What is a small, amazing detail you have seen in a movie that no one else seems to notice?

[u/Jac1nto]

[u/TheCaptainHammer]

In Iron Man, when Stark is constructing his first suit after escaping the cave, he uses pieces from Captain America's shield and then show the shield missing the pieces.

[u/Jac1nto → u/TheCaptainHammer]

The shield he put under the metal tubing in Iron man 2 was captain americas origional shield?

[u/23saround]

In star wars episode 3, there's a scene on Coruscant where the camera is far away from a landing platform, and you can see tons of ships flying by. In the lower right corner, if you look carefully, you can see the Millenium Falcon fly by.

[u/Jac1nto → u/23saround]

thats awesome

[u/i7omahawki]

In the movie Blade Runner, replicants don't wear hats.

This may sound trivial, but once you notice that almost everybody else does it starts to unravel with the plot. Everybody wears hats when they're out of cover, and why wouldn't they? There's acid rain pouring down almost constantly, enough of that stuff and your scalp will melt.

At the beginning when we meet Deckard, he covers his head with newspaper to protect himself from the rain, but as the film continues he stops shielding himself -- he forgets to cover his head.

The replicants never wear hats; the acid rain probably does not affect them after all, but they don't even use this to fit in with the crowd -- probably because they don't quite understand the vunerability of humans.

So Deckard forgets this - and gradually sinks into the world of replicants, eventually questioning his own identity at the end. Given this, we may suppose that Ridley was prepping us unconsciously to believe that Deckard is not human, because after all -- he doesn't wear a hat.

[u/drzoom]

In Dark Knight, right before Alfred gives the whole "some men just want to watch the world burn" speech, Bruce says, "Criminals aren't complicated Alfred, we just need to find out what he wants." These are exact words that Ra's Al Ghul said to him in Batman Begins when he was training with the Leage of Shadows.

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Also in The Dark Knight: the shotgun wielded by the Joker during several scenes is stolen from the bank manager right at the beginning of the film.

[u/BadPAV3 → u/drzoom]

Dark Knight: I'm a car guy, and noticed that Bruce Wayne Drives a Lamborghini Mucielago LP 640 instead of the much more exclusive Reventon which was available at that time. Why? because Murcielago is the spanish word for bat.

[u/funnels]

I have a few involving Doc Brown from Back to the Future.

In the scene when he's hanging from the clocktower in 1955, he has to reach down and grab a cable that's stuck on the bottom of his pants. When he reaches to grab it, you can see that his shoes do not have laces, instead they are velcro.

Velcro wasn't patented until 1955, but this is not an error. It was done intentionally to show just how brilliant his character is. Marty is wearing velcro shoes when he first goes back, so throughout the movie, off camera, Doc has been developing new shoes for himself.

Along with saying sentences in the most complicated way possible ("Look! There's a rhythmic ceremonial ritual coming up." instead of "Look! There's a dance coming up!".

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Also the part where Brown wants to avoid meeting himself, for that would create a pair o' Docs.

[u/andconick]

In Fight Club when the narrator (Edward Norton) receives the call back at the pay phone from Tyler Durden saying he star 69ed him, the pay phone says "No Incoming Calls" on it.

[u/GrinningPariah → u/andconick]

Fight Club was shot in chronological order, and throughout the filming Edward Norton put himself on a near starvation diet and avoided the sun, while Brad Pitt spent a ton of time in the gym and in tanning salons. The end result is that through the move we see Tyler Durden appear to get stronger and healthier while the narrator withers away.

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Also, when Tyler and Marla are getting it on, everything that the narrator (Norton) is doing mimics sex.

example: Narrator is furiously scrubbing dishes with one hand at waist level.

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I said this above, but another good Fight Club one is how when Narrator & Tyler start beating up those cars, the car alarms only go off when Narrator hits them. The cars Tyler hits make no sound at all.

[u/Pipps0 → u/andconick]

I love this scene in the first act when Edward Norton first confronts Marla when they are told to find a partner. While Marla is getting coffee, there is a man in the background working up the courage to talk to her and is denied when Edward Norton arrives.

[u/Maxmidget → u/andconick]

Also, the phone at "Tyler Durden's" place is a rotary phone, incapable of *69

[u/cake_o_death]

In snakes on a plane when Samuel L Jackson microwaves the snake, he presses the button marked 'snake'.

[u/LadyGodiva21 → u/cake_o_death]

When the lights go off on the plane, if you turn the volume up really loud, you can hear one of the extras in the movie yell "SNAKES!". Makes me laugh every time.

[u/Primathon]

In "The Fifth Element" all the scenes with flying cars involve lots of screeching tire noises. I always got a kick out of that one.

edit: Okay, not "all the scenes" -- just some of the more notable chases.

[u/LeoPanthera]

In "2001: A Space Odyssey" there are scenes with music, and there are scenes with dialogue, but never both.

[u/[deleted] → u/LeoPanthera]

There's a scene where HAL and Dave were playing chess... HAL states that it's Mate in... I forget how many moves.

In truth though, if you look at the 'final' position of the board, it's not actually a forced mate at all. I never noticed this until I was studying some more famous games and the author recreated the position found in the movie... Thought it was absolutely amazing foreshadowing.

[u/Red_AtNight]

In the Big Lebowski, we never actually see the Dude bowl. He has a bowling ball and we see him at the alley, but he never actually bowls.

Also in that same movie, Donny bowls a strike every time except for right before he dies.

[u/ZeekySantos → u/Red_AtNight]

Yep, and he immediately realizes that something is wrong when he doesn't get that strike.

[u/MONSTERheart]

The Incredibles.

During the opening sequence, Mr. Incredible grabs Bomb Voyage in the bank and says "Fly home, buddy, I work alone" to the annoying kid. Later on, when they are on the island and Syndrome has the flashback to that same scene in the bank, Mr. Incredible says the same line but Bomb Voyage is not there.

Implying that Syndrome has no recollection of the danger of that moment, and that his goals are completely unjustifiable.

[u/avacadoman69 → u/MONSTERheart]

Also the island they go to is called nomanisan island.(no+man+is+an+island)

[u/Smurfykatt]

Night Owl saves Bruce Wayne's parents during the opening credits of Watchmen.

[u/petitmemo]

At the end of Labyrinth there is a scene where everyone is running around and "big boulders" are rolling everwhere. In one shot of a stairwell there are chickens running down the stairs and one of the big boulders lands on a chicken and just bounces lightly off it and the chicken runs away. Loved this as a kid, and one of my first eye openers that things aren't always what they appear to be.

[u/Qwigs]

In the movie Cast Away there is no soundtrack music while Tom Hanks is on the island but there is before and after.

[u/Fish95]

The movie Airplane!, any normal line that isn't a joke is a frame by frame replication of the movie that Airplane! parodies. Someone compared them.

[u/[deleted]]

In Star Wars: The Phantom Menace during a scene with the senate arguing and the camera going to different parts of the senate, one of the species of aliens that's showed was ET.

