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[HellforLeather]

I think I saw this mentioned online somewhere and I totally missed it when watching the movie. In TDK when Joker has his big talk with Harvey and holds the gun to his own forehead seemingly leaving Harvey with the decision whether to kill him or not, he moves his finger over the hammer so it would prevent the gun from firing even if Harvey decided to try and blow the Jokers head off. Such a good little subtle character beat that shows how full of shit Joker really is.

One more. The last scene of The Thing. Childs and Mac are the last seeming "survivors" of the events in the movie but in the last scene....

Its cold as fuck and only Mac is producing condensation with his breath. I totally did not catch this on first or second viewings. Looking this up, I guess nobody from production is saying whether this was intentional or not.


What other little movie details have you eventually caught or been brought to your attention after watching?

 

[MudoSkills]

Fight Club is full of details to spot on a rewatch.

Spoiler: 20 year old spoilers

Loads of hints that the narrator and Tyler are the same person, like calling Tyler on a public phone where the handset is disconnected

 

[INC]

Fight Club is full of details to spot on a rewatch.

Spoiler: 20 year old spoilers

Loads of hints that the narrator and Tyler are the same person, like calling Tyler on a public phone where the handset is disconnected

Theres also single frames of Tyler sliced into the film, through out

 

[AV]

Childs' breath is absolutely visible in that scene, just not as obvious in the close-ups you posted.

That and the gasoline theories are cute, but that's all they are, cute fan theories. Ending remains completely ambiguous, as it should.

 

[HellforLeather]

Childs' breath is absolutely visible in that scene, just not as obvious in the close-ups you posted.

That and the gasoline theories are cute, but that's all they are, cute fan theories. Ending remains completely ambiguous, as it should.

Maybe I am misremembering.

Here is the scene in question for anyone that wants to review for themselves. Watching it again more closely, it does look like you can kinda see some breath at the 1:27 mark. Maybe its because of the lighting but it does seem like Mac is producing shit tons of condensation and Childs is very little and most cases, I dont see it at all.

 

[T8SC]

This scene of the Colonial Marines entering the sub-level 3 Alien hive in the 1986 movie, Aliens, still has James Remar portraying Corporal Hicks, instead of Michael Biehn. James Remar left the movie over creative differences with director James Cameron & was replaced by Michael Biehn who played Kyle Reese in Cameron's previous movie - The Terminator.

 

[AV]

Maybe I am misremembering.

Here is the scene in question for anyone that wants to review for themselves. Watching it again more closely, it does look like you can kinda see some breath at the 1:27 mark. Maybe its because of the lighting but it does seem like Mac is producing shit tons of condensation and Childs is very little and most cases, I dont see it at all.

You can see him breathing in the first 10 seconds, it's just not as pronounced as Mac later on. But yeah, lighting thing, not something intentional Carpenter did. Russel also said this:

"John Carpenter and I worked on the ending of that movie together a long time. We were both bringing the audience right back to square one. At the end of the day, that was the position these people were in. They just didn’t know anything, they didn't know if they knew who they were, but had you seen all the things in the movie, you’ve heard MacReady say, 'I know I'm me,' Well, you either believe him or you don’t. And Childs -- you know, one of my favorite lines in the movie [is], 'Where were you, Childs?' And I think that basically says it all. I love that, over the years, that movie has gotten its due because people were able to get past the horrificness of the monster -- because it was a horror movie -- but to see what the movie was about, which was paranoia."

 

[Prison Mike]

The mexican restaurant in anchor man translates to "we spit in your food"

 

[Spaceman292]

I think I saw this mentioned online somewhere and I totally missed it when watching the movie. In TDK when Joker has his big talk with Harvey and holds the gun to his own forehead seemingly leaving Harvey with the decision whether to kill him or not, he moves his finger over the hammer so it would prevent the gun from firing even if Harvey decided to try and blow the Jokers head off. Such a good little subtle character beat that shows how full of shit Joker really is.

One more. The last scene of The Thing. Childs and Mac are the last seeming "survivors" of the events in the movie but in the last scene....

Its cold as fuck and only Mac is producing condensation with his breath. I totally did not catch this on first or second viewings. Looking this up, I guess nobody from production is saying whether this was intentional or not.


What other little movie details have you eventually caught or been brought to your attention after watching?

I think both of these things have been debunked bro

 

[AJUMP23]

In the Wizard of OZ I did not realize for the longest time that the Tin Woodman the scarecrow, and the Lion were all the same people that were Dorothy's family members at the beginning and end of the move. "you were there, and you were there" was lost on me as a kid.

 

[Gp1]

I love the way how he look down like... "shit...i fucked up"

 

[King of Foxes]

Liv Tyler is in the background of the 2nd lord of the rings movie fighting. She originally was supposed to be there but they cut her out but she is still there on horseback fighting before gandalf shows up

 

[bitbydeath]

Cliffhanger, poor girls hanging on for her life and Frank (on the right) can’t get enough.

Then when she falls to her death.

 

[Lord of the Underworld]

When Peter Parker says "Strong focus on what I want" in Spider-Man 2 and jumps off of the building, he lands on a Ford Focus. Also, in Guardians of the Galaxy 1, there's a translator implant in Quill's neck.

