March 8, 2025In Jarhead (2005), Swofford never puts the finger on the trigger during his whole mental breakdown. Not only this shows that he didn’t actually want to shoot Fergus, but that he knows his rifle is loaded with live ammo: he wants to die, and wants Fergus to kill him.
March 8, 2025The “spoonful of sugar” in Mary Poppins (1964) was inspired by the practice of giving children a sugar cube with the oral polio vaccine dropped into the cube, making the medicine easier to take.
March 7, 2025In All the President’s Men (1976) actors Martin Balsam who plays Juror #1 in 12 Angry Men (1957) and Jack Warden who plays Juror #7 play editors of the Washington Post. There are two scenes from the editors room. Both have them sitting in the first and seventh position around the table.
March 7, 2025In three separate movies, Addams Family Values (1993), House on Haunted Hill (1999), & MIB2 (2002), Peter Graves appeared as the host of an in universe mystery show that characters watched on tv.
March 7, 2025To promote ‘Baby Got Back’, Sir Mix-a-Lot sent a giant inflatable butt to record stores across the country and one of them made it into a scene in Falling Down (1993)
March 7, 2025Taxi Driver (1976) Early in the movie, Tom argues with the printing company for sending misprinted buttons where the slogan “We Are The People” had WE underlined. In a later scene Travis is wearing a button with he correct slogan with ARE underlined, indicating Tom set the printing company straight.
March 6, 2025In Falling Down (1993), the UZI used by one of the gangsters in the drive-by shooting has rubber bands holding down the secondary grip safety so it’s easier to shoot.
March 6, 2025In Diary Of A Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules (2011) I hope Greg’s actor got paid alot for this scene.
March 4, 2025Dir. Ivan Reitman’s first film, Cannibal Girls (1973) is referenced in Ghostbusters 2 (1989), Ghostbusters Afterlife (2021), and Ghostbusters Frozen Empire (2024).
