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"Watching it back honestly feels like that scene in Interstellar where Matthew McConaughey is banging on the glass and crying."
"Sometimes, you just can't get rid of a bomb."
"It's gonna be something out of a movie, like a Tarantino film."
"It's kind of like the movie Inside Out, can't have joy without sadness."
"If you have seen the original Jurassic Park films then you should remember this scene where Rey tries breaking into the security grid."
"Call of Juarez brings to mind the themes and characters of Clint Eastwood's Unforgiven and pale rider."
"This reminds me of The Office... not the show, The Office Space."
"This movie stars Nikki Blonsky and if you don't know who that is, I'm about to lay it down. Have you seen the movie 'Hairspray'? Oh my gosh!"
"We've got to stop that kiss I thought you was gonna let her go I was but I can't let them do this to Fiona yeah now he knows they're like what Still Know The Muffin Man."
"It's always the next hit is the last, like in the movie Carlito's Way."
"This is about as close to a Flawless Victory as it gets; we're like the guys in Tucker and Dale Versus Evil and the joural are the teens who inadvertently get themselves axed."
"Love and hate is the reference to the 1955 movie Knight of the Hunter."
"It feels like we're in the first part of 'I am Legend,' where she's talking about the cure for cancer, and then the next scene, it's three years later and Will Smith is driving through the apocalypse with his dog."
"It felt like Inception or something, and everybody's just doing their own thing."
"You don't see me letting the whole world know that the movie 'Grumpy Old Men' was titled after my first three Craig's List hookups."
"The housing crisis that Aunt May fictionally fights against in Spider-Man 2 becomes all too real for much of the US."
"This is not a time for questions okay this is the part of the movie where you leave right."
"Do the people in government watch Dr. Strangelove and think, 'Man… I hope we can be that competent someday!'"
"This is epic, this is like the Avengers in war movie."
"I think the reality is it was probably like what was that movie where all the jurors are in the room and the one guy's there like, 'He's guilty!' 12 Angry Men, yeah, it was like that."
"I mean you had me at Agatha Christie but then just throw in Sherlock Holmes and Alfred Hitchcock."
"Juicier than the peach that Timothy Sham and Call Me by Your Name when he was using a peach."
"Danny Ocean, no. That Andrew has rage that he can't do a [ __ ] crew."
"Marsellus Wallace's head turned towards Butch is a reference to the Hitchcock film Psycho."
"It's time to return to room 237 to see if we can uncover any more secrets hidden within the terrifying walls of the Overlook Hotel."
"If you've seen the box office hit Crazy Rich Asians, then you've seen the Marina Bay Sands building."
"Rocky was always about perseverance in the face of adversity, determination to succeed and triumph against the odds."
"That is what I felt JJ Abrams referencing the last Jedi in a way that was a beautiful thing."
"It seems like it is absolutely nowhere to be found in Monsters, Inc. Well don’t worry, in Monsters University, it is present and accounted for!"
"It’s another signature sighting of the Pizza Planet delivery truck from Toy Story!"
"That’s not the only classic movie reference in Monsters University."
"Take the blue pill and the story ends; you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want."
"It was a classic glance like in West Side Story where everything else went foggy. When I met Winona and we fell in love it was absolutely like nothing ever before-ever."
"You can't make a sci-fi game and not throw in a couple of cheeky nods to the Star Wars movies."
"It's just an illusion. That's what the Matrix is."
"The thing is, you don't have to be one or the other, you can do both... I'll use Shang Chi as a great example."
"I need 10 million [__] dollars. That's not hyperbole. That's the literal crux of the film."
"At the end of the day, I wasn't taking a pop at Patrick Swayze being dead. I meant like Patrick Swayze in the film 'Ghost,' which is a good film."
"The Saint Michael the archangel prayer which appears in movies like gangs in New York it's a beast and red pill prayer"
"That's my boy Jason up there taking a passive, very cool, very Terminator entrance."
"Yondu's Mary Poppins moment in Guardians of the Galaxy vol 2."
"Thor's arrival in Wakanda in Avengers: Infinity War."
"The first Mysterio illusion sequence in Spider-Man: Far From Home."
"You were supposed to bring balance to the force."
"It's like you just stepped into The Shining."
"The first appearance confirmed of a vampire hunting kit is the film Fright Night in 1985."
