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* The classic ''[[Clash of the Titans]]'' film is a widely regarded classic, but the remake couldn't resist making a joke at the expense of Bubo the mechanical owl (Perseus's sidekick from the original):

'''Solon:''' Just leave it! }}

* The ''[[Saw]]'' film series seems to have a running subplot that is a Take That to everyone that John Kramer believes to have wronged him.

* [[M. Night Shyamalan]]'s movies following ''[[The Sixth Sense]]'' weren't very well received. So in ''[[Lady in the Water]]'', he has a [[Straw Critic|pompous blowhard critic character]] who gets killed off in a scene that proves how little he knows. Did we mention that M. Night Shyamalan included an obvious [[Author Avatar]]--''played by Shyamalan himself''--who was a messiah figure who would sacrifice his life to write a story so beautiful and wonderful it would change the world? Of course, the movie stank ''and'' made Mr. Shyamalan look like [[Small Name, Big Ego|a petty child with delusions of grandeur]]. Furthermore, as part of a near-universal savaging anyway, the critics gleefully pointed out the amazing hubris demonstrated by the elements discussed.

* ''[[DodgeBall: A True Underdog Story]]'' has a scene after the end credits that is basically a [[Take That]] to the studio executives who forced him to change the ending from a [[Downer Ending]] to a [[Happy Ending]], as well as American audiences for not being able to handle sad endings or any complexity in their movies.

* ''Paparazzi'', from Icon Productions ([[Mel Gibson]]'s company), which depicts photographers as amoral assholes who would cause a manslaughter if it meant getting pictures, and requires Cole Hauser to kill them one by one.

* The notorious Andy Warhol film ''Taylor Mead's Ass'' was made in direct response to a snipe by Peter Emmanuel Goldman, a director who also served as film critic for the ''Village Voice'', about Warhol's films being nothing but "[a camera] focusing on Taylor Mead's ass for two hours." The film that resulted was [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|exactly that]].

* ''The Green Berets'' is basically one giant "Take That" to Americans that were opposed to [[The Vietnam War]], but it also contains one of the more stunning examples of this trope in action. When he was writing the book that the film was based on, Robin Moore accompanied a special forces unit into action in Vietnam, and wrote an often critical account of his experiences in the field. In the film however, David Janssen plays a very obvious stand-in for Moore, and his character, a journalist who is initially highly critical of the war, gradually learns to become a good, patriotic, war-supporting American over the course of the movie. Needless to say, Moore was not involved in the making of the movie, and didn't speak too highly of it afterwards.

* In ''[[Trick 'r Treat|Trick R Treat]]'', Steven Wilkins tells his son to go inside and watch Charlie Brown, presumably in reference to the ''[[Peanuts]]'' [[Halloween Special]]. You know, [[It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown|the thing with the Great Pumpkin]].

* The death of Blofeld at the beginning of ''[[For Your Eyes Only (film)|For Your Eyes Only]]'' was a [[Take That]] to Kevin McClory, the screenwriter who created the character and had tried to create [[Never Say Never Again|a rival James Bond series]].

* Early on in ''[[Mystery Men]]'', The Shoveler pulls in to his driveway and runs over a [[Barney and Friends|plush purple T-Rex]], then rips it's head off for good measure. It's a ''little'' less out of nowhere than it sounds, because he then comes in complaining about his kids leaving their toys out, but still an obvious take that.

* [[Uwe Boll]] has been accused of [[Springtime for Hitler|making deliberate flops to make use of a tax loophole]], which would explain a lot. His cameo in his own ''[[Postal]]'' movie is probably a reaction to the rumours, since he keeps insisting his movies are awesome.

* ''[[Tropic Thunder]]'' had the "never go full retard" speech, which is an obvious jab at pretty much every actor who played a mentally challenged character for [[Oscar Bait]].

* In ''[[The Nightmare Before Christmas]]'', when the Mayor is starting to panic due to Jack not answering the door (because Jack's in the [[The Lost Woods|Hinderlands]] at the time), the Mayor yells, "I'm only an elected official here, ''I can't make decisions by myself!''"

* In ''[[Daredevil (film)|Daredevil]],'' the film opens with a rapist getting turned loose by the courts thanks to a mob lawyer's intervention. Daredevil hunts the rapist down, breaks his bones and lets him fall to the train tracks, and as the subway approaches, Daredevil coldly states "You see that light? It's not coming to take you to ''heaven."'' And what is the name of this rapist who has earned a Marvel superhero's damnation? [[Joe Quesada|José Quesada]].

* Allegedly, [[Raul Julia]]'s rant against Mel Gibson in ''Tequila Sunrise'' near the end is Robert Towne's [[Take That]] against [[Jack Nicholson]]. Originally, Towne was supposed to direct Nicholson in the sequel to ''[[Chinatown]]'', but when Nicholson took over, the friendship fell apart. When Julia thinks he's been betrayed by Gibson in the film, his character says the following:

* It's never been confirmed as such, but Chief Orman, Peter Boyle's [[Marlon Brando]]-esque character in ''Honeymoon In Vegas'' is commonly perceived as a take that to Brando himself. Writer / director Andrew Begrman would have reason for throwing such a take that in: His previous film, ''The Freshman'', starred Brando, who later trashed the film in an interview.

* When [[Wes Craven]] read Kevin Williamson's script for ''[[Scream (film)|Scream]]'', he was worried that the line about how the first ''[[A Nightmare on Elm Street]]'' was good, "but the rest sucked" could be mistakenly seen as a [[Take That]] from him to people who made the sequels. But then he realized that "the rest" would include his own ''New Nightmare'' as well, and left it in.

* ''[[The Great Dictator]]'' contains what is perhaps not only the finest example of this trope but also an [[Author Tract]], [[Tear Jerker]], [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]], a [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming]] and a [[Crowning Moment of Funny]] all rolled into [[Truth in Television]] in its final scene, where [[Charlie Chaplin]] breaks character in awesome fashion to deliver a moving speech on the state of the world.

* This conversation from [[Cars|''Cars 2'']]

'''Mater''': No, thanks! }}

* Two Indian examples of films taking pot shots at brands-

** In ''Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara'' (Life doesn't come again), one of the actors says he's invested a lot of money to buy a Ferrari. He says if the investment doesn't work out, he'll be forced to settle with a Ford Fiesta. Ford did nothing.

* [[Sacha Baron Cohen]]'s newest film [[The Dictator]] has multiple ones, but a beautiful one against G.W. Bush and co. stands out at the end:

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