March 21, 2025In Lost World: Jurassic Park(1997), the character Carter is listening to “La Llorona” – A song in Mexican folklore about a ghost woman who kills people near bodies of water. In the following scene, the character Dieter gets lost and is killed by a group of small dinosaurs in a creek.
March 20, 2025The scene in Amadeus (1984), where a masked messenger commissions a requiem mass from Mozart, directly mirrors the final scene of Don Giovanni (explanation in comments).
March 19, 2025Rocky II (1979) In the beginning when Rocky is playing stickball with the neighborhood kids, he is holding his left eye to judge distance foreshadowing why Mickey makes him switch to right handed boxing to protect the eye.
March 19, 2025In Speed Racer (2008) the panels on the edge of the final race’s track are designed after a zoetrope, which create the illusion of motion by quickly showing a bunch of pictures. The cars move so fast they end up animating the panels
March 18, 2025In Shrek the Third (2007), the cut-out of the tower fell on Prince Charming. This not only references to Charles Chaplin’s set on him with an opening saving him, but also references his death at the end of the movie.
March 18, 2025In Robocop(1987) right after Murphy shoots the ED-209 with the future military rifle, which is just a dressed up Barret 50 cal, you can see he gets a “stovepipe” jam where the blank fails to leave the rifle and gets caught in the action
March 16, 2025In Looney Tunes The Day the Earth Blew Up (2024) there is a Madame Web reference in the beginning of the movie when Daffy Duck screams “The Amazonian Spider-People are Real!”
