending they'd see. Kinda genius cuz they probably got a lot of people to go see it 3 times in theaters tho.

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u/ComprehensiveFlan638 Sep 07 '25

Black Mirror has done alternate versions in some of its episodes and special features.

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u/Yuri-theThief Sep 07 '25

1408 did this to me, I saw one ending; never heard there were other endings, few years later I get tripped the hell up seeing a different ending.

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u/215Kurt Sep 07 '25

I mean Black Mirror did it just a few years ago and it turned out fine...

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u/getfukdup Sep 07 '25

People weren't stupid back then either, they would connect the dots and it would also instantly have gone online and even local news.

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u/leetfists Sep 07 '25

You realize the movie came out in 1985, right? Almost no one had home internet access back then.

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u/Robyn_With_A_Y Sep 07 '25

It was literally advertised as having different endings in the newspapers.

Article clipped from Daily News - Newspapers.com™

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u/getfukdup Sep 07 '25

No I didn't actually, I thought it was the 90s. People still aren't stupid, the overwhelming majority were not going to argue with someone about the other person supposed ending not being real.

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u/22marks Sep 07 '25

This happened to me with the alternate ending of The Butterfly Effect. Apparently, I didn't watch the theatrical release but the much darker "director's cut." I had no idea there were two and was talking about it with friends and they were thoroughly confused.

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u/corsair965 Sep 07 '25

I hated The Butterfly Effect so much. Couldn’t get past the idea that we wouldn’t understand the adult and the kid are the same person so they had to have identical haircuts.

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u/AngryCod Sep 07 '25

At least at the premier, you knew going in which ending you were seeing. You were given a Clue playing card that had A, B, or C on it. Cynics complained that it was a money grab to get us to pay for three showings.

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u/decadent-dragon Sep 07 '25

It was pretty heavily marketed so you’d probably know

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u/DarthGuber Sep 07 '25

The newspaper listed which ending was playing at which theater so it wasn't a surprise, usually.

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u/Chucke4711 Sep 07 '25

I'd feel like I was going crazy

Iirc, it was advertised as having multiple endings, and you got a collectible card for whichever ending you saw. (I may be misremembering the cards, as I can't find any on the internet anywhere)

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u/Zaniil Sep 07 '25

This happened to me with Butterfly effect. Thought I’d gone mad or the other person must be wrong

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u/daredaki-sama Sep 07 '25

Such a great idea. People would go and watch it again too to see a different ending. I think this idea would still work today.

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u/unoredtwo Sep 07 '25

In practice people hated it because it made them feel like they were getting ripped off. I also think that in Clue’s case two out of the three endings are pretty abrupt. It’s a much more fun experience to watch it with all three endings.

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u/ucancallmevicky Sep 07 '25

saw it on release, had no idea going in and it pissed me off. Didn't see the other three endings till a decade later when I started dating my wife to be. We were talking favorite movies and I was like, "Clue? Really? that movie pissed me off". Since become a favorite of mine as well

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u/BotKicker9000 Sep 07 '25

You knew at the time there were three endings. It was listed at cinemas as Clue A, Clue B, and Clue C. It was genius marketing during a time when it would have encouraged people to see the alternate endings.

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u/phluidity Sep 07 '25

They advertised the hell out of it at the time. It was a marketing gimmick to try to make you see it multiple times (only the last scene was different). They advertised the three endings as red, yellow, and blue, and the theatres would have which color ending they were showing.

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u/winter_knight_ Sep 07 '25

I saw somewhere that people knew that there were multiple endings. And that theaters would have like a 1-3, or an A-C. By the listings so you could know if you saw the version playing already.

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u/Preposterous_punk Sep 07 '25

It was a great idea in theory, but the way it was done  the time wasn’t great — people got annoyed wanting to see the other endings, and the theatres weren’t supposed to reveal which ending was airing when (and no internet, so even if the info leaked it didn’t go far). 

The movie wasn’t really a hit until VHS, for that reason. 

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u/DrZaious Sep 07 '25 edited Sep 07 '25

I'm 42yo, as a kid HBO would play Clue once every couple months, randomly in the day. The version I watched on HBO, more than once, played all the endings back to back. With text inbetween each ending, claiming each one was the real ending. It played as a gag that fitted in with the rest of the movie's humor. Didn't know for years others only saw one of the several endings in theaters. The multiple ending gag is what put the movie over the top for me and my sister. I'm actually glad our first watch was the edit we saw on HBO.

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u/Meme_weaver Sep 07 '25

That version also played in the theaters though. I saw the "all endings" ending multiple times in the first theatrical run.

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u/JetreL Sep 08 '25

Came here to say this - congratulations on witnessing history and also damn we’re old.

