10000 best r/moviedetails images on Pholder | The Mask (1994) One frame shows a clip from Stimpy (the cat) of 'Ren & Stimpy' trying to break out of jail while Milo (the dog) helps Stanley break out of jail.

The Mask (1994) One frame shows a clip from Stimpy (the cat) of 'Ren & Stimpy' trying to break out of jail while Milo (the dog) helps Stanley break out of jail.

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In Kung Fu Panda (2008), the animators chose a peach tree because it is a symbol of immortality in Chinese culture. Peach blossom and peach tree leaves are used in Taoist magic. The wood of the peach tree is said to ward off evil. Oogway's staff is made from the tree.

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In Star Wars: Attack of the Clones (2002), the waitress's name is Flo, according to her nametag in Aurebesh.

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Fight Club (1999) When Edward Norton's Character receives a call from Tyler Durden. There's a sign on the phone booth indicating that it's not possible to receive incoming calls.

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In Se7en [1996], Fincher never told John C. McGinley that the corpse used for 'Sloth' was actually a living actor in heavy makeup. McGinley's character's initial shock when 'Sloth' wakes in the movie was in fact McGinley's genuine surprise from the first take.

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In Full Metal Jacket (1987), just before Joker tells Rafterman about half of the prostitutes being serving officers in the Viet Cong and the other half having TB and to only f*ck the ones who cough, the street walker coughs into her hand a couple times to seal the deal.

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In The Lord of the Rings, the filmmakers used a special lighting rig for Galadriel so that her eyes appear to reflect the starlight. This is because Galadriel is the last Elf in Middle-Earth to have seen the light of the Trees of Valinor.

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In Rocky (1976), Adrian's hesitation to kiss Rocky wasn't originally in the script. Talia Shire had contracted the flu and was worried about getting Sylvester Stallone sick, so she was very reluctant to kiss him. It ended up being better than the planned scene, so it was kept in the movie.

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Noticed this subtle foreshadowing in Coco (2017), Ernesto De La Cruz has a different belt buckle than Coco's father in the torn offrenda photo.

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In Incredibles 2 (2018), Elastigirl’s new super suit is designed by Devtech. Her suit is the only one to be damaged, indicating Edna Mode’s superior designing ability.

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Last Night in SoHo (2021) The first shot where Ellie sees Sandie through the mirror was achieved by casting twin actors James and Oliver Phelps (famous for playing twins in Harry Potter) as the coatroom attendant/his reflection

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In ‘Don’t Look Up’ (2021), astronomers appear on a ‘Morning Joe’-style cable news talk show. Though not explicitly noted as liberal, their logo reflects their slant. A clever detail!

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In The Big Lebowski (1998) the Dude tells the police he has creedence tapes in his car. Every song that plays while in the Dude's car is by Creedence Clearwater Revival

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In The Invention of Lying (2009) the $100 bills are all old fashioned because the anti counterfeit updates wouldn’t be needed if no one had ever lied.

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The movie Charade (1963) was the last film starring Cary Grant as a romantic lead. He was 59 years old, and felt awkward that his character was flirting with his co-star Audrey Hepburn, who was 33. So the dialogue was rewritten to make Audrey’s character the flirt with a preference for older men.

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Throughout Django Unchained (2012), Dr. Schultz keeps all of his handbills, receipts, and other documents in his front pockets. Shortly before he decides to kill Candie and is shot in the chest, he tucks Broomhilda's papers into his back pocket.

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In Knives Out (2019), all of the clocks and phones have accurate timing. In an interview, director Rian Johnson said: “Anytime a clock or a phone is in set, somebody has paid very close attention to the time and has asked me what time it's supposed to be in the actual scene.

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There is a Mon Calamari who can't find his monitor in Return of the Jedi

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Brad Bird was in part inspired to make this movie (The Iron Giant 1999) as a memorial to his sister Susan, who died at the hands of her husband by gun violence. His pitch was this: What if a gun had a soul and didn't want to be a gun?

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Star Wars Ep. 2: Attack of the Clones (2002) Obi-Wan remarks Anakin has become arrogant- and Yoda agreed that arrogance is more common in Jedi. Two scenes later, the Jedi librarian proves Yodas’ point

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In Captain Phillips (2013), the medic in the infirmary scene was a real navy medic (Danielle Albert). The director told her to treat Tom Hanks like it was a regular military exercise. The sequence was unscripted and improvised.

