The train used in back to the future 3 was the same train that was used in the tv show petticoat junction.
Dr Hannibal Lecter said he ate liver, fava beans, and Chianti, because those are all foods you can’t eat when taking MAOI antidepressants, he was saying he wasn’t taking his meds.
Jack Black was in the movie ‘Waterworld’. It’s before he was a big name, so he isn’t given any special camera treatment as one of the raiders.
The alien queen in ‘Alien: Resurrection’ is the same prop as in ‘Aliens’. A fan had bought and stored the prop for years and loaned it back to the studio for filming.
not only, Jack was also in an early pitfall commercial from the 80s.
I just started watching the Homeland series and, fun fact: Pedro Pascal appears in season 3, which aired in 2013.
I Dream of Jeannie / Barbara Eden was married to Klingon Kang /Michael Ansara.
Jeannie also wore a halter top but never showed her belly button for the entire run of the show.
Once you go Klingon, you never go back.
Once you go Klingon, you cling on
This man in Monty Python’s Life of Brian is none other than British comedy legend Spike Milligan, who, together with Peter Sellers and Harry Secombe, starred in the 1950s radio comedy show “The Goon Show”, which all members of the Pythons cited as their most important influence.
By coincidence Milligan was visiting his old World War II battlefields in Tunisia where the film was being made. The Pythons were alerted to this and he was included in the scene being filmed that morning.
A couple ones from The Matrix I found interesting:
We first meet Neo in room 101 (his apartment) and Trinity in room 303.
Toward the end of the film when Neo is running from agent Smith, he runs past a TV showing a scene from The Prisoner, a 1960s sci-fi show that was partly the inspiration for the movie.
In the 2009 Star Trek Kelvinverse film, there’s a scene where the Enterprise comes out of warp directly into a debris field. For a brief moment, R2D2 can be seen floating through that debris field.
Poltergeist II - At one point in the film Craig Nelson (aka the Dad) asks Will Sampson’s Medicine Man character if he’s escaped from a mental asylum. The way it’s played make it obviously a funny little nod to Sampson playing Chief Bromden in ‘One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest’.
Who Framed Roger Rabbit? - Christopher Lloyd’s character is looking for Roger after smashing up the Trolley Depot bar and one of the drunks tells him “Yea I seen a rabbit. He’s right here. say Hello Harvey.” At which point if you’ve seen the 1950’s Jimmy Stewart comedy ‘Harvey’, about a man whose best friend is an invisible rabbit, feel free to bore anyone else who might be in earshot by explaining the joke.
Poltergeist 1 the poster on the wall is for a Superbowl in the future and the two teams actually did play in that game. Also said that the set was haunted.
I haven’t heard about the poster in Poltergeist, thanks. There is a real life chill about those three films that I almost find them hard to watch. From the actual skeletons in the pool to the deaths of several of the cast members. Also the late, great Julian Beck dying of stomach cancer while playing the evil Reverend haunted me for years. Brrr.
In “Soldier" (1998) there’s a reference to “Blade Runner.” The main character is shown to have participated in several battles, including the Battle at Tannhauser Gate, which is a direct reference to a line from “Blade Runner.” I feel like no one knows about this movie but me.
“I’m going to kill them all sir.”
I need to rewatch that.
Soldier is amazing
In the first episode of the 2003 Battlestar Galactica mini-series, Serenity from Firefly can be seen flying above the doctor’s office where Laura Roslin learns she has cancer.
BSG 2004: Actress Tricia Helfer had to have her hair constantly dyed to keep it blonde. She is naturally a darker haired blonde. She asked for a wig, but the producers refused due to cost. About a week later poor Tricia’s hair fell out due to being constantly dyed. The show was obligated to spend $10,000 to have wigs rushed to the set for her. She wore a wig throughout the rest of the series.
The USS Reliant in “Wrath of Khan” is upside down. Originally the model was designed to have the warp nacelles above the saucer section. However, due to a misunderstanding the plans were approved upside down. Honestly, I think it works better because the two ships looked very different, but were obviously from the same fleet.
We all know about Viggo breaking his toe in “The Two Towers”. But did you know that in “Fellowship of the Ring” he really did deflect a thrown dagger with his sword in the final fight scene?
Farscape 1999 was produced by the Jim Henson company, the same production company that made the muppets. Many models from the Henson’s company’s earlier productions were used in the show. Also, Lani John Tupu who played Bilar Craise also was the voice for the Pilot of Moya.
In “Fellowship of the Ring” when Gandolf confronts the Balrog, actor Ian McKellen was acting to a golf ball. On the flip side, when Sam and Frodo see Cirith Ungol after escaping Shelob’s lair, the tower was actually there on set with them. They did not have to pretend seeing it.
