/r/MovieDetails
Details in Movies, Movie Details!
This subreddit is dedicated to the obscure details and easter eggs found in movies.
Don't forget you can get screenshots from movies at movie-screencaps.com.
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Rules
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| Rule 1: Detail Guidelines | Not blatantly obvious observations, but obscure enough that people could have missed it, or they noticed it but the significance didn’t click. Details must be obscure, relevant, and intentional. They must also be about something on screen, not off screen. See rule 8 for more info. Moderators reserve the right to remove posts that don't fit. |
| Rule 2: Flair your post. | Please flair your post apropriately, moderators will change or remove it if it is incorrect. |
| Rule 3: Be civil | Be civil. Uncivil comments including "detail is obvious" will be removed and may get you banned. Political comments may be removed because they can easily devolve into off-topic arguments. Repeated shitposting and rule-breaking may also get you banned. |
| Rule 4: Titles must include the movie name and release year | All submissions must include the name of the movie and the year of release in the title |
| Rule 5: Explain your post. | Make sure your submission has an explanation either in the title or in the comments and add "(explanation in comments)" to your title. Details must also be adequately explained with a relevant screencap or clip. |
| Rule 6: No unreleased movies or spoilers in titles. | No spoilers in the title or untagged comments. Don't browse /new if you're worried about this. Until a movie becomes available for purchase on multiple storefronts, digitally or physically, it is not allowed on r/moviedetails. *Unless it's confirmed to never be released on any other platforms (such as Netflix exclusives). |
| Rule 7: Movies only, no games or TV shows. | Submissions must be movies; TV shows and games should go to /r/TVDetails and /r/GamingDetails. Additionally, movie trailers are not eligible for submission. See this multireddit for more details subreddits. |
| Rule 8: No offtopic posts. | No memes, meta, questions, theories or political posts. Also, Movie mistakes, special effects, posts about minor roles of famous actors, behind the scenes clips and images, script details, and production/offscreen trivia are not allowed here. See the sidebar for more appropriate subreddits if your post doesn’t belong here. |
| Rule 9: Avoid reposts. | No common reposts, recent reposts (within 6 months), or reposts of posts that had previously gained over 20,000 upvotes. See a repost? crosspost it to r/MovieDetailsRepost |
| Rule 10: Factual posts require a source. | By default, all Trivia posts require a source. Other posts may require a source depending on the context of the detail. IMDB is not an accepted source, along with uncited blog posts and articles (such as WhatCulture and Factinate). If you claim that something is on the DVD commentary, you must provide proof that it is (with either a video, a detailed description with a full quote and timestamp, or some other direct form of evidence). |
Notes
If a post or comment breaks the rules, please don't just complain. Hit the report button and we'll look into it ASAP :).
Appeals to bans or post removals should be sent via modmail.
NSFW content is allowed but must be distinguished as such.
Intentionally spoiling content may lead to a ban.
Bots must be approved by the mod team and receive a bot flair, otherwise they will be banned
If 10% or more of your content is from the same domain, youtube account or similar you will be permanently banned as a spammer.
Expanded rules and banning policy
Spoiler Tags
>!spoiler goes here!<
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In Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (2023), a puppet show foreshadows the film's climax (explanation in comments).
262 Comments
2024/08/15
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In IF (2024) Brad Pitt is credited as Keith, an invisible character with no lines. A subtle reference to his character in Deadpool 2
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In Game Night (2018), Max fails to think of a good clue for the prompt "Edward Norton", despite the fact that Ryan had just been talking about underground fight clubs
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2024/08/09
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In The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) Alan Lee and John Howe, who are the illustrators of the movies and many Tolkien books, cameo as two of the kings in possession of the nine rings later to become Nazgûl (Ringwraiths).
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2024/08/07
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In The Hudsucker Proxy (1994) by the Coen Brothers, which is set in 1958, this five second scene shows the American flag with only 48 stars because in 1958 there were only 48 states. In 1959, Alaska and Hawaii joined as states and the flag was redesigned with 50 stars.
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2024/08/06
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In Alien (1979), Ash is observing the chestburster embryo inside Kane on his monitor, which he turns off when Ripley appears. While they talk, she tries to look in his microscope but Ash tells her to stop. After she leaves, he drinks a white fluid. Full details and spoilers in comments...
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2024/07/29
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During the "Pinky of Fury" sequence of Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022), the sound made when Evelyn (Michelle Yeoh) strikes the soldier is the Homerun Bat sound from Super Smash Bros. Melee (2001)
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2024/07/28
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During the gas station fight scene in Hell or High Water (2016), after Toby opens the car door to leave, it is briefly revealed his brother was holding a gun the whole time.
89 Comments
2024/07/27
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In Dumb and Dumber (1994) Lloyd is so stupid he has a bootleg Casio watch.
36 Comments
2024/07/26
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Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014) character names
The two characters testing the weapons in Dawn of the Planet of the Apes are named Terry and McVeigh. These are the names of the Oklahoma City Bombers.
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2024/07/25
22:50 UTC
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In "Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure" (1989) when Bill and Ted meet their future selves, you can see that the future selves phone booth has the repaired antenna. The event in which they repair the antenna has not happened at this point in the film yet.
53 Comments
2024/07/23
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In Blank Check [1994], Preston tricks his dad into ungrounding him by mentioning the dad's investment plan "442". Later we discover that Preston actually invested 300k into his dad's investment.
19 Comments
2024/07/23
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In The Dead Don't Hurt (2023), which Viggo Mortensen wrote, directed, and starred in, his Lord of the Rings sword Narsil/Anduril (Aragorn's sword) makes a cameo at 1:13:30. Viggo asked Peter Jackson for his permission to use it in the specific scene.
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2024/07/22
17:32 UTC
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In The Man Without a Past (2002) Kaurismäki salutes Matti Pellonpää
Noticed this photo from The Man Without a Past (2002) of Matti Pellonpää, whom starred in multiple Kaurismäki movies, and also in Jim Jarmusch' Night on Earth.
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2024/07/20
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In Twister (1996), on the final piece of debris falling from the F5 tornado, there is writing. It's director Jan De Bont's signature.
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2024/07/18
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In Jakob the Liar (1999) - Robin Williams - Mischa's boxing poster can be seen at 55:30 with his boxing name - translate Greek + Polish - staloura pieso - Steel Dog :D
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2024/07/16
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In Dark City (1998) John Murdock spots a teddy bear in a prostitute's apartment and picks it up. It's the same one from his childhood bedroom.
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2024/07/11
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In Wallace and Gromit and the Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005), Gromit is tuning the car radio and rolls his eyes at a song that briefly plays. That song is "Bright Eyes," written for the 1978 animated adaptation of Watership Down, a film about rabbits known for its violent and disturbing imagery.
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2024/07/11
02:05 UTC
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In Independence Day (1996), Jeff Goldblum's character searches an online database for another character's address, and finds that she lives on 123 Heresheis Av. There are also a number of other humorous names.
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2024/07/09
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In Scream (1996), Matthew Lillard puts the safety on the gun before he puts it down.
Gale picks it up after and it doesn't fire. Never noticed that Stu did that before.
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2024/07/09
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In the opening credits to Kong: Skull Island (2017), “Solid Snake” can briefly be seen. The director, Jordan Vogt-Roberts, is attached to direct a Metal Gear Solid movie, where the character Solid Snake comes from.
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2024/07/05
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In Pearl (2022) you can briefly see a poster for the lost film Cleopatra (1917) starring Theda Bara. Pearl calls the alligator that lives near her home Theda, indicating that she named the animal after the original Hollywood femme fatale.
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2024/06/27
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