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In Up in the Air (2009) some of the fired employees in montages weren’t actors, but employees recently fired who thought they were being interviewed for a documentary

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In Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby (2006), when Ricky Bobby and Jean Girard are kissing, there’s a sign in the stands saying, “French Me.”

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In Back to the Future 3 (1990), the Delorean Marty rides back to 1885 tears the fuel line and loses gas; but there are 2 Deloreans at that point in 1885; Marty could have used the other Delorean that Doc hid by the graveyard in the cave to refuel and repair.

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Watching JAWS (1975) tonight with my son and saw a shooting star in the background when Chief Brody was loading his gun. Steven Spielberg said this was completely a coincidence and not an optical effect.

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In Avengers: Infinity War, Thanos temporarily knocks Doctor Strange’s soul out of him after using the Soul Stone [Detail]

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In QUANTUM OF SOLACE (2008), James Bond asks Miss Fields her first name, she replies, Just Fields ... In the closing credits she's listed as Strawberry Fields

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Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile (2020) has a reference to Danny's Apollo 11 sweater in The Shining (1980)

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In Spider-Man No Way Home (2021), the taxi is number 1228. This is a reference to the birthday of Stan Lee: 28th December.

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In Undercover Brother (2002), Conspiracy Brother, played by Dave Chappelle, talks about how silly it is that the black character in Forrest Gump is killed so quickly after being introduced. Chappelle famously turned down the role of Bubba in the movie, a move he has confessed to regretting.

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In Lightyear (2022), a vending machine is selling Wade Water. This is a reference to Pixar's next movie Elemental. The main character is named Wade Ripple and he is a water elemental.

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During the Once upon a December number in Anastasia (1997), you can see a young boy somewhat limping, while walking with the other family members. This is actually the young throne heir Alexei (who in reality was Anastasia's younger brother), born with haemophilia, causing that limp.

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In Luca (2021), the first time Luca stands on land he exhibits a medical finding called Gower's sign. Classically seen in patients with muscular dystrophy, it is due to a lack of strength in the hip and thigh muscles causing the patient to walk up their body to stand from a seated position.

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In Blade Runner 2049 (2017), replicants can be identified by having them look up and to the left. The opening text of the film is positioned where the audience must look up and to the left, and the first word they look at is “Replicants”.

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The first harry potter film has two different names: in Europe it's called Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (2001), and in America it's called Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. Depending on which version, Hermione is reading about a different stone.

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In Monty Python and The Holy Grail the chain mail was actually knitted yarn. I have seen this movie about 30 times and just noticed this detail yesterday. Not sure if it was super obvious to everyone else....

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Dustin Hoffman farted for real in the phone booth in Rain Man (1988). It wasn't scripted and he and Tom Cruise's reactions were improvised.

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In The Prestige (2006), a seemingly normal marital argument between Alfred and Sarah Borden takes on an entirely different meaning and connotation with knowledge of the film’s ending (explanation in comments).

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In The Avengers, Robert Downey Jr. always hid snacks around the set for when he got hungry. One day he randomly offered Chris Evans blueberries in the middle of a scene, and they kept it in.

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In The Big Lebowski (1998), Walter is right about every single aspect of the film's kidnapping, despite being portrayed as crazy in the narrative. (Spoilers in Comments)

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In Maleficent (2014), the young Aurora was played by Angelina Jolie’s daughter Vivienne. The 5-year-old got the part because she was the only child who wasn’t terrified of Jolie in her Maleficent makeup. Several other younger children auditioned and wouldn’t go near her.

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In Zootopia (2016), Chief Bogo's calendar has a picture of San Fransokyo from Big Hero 6 (2014).

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While filming Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015), Oscar Isaac requested that his character Poe Dameron specifically be a native of the planet Yavin IV. This is because the scenes on Yavin IV in the original trilogy were filmed in Guatemala, where Isaac is actually from.

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In Gangs Of New York (2002) the movie's director Martin Scorsese has a very brief cameo as the wealthy house owner whom Cameron Diaz's character robs.