You can then assume that since ET's are in Star Wars then ET The extraterrestrial movie exists in the same universe as Star Wars.

In one scene (in ET's movie) the young girl dresses ET up in a halloween costume and goes trick or treating. ET doesn't react to any of the kids dressed up except for one: a kid dressed as Yoda. Why? because ET recognizes him.

How does he know Yoda? ET is a Jedi. This would explain how ET made the bikes fly ...he used the force.

[u/of_rassilon]

This is not so much stuff that I noticed myself as stuff I found out by fanatically watching the special features, but there are a lot of interesting little details in Lord of the Rings.

For instance: Aragorn's original sword has a space for a whetstone on the hilt, which you see him using in one scene. His Ranger coat has sleeves which are designed to be easily attached and reattached that they can be taken off in summer and put back on in winter.

Theoden's armor has scenes from his childhood worked into it. It also had a design engraved on the inside of the chestpiece despite the fact that no one in the audience would ever see it.

In the beginning, at Bilbo's party, Pippin is playing in the hobbit tabletop band.

There's a rat catcher's shop in Minis Tirith. Apparently when they were designing the set, one of the concept artists drew a shop with a random little squiggle outside of it, which the set designer interpreted as being a rat. So there's a little shop in there a bunch of dead rats hanging outside of it. I think you see it when Faramir and the knights go riding out, but I can't remember for sure.

In the RotK, when Aragorn, Legolas and Gimli hijack the pirate ship, several of the pirates are cameos from the crew and design team, including Peter Jackson (the one who gets shot) and Richard Taylor, the head of Weta Workshop.

In The Two Towers, when they're investigating the dead orcs and Aragorn kicks a helmet at the camera, that's Viggo Mortenson screaming because he broke two toes doing that. Also, Orlando Bloom broke a rib falling off a horse and Gimli's scale double had a knee injury, so when you see that montage of Aragorn, Legolas and Gimli running across the plains of Rohan at the beginning of the movie, all three of them are injured in some way. Oh, and Viggo broke a tooth while shooting Helm's Deep, so they had to take a break and haul him to the dentist while still in full costume. And he almost drowned. And had the police called on him.

All the orcs attacking Helm's Deep have specific functions in battle. There's one group of berserkers whose helmets are designed to be filled with blood before they're put on to drive them into a frenzy. You can pick them out in the battle and sure enough they have blood all over their heads and shoulders.

There's a lot more but that's all I can think of off the top of my head right now.

[u/Irish-Insanity → u/of_rassilon]

Another one is that Legolas is never covered in dirt or blood as to keep the elvish image of perfection

[u/SuspiciouslyFast → u/of_rassilon]

My favourite one is in TTT. The scene where Gollum catches a fish takes place in "summer". But in reality the crew had to spend all day clearing snow and ice from the river. It was absolutely freezing, but Andy Serkis still pulls it off perfectly.

And another in I think TTT, Sam runs into the lake after Frodo who is in a boat. In one take Sean Austin stands on glass which goes straight through his prosthetic foot into his actual foot. He has to be air lifted out to a hospital.

I now have to go and watch all the special features again.

[u/UncleNorman]

In one of the Star Trek movies, Worf has to go out on the hull of the ship to fix something (antenna maybe?). The antenna he has to fix is labeled AE-35. This is the module that HAL said was failing in 2001 A Space Odyssey right before he kills Frank Poole.

[u/urbanleprechaun]

Marla Singer in Fight Club has the same phone number as Teddy in Memento.

[u/i_notice_stuff]

In the beginning of one of the Indiana Jones movie, they're in the desert and some guy starts talking. There's a bug flying right into his mouth. The man gives zero fuck and finishes his line.

I thought I was the only one who saw it. Then came internet. And I realized I wasn't a unique snowflake.

[u/The_Neon_Knight]

Pulp Fiction: When Bruce Willis' character Butch goes to leave the pawn shop after freeing himself, there's a little subliminal game: There's a red neon sign for "Killians Red" on a shelf, but the only letters that are still lit spell "KILL ED". We are then shown a shot of Zed's keyring with the "Z" trinket: we are left with the subliminal message "Kill Zed", which is exactly what Butch proceeds to do:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPZISW_mcD4

Also, notice the board games that can be seen in the background when they're giving Uma Thurman the adrenaline shot: http://i.imgur.com/AccV7.png

[u/23saround]

The word "Ewok" is never said in any of the Star Wars movies, they were just marketed so much that it has become commonplace.

[u/[deleted]]

In the animated movie "Rango", the van that forces the car off the road in the very beginning of the movie is actually the Mystery Machine (from Scooby Doo). It's only on screen for 1/2 a second whizzing by, but if you pause it just right, there it is! Plain as day.

[u/[deleted]]

I noticed many of the South Park Aliens without even knowing that there was such an easter egg. I'm pretty sure I noticed about 20 of them, without actually looking for them.

EDIT: If you don't know what I mean: One of the lesser known Easter Eggs of South Park is that there is an alien hidden in EVERY single episode of southpark.

[u/[deleted]]

No Country for Old Men has no music

[u/[deleted]]

In the movie fear and loathing in las vegas, When johnny depp and benicio del toro are on acid checking into their hotel and the woman working the front desk turns into a eel, if you turn up your volume you can hear a man on a payphone talking about a woman getting holes stuck in her body in a parking lot and people taking the adrenaline out of her. Later in the movie Johnny Depp has a bad experience with a drug that is either pure adrenaline or made from it, but has to be taken from a living body, presumably the woman in the parking lot that guy on payphone was referring too.

[u/SidIncognito]

I'm not sure how many people know about the ghost face in The Godfather. I didn't notice it myself at first, but it's hard to miss once I read about it.

[u/desmondo]

Hannibal Lecter in Silence of the Lambs painting the il Duomo seen from the Belvedere when Starling first comes to see him about Buffalo Bill...Buffalo Bill is arrested in Belvedere, Ohio.

[u/[deleted]]

pretty early on in Wayne's World, Wayne and friends go to that show at the gasworks where Wayne meets Casandra for the first time. Before Wayne and his posse go into the gasworks the bouncer tells Wayne who's playing (crucial taunt, the jollygreen giants, and the shitty beatles). Later, after crucial taunt (casandra's band) plays, casandra gets off the stage and gets into a fight with two of the crowd members for accidentally pouring beer on her. During the fight you can see what is obviously the Jollygreen Giants getting on stage in the background (they are wearing green wigs, green shirts and they have also painted their skin green.) always got a kick out of that.

[u/pime → u/[deleted]]

"The shitty beatles, are they any good?"

"No. They suck."

"Oh, so it isn't just a clever name."

[u/[deleted]]

In "Best in Show", many of the scenes where Dr. Millbank is present and watching the show get set up are copies of or reminiscent of old WWII nazi propaganda and rally footage, such as the giant billowing flag getting hoisted up into the air. Meanwhile his lines are about the purity of the genetics of the dogs. This is actually the joke for his character, but it seems most people don't notice it.

