When you watch a movie many, many times, you notice really little things. What little things have you noticed?

flashtheready · 4 months

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind - We see Joel visiting Clementine at work (right after she's had the procedure) to bring her a present and make amends several times throughout the movie. It's the gift Patrick later gives her and she says "I've never gone out with a guy who bought me a piece of jewelry I liked." Each time we see that scene at Barnes & Noble, though, the present gets bigger and bigger until it's the size of a shoebox. My assumption was that the details of the memory became fuzzier and fuzzier, so Joel's emotional memory overrode his physical memory of the scene, giving more and more weight to the gift.

stilesjp · 4 months

I found it interesting that in the span of a couple of minutes, both Bruce Wayne and The Joker toss champagne out of their glasses during The Dark Knight.

TBatWork · 4 months

Ace Ventura - there's two apples and a banana laid out to form a penis on Lois Einhorn's desk.

alpo12983 · 4 months

There are zero black people in Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World. Seriously, not even extras, check it out. Came to me 2 days ago. Strange.

ParanoidAndroid93 · 4 months

Anchorman - When all the women are in the mexican restaurant, the sign outside the building reads, "We spit in your food" in Spanish.

JaronK · 4 months

I was a theatrical sound designer for a while there, so I got really used to noticing the stock sounds (the standard register "chi-ching", the "reeaawr" cat, the door with a bell on top that rings when someone enters a shop, the Wilhelm Scream, and so on). They pop for me and tend to ruin the scene (especially when I know what the sound actually comes from, and how horribly inappropriate it is for the actual scene).

In Mr. and Mrs. Smith, which is a film that's already poking fun at action tropes, at one point Mr. Smith trips over a cat in the bushes and it makes the standard cat noise, and he looks back like it makes no sense at all. It always felt like a little tip to out of place sound effects, so I love that part.

Gunski · 4 months

Inception. Cobb only has his ring on his hand when he is dreaming.

admiralallahackbar · 4 months

In the opening credits of Watchmen (the "Times They are a-Changin'" sequence), the first Night Owl saves a socialite couple from a mugger in front of "Gotham Opera House." Batman posters can also be seen in the background.

Top left here.

soilheart · 4 months

The taxi scene in Before Sunset has one of the best moments ever in film (romantic films at least) in my opinion, and I didn't notice it really until the second time I saw the film.

The moment where Celine tries to reach out to touch Jessie, but nervously pulls it away in the last moment.

RaymondTerrific · 4 months

Dumb and Dumber: If Lloyd and Mary got married, her name would be Mary Christmas.

iSteve · 4 months

Yeah that was supposed to be a theme of the film and the statement from George bush places the film in a specific time period.

From aniyher coen bros film; in Raising Arizona the grafitti in the gas station bathroom reads P.O.E. And/or O.P.E. From dr strangelove.

odintal · 4 months

A common one I'm sure but the first time watching Fight Club I never really noticed the "cigarette burns" or the flashes of Tyler Durden in scenes but on subsequent viewings they are as clear as day.

NoSandwichOnlyZuul · 4 months

Less because I've watched it often and more because apparently I have an eye for unintentional nudity, I noticed there's a nipple slip in Robin Hood: Men in Tights. If you really pay attention to the background and dialog in The Big Lebowski you'll notice he takes other people lines fairly often. The Coen brothers are fantastic with subtleties like this.

WuTangClam · 4 months

Just re-watched Spike Lee's Inside Man recently and I noticed when the cops give pizza to the bank robbers, the pizza boxes have a Sal's Pizza logo on them. For those not in the know, Sal's Pizza is a pizza joint that plays an integral part in Spike Lee's most notable film Do The Right Thing

emFox · 4 months

There's tons of little things you can easily miss in Wes Anderson films. One that I had missed for a long time until it was pointed out to me was when Henry asks Etheline to marry him near the beginning of "The Royal Tenenbaums." When it cuts back to Etheline for a reaction, you can see Pagoda out in the garden look up and remove a pair of headphones -- Royal's got the house wire-tapped.

iSteve · 4 months

This is repeated throughout. He gets 'a line in the sand' and 'parlance of our time'.

cool2bwichu · 4 months

Goodfellas. It's a small nod to Scorcese's older film, Taxi Driver, in the scene where Liota's and Pesci's characters are on a double date in the restaurant - the ash tray is of a taxi company.

