32 Brilliant Bits of Foreshadowing You’ll Feel Crazy for Not Catching the First Time Around

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32 Brilliant Bits of Foreshadowing You’ll Feel Crazy for Not Catching the First Time Around

You lucky little devils don’t know how good you have it right now. You were going to have to rewatch all these movies to find these subtle moments of foreshadowing, but now you just have to read this list.

Oh, you actually like the movies enough to rewatch them? Hmm, guess we didn’t think about that. Well, check these out and then be on the lookout during every movie you see from now on, okay?

The Big Lebowski

32 Brilliant Bits of Foreshadowing You’ll Feel Crazy for Not Catching the First Time Around

The Last Jedi

32 Brilliant Bits of Foreshadowing You’ll Feel Crazy for Not Catching the First Time Around

Captain America

CRACKED.COM In Captain America: The First Avenger, Steve asks Bucky where they're going, to which he replies: The Future. A Ain't that the truth.

Jurassic Park (Again)

On the way to Jurassic Park, Dr. Grant discovers his seatbelt won't work because it has two female ends. Не improvises by tying them together. It perfectly foreshadows that the dinosaurs, who are all female, have found a way to reproduce. CRACKED.COM

The Incredibles

32 Brilliant Bits of Foreshadowing You’ll Feel Crazy for Not Catching the First Time Around

Back to the Future

CRACKED.COM 9 All 7 12 KING 6 1 5 2 4 3 During the opening sequence of Back To The Future we are shown dozens of clocks. One of these clocks features actor Harold Lloyd from the silent film Safety Last! hanging from the minute hand. The clock foreshadows Doc Brown hanging from the Hill Valley clock tower. m IX X 7 DEL I MAJESTIC

Shrek 2

32 Brilliant Bits of Foreshadowing You’ll Feel Crazy for Not Catching the First Time Around

The Matrix: Reloaded

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The Virgin Suicides

THE VIRGIN SUICIDES The photo Mr. Lisbon takes before the prom telegraphs the way each of the remaining sisters will commit suicide. From left to right: Lux looks like she's holding a cigarette; Lux will be found dead with a cigarette in her hand. Therese's eyes are closed, as if she is asleep; Therese will overdose on sleeping pills; Mary coughs just after the photo is taken; Mary will stick her head in the gas oven. Bonnie is adjusting something behind her neck; Bonnie will hang herself. CRACKED.COM

The Others

CRACKED.COM THE 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.

American Psycho

AMERICAN PSYCHO (TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE) Patrick Bateman's VHS viewing CRACKED.COM gives a clue to the next chain of events.

Fatal Attraction

CRACKED COM 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.

Shutter Island

32 Brilliant Bits of Foreshadowing You’ll Feel Crazy for Not Catching the First Time Around

Kill List

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

It Follows

IT FOLLOWS At the beginning CRACKED.COM the kids play Old Maid, the point of which is to get rid of the old maid by ing 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.

The Lost Boys

CRACKED.COM THE LOST BOYS 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

The Ring

Of all the rings in the - 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. GRACKED.COM

Solo

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

The Dark Knight Rises

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

Moon

WAKE WHEN ME 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

Total Recall

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

Jurassic Park

BECHINIC oF BABY BOOM Boom - py 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

The Last Jedi

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

Captain Marvel

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

Hot Fuzz

BONUM 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

Coraline

In Coraline, at their first meeting, the Other Mother asks Coraline to get her Other Father. Не must be hungry as a pumpkin, the Other Mother says. Later on, Coraline sees his real form: a weird pumpkin-like creature. CRACKED.COM

Raiders of the Lost Ark

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

Baby Driver

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

Cars

MOT2I9 95 RUS 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

Annihilation

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

Ghostbusters

STAY-CUS NATURAL 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

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

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