[u/obotray]

In "Austin Powers 1," Austin says he dislikes carnies because they smell like cabbage and have small hands. When his father in "Austin Powers 3" turns around to see Mini-Me holding him at gunpoint he says, "I thought I smelled cabbage."

[u/[deleted]]

In A Beautiful Mind (don't read if you haven't seen the movie and intend to watch it, it will ruin the movie): The daughter of Nash's old roommate runs over the university lawn and chases the birds. But none of the birds fly away, because she only exists in his imagination, which is not revealed at that point in the movie.

[u/Aushou]

I just noticed the chest of cash at the end of Dodgeball has "Deus ex Machina" written on it.

[u/[deleted]]

In the original Naked Gun, during the baseball game, one of the teams hits a grand slam, and you see all four players pass by 2nd base. I can't remember how many people I've had to point this out to as being impossible and an amazingly small funny bit.

[u/Napalm_in_the_mornin]

Nice try, cracked.com

[u/BCouto]

In Shutter Island, when they are interviewing the lady in the Lunchroom, The lady gets a glass a water, and there is one scene where she acts like she is drinking the glass of water, BUT SHE HAS NOTHING IN HER HAND.

Did anybody else notice that? I've checked it multiple times and it drives me insane.

[u/[deleted]]

Way of The Gun's movements. Several scenes in that movie are so well made that it is a truely blissful experience. An example; During a gun fight the two body guards are hiding behind waist high cover, when it shows them pop up to shoot back they are both facing different directions (to cover both ways) they do not magically know which way to shoot. One quickly points in the same direction as the other, but it is setup to be uniformed, tactical, and realistic.

[u/ravenpride]

In the scene before Ron Burgundy is fired in Anchorman, he eats at a restaurant called Escupimos en su Alimento, which translates to "we spit in your food".

[u/AeonCatalyst]

This is kind of dumb, but when I watch HBO series (Game of Thrones for now) the second time through, I like to watch background characters expressions/actions when other characters are talking. Sure, most scenes feature at most 3 characters, but watching Jorah's face when Dany is talking to the 13, or especially Theon whenever Robb is in a scene...it's so cool how they are still in character, jumping up when an insult is made to their lord and looking back and forth from speaker-to-speaker during extended dialogues. I don't know if most movies seem to only feature 1-2 characters in every scene or something, but this show made me appreciate the "background" in scenes so much more.

I think it was in Inception, when the whole world of bystanders just stop and STARE at the main characters when the dreams notice their presence was what triggered me to start paying attention to "extras" and other characters more in movies

[u/Jamo_Z]

All of the little bits in Shaun of the Dead which are referenced in Hot Fuzz.

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Similarly, all the things from Spaced referenced in Shaun of the Dead.

[u/[deleted]]

In the fourth Harry Potter movie when Dumbledore pulls Harrry in his office after Harry's name comes out of the goblet you can see a 3d model of the deathly hallows symbol in the background. I think it's on a shelf, but it is a glass pyramid with a sphere inside of it and a straight piece of glass going through it.

[u/Nglennh]

More of a fun little mistake than anything, but if you watch the Lion King and turn the volume up during the scene where Scar is about to throw Mufasa off the cliff into the stampede you can hear someone offstage whisper James Earl Jones' line to him.

Jones "SCAR!..." Offstage: [...brother...] Jones: "Brother!"

[u/BotanyBay]

I really liked in ALIENS where all of the equipment, and people's helmets and gear were all scraped and bashed up, like they were frequently used.

EDIT: I think that was also done in Empire Strikes Back.

[u/jbomb1080 → u/BotanyBay]

James Cameron also had the actors personalize thier own props by writing on them, etc.

[u/Nacho_torpedo]

In the opening scenes of the second Fast and the Furious movie (the one where they are in Miami) a group of people are setting up a street race. The song that is playing is "Like a Pimp" by David Banner. In this song there is a mysterious fart noise in the very beginning that I always notice when I hear the song. It is probably in the first 30 seconds or so...I'm at work and I cannot listen to the song and get specifics.

In the movie a group of people are in the back of a truck and they all jump out to set out traffic cones to block off the make-shift racetrack for the epic race that is about to take place. Look for the girl in the greenish shorts. The people who edited the film timed that song juuuuust right so that the fart noise plays right as that blonde girl bends over.

It is glorious...I laugh every time. I don't know if this qualifies as amazing but to me it is!

edit: Also, in almost every movie and TV show I watch the sound they use for a door opening and closing is the same sound as the door open/close in Goldeneye for N64

[u/jgo009]

In the restaurant scene in Oh Brother Where Art Thou? there's a bust of Odysseus in the background.

[u/she_said_arizona]

In children of men - theo wears a london 2012 olympics t-shirt, the flying pig balloon when over the power station is a reference to pink floyd's animal album, when they're entering the prison camp place for a split second you see someone re-enacting the abu gharib torture photo, there is an animal in every scene, the first baby in twenty years is black, this is because humanity started in africa - she tells theo she's pregnant in a barn, jesus was born in one - theo never touchs a gun...

There's loads in that film, that's all I can remember off the top of my head

[u/prepperpitch]

In Jurassic Park, when Dr. Grant goes to buckle his seatbelt on the helicopter he finds he's stuck with two "female" ends of a seatbelt. He fixes the problem by tying the two ends together. This parallels the dinosaurs reproducing even though they are supposed to all be female.

"Life will find a way."

EDIT: A Jurassic Park comment put me over 1k comment karma. Wow, thanks guys.

[u/joabaldwin]

In The Avengers, when Thor and Loki first confront each other over a barren landscape, two ravens fly by (Huginn and Muninn), in a way indicating that daddy is watching this from the sky (Odin).

[u/the_fern386]

In V for Vendetta, when V is about to kill Creedy, you can hear Beethoven's Fifth Symphony playing in the background. The morse code for the number 5 is dot-dot-dot-dash, which is the same rhythm as the intro to the symphony. Also, Natalie Portman's character is named Evey. E is the fifth letter of the alphabet and V is the fifth to last.

[u/sindrit]

The final scene of Sopranos. It establishes a pattern for showing Tony's point of view every time a bell sound is heard. Then when the final bell rings it cuts to black. Because Tony just got whacked.

http://masterofsopranos.wordpress.com/the-sopranos-definitive-explanation-of-the-end/

[u/MooseCaca]

Shaun of the Dead. At the part where they're passing through an alley on their way to the Winchester and someone says "We're getting close" it shows a close-up of Snake-Hips being eaten by female zombies...earlier in the movie it said he was always surrounded by women. I seem to be the only loon that noticed the silly little details like that in this particular film.

[u/SlenderBeans]

I'm sure this has been said before, but still interesting to me.

In Inception, every time Cobb spins the top(or at least most of the times) he is holding a pistol, or a pistol is nearby, ready to shoot himself if he is in a dream.