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In Schindler’s List (1997), the waiter that Schindler meets is played by Branko Lustig, a real-life Holocaust survivor. He is also one of the movies producers.

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In Spider-Man 3 (2007), Peter has a framed picture of MJ from Spider-Man 1 (2002), moments before getting bit.

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In The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014), Jamie Foxx's character (Electro) has a birthday cake which bears the same color scheme as his character's costume in the comics.

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In the Lord of the Rings: the two towers (2002) you can see the grave of 5 fallen rohan soldiers that died the night before.

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In Tangled(2010),After Flynn wakes up from concussion. Rapunzel reflection can be seen in his eye.

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In The Evil Dead (1981), Ash drops the necklace he had given his girlfriend. The chain forms a skull.

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In Tomorrowland (2015), the store has a shelf dedicated to The Iron Giant (1999). Both films were directed by Brad Bird.

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In The Little Mermaid (2023), one of the market vendors was Jodi Benson, who played Ariel in the 1989 version of the film.

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In Madagascar (2005), there's a note on the side of the payphone that Alex uses that reads Room for rent, EAST Village, $10,000/mo, call Tom & Eric. The names Tom & Eric are a reference to Tom McGrath and Eric Darnell, the film's directors.

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In Ratatouille (2007), the first time we see Ego's office, his blinds are closed. After eating Remy's Ratatouille, he has his blinds open as he stares outside with a little 'perspective'.

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The official trailer for The Shining featured the iconic bloody elevators, but back then, blood was not allowed to be shown in movie trailers, so director Stanley Kubrick said it was just rusty water.

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Natalie Wood injured her left wrist while filming The Green Promise (1949). It caused one of her wrist bones to protrude out. To hide this, she wore bracelets in many of her movies: West Side Story (1961), Rebel Without a Cause (1955), and Gypsy (1962).

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In The Expendables 2 (2012) Dolph Lundgrens character, Gunnar, is said to have achieved a Masters in Chemical Engineering then quit to be a bouncer in attempt to form a relationship with This girl. All of which Dolph Lundgren actually did in real life. The girl was Grace Jones.

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In Bio-Dome (1996), the school motto of the junior community college that Jen and Monique attend is “Nothing to be ashamed of.”

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In Moana (2016), you can see the lamp from Aladdin (1992) in Tamatoa's shell.

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In Atlantis: The Lost Empire (2001), Preston Whitmore has an aquarium with Coelacanths, a living fossil fish that was thought to be extinct until 1938. 24 years after the film’s setting of 1914

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In Psycho (1960), Marion’s bra changes from white (angelic) to black after she steals the $40,000 to show that she has done something wrong and evil. Similarly, her purse changes from white to black after she steals the money.

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In Elf (2003) the Gimbel’s manager has a “Wanda” name tag. The filmmakers hired Wanda Sykes for the role but she dropped out at the last minute. When Faizon Love came on for his scenes he chose to wear Wanda’s nametag.

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In Django Unchained (2012), when Django kills Lil Raj with his own Colt revolver, there are only 5 shots in the gun (despite being able to fit 6). This is because it was common practice to have the hammer resting on an empty cylinder, thus removing the risk of an accidental discharge.

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In Bridge of Spies (2015), Stephen Spielberg pays tribute to Norman Rockwell, specifically his 1960 artwork ‘Triple Self-Portrait’.

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The same license plate can be seen in both jaws (1975) and in deep blue sea (1999)

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In Forest Gump (1994), Tom Hanks had trouble with simulating Gump's Southern drawl accent. Michael Humphrey's, the child actor for Gump, real voice was the Southern drawl; after meeting him on set, Hanks watched him preform and simulated his voice to be more like his.

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Prior to the first Harry Potter movie (2001), J.K. Rowling told Alan Rickman about Snape's relationship with Lily Potter (before it was revealed to the public) to help him capture the essence of the character. The actor later said that it also confirmed his suspicion that Snape was a double agent.

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For The Shawshank Redemption (1994) Stephen King never cashed his $1000 cheque for the rights to the film. Years later he framed it and mailed it to director Frank Darabont with a note saying In case you ever need bail money, Love Steve.