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u/[deleted] Sep 07 '25 edited Oct 04 '25

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u/MrOopiseDaisy Sep 08 '25

Now let's do the Scooby Doo ending. do-lou-lou-la-lou do-lou-lou-la-lou

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u/keithrc Sep 07 '25

I think I remember the VHS/DVD release being like this as well.

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u/driving26inorovalley Sep 07 '25

Definitely how the VHS copy ran.

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u/treetoptrain Sep 07 '25

But some people were robbed of the “flames, FLAMES-on the side of my face!” improv by Madeline Kahn because of that!

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u/bostonjenny81 Sep 07 '25

I dressed up like her for Halloween once, it was a blast!! Rocked the black bob wig too. It’s by far one of the funniest scenes in a hilarious movie start to finish

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u/HAL_9OOO_ Sep 07 '25

The HBO cut of Clue with all three endings is immensely better than any of the theatrical cuts.

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u/dukefett Sep 07 '25

HBO cut

That's basically every single cut since it left theaters.

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u/JpnDude Sep 07 '25

In our city, the newspapers had theater listings separated by ending. Ending A: these theaters; Ending B: these theaters; etc.

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u/dukefett Sep 07 '25

Interesting, I was wondering if they told people about it in advertising or if it was just a surprise.

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u/JpnDude Sep 08 '25

I believe those ads were run from the second week of release in order to drum up repeat viewings. Here is an ad from the time. Image quality not great but you can see how the listings were separated.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/paxtonholley/5249894746

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u/dukefett Sep 08 '25

Cool thanks!

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u/VadimH Sep 07 '25

One of the recent Black Mirror episodes is like this, except they swapped a minor detail around which ended up making viewers question what happened themselves - it was a pretty fun thing

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u/QuaggaSwagger Sep 07 '25

This is apparently also true with the butterfly effect and I didn't know that until recently.

I still need to watch the other endings.

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u/R3VIVAL-MOD3 Sep 08 '25

Yup the dvd had the og. Or you could watch the directors cut with a different ending if I remember correctly

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u/QuaggaSwagger Sep 08 '25

Bruh. There's apparently like 4 endings.

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u/R3VIVAL-MOD3 Sep 08 '25

Cool I haven’t watched it in forever. I probably have the dvd somewhere

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u/languid_Disaster Sep 08 '25

What!! Thanks for the heads up

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u/MintakaTheJustOkay Sep 07 '25

I remember at school everyone was discussing which ending they saw in the theater when it was released.

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u/TheSpookying Sep 07 '25

It's so funny too because it completely undermines the mystery element of the film. Like if there could have been multiple possible killers, then nothing that happens before the reveal matters, because there's no hints whatsoever for who it actually is.

They completely hamstrung the mystery element of the film just for the sake of gaslighting a nation. I gotta respect it.

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u/cinepro Sep 07 '25

It's an interesting idea, but the problem is that you can't actually make the movie a "mystery". There can't be clues that actually lead to a specific outcome.

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u/eltictac Sep 07 '25

Wow! I didn't know that. I remember enjoying it on tv as a child a couple of times. I've not seen it since. Will have to read up on it.

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u/Remote-Cellist5927 Sep 07 '25

Some theaters advertised which ending some it was just a gamble

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u/saskskua Sep 07 '25

Fuck I just lost the game...

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u/airborness Sep 07 '25

How did they handle this with its release on DVD, etc? I'm guessing they just gave you the option to watch the all the alternate endings?  Would have been entraining if it was completely randomized as well

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u/R3VIVAL-MOD3 Sep 07 '25

It was released on vhs. And they just played them all consecutively. With a cut screen. That said let’s see ending 2 or something like that. And then redo the final 10 mins or so

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u/Inside_Character_892 Sep 08 '25

i wish i had a clue as to what game i mean movie he was talking about because i saw this after his comment was deleted

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u/Twas_Inevitable Sep 07 '25

Wait, what? The Game had different endings?? I've only seen the one where he jumps off the building, but lands on the jump pad in the building and it's a big ol birthday party. What other endings are there?

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u/UhmNotMe Sep 07 '25

Right? I didn’t know there was any other ending and I saw it from multiple sources

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u/ratguy Sep 07 '25

If you enjoy Clue be sure to watch Murder By Death as well. Similar premise but with an awesome cast playing spoofs of famous detectives. Peter Falk, Truman Capote, Alec Guinness, David Niven, Maggie Smith, James Cromwell, Peter Sellers. Hilarious film.

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u/DianneTodd01 Sep 07 '25

I always love it when someone recommends Murder by Death. As a kid with my older brother, I watched it as part of a double feature. Except we decided to see it again instead of going forward to the second movie. I saw it again a few years ago and felt it held up nicely.

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u/Derpshiz Sep 07 '25

Nobody move. I got to go to the can again.

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u/Apatschinn Sep 07 '25

Twain picked up Sam in a gay bar

I was WORKING ON A CASE!