CantStandsYa · 4 months

It's spread over two movies. In Hot Fuzz and Shaun of the Dead, lot's of little details are repeated. The one that I only picked up recently is the noise the bar machine game makes. It's at the start of Shaun of the Dead when Nick Frost is playing it, and in Hot Fuzz when they are in the pub and Simon Pegg looks at the chandelier and shoots it.

nny76 · 4 months

The Lone Pine/ Twin Pine mall name change in the BTTF movies.

http://backtothefuture.wikia.com/wiki/Twin_Pines_Mall

10goldbees · 4 months

In Wedding Crashers when they are on the quail hunt Christopher Walken sounds a quail call. The first two blows sound normal but the third (when he is off camera) sounds completely ridiculous, like he coughed while making the noise or something.

epox999 · 4 months

national lampoon's Christmas vacation - the scene with the grandfather looking at the poster on the ceiling - .... instead, look at the poster on the right hand wall - the turtle poster.

mastershake04 · 4 months

In Dazed and Confused after the kid buys a six pack and meets back up with his friends he touches his nose like 13 times in a row, in all different shots.

Im pretty sure its that scene anyway, it could be some other scene, but yeah he touches his nose 13 times in like a minute.

jjmcnugget · 4 months

In The Shining how the architecture of The Overlook is impossible. The things like the impossible hallway behind the Colorado Room, the unknown location of the Gold Room, the mirror tricks in the kitchen, the impossibly sized bedrooms, the inconsistent maze, and so on.

jlo47 · 4 months

In Unbreakable, many of the camera angles and scenes are filmed like comic books. Canted angles, long shots (both in length/zoom), characters cut off by the scenery (when David is on the train talking with the woman, when Elijah is chasing the man from the stadium to the subway), primary colors for main characters and their behavior.

fatcobra7 · 4 months

Watched the Matrix many times. About the 10th time, I watched it high and noticed something pretty cool. When Neo is fighting Morpheus in the dojo, at the moment they simultaneously high kick each other and block, they form a yin yang. The shot is from above and only lasts a split second but it is a clear yin yang and i started flipping out!!! (My friends were impressed by my skills)

deathvanquished · 4 months

The extra that does the fist pump before Data on Star Trek Generations after they blow up the Klingon Bird of Prey.

Moosebomber · 4 months

Watching Rushmore, near the end of the kite/plane flying scene you can see a lightning strike in the background. I noticed it on my 7th viewing and now everytime I pay attention for the lightning strike. Its stupid, I know.

windowzombie · 4 months

The bearded guy with the glasses in the first five minutes of Dawn of the Dead '78. He's everywhere, it's hilarious.

kingbread · 4 months

In the Two Towers, when the defenders rush back into the keep and the urukhai are pouring in, some extra guy throws a rock then puts his hands in the air and waves like an idiot.

and yes, i but DVDs to just watch what the extras do, its really funny sometimes what some of them do.

NoahSavedTheAnimals · 4 months

In Tron (1982) when Sark is watching the map diagram in his battlecruiser, if you look on the right-hand side of the diagram, there's pacman!!

On Snakes on a Plane, the microwave has a "Sanke" button.

vinnytt · 4 months

In The Stupids, you always see Christopher Lee in a cave with red lighting on his face. For the two seconds that you see him out of the cave when he's in the newspaper office he still has the red light on his face.

morat11 · 4 months

That "The Green Mile" basically hinges on a misunderstanding of a couple phrases John Coffey says while holding the two dead girls: "I couldn't help it, boss. I tried to take it back, but it was too late." Later, after his miracles, John Coffey describes the healing as "helping it" and withdrawing evil as "taking it back." Hence what looked like a clear confession of the murders was a perfectly logical thing to say.

wearenotscientists · 4 months

All the imagery or commentary on rabbits in Donnie Darko, along with other things that go along with the movie

Iannic · 4 months

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eskimo_hammr · 4 months

In the movie Show Girls.. there was a plot.

acceptableusername · 4 months

In Kiki's Delivery Service, the bus that almost hits her when she first arrives in the big city has Studio Ghibli painted on the side.

pickleczar · 4 months

I watch the Room all the time.