"You'd be forgiven if you were to think that early on in the Marvel Cinematic Universe Thor had a bit of a Shakespearean heir to him."
"It turns out that Natasha, who sits down and asks the computer if it would like to play a game, that is a nod to probably the best hacker political thriller movie ever WarGames."
"That's like the end of John wick isn't it where he has that amazing shootout in the nightclub."
"The predator and alien comparisons are so apt."
"This tape just shot out but I have the music from the motion picture soundtrack Back to the Future."
"Stay in touch until next Wednesday everyone, have a very blessed and dreamful aspiring week."
"John Wick coming on statch, I was pretty on."
"John Wick's Sisyphus to the criminal underworld's Hades has gotten his Boulder to the summit for good."
"Sharknado: 'Come on, you knew this had to be number one, right?'"
"This scene is eerily similar to one from... the Matrix."
"This dark abandoned house on the outskirts of Lala town is where sweet, sad Edward Scissorhands lives. I can't figure out what to do with my hands. I want to do something for other people."
"This is Doctor Trash Love or how I learned to stop worrying and enjoy bad anime."
"Miyagi was always about balance in the original movie."
"She reminded me of the main character from 'The Devil Wears Prada'... very abrasive."
"It's all about information footprint and control just like the movie."
"Maybe we should take the message of American History X to heart that everybody, no matter what they've done in their past, can work to do better."
"Everybody dies down cool let's see let you want to play you want it you want to kill my dog you killed my dog."
"In the end, it turned out very different from fatal attraction."
"That looks cool! It looks cool, okay? Don't-- I'm not gonna hate on 'Back to the Future.' I mean, come on."
"I'm like eight-mile like Eminem did it right at the last scene when you put out all your vulnerabilities first."
"This is our sort of Shia LaBeouf from Constantine character."
"Magic in Sleepless in Seattle: sometimes you have to kiss the wrong man to know what's right."
"She managed to tone up and gain some muscle and her trainer was that guy that James Bond electrocuted in the bathtub in Goldfinger."
"Han summer is the entire fellowship by himself."
"Paul has the ultimate choice here, it's like the Reverend Mother also says in the trailer."
"I would photobomb The Godfather and the wedding scene when they all get together to take the picture."
"The thing, the movie that proves if there ever is an alien attack, then you want to make sure you've got Kurt Russell around to help save the day."
"Cut to the chase. It kind of references like movies, right?"
"I'll have what she's having." - When Harry Met Sally
"The Panda actually reminds me a lot of Kung Fu Panda."
"Take your opinion, stick it up your ass, and go into a safe room and just cry and watch Steel Magnolias all day with a box of Kleenex."
"Grigori's wounds directly correlate with Schwarzenegger's classic cyborg from hell character."
"Needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few, boy. Oh damn, yeah, I remember watching this for the first time."
"If you've seen 'The Machinist,' you will know his appearance is terrifying."
"You don't watch Red Dawn 79 times and end up not ready for Red Dawn." - "You prepare for the worst, hoping for the best."
"I think this is... is it holy grail? It's not holy grail, but it's definitely in the rotation."
"He and his people apparently love the Predator movies too because they spoofed the hell out of that opening scene."
"Where are the yodels? Please call it the child."
"She survived the Nostromo in the first movie. She's never compromised."
"Good afternoon, good evening, and good night." - Truman Show vibes.
"Are those his qualifications for being the captain of the kingship? Our communication skills, previous sailing experience, and being in all the other movies?"
"Nominating Ken but not Barbie is literally the plot of the movie."
"I had to dodge and dip and duck and dodge, you get that movie reference don't you?"
"It felt like the Epic Final Act of The Godfather, where Michael Corleone takes care of all the family business in one fell swoop."
"It's Walter Donovan here. I guess he chose poorly."
"Tony, I'm glad you're back at the compound. The Avengers are yours, maybe more so than mine."
"Another NBA reference comes near the end of the movie where LeBron gets posterized by Don Cheadle in his CGI form right after he stops gloating to LeBron."
"But again, let's see where they're going with it, 'cause I like, look, Star Wars villains, it's all everything in the Star Wars universe was set in stone in the first movie when Vader says, 'If this is a consular ship, where is the ambassador?'"