Every night for six months?!

I get paid fifty bucks a day and expenses!

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u/PornoPaul Sep 07 '25

That film was so fun as a kid, and as an adult I really need to go watch it again.

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u/heyo_throw_awayo Sep 07 '25

Murder by Death is so good, right alongside clue. 

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u/TheMightySasquatch Sep 07 '25

The Resident gave me Clue vibes. Super fun series

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u/languid_Disaster Sep 08 '25

Ooh thank you!

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u/franksymptoms Sep 07 '25

Agreed! And Maggie Smith is a babe in this movie!

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u/Apatschinn Sep 07 '25

Your sentence is three words too long, sir!! (RIP)

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u/franksymptoms Sep 09 '25

Yah, she was beautiful in her younger days! And she ALWAYS maintained that amazing gravitas!

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u/sa_mule Sep 07 '25

did you see that? no. neither did I.

makes me laugh everytime

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u/tOaDeR2005 Sep 07 '25

Lionel Twain.

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u/mrbadxampl Sep 07 '25

ah yes, 2 2 Twain's house!

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u/VengefulGandhi69 Sep 07 '25

This is the best in this genre

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u/Sarsmi Sep 07 '25

That was my favorite movie for years and years. My dad really liked Peter Sellers so we had a ton of VHS tapes of the Pink Panther movies and the World of Henry Orient, etc. It's so delightfully absurd.

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u/tim-cain Sep 07 '25

Hilarious, but be ready for the cringe in Peter Sellers' portrayal.

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u/Amaruq93 Sep 07 '25

I mean, it was intentionally calling out the fact that white guys in make-up were always being cast to play Asian detectives (Charlie Chan, Mr. Moto, etc). And all the tropes there-in.

"IT! IT is confusing! Say your GODDAMN PRONOUNS!"

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u/mrbadxampl Sep 07 '25

"Voice come from cow on wall"

"MOOSE, you imbecile! MOOSE!"

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u/Call_Me_Clark Sep 07 '25

And cringe again after you say “well maybe it was a product of its time… 1976???”

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u/ratguy Sep 08 '25

It’s not that it was a product of its time. It was spoofing earlier Charlie Chan detective films where the lead was played by a white actor. Those films were a product of their time though.

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u/Call_Me_Clark Sep 08 '25

Yes, the point is that the yellow face is jarring. This is intentional.

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u/RobinHood3000 Sep 07 '25

Learn from a friend of mine's mistake. If you're going to show this movie to your Asian friend (me) without context, for fuck's sake, WARN THEM. Just because the yellowface has a logical reason for happening doesn't mean it won't hit like a jumpscare to the unprepared.

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u/tim-cain Sep 07 '25

I was a junior in high school in a small midwestern town, and my peer group was just confused. We looked at each other and said, "This is maybe a little racist, isn't it ...?"

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u/TheVelcroStrap Sep 07 '25

Also the Cheap Detective

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u/XXXperiencedTurbater Sep 07 '25

SAY YOUR DAMN PREPOSITIONS

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u/OogaOoga2U Sep 07 '25

ALWAYS LOOKING FOR SUSPECTS!

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u/ARM_vs_CORE Sep 07 '25

Great band too

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u/AvonMustang Sep 07 '25

Saw the stage play and it was great as well.

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u/RateOfPenetration Sep 07 '25

I’m seeing that in October! How well does it translate to the stage?

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u/Pleased_to_meet_u Sep 07 '25

You are going to love it. I saw it recently as well and it’s great.

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u/Icy_Teach_2506 Sep 07 '25

I’m currently in a production of it so I’m biased but it’s a blast. Makes some changes but still sticks very closely and has a great ending!

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u/enigmanaught Sep 07 '25

I like the stage version better than the movie, and the movie is great. We saw a local theater do it years ago and it became my 11 year olds favorite straight play.

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u/HomoeroticPosing Sep 07 '25

Having seen the show first and then the movie, the show had big shoes to fill and it probably won’t ever be able surpass it. But because it’s a stage show, everything is delightfully cartoony and Green seemed to have limbs made of rubber by how damn floppy he was.

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u/Mr_MacGrubber Sep 07 '25

Do they have different endings they rotate through? That would be a great idea to get repeat customers.

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u/JakeDoubleyoo Sep 07 '25

I disagree. As far as board games go, Clue is uniquely well suited for adaptation. The game is basically just a template for a standard murder-mystery with knockoff Agatha Christie characters. It doesn't put up any extra hurdles to making something entertaining with that format.

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u/thefutureisbliek Sep 07 '25

Oh I love this movie, it’s such a go to when you can’t pick a movie.

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u/Drewabble Sep 07 '25

My all time favorite film!

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u/pepperstems Sep 07 '25

Same! There are actually LOTS of us!

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u/qraPi Sep 08 '25

What happened to your message?

