What is your favorite hobby? A lot of people would think it’s reading books or watching movies. Who wouldn’t like to watch movies as a pasttime, right?
You will definitely watch it again and again if you are an avid fan of the film because of its story or your favorite character. Moreover, you may actually do some movie reviews after the screening, just looking for answers online, wondering why things happened in that scene.
Those little details in your favorite movies that also made you think twice, that you cannot go back to during the play are shown here and you will be shocked!
1. The Priest From Fight Club
Remember the priest from Fight Club? Well, look who actually joined Fight Club. But you can’t ever talk about Fight Club, so the pictures alone will have to do.
Kathleen Kennedy, who produced both Jurassic Park and The Goonies, may have acted unintentionally with this one. But, coincidence or not, Twitter user @ShawnRobare pointed out that character Dennis Nedry was wearing the same outfits worn by Chunk, Mouth, and Mikey in The Goonies.
The next time you watch Titanic, pay attention to the clock at the end of the movie. It says 2:20, which is exactly when the sink sank.
@Gentle_Master:
“Another interesting fact about the movie is that the whole scene in which Titanic collided with the iceberg lasted 37 seconds which is how long the collision was in real life. Also, the entirety of the movie set in 1912 lasted 2 hours and 40 minutes which is how long Titanic took to sink after it struck the iceberg. The remainder of time in the movie was present day and the credits.”
Since the coffee shop manager in Pulp Fiction had his lines unceremoniously cut off during the robbery scene, he was given a cheeky shout out in the final credits. Quentin Tarantino is probably still laughing about this one!
The DVD cover on the 20th anniversary edition of Princess Bride is, as Vizzini would say, inconceivable! It can be read right side up or upside down and still say the same thing.
The T-Rex isn’t the only thing that was carried over from the original film. The Jeep (#29) that was used in the first film to bring visitors into the park was the same was that was used in Jurassic World to help the boys escape.
In 1994’s Pulp Fiction, Uma Thurman’s character, Mia Wallace, mentions her role in the fictional TV series “Fox Force Five,” which never made it past the pilot episode. But, she described the assassins in Kill Bill: Vol 1, which didn’t come out until 2003, almost too perfectly!
“There was a blonde one, she was the leader. The Japanese fox was a kung fu master. The black girl was a demolition expert. The French fox’s specialty was sex. The character I played was the deadliest woman in the world with a knife.”
Easter eggs that are subtle nods to other films are always fun to catch. So, did you happen to catch how one of the Kakamora in Disney’s Moana looks exactly like Baymax from Big Hero 6?
You know that famous slo-mo shot of Alan Rickman’s terrified face as he’s falling off the building in Die Hard? It turns out that he wasn’t just acting – his terror, or surprise, was actually real. He was told he would be dropped on the count of 3, but the crew tricked him and dropped him on 1.
Even though parts 1 and 2 of John Wick were released 3 years apart, the cars outside the Continental Hotel remained the same. That’s because, in Hollywood time, only 4 days had passed between the two films. The attention to detail here is impeccable!
In the animated film Up, it wasn’t just old man Carl Fredricksen and Boy Scout Russell who got to go up in the air. If you watch the background, you can see the town’s buildings going up over the years, too.
In Home Alone, Kevin finds a picture of Buzz’s girlfriend and says “woof,” implying that she was a total dog. The film’s director, Chris Columbus, thought it would be mean if he used a photo of a real girl, so the film’s art director had his son dress up as the girl shown in the picture.
Tim Burton made a subtle play on foreshadowing in 1992’s Batman Returns. He intentionally made the shadow from Selena Kyle’s glasses look exactly like Catwoman’s eye mask!
The film crew had a hard time hiding the camera’s reflection in this doorknob scene on the set of The Matrix. So, they came up with a brilliant way to pretend it was just a glitch in the system. They dressed up the camera with a coat and half a tie to match the outfit Morpheus was wearing. Headless man? It’s just a blip!
Have you ever noticed how cartoon characters aren’t really listening with their ears? Zootopia finally solved that problem by sticking earbuds where they actually belong – inside the ears!
18. Django Unchained…Again
In Django Unchained, there’s a mysterious man who asks Django how is name is spelled. When Django tells him that the D is silent, the man responds with “I know.”
The reason is he knows is because he’s actor Franco Nero, who played Django in the original 1966 film.
Placement of branding is down to a science in almost all movies. But instead of cans of Coke or Pepsi, in the fictional Harry Potter world, there are parodies of real-life cereal brands, like Cheeri-Owls instead of Cheerios.
You know that annoying FBI anti-piracy warning that’s shown at the beginning of every home DVD movie? We’ve seen it so many times by now that we tend to gloss over it. Which is why you may have missed how Fight Club hijacked that screen with a much tougher WARNING…from Tyler.