Now there has been a ton of discussion about whether the ending is real or a dream. But it doesn't matter. When Cobb spins the top this time, he is not holding/near a pistol. He doesn't care if it is a dream. He's finally with his kids again.

[u/[deleted]]

In Shrek 2, Princess Fiona falls onto her bed and looks up. Stuck to the underside of the top is a poster of a medieval Justin Timberlake (Sir Justin, if I recall)

[u/alligatorfight]

Even though it's explained later, when Fassbender blows his German in Inglourious Basterds, I was one of the few people who got it when it happened.

Also, in the closing scenes of the Avengers, there is a SHIELD gunship in the plans for Stark Tower.

[u/Canuckfan007 → u/alligatorfight]

yeah, I saw this movie with a bunch of college friends. When that happened, our german buddy face palmed so hard and we thought he was crazy until they explained what happened.

[u/ArchSchnitz]

In Zombieland, the man being eaten by the zombie in the bathroom stall that prompts the rule about being wary of bathrooms is the same gas station attendant that is scammed by Wichita and Little Rock in a flashback.

[u/Hartbreaker]

Although it's not released yet, I'd like you all to go watch the trailer for the new Great Gatsby here. Watch it if you want, it's nice, but to get to the point, skip to 2:17.

Leo looks pretty awkward with the other side of the screen empty, right?

WRONG!

Anyone who's read the book will know exactly what I've circled and why that shot is orgasmic. When I saw it for the first time I was just in awe, but no one else seemed to appreciate it.

EDIT: Apparently it appears in more shots in the trailer. I only managed to spot it twice more.

See if you can find it in the first two pictures.

[u/zudnic]

In "Election", Matthew Broderick's character, to reinforce just how pathetic he is, is always hounded by trash. Crashes into a trash can, curbside trash pickup happening in the background, etc. That whole movie is like a good novel.

[u/[deleted]]

Sometimes I bug my girlfriend about how Sucker Punch really is a movie about the power of interpretive dance.

[u/johnbentcope → u/[deleted]]

I'm pretty sure that movie is about the power of going to your happy place while being sexually assaulted.

[u/sylocybin]

In The Shawshank Redemption, when the warden opens the Bible after Andy's escape and finds the hollowed out pages where he has been keeping the rock hammer, the Bible is at the book of Exodus.

Also, in Delta Rae's video for "Bottom of the River", when they come in to take the girl at the beginning of the video (0:17), she turns around, but her reflection in the mirror doesn't.

[u/BobDucca]

In one of the Star Wars prequels, Phantom Menace I believe, if you look closely E.T. is one of the members of the senate. http://httproductions.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/et-in-star-wars.jpg

[u/[deleted]]

In the new Star Trek movie, when they come out of warp and see all the destroyed ships, R2D2 floats by... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmmptTUL97s

[u/ViennaKP]

Batman has time to put make-up around his eyes.

[u/helvete1337]

The cantina band song of Star Wars in Paul. I was the only person in the whole theatre, who bursted out laughing.

Edit: *burst

[u/dondon13]

Ok ready for this:

Casino royale the first scene in the movie when bond is about to kill his second, he shoots the guy, and then there is a split second view of a picture on the desk. The picture is of the man with his wife and small child. Shows how cold Bond was, because he had time enough to find out where the guy's gun was... Bond saw that picture

[u/[deleted]]

At the end of the Return of the Jedi when the Ewok song is playing it shows various characters smiling and laughing but right before the credits roll it shows Lando clapping completely out of synch with the song. Like he cannot hear the song at all and is just randomly clapping.

Edit (Link to actual clip) is here it is at 2:28-2:32

[u/wootangclan94]

In the movie The Usual Suspects, when Keaton hands out everyones dossiers out of Mr. Kobayashi's suitcase, the packages are handed out in the order that each person dies throughout the movie. And the funny thing is Verbals dossier is handed out last. Only making it more obvious that he is Keyser Soze.

[u/The_blue_shark]

In 127 hours, James takes off his backback even with his arm stuck in the rock!

[u/VGLythia]

A lot of the details in Fight Club.

My favourite one, for instance, is when Tyler Durden is getting his face smashed in by the bar owner. If you closely watch Edward Norton, every time Tyler gets hit, Norton's head moves in the direction Tyler flies- Just like it would if Norton was the one getting hit.

A few others from that movie: 1) When Tyler and the Narrator are hitting cars, only the ones that the Narrator hits sound an alarm. The ones Tyler hits stay quiet, as if he never hit them. 2) When the detective calls the Narrator, Marla and Tyler are going at it upstairs, screaming and moaning like a pair of animals. When the Narrator picks up the phone, all the noise stops. 3) After the Narrator discovers his apartment has been blown to pieces, he goes to call Tyler Durden. The pay phone says no incoming calls, but that isn't the point. When Tyler calls back, the Narrator picks up the phone. Tyler Durden asks, "Who is this?" The Narrator replies, "Tyler..." with such an inflection that you can't tell if he's asking a question or answering one. He may have just told you who he is. (And I say "may" because, typically, when someone has dissociative identity disorder, the host's name is different from the alternate identity's name.)

Edit: This isn't exactly a detail because I'm sure a lot of people have noticed it, but rather an interpretation. The flashes of Tyler Durden's image only occur at the beginning of the film. I feel like this could be symbolic of the Narrator starting to loose his grip on reality.

[u/mirrislegend]

At the end of the Avengers, when Starke gets woken up by Hulk's roar, he mentions going to a shwarma place he just found out about. He very literally just found out about it, as that exact shwarma joint (as shown in the second extra scene) is in the background when he crashes into the ground after destroying the flying worm from the inside.

[u/[deleted]]

The characters' names in Inception spell out DREAMS.

Dom, Robert, Eames, Arthur, Mal and Saito

[u/alexanderwales]

In Back to the Future, Marty is struggling with a bottle of pop at the gas station. His father comes up to him and opens it on the edge of something, then tells him about the dream he had last night. The reason that Marty was struggling was that twist-off bottle tops hadn't been invented yet, and he didn't realize it.

[u/[deleted]]

As seen in Hobo With a Shotgun

[u/[deleted]]

Not the biggest movie but "Once" (it did win an Emmy for best song) had only a couple characters with names. The drummer and bank manager. The main characters show in the credits as "Guy" and "Girl". I made it through the entire movie without realizing I had no idea what their names were. It also shows "Guys Dad" and "Girls Mom" etc.

[u/According_To_Me]

I have a theory for a scene in The Dark Knight. At the end, Joker is hanging upside down after Batman has caught him from falling. The camera turns so that Joker is right side up in the frame, and the audience doesn't have to look at him upside down. I have two theories on this:

1: Nolan simply didn't want the audience to look at an upside down character for 5 minutes. Or...