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In the Men in Black movies (1997, 2002 & 2012), Chloe Sonnenfeld, the daughter of director Barry Sonnenfeld, has had a cameo in every movie. In MIB, she appears on a monitor, in MIB 2, she plays the little girl at the post office, and in MIB 3, she plays a hippy.

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Rewatching Scary Movie (2000) 🤣 never noticed this before 🤣

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In Monsters Inc (2001), Sully and Mike pass by the “Hidden City Cafe”. This is a reference to a real-life cafe in Point Richmond, California. In 1994, several famous Pixar directors had lunch there and came up with ideas for movies...A Bug's Life, Monsters, Inc, Finding Nemo, and WALL-E.

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In Star Trek: Nemesis (2002), Captain Picard jokes that he's been waiting for 15 years to tell Data to shut up. Star Trek: The Next Generation premiered in 1987, 15 years before this movie was released.

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With a Chance of Meatballs’ (2009), every president on Mount Rushmore except Abraham Lincoln gets pied directly in the face. Lincoln takes a pie to the back of the head, which is how he was assassinated.

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In Matilda (1996), Matilda’s doll was designed by Mara Wilson. She drew a picture of a doll that could be made using basic household materials. The doll was called “Wanda”.

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In Trading Places (1983), Louis Winthorpe’s (Dan Aykroyd) prison number is the same as Jake Blues’ (John Belushi) prison number in The Blues Brothers (also starring Aykroyd, both movies were directed by John Landis) as an homage to Belushi, who had died the year before.

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During the opening sequence in Apocalypse Now (1979), Martin Sheen was actually drunk in the Saigon hotel room because he was celebrating his 36th birthday on set that day.

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In the Pirates of the Caribbean series (2003), Jack Sparrow has a red spot on this jaw. This red spot is a joke between Depp and the makeup department. The red spot is actually supposed to be syphilis, and it gets progressively more noticeable in each film.

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In The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014), the tattoos on the prisoner named Ludwig (Harvey Keitel) are an homage to the character Pere Jules in the classic 1934 French film, L’Atalante.

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In The Incredibles 2 (2018), the A113 easter egg shows up twice: once on a train and then on a cinema marquee at the end. A113 is the name of a classroom at the California Institute of the Arts, which was attended by several Pixar animators.

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In Soul (2020), you can see a sign for 9 inch nails at a hardware store. This is a reference to Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, two of the movies composers and members of the band Nine Inch Nails.

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For The Matrix Reloaded (2003), General Motors donated over 100 cars to the production. All of them were destroyed in the filming of the epic car chase. Most of which was filmed on a fake 1.5 mile stretch of road that was built from scratch on a former navel base for $2.5 million.

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In Madagascar (2005), Skipper the penguin is voiced by co-director and co-writer Tom McGrath. Actor Robert Stack was meant to voice Skipper. Unfortunately, he died two weeks before production began. So, McGrath was chosen.

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In Avatar (2009), Grace wears a Stanford tank top in her avatar form. This was added by Sigourney Weaver as a reference to her alma mater. She graduated from Stanford in 1972.

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Actor Michael Parks plays the same character, Earl McGraw, in three movies Quintin Tarantino has worked on: From Dusk till dawn (1996), Kill Bill (2003) and Planet Terror (2007 )

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In Princess Bride (1986), Inigo Montoya only ever injures Count Rugen in the places that Count Rugen has already injured him; The cheeks, the shoulder, the bicep, and the stomach.

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For Interstellar, Christopher Nolan planted 500 acres of corn just for the film because he did not want to CGI the farm in. After filming, he turned it around and sold the corn and made back profit for the budget.

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In 'Dumb and Dumber' (1994), Lloyd's chipped tooth is real. A kid jumped on Jim Carrey's head in detention when he was a child and he had the cap removed to look dumb.

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Spaceballs (1987) a mirror was used at the bottom of the landspeeder to make it appear as if it’s floating.

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Saving Mr Banks (2013) references Disney’s censorship of the smoking habits of Walt Disney. In real life, they airbrushed cigarettes out of his hands in many old photos, leaving him with an odd two-finger salute.

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In Cars (2006), Lightning McQueen's body shakes much more than Mater's because McQueen is a racecar with firmer suspension, which means the bumpy roads make him shake more aggressively than normal cars that have softer suspension.

