Shout-Out/Film: Difference between revisions

* ''[[The Abyss]]''. At one point the characters are talking about the alien encounters Lindsey had, one character says "Hot Rods of the Gods", which was an adventure for the ''[[Ghostbusters]]'' [[Tabletop RPG]] put out by West End Games.

* ''[[Roger Rabbit Effect|The Adventures of]] [[Rocky and Bullwinkle]]''

'''Henchman''': [[It's Been Done|What about]] [[Who Framed Roger Rabbit?|that movie Roger Rabbit?]] <br />

'''Fearless Leader''': Shut up! This is totally different! [[[Beat]]] There has never been a way to actually destroy a cartoon character until now. }}

*** One of the Shakespeare players has a baby in his backpack who greatly resembles [[The Incredibles|Jack-Jack]].

* Hunter in ''[[Crimson Tide]]'' invokes ''[[Star Trek]]'' to encourage the radio technician to work as fast as possible.

* In [[Wes Craven]]'s werewolf flick ''[[Cursed (2005 film)|Cursed 2005]]'', the design of the night club owned by the protagonist Ellie's boyfriend is one big shout out to classic horror movies. It is lined from wall to wall with supposed memorabilia from the movie sets, including the silver-tipped cane from the original ''[[The Wolf Man]]''.

* In the 2005 version of ''[[Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (film)|Charlie and The Chocolate Factory]]'', a chocolate bar is teleported into a television picture. The scene playing at the time is the prehistoric monolith scene from ''[[2001: A Space Odyssey]]''. The monolith gets replaced by the chocolate bar, and all the apes jump up and down and hoot at it.

* In ''[[The Lord of the Rings (film)|The Lord of the Rings]]'', Boromir's comment upon cutting his finger on the shards of Narsil: [[Sharpe|'Still sharp']]

* ''[[Lost in Space]]'' had the following line which was a reference to an oft used line by Dr. McCoy in ''[[Star Trek: The Original Series|Star Trek the Original Series]]'':

** Doppler uses a similar line in ''[[Treasure Planet]]''

*** According to the director's commentary, after Bones collapsed they wanted Doppler to say "He's Dead, Jim". [[Executive Meddling|The Powers that be]] [[Never Say "Die"|said no.]]

* In the [[Peter Jackson]] film, ''[[The Lovely Bones]]'', there is a scene with the main character in a bookstore, and a poster advertising ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'' book trilogy is on display as an obvious homage to the films Jackson is famous for directing.

** The second shout out was when Reuben, the bedridden casino executive, uses the same lines spoken by Vito Corleone just before Vito learned of his son's death from Tom Hagen ("I hear cars coming and going..."). They were both very subtle; probably meant as inside jokes by the actors, who didn't expect anybody to actually catch them.

** One of the [[James Bond (film)|James Bond]] movies, George Lazenby's [[Breaking the Fourth Wall|brazen fourth wall breaking]] in ''[[On Her Majesty's Secret Service]]'' after he fails to get the girl in the opening sequence:

* ''[[One, Two, Three]]'' has several: To ''[[Little Caesar]]'', ''[[Gone with the Wind]]'', ''[[Yankee Doodle Dandy]]'', ''[[The Public Enemy]]'', ''[[Ninotchka]]''.

* ''[[Our Man Flint]]''. After the three Galaxy leaders try to convince him to let them rule the world for its own good Flint says "All I have to do is take a bite of your apple?", a reference to Eve and the Serpent in the Garden of Eden.

*** The protagonist of Republic Commando, Boss, is Delta 1138.

** In ''[[A New Hope]]'', just before Vader starts choking one of the Death Star commanders, a shout out is made to one of Lucas' influences:

** ''[[Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull]]'' is full of them. The {{spoiler|alien body that the Russians are looking for at the beginning was reportedly an old prop from Spielberg's ''[[Close Encounters of the Third Kind]]''}}. Near the end of the scene in Area 51, Indy smashes through a number of crates with a truck, including one holding the Ark of the Covenant from ''Raiders of the Lost Ark''. There's even a ''[[Star Wars]]'' reference, with Indy quipping near the end, "I've got a bad feeling about this".

*** According to an ''Ain't it Cool'' editor, there were a bunch of shout outs to the Indiana Jones EU Books - Indy's resistance to telepathy, alien hunting, etc.

** While looking at a picture of Danny Glover, [[Da Chief]] says "I'm getting too old for this shit.", Glover's famous ''[[Lethal Weapon]]'' line.

** The theme song from ''[[Shaft]]''.

'''Smart Brother''': "Shut your mouth!" }}

*** Lances above-mentioned beatdown is only short a FATALITY!

== W ==

* The Restaurant Shenanigans in the movie Waiting is a restaurant that was mentioned in [[Super Troopers]] that Officer Rodney Farva likes to eat at complete with Goofy Shit on the wall

Farva: Shenanigans? Shenanigans Right? }}

* The animated movie ''[[WALL-E]]'s'' collection contains a [[Toy Story|Rex toy]], as well as the head of a baby doll that looks suspiciously like [[The Incredibles|Jack-Jack]].