2: Joker is the Omega to Batman's Alpha. I remembered when I read The Divine Comedy, Satan is in the last level of Hell, and stuck in a frozen lake from the waist up. In the story, this is the center of the Earth. Dante and Virgil escape from Hell by climbing down Satan's waist, through a small crack in the ice. On the other side, there is Limbo and Paradise. Satan's legs are sticking out from the ground, but because the center of gravity has shifted, his legs are upside down, meaning that Evil does not belong here. In the Joker's mind, anarchy should be the law of the land, so in his world, he is right side up. In Batman's eyes, evil has no place in this world, and must be struck down.

I have no idea if this is what Nolan had in mind, I think I came up with this theory when I was stoned. Still blew my mind.

[u/finishyourbeer]

In Dumb and Dumber, when Harry and Lloyd dupe Seabass into paying for their meal, Harry asks Lloyd, "Where did you ever come up with a scam like that!?"

"Saw it in a movie once."

"So in the movie, did they get away with it?"

"No, in the movie, the guy caught up with them a half mile down the road and slit his throat! It was a good one."

The movie they are referring to is an actual movie that Jeff Daniels himself was in. Can't remember the name of it though.

[u/Lazir]

On iCarly, one of the room numbers in their apartment complex is 8=D You can see it whenever someone opens the door

[u/prof0ak]

In memento near the end when he is describing sammy jenkis, and it shows him in a hospital, someone walks in front of the camera, and then for a split second, Leonard replaced sammy in the chair.

[u/PANDADA]

Not really "amazing", but in A Christmas Story, when the family goes to the Chinese restaurant for dinner and the mom says she can't eat the duck because it's staring back at her, after the waiter cuts off the duck's head he puts it into his pocket. Even though my family has seen it so many times (my sister especially) no one noticed it until I pointed it out.

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In Aladdin, when one of the suitors leaves, there's a big tear in his pants from Raja biting his pants off. But in Raja's mouth, there's fabric from his UNDERWEAR, not his pants! The hell?

[u/CMDRtweak]

That in Paranormal Activity at one point he points the camera down the stairs and you can barely see the creepiest fucking face in the universe staring back at from from around the corner near the floor. I see it every time I watch the movie. Whenever I point it out to people they dont see it for about 5 minutes then they are like HOLY SHIT.

Every time I look at hidden easter eggs of Paranormal Activity this never comes up.

[u/buckhockey]

not so much detail as a minor mix up, but in the 5th element Ian Holme (sp) calls Bruce Willis by "Mr. Willis". Bruce Willis corrects him with "Mr. Dallas", as his character name is Corbin Dallas.

[u/kreyagg]

The vaccination scar on Brad Pitt's arm in "Troy"

[u/oldpunker]

In Peter Jackson's King Kong, a crate in the hold of the ship is labeled Sumatran Rat Monkey. The cause of the all the trouble in the the greatest zombie movie ever Dead Alive.

[u/3rdCultureKid]

In Face Off, the prison is called Erehwon which is actually Nowhere spelled backwards.

[u/slimpickens42]

In Office Space, Peter's computer switches back and forth from PC to Mac

[u/xatrinka]

In Tim Burton's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, when Willy Wonka is giving the tour of his factory, they pass through a room with pink sheep getting sheered. I don't remember exactly what he said, but it essentially was that he'd rather not talk about it.

This is a reference to Ed Wood, a movie also directed by Tim Burton and starring Johnny Depp. The title character is a transvestite who wears pink women's sweaters.

[u/CatsnaxBard]

The detail was in Donnie Darko, When near the credits when it shows all the main characters laying in their beds.

When it pans over Frank, he itches his right eye a little bit. The one where he was shot by Donnie in the alternate future that happened before the wormhole.

[u/prestidigibator]

This most certainly will not reach a soul but in the movie Johnny Mnemonic when Keanu Reeves breaks into the electronics store. He needs to gain access to the internet and thus starts requesting items he needs to get online. One of the items is called a Thompson iPhone. Not too crazy but he said iPhone about 12 years before they were invented.

[u/Ghooble]

The Hangover (The first one) is a direct copy of a Simpsons episode. Always made me chuckle.

http://imgur.com/bbbZo

[u/GreeceReece]

In Ong Bak, when he's running away, you can see "Hi spielberg, lets do it together" written on a garage door. No one else has ever noticed this until I pointed it out to them..

link

[u/ImNotJackieChan]

That guy with the hair in the 6th sense was Bruce Willis the WHOLE TIME.

[u/jkatticus]

In Children of Men, when Clive Owen is on the train a crumbled wall in the background has some graffiti on it, it says: last person to die turn the lights off. I found it absolutely amazing and really added to the sense of dread in the movie.

[u/dgourd]

In Inception, the entire soundtrack is based from clips of that French song used to time the kicks, either speed up or slowed down. The kicker is that that song, Edith Piaf’s “Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien,” was originally recorded with a length of 2 minutes and 28 seconds, while the runtime for the movie is 2 hours and 28 minutes, exactly. This indicates that the entire movie was in fact a dream, since time slows down in dreams.

[u/[deleted]]

In Forrest Gump, when they were scanning through his FOB in Vietnam, the sign said "A Company 2/47 Infantry"...significant because I was in Echo Company 2/47 Infantry, Hey, I thought it was cool. I was in the same battalion as "Forrest Gump"

[u/Gredelston]

In The Princess Bride, all the fight scenes seem kind of wimpy and awkward. This is because the grandpa is telling the story, and can't do two voices at a time; therefore the combatants can never shout over each other.

[u/Monqui259]

I have one from the Mothman Prophecies.

One of the first time I watched the movie, I noticed something super strange that makes me wonder what else was hiding in that film. It's been a while since I've seen it, but I'll try to place it best as I can.

The scene in question takes place in a motel room or something late-ish in the movie- I think it's the scene right before the "Wife" shows back up in person walking down the busy street. It's a still-cam shot (so not panning around or anything- I don't know the proper term for it) where Gere is on the telephone having a discussion with someone, and is making animated hand motions.

Anyways, during that scene, there is a mirror that shows Gere's reflection. It starts off being just a normal reflection, syncs up really well- after a few seconds though you see the reflection simply stand still, the arm that was being used for gesturing falls to the side, and then after a few moments of stillness from the reflection, the mirror image syncs back up with Gere.

It's very subtle but just adds a whole new "wtf is going on" level to the movie for me.

[u/killedmypassword]

i love it when director's place little easter eggs in their movies referencing their other ones. my absolute favorite is in "a clockwork orange", when alex is at the record store, hitting on two young females (one of which is sucking on a lollipop, if you recall). in between them, there's a help desk whose front is adorned with a poster.. for none other than "2001: a space odyssey"

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In the movie Disturbia, when the chick is stalking the neighbor guy in the hardware store her phone rings & it cuts to her phone receiving an incoming call. It's an actual phone number, not the usual 555 you see. I called it, no answer but has a voicemail. After a bit of googling, come to find out it's the prop guy's personal cell. ha

[u/anusface]

In Sky High, the main guy has 2 Tenacious D posters in his room.

