I just got a 1933 King Kong DVD, and just noticed the spiders at the bottom of the ravine. I didn’t remember seeing them before.
Something I never noticed about “Wrath of Khan” until I noticed it in another movie by the same director. Right before the Genesis device explodes, they show the Reliant in close up, then a couple of quick cuts from further and further back, then the explosion. Nicholas Meyer used the exact same trick in “The Day After” when they nuked downtown Kansas City.
In Airplane! there’s a scene where reporters come in to interview Rex Kramer about the goings on. Somewhere in the scene a reporter asks if they can take a few pictures, and he’s told to go ahead. And I never noticed them pulling the frames off the wall in the background immediately afterwards, until maybe the 5th time I saw the movie.
I always caught both of those, even as a kid. I was kind of irritated that they added a really loud “DOINK!” sound effect at the Stormtrooper part on the DVD release, as though it was intentional rather than a mistake.
You ever notice the guy walking a cougar on a leash through that little town just before that? What a great movie.
-rainy
In one of the wallace and gromit movies (the wrong trouser I think) they get a piggy-bank from a safe behind a picture. I think it was the third viewing I noticed that the picture is of a piggy bank 
Not a swallow?
In Citizen Kane, in the scene where Kane takes his wife on a huge catered picnic on or near the grounds of the Xanadu mansion, if you look closely you can see the shadows of flying pterodactyls. That’s because they used outtake footage from King Kong for the scene (assuming, I guess, that Florida is just as jungly as Skull Island).
It’s been a while since I’ve seen the movie, but I remember that guy, and it looked like he was wearing a skirt.
A friend of mine who is a knitting enthusiast noticed on her first viewing of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets that Tom Riddle’s Hogwarts scarf was hand-knit, whereas the current-day students’ were machine-knit.
The only thing cut and later restored to the film is a 30-second or so bit midway through the Castle Anthrax scene when characters from various previous parts of the film urge Galahad and Carol Cleveland’s character (I forget if she’s Zoot or Dingo at this point) to “Get on with it!”
Zoot.
Dammit!
She’s Dingo at that point.
:smack:
I read in the book of the film (yes, they published one – it includes the deleted/omitted “King Brian the Wild” sketch) that when Galahad is being examined by the “doctors,” at one point “a bonging noise comes from the lower part of his armor,” just before he jumps up and shouts, “No! This cannot be! I am sworn to chastity!” As many times as I’ve seen the film, I can never catch the bonging noise.
???
I’m a big Kong fan – have been ever since I was a kid, and I knew about the giant spider ever since Forrey Ackernman published that single rare still of it in Famous Monsters. So i always looked for the spider at the bottom of thye ravine, but never saw it.
According to Goldner and Turner’s The Making of King Kong, the completelt refilmed the sequence at the bottom of the ravine after they decided that the spider sequence slowed things down. They used dolls and filmed it at high speed, then showed it at normal speed. The spuiders had been animated, so there’s no way that they could be in the same film with fast-filmed falling dolls.
The bottom line – I think you’re mistaken. The spider footage ended up on the floor, and couldn’t have been integrated with the used footage.
Goldner knows whereof he wrote – he was on the effects team.
Reservoir Dogs
The Flight of the Phoenix (the real original version)
Sleuth
Doesn’t Lawrence of Arabia have no female speaking parts?
I thought the point of the scene in M&C was just to highlight that aspect of the loneliness, just to hint at the sacrifice that these men are going through. Otherwise, you might think it was just a fun frat boy romp with everyone trying to avoid the subject of buggery.
After seeing Raiders of the Lost Ark in the theatre way back when, a bunch of times on tv, and a whole lot more on video I heard about there being a hieroglyphic in the Well of Souls that had R2-D2 and C-3PO in it. I had never seen it before.
I had totally forgotten about this by the time I got the DVDs when they were released. Then when viewing it again for the umteenth time it just hit me in the face. They were there plain as day over Indy’s shoulder when he’s facing off with the snake.
In 48 hours with Nick Nolte and Eddie Murphy, there is one thing you almost have to watch it more than once to catch.
When Nolte and Murphy return to San Francisco there is a traffic jam scene with, as I remember it, Nolte and Murphy talking as background exposition. If you look near the middle of the scene there is a bathtub Porsche - The same one that is to play a pivotal part in the show later but supposedly is in storage at that point in the film.
Once you’ve seen the film the car is unique enough that it sticks in your mind, and then when you see the film again, you say, “hey, wait a minute.”
…well, at least I did…
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