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In this scene from The Shining (1980), Dick Hallorann says ...they turned out to be completely unreliable assholes. This is a reference to my friend Brad and his sister who forgot to pick me up from the airport today. I'm posting this from a $150 Uber.

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Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982) makes a bold decision to open, without context, in the middle of this swimming pool scene. At least, that's what a lot of people in my town think, because this is where the VHS was parked every time I returned it to the video store.

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The same woman who appears as a background extra in this George Clooney scene in Ocean's Thirteen (2007) also appears in the background of a George Clooney scene in Gravity (2013)

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DIRECTOR TRADEMARK: Robert Zemeckis hides his own name in every film he makes

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If you look closely when the Wicked Witch of the East is crushed by a farmhouse in The Wizard of Oz (1939), you can see that her death is a metaphor for the crushing debt Americans face when buying in today's housing market.

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The new Mortal Kombat (2021) trailer has this actual dramatic dialogue exchange: CHARACTER 1: It's a birthmark CHARACTER 2: What do you mean? CHARACTER 1: He was born with it.

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Famous for his twist endings, M. Night Shyamalan saves the biggest twist of his career for the very end of the credits to his film OLD, where he reveals the movie is, in actuality, brand new

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Disney is too shameless and greedy to let prime advertising space go unused. On the Spanish-language version of 2017's Coco poster, there's a plug for 2018's upcoming Solo A Star Wars Story.

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The two green pills Morpheus holds up in The Matrix (1999) look suspiciously like the blood pressure medication I was prescribed in 1997, one side effect of which ultimately led to my color blindness

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In Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (2004), Daryl Hannah's character sports an eye patch over her right eye. This is a reference to another Tarantino movie, Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003) in which Daryl Hannah's character Elle Driver also wears an eye patch.

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In The Grinch (2018), the narrator says The Grinch hated Christmas. The whole Christmas season. Now please don't ask why. No one quite knows the reason. A few minutes later, he narrates an extended flashback that shows us the reasons in very specific, intricately animated detail

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In furtherance of the film's meta themes, The Matrix Resurrections' (2021) poster art depicts Keanu Reeves trying in vain to halt production on the polarizing sequel

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1996's Twister is dated in many ways, but none more so than this scene where patrons of an apparently revived drive-in movie industry are invested in the story of a man going crazy while in quarantine, all while extreme weather events ravage everything around them. Audiences today would never relate

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If you stop The Number 23 (2007) exactly 23 minutes, 23 seconds and 23 frames after the opening studio logos, you'll be doing yourself a favor because the movie is garbage in every possible way

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In the Toy Story films, a huge oversight by the animators at Pixar resulted in the cowboy having the name Andy written on his boot, even though his name is Woody.

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In The Shining, Jack enters the Gold Ballroom and says he'd give his soul for a glass of beer. Lloyd the bartender appears (dressed like the devil) and Jack orders a bourbon, not a beer. Which means his soul is safe and explains why he remains a great husband and father for the rest of the film

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After 15 years, I finally had a chance to see Evil Dead The Musical this weekend. Worth the wait

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Kubrick litters The Shining (1980) with details that flesh out the narrative. For instance, there is noticeable tension in the Torrance's marriage. This can be traced to little things like Jack brazenly reading Playgirl magazine in a hotel lobby, or to Jack trying to murder his family with an axe

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World War I (1914 - 1918) was a major financial flop, costing the world hundreds of billions of dollars. In the two decades following its conclusion, however, it found a cult following on home video and recouped its losses and then some, leading to a green light for the sequel, WWII, in 1939

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I have an unhealthy obsession with Kubrick's The Shining. My wife tolerates this obsession, and my friends find it mildly amusing. My wife and I are expecting our first child, so this is what I made to announce it.

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On the set of Terminator 2 (1991), actor Edward Furlong became so close with director James Cameron, that he eventually let Cameron refer to him as Ed, Furshort

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I've a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore is such an iconic line, audiences forget that Dorothy says it to her dog Toto, who has no concept of what Kansas is or isn't or what it would mean to not be there. Due to his limited color vision he doesn't even notice when they go from B&W to Technicolor

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Since its release, fans and critics alike have debated whether THE TEN (2007) is series canon, as it never directly acknowledges the events of THE 1-9

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My average-sized dog and oversized cat enjoying the porch on the first 'nice' day of spring

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If you saw Black Widow (2021) on Disney+ when it first opened in July and you paid very close attention when the film was over, you might have noticed that the subreddit r/shittymoviedetails was still navigable because Free Guy had not yet ruined it.

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This actual real-estate photo for an active listing made my day

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PSYCHO was originally scripted to take place at the zoo. It was only after Janet Leigh got sprayed by a skunk on the way to set the first day of shooting that the pivotal murder scene was rewritten to take place in a shower, and the zoo was reimagined as a motel that a shower might logically be in.

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Mr. Met (x-post r/funny)

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6 months ago I posted a pregnancy announcement I'd made from The Shining (link in comments). As promised, here's the birth announcement sequel

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Saw this at local movie theater. Yes, it's an arcade cabinet. Yes, it looked like it was just running off an iPhone. And yes, it cost $1.00 per play

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Surprised this was the association the international Alien Covenant marketers wanted people to be making

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Jack Nicholson frequently forgets he's in character and will only respond to his own name. This explains why his character in The Shining is named 'Jack' as well as why he has never appeared in another film

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COCO (2017) director Lee Unkrich is a huge fan of Kubrick's THE SHINING (1980). In one scene in COCO, Miguel runs through a studio and passes a painting. On the canvas are two little girls in blue dresses holding hands. This is a painting of Unkrich's twin nieces, who are huge fans of THE SHINING

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I wish the 'PUSH' sign on this door was representative of the way everybody opened doors

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As a guy with an appreciation for both palindromes and cartoon cats with cartoon headwear, I thought a quick photo of this sign outside a local restaurant was worth pausing for

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I have a dream...

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I made Mr. Met a Coke Ad to rival Mean Joe Greene's

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