 

[nush]

Thanks to the extra detail in the 4K version of Die Hard. I always thought when you first see Ellis it looks like he's just in the office corridor when he's talking to Holly. But with the extra 4K detail you see Holly come out of the elevator, walk to the offices, Ellis notices her from where he's standing in the crowd and then makes a B line to her in the corridor.

 

[T8SC]

 

[Happosai]

Childs' breath is absolutely visible in that scene, just not as obvious in the close-ups you posted.

That and the gasoline theories are cute, but that's all they are, cute fan theories. Ending remains completely ambiguous, as it should.

Speaking of Alien (1979) Parker - the facehugger climbing behind Ripley in medical shortly before falling dead next to her was something I missed completely the first 10 times I watched Alien. I can't find any clips of it online but it's after it detached from Kain's face and Dallas and Ash were searching for the facehugger with Ripley. It can be seen slinking behind her just before the scene changes and it falls next to her.

 

[nush]

Speaking of Alien (1979) Parker - the facehugger climbing behind Ripley in medical shortly before falling dead next to her was something I missed completely the first 10 times I watched Alien. I can't find any clips of it online but it's after it detached from Kain's face and Dallas and Ash were searching for the facehugger with Ripley. It can be seen slinking behind her just before the scene changes and it falls next to her.

Have you seen the video on the Alien 4th wall break?

 

[Sidney Prescott]

I only noticed rewatching Insidious recently that there is a drawing of Billy The Puppet/Jigsaw in the background. James Wan and Leigh Whannell were behind the original Saw movie. As a big fan of the first Saw film, it definitely made me jump up a little when I spotted it.

 

[Happosai]

Have you seen the video on the Alien 4th wall break?

Watching it right now...

It seems a bit subjective. Seems like Ridley (who was sitting behind the camera on most shots like that) would have been the one who accidentally distracted Ash. However, Ian Holm (Ash) was scripted in that scene to pull Ripley into that corner. I didn't see Holm break character as he looked over. It's still a very robotic and angry expression. Maybe some say it's a 4th wall break but I'd say it's subjective. Cool observation, though. I always thought the chimes were moving because Weaver was thrown into them by Holm. Looking at it now, you can tell they are moving as the camera backs up.

On topic of scenes I didn't catch the first time in Aliens. The Alien hanging from the chains near the reactor in the Director's Cut. The third time seeing the directors cut I could see it.

Skip to 0:49...

 

[Paps Guattro]

I always appreciated that Cheif Brody is using the Orca's yellow barrels that he floated back to shore as planters in his 'yaaaard' in Jaws 2 - lovely wee nod that nobody ever mentions.

Honorable mention for Kevin's airline ticket in the rubbish bin in Home Alone too.

 

[AV]

Truman takes high doses of vitamin D at breakfast, because he'd have a big deficiency, since there's no real sun in his world.

 

[AV]

Honorable mention for Kevin's airline ticket in the rubbish bin in Home Alone too.

Another Home Alone one I would never have figured out on my own is the head count - the mom mistakenly counts 17 family members that travel between two cars, so there would be 9 in one and 8 in another - meaning that both cars would really only have 8, and both would just assume they weren't the 9 person car. Pretty clever.

 

[West Texas CEO]

The Matrix, I missed the fact that Neo's computer on his work desk is actually turned off:

 

[INC]

In six sense, Bruce willis only wears the clothes he had on the day he died

 

[West Texas CEO]

Also, in the Star Trek movie:

 

[INC]

In the first terminator, arnie runs over a toy truck in his car, before killing the first Sarah Connor from the phone book

The truck he drives at the end of the film, is a replica, in full scale, almost like it was a hint to the ending

In terminator 2, the truck that chases John Connor is also a lookalike version of that toy truck

Could be a coincidence obviously, but I always thought it was a nice theory

 

[BadBurger]

In Batman v Superman, the Riddler's icon is tagged on a pillar in an abandoned building

 

[Bitch Pudding]

 

[HellforLeather]

No. fucking. way.

 

[Soodanim]

In the first terminator, arnie runs over a toy truck in his car, before killing the first Sarah Connor from the phone book

The truck he drives at the end of the film, is a replica, in full scale, almost like it was a hint to the ending

In terminator 2, the truck that chases John Connor is also a lookalike version of that toy truck

Could be a coincidence obviously, but I always thought it was a nice theory

Theory of what?

 

[INC]

Theory of what?

Probably the wrong way of putting it, more of a nod, if you like

 

[Soodanim]

Probably the wrong way of putting it, more of a nod, if you like

I was ready for a complex truck theory, you need to think of one now

 

[Ornlu]

Also, in the Star Trek movie:

Frakes has a fucked up back.

 

[INC]

I was ready for a complex truck theory, you need to think of one now

The truck is the real protector of John Connor, think about it, the terminator has been fucked over 3 times, in 2 films, by trucks

The truck is the real hero. The truck is also on a revenge arc of his own, because the terminator ran over his kid (the toy from the first film)