Predator also has a third guy who ran for governor, but lost. Oh, well.
I remember noticing that all the major characters in Final Destination share last names with horror movie directors.
In Harold & Maude, Harold always dresses in the same outfit as his psychiatrist.
In Troy there’s a scene with Peter O’Toole and John Terry, who played Henry II and John in The Lion in Winter.
In Gone With the Wind there’s a scene of carriages driving up the lane to the mansion at Twelve Oaks. They drive over the shadows of trees but the shadows never touch them. (I knew it was editing but found out why in a documentary: the trees and lane were a glass painting.)
I’m probably not the only one who noticed this and I’m sure it’s probably on a trivia list somewhere online…
…but when I first watched Glee and they said the name of Stephen Tobolowsky’s character (which is Sandy Ryerson), I immediately remembered he played Ned Ryerson in Groundhog’s Day.
Ah, another one. I remember watching *Ronin *in the movie theater, and thinking, “hey, there’s THREE Bond villains in this movie!”
Roger Ebert published several books about about, well, not exactly movie trivia but rather movie cliches. I submitted two suggestions via email and he published them both! In fact he’s used one of them in two or three of his reviews. I’d love to reference them, but it would mean revealing my actual name… 
The three dads in Mama Mia are spies. Pierce Brosnan (James Bond), Colin Firth (Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy), and Stellan Skarsgard (Ronin).
Similarly, in “Men in Black 3,” the number CRM-114 makes two appearances in the form of text that appears on the outside wall of the Lunar Max prison and the ID for the bunker on the beach at Cape Canaveral.
The CRM-114 was the radio scrambling device aboard the B-52 in “Dr. Strangelove.”
I come up with these things all the time - more often with tv shows - but for some reason the only thing I can think of at the moment is the main characters’ last name in Gone Girl is Dunne (as in “done”). Will come back when brain re-engages.
So does Batman And Robin.
(Maybe not so significant) I remember “The Sting” being hailed as the big reunion of not only Paul Newman and Robert Redford, but also the “Butch Cassidy” directory, George Roy Hill.
When I watched “Butch Cassidy” recently, I realized that there was another actor who was also reunited for “The Sting”: Charles Dierkop - the guy who plays “flat nose (something)” in the Hole in the Wall gang. He plays one of Robert Shaw’s thugs in “The Sting”. (He’s most notable in his reaction to Paul Newman out-cheating Shaw on the big, final poker hand)
(For all I know there are others, but his face is so distinctive, I finally realized he was also in both movies).
Since a TV show was mentioned in the OP, there was a Monk episode where Scott Glenn played a corrupt sheriff who framed Monk for murder and has to be brought to justice by Monk and Captain Leland Stottlemeyer (Ted Levine)–a role reversal of The Silence of the Lambs (Jack Crawford and Buffalo Bill).
In “Catch Me If You Can” there is a scene on an airplane where Leo DiCaprio (as Frank Abagnale) looks out the window and recognizes LaGuardia airport. He remarks to Tom Hanks that he can see runway 44.
That’s impossible. Runway numbers go by compass directions with the third digit removed, so the highest one could see is a northbound runway, 36. I assume the filmmakers did that intentionally out of some kind of security concern. Which is funny because runway information is publicly available.
What’s with Tom Hanks peeing? Maybe this has been explained but I’ve never searched on it. All of these pissing scenes are on film:
In A League of Their Own, when he first meets the team he busts into the locker room, stumbling drunk, and scuffles over to the head and takes a leak. Madonna, playing “All the .way May”, times how long he pisses for.
In Apollo 13 right after he as astronaut Jim Lovell films some space capsule activities for the public back home, pisses in a relief tube. I think that’s what that tube is called.
In Castaway he climbs to a high cliff on a hilltop and pisses off of the cliff, seemingly claiming victory as if marking his territory.
In The Green Mile he’s battling a UTI which is subsequently cured by Michael Clark Duncan’s character, John Coffey. Tom Hanks, off-screen but you definitely hear it, groans with relief as he pees pain-free for the first time in ages. And then later that night he, umm, pleases his wife some three or four times. But that’s a different story.
There may be other movies where he pees.
What’s up with that?
Forrest Gump: I have to go pee.
John F. Kennedy: I believe he said he has to go pee!
Von Sydow would have been good in the part, but Max’s boss Fifi was played by Australian actor Roger Ward.
Movie/TV cross reference, this time.
In Star Trek: Enterprise, the captain’s last name is “Archer.”
…kinda like “Bowman.” :smack:
Director Ron Howard often uses family members in his movies. For Apollo 13 there were:
- brother Clint Howard was the White team EECOM (Electrical, Environmental and Consumables Manager) Sy Liebergot
- father Rance Howard was the Lovell family minister
- mother Jean Speegle Howard was Jim Lovell’s mother Blanch.
- wife Cheryl Howard and daughter Bryce Dallas Howard appeared as uncredited background performers in the scene where the astronauts wave goodbye to their families
I didn’t know about the last line. I looked that one up.
In the movie Paint Your Wagon, Clint Eastwood sings the song “I Talked to the Trees”. Forty-three years later he talked to a chair at the Republican Convention. I was astonished at the time of the convention that no political commentators made a joke about it.
In the 1956 movie Baby Doll, in a scene set in a diner in a small Southern town, people are shown eating pizza. When I saw that, I immediately said to myself, “No, they wouldn’t have eaten pizza. It didn’t reach small town America until the mid-1960’s.” I did an online search when I got home from the movie and found this review on the IMDb:
Most of Baby Doll was shot in a small Mississippi town, and most of the minor parts were played by locals. The scene where the people eat pizza was one of the few shot in a New York studio. The people from the small town who were in that scene were brought to New York for the filming, and indeed that was the first time they had ever eaten pizza.