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In Police Academy (1984), cadet Barbara misfires and idiotically points the gun towards the cadets. Cadet Tackleberry, the only one who did not seek cover, is a gun nut and knew that the shotgun hadnt been cocked, no round chambered, and therefore couldn't be fired again.

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You almost miss the face of a spirit/being watching the May Queen in Midsommar(2019). Check the top left corner. Effects of the drugs.

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Because Spy Kids(2001) and Machete(2010) were directed by Robert Rodriguez, Carmen and Juni Cortez’s uncle “Machete” is canonically the same “Machete” from the 2010 R-rated film

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The rubble left by the Asgardian mural in Thor: Ragnarok foreshadows the injury Thor receives later.

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In The Mummy (1999) after the Medjai attack scene, you can see Benny exiting the same cave he hid in at the beginning of the movie when the French had their battle with Mujahideen soldiers

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In How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000), the Whoville clocktower features a statue of Horton the Elephant (of Horton Hears a Who)

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In Back To The Future Part II (1989), one of the newspaper's sections has a review for Jaws 19. And judging from the section's title, it ain't good.

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In Smile (2022), the Police statement shown around the middle of the movie has a PDF417 barcode on it. When decoded, it reveals a hidden message. (Details in comments)

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In the film “The Terminator” (1984), Arnold Schwarzenegger was not allowed to use his own voice to dub the Terminator character in German for the German dub of the film, because his Austrian accent was considered too “rural.”

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In Morbius (2022), the cargo ship is named Murnau. This is a reference to Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau, who directed Nosferatu (1922), a horror classic involving vampires.

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In the Flintstones (1994), the role of Sharon Stone was written for actress Sharon Stone. That’s why they have the same name. But she turned down the part as she was working on another movie. Halle Berry got the part instead.

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In Zathura (2005) the Zorgon spaceship has victory markings showing how many houses it has destroyed.

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In The Hobbit movies (2012-2014), Gloin uses a particular axe. He later gives it to his son, Gimli.

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In Don't Look Up (2021) Shovels are $599.99 as people have panic-bought them to assumingly build bunkers.

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In the Princess Bride (1987), you can see a replica of the hat that Rob Reiner wore in This is Spinal Tap (1984). It was included because Rob Reiner wanted Mark Knopfler to compose the movie’s music, but he would only agree to do it if the hat appeared as an easter egg.

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Wall-E. My 8 year old noticed Rex, while Wall-E is organizing his findings in his home.

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In Luca (2021), Giulia says that a telescope belongs to Old Man Bernardi. This is a reference to set supervisor Chris Bernardi, who is interested in astronomy and owns 6 telescopes.

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In Guardians of the Galaxy (2014), the holographic dog in the opening is played by Dr. Wesley Von Spears, a dog that belonged to James Gunn. He died in 2020.

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In The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997), the man who's eaten by the T-Rex because he tried to push on a pull door is the film's screenwriter, David Koepp. He is listed in the credits as Unlucky Bastard.

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In House on Haunted Hill (1959) the skeleton is credited as himself.

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Back to the Future filmed at different gyms for scenes in 1985 vs. 1955. To justify this a school poster points out the 1985 gym is new.

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A Chinese euphemism, 挂彩 (guacai), “to hang colorful decorations,” is used when someone is shot and killed. In Kung Fu Panda 2 (2011), after killing Master Thundering Rhino with a cannon shot, Lord Shen’s forces hang a colorful piece of fabric on his hammer.

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In Land of the Dead (2005) Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright make a cameo as the photo booth zombies. George Romero was a big fan of Shaun of the Dead (2004) and asked them to be in his film.

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In The Empire Strikes Back (1980), The Rebel Alliance uses bubble wrap on the shoulder harnesses of their snowspeeders.

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In Married to the Mob (1988), in the seedy, Roman-themed hotel room where Karen and Tony have a tryst, writing on the headboard reads, Veni Veni Veni”, a play on Caesar’s triumphal quote Veni. Vidi. Vici. (I came. I saw. I conquered.) That means the headboard reads, I came, I came, I came.

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Batman Returns 1992; Michelle Pfeiffer’s stunt double wears boots with a collapsible heel.

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