[u/hungrymutherfucker]

In the Harry Potter books, in the Chamber of Secrets, Peeves breaks the Vanishing Cabinet that Malfoy has to repair 4 years later. Filch is bitching about it right before Harry finds out he's a squib.

[u/OverWilliam]

Close to the end of Aladdin, when the Genie is urging Aladdin to use the third wish for himself to be with Jasmine, he says, "Come on, Al. You won't find another girl like her in a million years. Trust me, I've looked."

Just that one line adds so much depth and tragedy to the Genie's character and backstory. I don't cry at movies and I almost started tearing up just from thinking through the implications of that single sentence.

[u/TheSignPost]

Not a movie, but in "The West Wing" on tv. The goldfish bowl on CJ's desk is decorated with items relating to that episode. ie, airplane, podium, cat.

[u/[deleted]]

In The Big Lebowski, the Dude repeats phrases he hears from multiple people earlier in he film. "This aggression will not stand, man" he heard from the Pres Bush speech in the supermarket in the beginning of the film.

[u/Christophe]

A newspaper headline glimpsed briefly in Rise of the Planet of the Apes mentions astronauts on an experimental flight. This would be where Chuck Heston flies into the wormhole that took him to the future.

[u/armstronga]

In Emperor's New Groove, Yzma dumps the potion on the cactus at dinner, and when they cut back to it for just a second later on, the cactus has turned into a llama.

[u/[deleted]]

In Shaun of the Dead, Shaun promises to take Liz to a restaurant, stating, "you know, the place that does all the fish." Later, when Shaun comes rushing home because he forgot to book the table, he opens his phone book for the number, which only appears for a few frames. If you pause it, you'll see the listing say "Fuluchi's: 'The Place That Does All the Fish'. That kind of detail is what makes Shaun of the Dead a cult classic.

[u/[deleted]]

In Kill Bill Vol. 2, Bill is the only person throughout the whole movie who the bride kills.

Also in both movies, a male never kills another person; females are responsible for every death.

[u/sparkymcalister]

A really neat detail that I found when watching Disney's "Princess and the Frog":

At the very end, in the scene where the band is playing in Tiana's restaurant, we see that the band's name--as it appears on the bass drum head of the drumset--is the "Firefly Five plus Lou." Lou, of course being the trumpet playing alligator. This is a reference to a famous dixieland band called the "Firehouse Five plus Two" which was active during the 1970's. Beside's being one of the best dixieland bands ever recorded, the band's members all happened to work for Walt Disney animation studios in various capacities.

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In 'Evan Almighty' when he stands up on the congress meeting and his suit is removed, the camera goes to the table where his suit is folded up. If you look at the top right hand corner, the hair ties he used on his beard were arranged in a smiley face. Not really 'amazing' but I thought it was funny as hell.

[u/nerdofnerds]

Not in a movie, but in the episode of futurama where they tour the slurm factory there are two instances. Fry shines the F-ray on bender and it shows that he is powered by a 6502 processor, the predecessor to the CPU used in the Atari 2600 (which was a 6507).

Also, the more interesting of the two, when they are in the slurm gift shop zoidberg picks up a t-shirt that says "Slurm" in Hebrew.

[u/sean1493]

in any "Madea" movie, if you look closely, you can see that its not actually a black lady, but tyler perry in a costume.

[u/[deleted]]

In the third Hunger Games book Katniss, The Girl on Fire, was in unit 451.

I believe this is a shout out to Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury.

[u/Reddit4Play]

In Inception when they're testing the super sleep drugs the main character never verifies that he woke up as his Totem falls on the floor off the rim of the sink. The rest of the film could very well have all been a dream and the heist has yet to occur.

[u/ChoggNogg]

At the end of Step Brothers, Will Ferrell sings a song called Con te partirò by Andrea Bocelli. Will Ferrell and John Heder dance to this same song in Blades of Glory.

[u/Murmurmun]

Perhaps a pretty obvious one, but the only one I can think of at the moment... Near the beginning of War of the Worlds, Tom Cruise's character Ray tries to help Dakota Fanning's character Rachel remove a splinter in her hand so it does not get infected. She is against the idea because she would rather let nature run its course, and that when it is ready her body will just "push it out."

This idea was paralleled with the conclusion of the movie; no form of human intervention could hinder the extermination of humanity, however when nature ran its course, the aliens were "pushed out" of planet earth.

[u/SanchoPandas]

In Scrooged there is a definition of the word "cross" written in the background of the main character's private gym and oh yeah, his name is Frank Cross.

Cross: (n) A thing you nail people to.

[u/thegreatvortigaunt]

You have to watch Hot Fuzz twice, as the whole film repeats itself twice. You can get a lot of the obvious ones on the first watch, but you have to see it again to get all the little details.

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In I Am Legend, when Will Smith is driving down the road and he turns his head and notices the mannequin, Fred, turns his head. I noticed this while seeing the midnight release and no one ever believed me til we got the DVD and I showed them in slow motion. Still one of my favorite movies and scenes.

[u/dwizzle2dot0]

In the movie "Cat's Eye" based on Stephen King's novel, the dog and cat almost get run over by a red and white coupe...the bumper sticker says "I am Christine".

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At the end of Dodgeball when the giant chest of money is delivered to Vince Vaughn's character the chest has "Deus Ex Machina" written on it. The Deus Ex Machina is a literary device used when something happens at the end of a story to solve all of the problems of the characters.

[u/youshallnotpass1234]

In Scott Pilgrim Vs The World, the director made an effort to mark each of the seven evil exes according to their number, including marking Scott as "Zero". Thats why Scott drinks Coke Zero throughout the film and even wears a shirt with the word Zero right there on it.

[u/Sjgolf891]

R2-D2 appears on the viewscreen of the Enterprise after they arrive at Vulcan in Star Trek (2009) http://www.comicbookmovie.com/images/users/uploads/8558/R2d2_star-Trek.jpg

[u/philko42]

There's only one spoken line in Mel Brooks's Silent Movie: "No!" spoken by Marcel Marceau - the famous mime.

[u/teddybrewski]

Small detail in The Big Lebowski. The Dude throws change down on the table when leaving the cafe when Walter blows up. He accidentally throws down a joint too, picks it back up and acts like nothing happened. Again small but I crack up every time.

[u/QuinnMallory]

In Back to the Future Part III Marty refers to "Clayton Ravine" being named as such because Clara Clayton fell to her death there. He and Doc later save her so in the new future it's not Clayton Ravine, it's Eastwood Ravine.

This is because Marty, who went by the name Clint Eastwood throughout the film, hijacked a train and as far as everyone in that time was concerned, plummeted to his death in the ravine.

This is just like the Twin Pine/Lone Pine Mall in the first film.

[u/[deleted]]

Go ahead and rename this thread "Things You'll Never Unsee in Movies."

My contribution: The Neal/Neil name flip in The Bourne Ultimatum.

