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The Crying Game
1992 · Film · 112 min
Directed by Neil Jordan
Irish Republican Army member Fergus forms an unexpected bond with Jody, a kidnapped British soldier in his custody, despite the warnings of fellow IRA members Jude and Maguire. Jody makes Fergus promise he'll visit his girlfriend, Dil, in London, and when Fergus flees to the city, he seeks her out. Hounded by his former IRA colleagues, he finds himself increasingly drawn to the enigmatic, and surprising, Dil.
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A bunch of movies off hand that weren't mentioned elsewhere. This doesn't include tv shows, the two I remember off hand are M*A*S*H and The Kids in the Hall.
1999: Hilary Swank won best actress for Boys Don't Cry.
1982: Julie Andrews nominated for Victor/Victoria
1983: Barbara Streisand in Yentl -- before she became the effect.
1996: Robin Williams and Gene Hackman in The Birdcage.
1995: Patrick Swayze in To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar
1994: Mignight in the Garden of Good and Evil directed by Clint Eastwood
1992: The Crying Game
I don't think that conclusion tells the whole story. If you take a great movie with a very famous twist in in it, they are not good because of the secret/twist, but the secret/twist definitely has greater power if you don't know it beforehand.
For example, there are some movies like The Prestige, The Crying game and The Usual Suspects there is a set up and when the twist happens, you look back and realise the movie was hinting at it at various points but you didn't expect it. If you knew, you would see the hints much more easily and the look back would not be as fun. This sort of has the same impact as a magic trick. It's fun to be fooled.
Some other movies like Se7en, Chinatown and "Easy Rider" I would call "bolt from the blue" where the impact is mostly like being punched in the guts. It's not fun but again if you are not emotionally prepared by knowing what will happen it is much more powerful.
I wouldn't say any of those had a flimsy story. In in all cases the enjoyment comes from the writing, direction, performances etc all being of a very high standard, not just from the twist. The twist really adds something though.
Aileron, strafe (different meaning), howitzer - would all have come to me from reading WW2 stories or watching black and white movies in the 80s.
Azimuth, space.
Degauss, TVs
Checksum I think probably from Linux installs (around the millennium).
Teraflop, supercomputers.
Shemale ... hmmm, never saw it, but The Crying Game (TV show) I think would be the source for me.
Conclusion, they're not gaming words you're just a gamer?
The ferishizstion of spoilers is very modern. The very term dates from usenset I believe. However, the first movie that the had a mainstream "don't spoil" movement I can remember was The Crying Game. The meme at the time was "Don't tell the secret!" and "What is the secret of The Crying Game?" (Note the lack of the term "spoil.") The secret is that the girlfriend is trans. (There. I "spoiled" a 25 year old movie you probably had never had any intention of watching, that is really only notable for "the secret" and the socialization around it for a few months in 1992.)