"Speaking of which, I love how Cameron Crowe used it in the 1989 film Say Anything."
"My boy looks spiffy, Napoleon Dynamite style."
"We're just doing a little murder mystery. It's like the movie 'Final Destination' but you have a chuckle before someone."
"Joan: Enough is ENOUGH! I have HAD it with these motherfckin Chitari, on this motherfckin helicarrier!"
"King Kong ain't got [ __ ] on me type [ __ ]."
"Welcome to the freaking Guardians of the Galaxy!"
"It's not just bad, but it's like music's answer to Tommy Wiseau's The Room."
"Triple H needs to take out Vince the way Joaquin Phoenix took out the emperor and Gladiator smother his old ass with a pillow."
"He's an animal, dude. Him and Four Brothers, which is one of my favorite people."
"He's probably one of the 13 or probably 15 best actors ever hands down face off."
"Darth Vader is a powerhouse no matter the situation."
"They start this off with a bang, bro. They're doing like the Home Run. They're like, yeah, we know we did the thing that everybody loved in that movie."
"In Fight Club, the movie, the Tyler Durden character says that we've all been brought up to believe that we'd be rock stars and millionaires, but we won't."
"Avatar 10, baby! In 2022, that's like heresy."
"What if it was sort of like the fly you know Cronenberg's the fly from 1986 or like the incredible melting man from the 70s."
"And just as that completes the parallels to the Psycho movies, it also brings up another horror franchise which Scream has already firmly established its connection to."
"I am like Marty McFly in the hit film Back to the Future, and you have just referred to me as a chicken. And now I'm going to have to take you out."
"I always tell people that 'A Goofy Movie' made me cry."
"In the end, it all comes back to Bowling for Columbine."
"Mel Gibson comes in with the steel overhead chair and crushes the Bretonnians."
"It's destiny, like how they say in Slumdog Millionaire."
"You merely adopted the dark; this episode was born in it."
"I really do think at this point it helps out a lot if you watch John Wick and treat him as if he was autistic."
"Star-Lord's love for He-Man shows extra hard later on in the film when he calls the high evolutionary a stretched face RoboCop looking Skeletor wannabe purple nurple piece of [ __ ]."
"I'm gonna go with that whole Kane utter destruction one. Good old 2001."
"Who you ain't got no legs, Lieutenant Dan."
"Sequels are like a box of chocolates you never know what you're going to get."
"The closest this happened was in 2009 in the movie 'Luck by Chance.'"
"Sophie's Choice is such a devastating story that the term 'Sophie's Choice' is a pretty popular saying for any kind of hard decision."
"Her character is the Bruce Willis character kind of in this diehard clone that it is."
"Turn on all the lights in the building – bring us to saturation levels we haven’t seen since Midsommar."
"This is like Clockwork Orange. It's got a little bit of that feel to it."
"Did you spot the real Viper? Top Gun instructor Pete Pettigrew was the direct inspiration for Commander Viper and made a brief appearance in the film."
"In the 2009 film 'Zombieland,' an Aqua Teen Hunger Force poster can be seen by the door of Columbus's apartment."
"That's like half of a snuff film right here."
"It reminded me so much of Blade Runner where humans treated robots in a callous way."
"I feel like I'm in a Joel Schumacher film. I feel like I'm going to see Batman anytime soon."
"This is Captain Queeg and he wants Fred MacMurray and José Ferrer arguing with each other."
"What you've seen that film 'Catch Me If You Can'? I'm Leonardo DiCaprio, Olly's Tom Hanks."
"I want you to grip this gun and I want you to feel like you're holding a real gun like that cult revolver that Clint Eastwood used in that classic film The Man With No Name."
"I'm simply saying that life finds a way in the 1993 film Jurassic Park."
"Casey's muted cries for help are very similar to those of Jamie Lee Curtis' screams in Halloween."
"Yeah, you know what I mean, like if the camera's here, you come all the way up to the camera like, she has these crazy eyes sometimes, yeah, I see her in like a Gone Girl."
"I've had plenty of times where I'm like I don't want to do this, but you know what you reminded me of my favorite movie."
"This is the pathway to knowledge. Behind this door are all the answers to all of the Matrix movies."
"It perfectly captures that moment from the Murray Franklin show."
"The fight with the dragon is basically a giant Jaws reference. I'm not joking you can look this up."