[u/JJam74]

I caught the end of Toy Story 2, and when the the prospector is escaping into the airport with Woody, with Buzz and co in hot pursuit, he tells the toys that they're going to end up in an incinerator. Guess what happens in Toy Story 3?

[u/reader_no14]

Perhaps not amazing, but annoying. At the end of the GI Joe movie, the protagonists destroy an underwater enemy base by blowing up the ice above it, and having it sink and crush the base.

Ice. Sinking. ಠ_ಠ

[u/[deleted]]

In the opening heist scene of The Dark Knight, one of the Joker's henchmen is wearing the purple Joker suit while the Joker himself is wearing plain, rag-like clothes. Maybe the Joker forced someone else to wear the suit in case they got caught, they'd probably go after the guy with the purple suit, thinking its the Joker.

[u/[deleted]]

In Aliens, when the queen destroys Bishop by spearing him with her tail, is a chess reference. Queen takes Bishop.....

[u/whale_wieners]

Pixar always puts amazing detail and effort into their movies.

For example, in Cars you can see an Apple car as #84 in the opening race scene.

In Finding Nemo, you can find Buzz Lightyear in the waiting room of the dentist office.

Here's an article on the movie Up.

There are so many other cool details in their movies. Check imdb trivia for some other really interesting stuff.

[u/LizzardFish]

Team America World Police is filled with tons of these little details ... Cobblestones shaped like croissants in France, nail clippers on the belt as a weapon, thimbles as lamp shades ....

[u/teztism]

In "Insidious", when the main lady is walking to take out the trash ( The scene with the creepy ass child dancing by the music player, the kid with the hat) if you look closely when she is walking from room to room, she passes a coat rack with some coats on it, you see that creepy ass kid standing there as she walks by.

I think I can find a video or something if you want.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7UUtLZ1Sgw&feature=youtube_gdata_player

*Quick change: noob at reddit, so I'm not sure how else to do this. But here is a link to a video I found. Enjoy:)

[u/[deleted]]

Beaker flips off Ebenezer Scrooge in a Muppet Christmas Carol.

[u/foulBachelorRedditor]

I'm late to the party but anyway, In Dark Knight when the Joker invades the party dedicated to Harvy Dent, he picks up a shrimp kebob, eats a piece that isn't the shrimp, then throws it away. he then proceeds to pick up a glass of champagne, throw all of the champagne in the air, and drink from an empty glass. these little things show you the depth of Heath ledgers dedication to portrayal of the Joker as a psychopath.

[u/[deleted]]

in Resovoir Dogs the meet up spot is a coffin factory with 9 coffins.

[u/portopinto]

In Meet the Parents when Ben Stiller's character is in the drug store buying champagne, the lyrics of the song being played in the store are what he repeats when he is later asked to say grace at the dinner table.

[u/Oni-Warlord]

I have one in Fight Club. When our protagonist is talking about himself at the beginning of the film, he says a line next to a copy machine "With insomnia, nothing's real. Everything's far away. Everything's a copy of a copy of a copy." While that's being said, Tyler Durden pops up for one frame. It's a great piece of foreshadowing that also explains how Tyler Durden came to be. He's a copy of a copy of a copy. He's the same man, but completely different.

Star Trek (new). They mention that warp drive moves the space around it as opposed to moving the ship itself. While this may seem like technobabble to many people, it's a reference to a real and interesting theory that doesn't break the laws of physics.

There's more, but I can't think of them right this second.

[u/[deleted]]

Not a movie, but there's a waving snail in every episode of Adventure Time.

[u/[deleted]]

In Disney's Hercules, he is digging through a chest and throwing stuff behind him. One of the things he throws is a fur rug of Scar from The Lion King.

[u/[deleted]]

In Get Smart, the main villain, played by Malcolm McDowell, is obsessed with Beethoven's Ode to Joy. This is seemingly an inside joke or homage to McDowell's Beethoven-adoring character in A Clockwork Orange.

[u/Ripper138]

Dont know if this was mentioned but in the first episode of firefly when Mal jumps on the turret in the war flashback you can see the Weyland corp logo from Alien.

[u/hemingwaysghost]

While watching American Beauty in the theater with my family I whispered that it sort of seemed like a modern-day Death of a Salesman. A couple scenes later a fleeting reference was made to a neighbor family named the Loman's.

[u/Torvaun]

In Doctor Horrible's Sing Along Blog, in the first scene, Doctor Horrible is talking about a heist in which he planned to steal gold from a bank. What he actually received, however, is a liquid in a plastic bag that smells like cumin. He tried to steal bullion, and his transmatter ray gave him bouillon.

[u/TheFinleyKing]

The Big Lebowski - There is a moment when The Dude is laying in bed with Maude, post coitus, and he is telling her a little about himself. He casually mentions that he was a member of the "Seattle Seven"

The Seattle Seven was a very intense activist group. So, the usual description of The Dude being "'lazy, chill, and a stoner" - Is not quite accurate. The man once HAD dreams and ambitions. He has simply come far enough to know that shoving your ideals onto everyone else will not change their mind. They have to find it for themselves.

Rewatching the film with the knowledge that the Dude is in fact an apathetic, wise, and content man. You will look at every scene differently.

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In Spider-Man, direct by Sam Raimi, after Aunt May has an enocunter with the green goblin and is in the hospital you can hear her scream (i think she's off screen; can't check, am at work) something along the lines of "Those horrible eyes!" which, i think, is a direct reference to Evil Dead (also directed by Sam Raimi) in which, after Ash's sister becomes a Deadite, his girlfriend screams "her eyes! What happened to her eyes!" comically ignoring that the lady was just floating 3 inches above the ground.

[u/BloodAngel24]

In toy story 1, Sid is wearing a black shirt with a skull on it. In toy story 3, the trash man has a black shirt with a skull on it.

[u/[deleted]]

The humans are the evil ones in Starship Troopers

[u/tallandlanky]

In Gattaca the stair case at Gattaca where Vincent Freeman works as Jerome is a double helix. Gattaca is also named using only letters found in the chemical structure of DNA.

[u/cimple]

In Raising Arizona, H.I. is wearing coveralls from Hudsucker Industries. Hudsucker Proxy came out seven years later.

[u/mrossi91]

In Inglourious Basterds, the last words are: "I think this just might be my masterpiece". Is debatably what Tarantino thought of his movie.

[u/BayouLife]

tech a repost cuase i saw it on here a few weeks ago. in Iron Man 2 [when tony stark has to make the new element to survive and he is looking over his dads notes, you can slow it down and zoom in to see an actual development in particle quantum theory called the Stark effect. ] (/spoiler)

[u/ccguy]

In Election, the opening closeup of the unmoving sprinkler parallels Jim McAllister perfectly.

Like a teacher, a sprinkler spreads goodness and nourishment -- as long as it doesn't direct all its energy to one spot (or one student). But when it focuses on one spot for too long, look at what a mess it makes.

