i was watching my copy of Dracula 2000 (hey, i like cheesy films, okay? ) and thought to myself that it would have been amusing if Jeri Ryan’s vampire character used the phrase “resistance is futile” before dispatching one of her victims
alternatively, i would have liked to see Claudia Black slip in at least one “'Scaperism” into Pitch Black before her character became Dinobird Chow™, maybe slip in a frell, or dren, or hezmana, or refer to time in arns
what little in-jokes would you have liked to see in movies?
Like the best one evar: in Maverick when Danny Glover has a cameo as a bank robber and he and Mel Gibson have a quick confused shared look before the movie continues.
One of my favorites was in the last James Bond flick. Pierce Brosnan is seen leafing through a book called “Birds of the West Indies,” which was Ian Fleming’s favorite birdwatching guide, and which was written by an ornithologist named… James Bond.
That bit also featured a quiet flourish of the Lethal Weapon theme music in the background. This is my favorite kind of movie in-joke. Like the Duke brothers from Trading Places showing up in Coming to America as beggars who benefit from Prince Akeem’s generosity (“We’re back, Mortimer, WE’RE BACK!”)
What would I love to see?
Michael Keaton as a low-level Waynetech employee caught daydreaming on the job in Batman Begins - although they probably want to cut all possible ties with the previous franchise.
Not a movie, but my recurring fantasy for the final episode of Law & Order: Criminal Intent:
Goren has the killer (R. Lee Ermey) in the interrogation room for the big psychological showdown. Ermey’s elderly parents were murdered earlier on and though it may have seemed like a double mercy-killing, the motivation was actually about inheritances.
Goren: Yes, well, there’s one thing about cases like this, isn’t there, Detective Eames?
Eames: Yep.
Goren: [to Ermey] See, there are many crimes like this , and ineveitably there’s an element of the parents not showing enough affection.
Ermey: You’re in a world of crap! [grapples with Goren, takes his gun and shoots him with it] There are many crimes like it, but this one is mine! [shoots himself]
[QUOTE=Kilt-wearin’ man]
That bit also featured a quiet flourish of the Lethal Weapon theme music in the background. This is my favorite kind of movie in-joke.
A similar musical joke happens in the Looney Tunes back In Action film, the scene when daffy and brendan fraser are looking at the AMC Gremlin in the gararge, you hear the theme from “Gremlins” playing softly in the background…
[QUOTE=Kilt-wearin’ man]
That bit also featured a quiet flourish of the Lethal Weapon theme music in the background. This is my favorite kind of movie in-joke.
A similar musical joke happens in the Looney Tunes back In Action film, the scene when daffy and brendan fraser are looking at the AMC Gremlin in the gararge, you hear the theme from “Gremlins” playing softly in the background…
I really wish someone had shouted “It’s a Cookbook” to Richard Dreyfus as he entered the spaceship in Close Encounters of the Third Kind. A real missed opportunity.
Best in-joke: Lots of choices, but I’ll go with Margaret Hamilton in Brewster McCloud wearing ruby slippers.
I’d like to see Christopher Walken appear as an ambassador on The West Wing and have a brief meeting (including the typical handshake) with Jed Bartlett.
Pepper Mill, a big fan of various SF shows, was really diappointed at the end of the first episode of Star Trek: Enterprise. IIt stars Scott Bakula, one-time Quantum-Leaper.
It was a major plot point in that first episode when they finally got the transporter to work for the first time, and rescued Bakula’s character. Pepper thought that, upon arriving aboard the Enterprise, he should’ve said “Hoo, Boy!”, his character’s trademark expression on QL after each “jump”.
In Spiderman 2 I think I was one of the only ones in the theatre that apprecited director Sam Rami using his direction style similar to the Evil Dead series in the scene where Doc Ock came alive in the hospital and attacked all the the doctors. The first person monster attacking views and the sped up camera work made me laugh. They even had the mini-chainsaw!
And of course Bruce Campbells cameo (star of the Evil Deads).
It would be cool if someone from Silence of the Lambs guest starred on the TV show Monk, and an inside joke between the guest star and Ted Levine (Stottlemeyer) happened. The best guest star would be Brooke Smith, who played Buffalo Bill’s (Ted Levine) victim, Catherine Martin.
Monk has already had an inside joke. In one episode, one of the guys from the TV series Wings (which “Monk” star Tony Shaloub had also been in) shows up as a “TV star”.
“Nice to meet you President Stil…uh, I mean Bartlett.” stiffen
“There’s gonna be another season! The writing’s not gonna get any better! You gotta do something! There’s still time!”
Martin Sheen has already done at least one good one. In Hot Shots! Part Deux Charlie Sheen is riding down a river in a gunboat and spots his father on one going the other direction. They both yell, “I LOVED YOU IN WALL STREET!”
On the other hand, I think I was the only person in the theater for Naked Gun 2 1/2, who got the joke when the panic about the bomb report sends someone screaming up to the camera: “It’s a cookbook! It’s a cookbook!”
) and thought to myself that it would have been amusing if Jeri Ryan’s vampire character used the phrase “resistance is futile” before dispatching one of her victims