Kingsmen, which is a movie about British spies, paid homage to one of the greatest rock bands in history. In one of the scenes, there’s a yellow submarine, which happens to be the title of a famous Beatles song/album.
In real life, we leave fingerprints behind on everything we touch. That extends to cartoons, too. In The Lego Movie, characters with a shiny surface had very clear thumb prints on them!
Appliance brand Dyson, who manufacturers the famously expensive vacuum cleaner, is way head of its time in so many ways. This is probably why the 2009 version of the Star Trek movie franchise showcased a Dyson hand dryer as space-age technology in the film!
Remember that scene where actress JoBeth Williams splashed around with a bunch of skeletons in the pool? Turns out those skeletons were real, only she didn’t know it at the time. Apparently, it was cheaper to source real skeletons from a medical supply company than to make fake ones.
After Cogsworth the clock becomes human in 2017’s Beauty and the Beast, there’s something very different about him. Take a closer look at his mustache – it’s uneven, just like the hands of a clock!
The Truman Show was way ahead of its time when it was released back in 1998, and I’m not talking about how our lives are now filled with nothing but reality TV.
Back then, we didn’t know that vitamin D was sunshine in a bottle. But in an early scene of the movie, Truman Burbank, who had unknowingly been living his entire life under a dome, had a bottle of vitamin D on the table.
The item that Neville Longbottom forgot in Harry Potter was so obvious, but we all had our attention on the remembrall he was holding and totally missed it. But, one look at what everyone else at the table is wearing will tell you exactly what Neville forgot – his cloak!
In the move Unthinkable, there’s a guy who tries to defuse a nuclear bomb. Only, instead of cutting a blue or black wire, he’s using the power of an Excel spreadsheet!
In The Shawshank Redemption, Morgan Freeman’s real life son played a minor role in the film. His face was used as the mugshot for a younger 20-year-old version of Morgan’s character, Red.
You probably didn’t know it, but the 2000 animated comedy film, The Road to El Dorado, had a blink and you’ll miss it moment. When the shaman starts flipping through his book of spells, a Mesoamerican version of the Dreamworks logo can be seen quickly flashing by on one of the pages.
When God, played by Morgan Freeman in the comedy Evan Almighty, poses as a waiter in the film, his name tag pretty much gives his identity away. If you take a closer look, you’ll see that it says “Al Almighty.”
How could we miss this? Well, it’s probably because most of us aren’t well-versed in ancient Greek culture.
While they were flying through Greece during the song “A Whole New World,” Aladdin tosses an apple to Jasmine. Apparently, throwing a Red Delicious at their loved one is how ancient Greeks used to propose to each other.
After the after credits of the animated fan favorite Finding Dory, there’s something quite fishy (and funny) about Jacques, the cleaner shrimp. While everyone else is toting around slimy algae, his bag is clean and clear!
The end credits are usually a place where shout outs and thanks are given to everyone who made the movie possible. But, director Wes Craven took a different approach with his campy horror flick, Scream.
He left a message that said “No Thanks Whatsoever to the Santa Rosa City School District Governing Board.” It was about the board revoking a verbal agreement that would have allowed him to film at Santa Rosa High School.
In 1989’s Batman, the Joker helped make pimples and age spots fashionable. After he started poisoning all the beauty hygiene products, news anchors decided wearing makeup on camera just wasn’t worth it!
In Spider Man 2, Peter Parker mumbled something about needing on a “strong focus.” After he jumps off a building, an undamaged Ford Focus breaks his fall.
American Beauty is a creepy film about a middle-aged guy who lusts after his daughter’s underage best friend, but it gets even creepier when you look back at it with 20/20 hindsight.
The scene depicted below is supposed to represent Lester’s feelings about his dead end job and feelings of imprisonment. However, given Kevin Spacey’s fall from grace, those digital prison bars symbolize more than just a scene from a movie!
Twenty of the civilian boats that Christopher Nolan used for the 2017 flick Dunkirk came with an interesting past. It turns out that these boats actually took part in the real life evacuation during WWII.
Pay attention to the the 20th Century Fox logo at the beginning of the X-Men movies. When the rest of the logo goes dark, the “x” in “fox” stays lit for a few seconds longer than usual.
When the ship starts to sink in Titanic, this woman (who also played tough woman Vasquez in Aliens), starts telling her kids about “Tír na nÓg, the land of eternal youth and beauty.” According to Irish mythology, this place can only be reached by traveling across the sea – or going underneath the water.
In the first Avengers film, the clock on top of Grand Central Station was destroyed. In the followup flick, Avengers: Age of Ultron, the clock has been replaced with a memorial to the first responders from the first film.