The staircase that everyone uses to get on the roof seems to come from nowhere. The characters open the door and turn left, but you can clearly see that there's only the side of the building to the left. I mean, It's The Room, so I guess it's not like inconsistencies are uncommon, but it's something I noticed recently.

WadeWilsonO-o · 4 months

Victor Zsasz serial killer who marks his body with cuts for each victim from Batman comics, briefly appears in Batman Begins.

In Indiana Jones: The Last Crusade, Henry Jones Sr. refers to his son Indiana Jones as "junior" which is common throughout the film. Yet as Indy reaches for the holy grail with his dad holding him from falling to his doom near the end, Sr. refers to his son as "Indiana" which gains his son's attention and causes Indy to "let it go" and get to safety. That scene always slipped by me until recently.

0RPH · 4 months

It always bugged me that in The Dark Knight the phrase "close to the chest" is used by two different characters at two different points in the film. I guess it's just a common figure of speech in Gotham, but it feels to me like sloppy writing. It is said by Harvey to Gordon, and it is said by Bruce to Luscious.

E-Step · 4 months

A while ago, I realized that in the beginning when he's writing his check for his milk, the TV in the background says, "this aggression will not stand," and then later on, when he first meets Mr. Lebowski, he says to him, "this aggression will not stand, man."

This actually happens a lot in this movie. Characters keep quoting other lines.

jagg_1059 · 4 months

Although I'm sure it was obvious for many, the Ocean's 11 plot hole. I loved that movie when it came out and watched it many times yet never noticed the plot hole until I watched it again recently.

The error: There is no explanation of how the fake money (later blown up in the RC van) gets into the vault. The SWAT team couldn't have done it because the fake money was removed from the vault before they arrived. Damon/Clooney were not carrying anything when they went down the vault. The acrobat obviously could not have done it. I think Soderbergh has even confirmed that there is no explanation whatsoever.

Additionally, when they are discussing Basher, Pitt says there might be some "availability problems." Then the movie cuts to a scene of Basher robbing a bank and getting caught. Pitt frees him, but how is this an availability problem? It's as if Pitt could predict the future and knew when and where Basher would be caught. The only explanation I've come up for this is that he was unavailable because he was working another job. However, there is still no reason for Pitt to be there--he wouldn't interrupt a bank robbery just to talk to Basher.

kensai11 · 4 months

Shaun of the dead and Hot Fuzz... The scripts are complete parrots of themselves. You kind of see it the first time around, but with every viewing I see more parallels that went unnoticed previously. Very fun.

NotSure2505 · 4 months

In The Terminator, Sarah Connor sleeps with Reese, and is impregnated, but in the final scene where the terminator blows up, a piece of his metal skeleton penetrates her leg. I always thought it was odd until it occurred to me the director wanted to show that just as Reese left behind a little of himself in Sarah, so did the Terminator. Just as John Connor was conceived between Sarah and Reese, Skynet was conceived through the terminator's death at that very moment. Sarah was mother to both.

brian5476 · 4 months

"Forrest Gump." When Forrest appears on the Dick Cavett Show with John Lennon he talks about the lack of religion. John: "No religion too?" Dick: "Ah. Hard to imagine." John: "Well it's easy if you try Dick." Nice little reference to Lennon's song and easily overlooked.

verbose_gent · 4 months

This comes from tv actually but I feel that it is fitting for the thread. I've watched and analyzed Moffats work so much, I feel like I know weird things about him as a person. I think his values come through in his work. For example, I think he likes women that challenge him, I think he might have father issues, and he probably sits in the back corner at bars/resturaunts because he hates not being able to see everything.

denizenzero · 4 months

I may need someone to confirm/debunk this. I was watching Back to the Future tonight, and in the scene when the police officer asks Doc if he has a permit for the "weather equipment," Doc pulls out his wallet and says, basically, "Somewhere in here." It then cuts away, and I've never paid attention to it before, but while watching it tonight, I got the distinct impression that Doc was basically about to bribe the police officer to go away. Though I'm also aware that a wallet would be a good place to hold a permit.

PopeUrbanII · 4 months

Everything Simpsons.

Cap10Chaos · 4 months

In Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs Flynn makes it snow ice cream. When the camera pans up you see the street is separated into strips of chocolate, vanilla, and strawberry just like Neapolitan ice cream. There are several kids playing in the chocolate and vanilla but only one enjoying the strawberry, just like real Neapolitan ice cream.

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