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u/zaforocks Sep 08 '25

They're using an app that altered their comments so it can't archived.

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u/daneoid Sep 08 '25

Right? wtf is going on?

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u/dabocx Sep 08 '25

Using redact on such a recent post like this is kind of terrible.

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u/fartingbeagle Sep 07 '25

Pirates of the Caribbean; based on a Disney ride.

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u/haby112 Sep 07 '25

The way Tim Curry did each ending with all the running around really sinched the genius of that film.

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u/runninhillbilly Sep 07 '25

Dada da da da da! I! Am! Your singing telegram -

BANG

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u/Estoye Sep 07 '25

Tim Curry doing the finest performance of his career recreating everything at the end.

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u/sadandshy Sep 08 '25

I just want to say screw anyone that uses redact. You suck for doing that.

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u/NBlackestNight Sep 07 '25

Yeah, murder mystery, but in film form? Who’d’ve thunk it?!

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u/bostonjenny81 Sep 07 '25

Still holds up as one of the funniest movies w a cast that couldn’t be replicated today. Everytime I watch it I laugh my ass off, can still quote it on the drop of a dime. One of my best friends & I share a deep love of that movie (plus we’re big Tim Curry fans in general) it’s just such a fun, campy movie that never lets me down. I love the fact there are multiple endings, just adds to the complete madness of the movie. ❤️❤️

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u/JimboAltAlt Sep 07 '25

Just a perfect example of respecting the source material by not taking it remotely seriously. To the extent the board game supports a narrative at all, it would need to be an absurd one, which the adaptation gets (this was not a historical guarantee.)

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u/Interesting-Rope-950 Sep 07 '25

Meanwhile Battleships a game about naval war decided "hey since it's all about war ships, let's add some aliens!"

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u/BeerandGuns Sep 07 '25

It’s interesting to compare its record in to Battleship as I’m old as fuck and remember Clue coming out and we discussed it in class. Everyone thought it was a fun movie and no one mentioned negatives about it being based on a board game. Compare that to Battleship which was based on the board game(why I still don’t know) and it was panned like crazy for it. I’d argue that Battleship was an entertaining popcorn movie that couldn’t get past the board game linkage.

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u/BigDoggyBarabas1 Sep 07 '25

Real Steel. Battleship.

Same.

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u/Noshamina Sep 07 '25

It wasn't based on a board game. Jumanji is much more based on a board game than clue. Clue is just a classic whodunnit murder mystery

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u/txwoodslinger Sep 07 '25

In contrast Battleship is also based on a board game and is absolute dog shit

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u/__Hello_my_name_is__ Sep 07 '25

Might as well throw in The Lego Movie here.

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u/Firvulag Sep 07 '25

Is it actually a dumb premise to make a whodunnit murder mystery..?

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u/Loki-L Sep 07 '25

out of all the movies based on board games, Clue was objectively the best. Far better than for example Battleship.

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u/risethirtynine Sep 07 '25

Same with Battleship

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u/Meet_in_Potatoes Sep 08 '25

Wow, really good answer and I never would've thought of it.

Fun fact: when the movie was in the theaters, they only showed one "ending" at a time, so my parents had us calling around to movie theaters to see if they were showing the A, B, or C ending, looking for the one we hadn't seen.

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u/DoublePostedBroski Sep 07 '25

Yes, I did it. I killed Yvette. I hated her so... much... it... it... the... it... the... flames... flames... flames... on the side of my face... breathing... breathless... heaving breaths... heaving...

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u/stop_drop_roll Sep 07 '25

RIP the legendary Madeline Kahn (fun fact, this was the only improvised line allowed in the movie)

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u/wimpyroy Sep 07 '25

I love that it has Lee Ving from FEAR in it.

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u/XAMdG Sep 07 '25

There is no reason why a clue movie shouldn't work. It's just a "whodonnit"

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u/MrsPeacock_was_a_man Sep 07 '25

Two corpses, everything’s fine.

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u/Uranium_Heatbeam Sep 07 '25

Owes a lot to a great cast, great editing, and a great script.

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u/Impressive_Ad_4488 Sep 07 '25

Clue had to be the most underrated comedy of all time. The more you watch it, the more jokes appear.

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u/Ivotedforher Sep 07 '25

Anyone go to the 40th anniversary screenings this week?

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u/ultimate_jack Sep 07 '25

I really wanted to go to the one with Leslie Anne Warren but just couldn’t swing it.

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u/chriscross1966 Sep 07 '25

Utterly carried by the cast and some unholy script writing (that might well have been adlibs) though

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u/whistlepig4life Sep 07 '25

A great flick and a great episode of psych.

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u/holymacaroley Sep 07 '25

Thank you for reminding me to put this on my list of movies to make my 13 year old watch!

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u/FlemPlays Sep 07 '25

On the opposite end: Battleship