25 Films That Intentionally Spoil Other Films

Tom Shadyac’s Bruce Almighty is one of a run of similar Jim Carrey movies from the '90s and 2000s (The Mask, Liar Liar, Yes Man) that see Carrey star as a lowly everyman who is deeply changed by one, frequently supernatural intervention. But though the premise is familiar, Bruce Almighty has more than enough of its own ideas to keep it afloat - not least because it gives us Morgan Freeman as God.

And that’s because TV reporter Bruce Nolan (Carrey) reaches a dead-end in his life and curses God for everything that has gone wrong. Upon hearing his complaints, God decides to take a break for a while, leaving Bruce with His powers and His responsibilities. Wackiness ensues.

But before we get to the wackiness, we are witness to Bruce’s breaking point, along with the viewers of his TV channel. Reporting from the Maid of the Mist in Niagara Falls, Bruce loses the plot on-air, on-location, and refers to a woman on the Maid as "Catherine Hepburn's mum" before accusing her of throwing the Blue Heart of the Ocean Jewel over the railing of the Titanic and letting Leo DiCaprio drown. 

It’s a funny bit, and his on-air breakdown is precisely the kind of thing we watch live TV for, but if it had spoiled Titanic for us in 2003, just six years after James Cameron’s film had hit screens, we might not have been so forgiving.