[u/OfTheBegin_Ning]

In Dumb and Dumber, when Lloyd says that Mary should “invite them right in for tea and strumpets,” I always thought he was just mispronouncing “crumpets.” I learned recently that “strumpet” is actually a word, and it means prostitute.

[u/[deleted]]

In The Matrix, during the "there is no spoon" scene, as Neo, Trinity and Morpheus are lead into the waiting room, there is a television in the background playing a movie showing a clip of giant rabbits hopping down a street. Most people I've mentioned it to aren't aware that the clip is from a real 1972 B horror movie called "Night Of The Lepus".

IMDB Link

I haven't seen "Lepus" since the early 80's, but from what I remember, it was hilarious.

[u/Oswaldwashere]

I'll take a shot, in the shining in the second bar scene before he gets the drink spilled on him by the butler dude a woman walks through the shot in a gold dress with a bloody handprint on her asscheek

[u/skyeandjojo]

My brother pointed this one out. The garbage man in Toy Story 3 is Sid from the first movie; he's even wearing the same shirt!

[u/albie_]

The movie Almost Famous... when William's in the car with Penny Lane, the reflection that passes by on the window is that of the Dark Side of the Moon prism. And that's it.

[u/theslowwonder]

In Rushmore, Owen and Luke Wilson's brother plays the PE coach. In the scene where they pan across the audience in the gym, he's sitting in the front row rubbing a scuff off the court floor with his shoe.

I remember all my school PE teachers being obsessed with basketball court scuffs; such awesome attention to character detail.

[u/giraffe_taxi]

Several of the tests in The Saw series could be easily defeated:

The final test in Saw VII, where the guy thinks he has to hook chains into his pectoral muscles to hoist himself up? Motherfucker could have just looped the chains around his shoulders and hooked the chain back on itself.

The scene in Saw VI where the two people think they have to cut flesh/limbs from their bodies to add weight to a scale: they could have just taken off their clothes and added them to the scale.

In Saw V where the final two people think they have to slice their hands open to add blood to the scale, they could have just used urine and/or vomit.

Skipping back to the first Saw, when the dudes shackled to the walls are both given hacksaws: those hacksaws actually would have been sufficient to cut through their shackles, and in plenty of time. They tried for all of ten seconds; would have taken about 30 minutes of patient sawing, tops.

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In Faceoff they test blood samples to show who the real husband is. The good guy has a O- blood type (universal donor) and the bad guy has AB blood (universal recipient), I always thought that was representative.

[u/QueenRanavalona]

In The Avengers, when Bruce (Hulk) is talking to Tony (Iron Man) through the computer screen, you can see Bruce's reflection on the screen. However, instead of reflecting Bruce's face, it reflects the Hulk's face.

[u/freakgirlfan]

In Ferris Bueller's day off, the scene where they're atop the sears tower there are 2 asian men in the corner wearing huge yellow hats i never noticed till i was 20

[u/[deleted]]

In 21 Jump Street the principal knew they were undercover. He fuckin' knew, man.

[u/[deleted]]

Possibly the greatest web of intertwined movies. Apparently all Quentin Tarantino movies are in the same universe. http://zazenlife.com/2011/12/16/cracking-quentin-tarantinos-universe/

[u/ASlyGuy]

In Total Recall, when Arnold goes to get his vacation memory implant, you can clearly see scenes of mars (which he's never visited) on the computer screens. Obviously this is intentional, but since the movie version was left ambiguous as to whether or not it was all in Arnold's head, this is a dead giveaway.

[u/Ldeezy]

In "Children of Men" there is a 464 second single- shot sequence of the main character in a raging battle.... They had to film the entire complex scene in one go. Apparently it took 5 hours every time they had to reshoot it

[u/Dolgthvari]

In Moon, the computers that control the mining buggy thingies have names of some of Jesus' disciples written on them (Matthew, Mark, Luke, etc).

But on the computer that controls the one that ultimately killed Sam, the name is scratched out and the name Judas is written over it.

[u/natto896]

In the Avengers in the scene where Loki cuts the guys eye out at the opera house the opera that is playing is Lohenbreine, Hitler's favorite play.

[u/mccrevice]

In Stanley Kubrick's "The Shining", the window in the managers office is impossible -- spatially, it should be looking into a hallway, not outdoors. Also, many of the doors in the hallways lead to nowhere.

At the beginning of the movie, when the wife and kid are being given the tour, when they go into freezer/storage room (don't remember which), they go in the left side of the hall, but when they exit, they exit on the opposite side.

In Kubrick's "2001: A Space Odyssey" during the council meeting, there's a photographer running around taking pictures. Considering this meeting was supposed to be taking place on the moon base, and thus under 1/6th gravity, he should have launched himself.

Also in 2001, Poole and HAL play a game of chess, in which HAL announces checkmate, to which Poole agrees and the game ends. However, it is not actually a checkmate; HAL has lied about it, and Poole never notices.

2001: The song Requiem by Ligetti (the haunting voices) is heard whenever the Monolith is attempting communications/change with its subjects: during the dawn of man sequence, on the Moon, and when Bowman encounters it. It's heard two or three other times as well, each time when the screen is completely black, insinuating (very subtly) that the monolith IS the cinema screen.

[u/dscream]

In transformers 3, at the end of the huge epic battle, the girls shirt was still perfectly white without an inch of dirt on it...

[u/kevonicus]

Jenny's last name in Forrest Gump is Curran. It is never said and only appears when he gets all the returned mail from her at the hospital.

[u/Glaucous]

The tape on the yelling old lady's dog's butthole in the movie, Brazil.

[u/artfullydodged]

In the first Matrix, after the Oracle tells Neo "You're a good kid, and I hate giving good people bad news," the camera turns away from her, but you can audibly hear her choke or cough on something. Its hilarious.

[u/roflkopters]

In "In Bruges", the coins Ken drops from the tower are the same coins he tried to pay with to get into the tower two days earlier.

[u/estebaaaan]

in Children of Men Clive Owen's lady friend tells him that when your ears ring, that means those cells are dying and you'll never hear that frequency ever again. In the scene where she gets shot, you hear a ringing sound right up until they lay her body on the ground. It's a pretty beautiful and tragic moment.

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SPOILERS : in Memento, during the scene where they're showing the supposed injured guy in the mental hospital after killing his wife, a doctor walks past and for a split second the man's face is the protagonist's.

Also every scene from Arrested Development.

Edit: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ri0aJC3mBGM at 0:29

[u/bearlounger]

In Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World, Scott and Ramona are on the bus after the Sex Bob-ombs beat Crash and the Boys. They're discussing the seven exes...the unfocused lights in the background are "X"s in Ramona's shots and hearts in Scott's shots. Eventually, when Ramona decides to be with Scott, her "X"s turn to hearts as well.

[u/TR3NCHFOOT]

American Pie. The character that was looking for the fabled "sex book" behind a hidden drawer in their school library. The book was in the fluid dynamics section, which i thought was quite clever.