12 Movies Everyone KNEW Were Lying

Hollywood's attempt to trick audiences can go either way; on the one hand, marketing a film based on one concept, only to pull the rug out from under us and have it be about something else can be the ultimate cinematic trick. What we paid for might not be what we got, but at least it did something most films fail to do these days which was to surprise us.

On the other hand that point becomes mute when the surprise is so obvious it's almost a wonder why the films attempted to trick us in the first place.

Thanks to internet fan theories, on set guerrilla photography and script-leaks, movie-makers are clinging on for dear life to retain some semblance of surprise for audiences. If they didn't, why go see the film anyway?

Much like the whole "Is Jon Snow REALLY dead?" questions and theories that came with the sixth season of Game of Thrones, fans had pretty much called it that the man who knows nothing wasn't gone for good when he got four daggers buried into his chest; but it didn't stop poor Kit Harrington's contractual obligations of telling everyone (except for one cop apparently) that his character is dead.

And films have this problem too; endeavouring to tell us a lie, when really we as fans already know the truth.

It feels bad tearing into a film that was just trying to be a festive rom-com, but there is something cringing about a movie twist that everyone saw coming from the very first trailer.

The film showcases the adorably likable Emilia Clarke as Kate, a cynical Londoner who meets a charming and handsome man named Tom (played by Henry Golding), and cue the will-they-won't-they of a loving Christmas flick.

The thing is, the movie trailer telegraphs that Kate had an operation the previous year (the film reveals it to be a heart transplant), and with the lyrics to "Last Christmas" by Wham! playing throughout the preview, it doesn't take much detective work to figure out what the twist of the film is.

Maybe that's the point? And before going in we're supposed to understand that this is less of a love story and more about the ultimate gesture of giving and sacrifice? (Spoiler alert, Tom died and Kate received his heart). But a twist such as this being displayed so obviously before the film's release is a telegraphed misdirection.

You have to imagine that this wasn't Paul Feig and Emma Thompson's plan? And they were hoping audiences weren't smart enough to figure it out.