"When you accept responsibility, great power will come. No, I'm not [ __ ] joking, it's actually in the film."
"It was like an Ocean's 13 moment."
"Friday the 13th tore the door off the hinge."
"I'll never let you go Jack, because he does let him go."
"Nobody can take it away, like old Obi-Wan allowing Darth Vader to strike him down."
"...the most stunning walk out since Rhett Butler left Scarlett O'Hara."
"Second rule of fight club is you do not talk about fight club."
"It's so funny because like I said, it's such a random toge and it literally probably takes a minute and a half to get up the whole mountain but it's so freaking sick because it's an actual movie location."
"Valley girl is amazing for so many reasons."
"It's only the brave about the Granite Mountain hotshots."
"Rain Man, a film about autism, which is strangely appropriate, I think."
"It's like a messed up version of Groundhog Day come to life."
"The idea of erasing memories perhaps has never been depicted in any movie as well as it was in the 2004 film Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind."
"I'm really happy with how that ended, I'm happy for Godzilla, I'm happy for Kong."
"I knew it was based on a film that had Cher and Michelle Pfeiffer and Susan Sarandon, so you know it's camp."
"It reminds me a lot of Kill Bill."
"Nice to see you, 007. I was worried that you wouldn't make it in time."
"May I get you something to drink? Yes, I'll have a bourbon, neat."
"It's all inspired by the Seven Dwarfs which is a really cool nod in this film."
"I'm a free man, like the end of Shawshank Redemption."
"Welcome back to Opera's Diner, this is the diner from Jeepers Creepers."
"The handbook for the recently deceased, that would be the guidebook that dead people receive from the great film Beetlejuice."
"This is nobody's fault, we are the Magnificent Seven."
"New adventures, he's gonna go to Shrek."
"That's like the movie 'The Lighthouse' in real life. That's a hard no for me."
"It's literally the plot to the movie Gone Girl."
"This action figure of the Iron Giant is based on his appearance in the 1999 film of the same name and has over 16 points of articulation."
"Holly came from... Holly Golightly from Breakfast at Tiffany's."
"This story has more twists and turns than Mulholland Drive itself."
"I prefer to live my life like Uncut Gems."
"I like talking with you, Mad Max."
"Good Fellas... we twisted and turned it."
"It's giving like Harry Potter. I feel like this is the kind of room they would have had in Hogwarts if it was filmed in 2023."
"I love the attire, the black and yellow Kill Bill inspired gear is super sick."
"This is like the ark of the covenant in Indiana Jones, the holy grail of beef right here."
"She's gonna pop. This reminds me of Willy Wonka in a Chocolate Factory, right? Blueberry, yeah."
"It's giving Barbarian vibes, that was such a good film."
"This is the most ineffective mutiny, it's like in that movie where the guy's like 'I'm the captain now'."
"It's French, it's food, and it's got rat in it."
"It made me think of Back to the Future."
"The tie design is a clever way to make a nod at The Nightmare Before Christmas."
"On Bloom's tie, you can clearly see a curved hilltop that was used in The Nightmare Before Christmas."
"Always follow the money, Lebowski."
"Top Gun Maverick is the truth, in every sense of the word."
"It kind of reminds me of Spirited Away, slightly eerie feeling."
"A lot of people have described it as sort of the Royal Tenenbaums on acid. I love it."
"I've come to make you an offer you can't refuse."
It's just like a bonding moment, like, it's in "Crazy Rich Asians"; there's the dumpling scene.
"If Maverick was a good wingman, then Goose would still be alive."
"I love you man, but you're out of your element."
"A sibling relationship, briefcase siblings, The Blues Brothers, ah nice, Briefcase full of Blues."
"Love at first sight, the country, oh, Brokeback Mountain, there we go."
"This steel town girl on a Saturday night has a passion to flash dance."
"If you could hang out with a ghost, who would it be? Probably Patrick Swayze from the movie Ghost, I guess."
"I'm living out my Drew Barrymore, Charlie's Angel's dream."
"This is so romantic, it's like if Million Dollar Baby was also a rom com."
"That's from the movie Silver Streak, and it's pretty much my number one model railroading movie."
"Every day on set Cameron, now you're looking Fight Club."
"It's like this takes place in the world of Inception, and the road has curved upward at some point."