• From Droids popping up in the most unlikely places to a tease for the greatest horror
movie crossover ever we look at 15 Easter eggs you might've missed in famous films
15 – The Flux Capacitor in Polar Express, • Remember that Christmas movie about a
train that featured terrifying CGI that made it look more like a horror film then one about
the North Pole? • Well turns out that train could also time
travel because none other than Doc Brown’s patented flux capacity is on board. Obviously
a nod to director Robert Zemeckis working on both films.
• Hell the polar express could actually be the train from Back to the Future 3 and
Santa Claus is really Doc paving the way for The Back to the Future Christmas Special.
14 – E.T in Star Wars: The Phantom Menace, • Poor loveable E.T, don’t tell me the
prequels dragged you into this as well did they?
• Unfortunately the answer to that is yes, and the reason you probably didn’t see him
or his race is because they appear for a brief second in the boring as all hell galactic
senate bullshit scene. Don’t you want to see where E.T is aligned politically?
• While it’s a nice gag having E.T’s species in the film you could have at least
put them in an interesting scene George and not one where I fall asleep.
13 – Jack Burton’s singlet in Death Proof, • Everyone knows Tarantino is a movie nut
meaning that all of his films feature ridiculous Easter eggs to his favourite movies.
• One you may not have seen though is the little bit of set decoration on the bar wall.
None other than the driver of the Pork chop express’s singlet from Big Trouble in Little
China. Of course this is because Kurt Russell stars in both movies.
• Makes you wonder what Kurt Russell movie Tarantino will hide references to in The Hateful
8, I’m betting it will be the classic ‘Overboard’. *writers note – Heavy Sarcasm on ‘Classic’*
12 – Sex Hogwarts Style in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban,
• Oh yeah here we go, all the late night hijinks of magical kind if you catch my drift,
after all Hogwarts is essentially a high school. • While not in the main film if you carefully
watch the credits that play over an animation of the marauders map, we can see two sets
of footprints in a corner. One person’s feet spread open and the other person’s
inside. I wonder who it could be. • Whoever is getting it on better be using
some magical protection otherwise it will be Harry Potter and the Unwanted Teen Pregnancy.
11 – The Millennium Falcon in Star Trek: First Contact,
• Whoa every geek out get ready to have your mind blown by a very blurry shape flying
around for two seconds. • Yes these two icons of science fiction
existed briefly in the same place when SFX artists placed the CGI model for the Millennium
Falcon into First Contact’s opening battle with the Borg.
• Though Han Solo’s ride can be barely seen it’s a nice little Easter egg for fans
of both franchises and for people who like flying blurry shapes in space.
10 – Peabody and Sherman in Back to the Future,
• In a trilogy full of references to other science fiction characters it’s no surprise
you might have missed the one to our favourite time travelling dog.
• When Marty arrives back in 1955 he ends up on the Peabody family farm who just happen
to have a kid named Sherman. Pretty simple but it’s very subtle in the film making
it a hard one to pick up on. • I mean they could have had a talking dog
and a kid show up but that might have made all that making a time machine out of an 80s
sports car look really stupid. 9 – R2D2 in Star Trek,
• Yes once again these two juggernauts crossed paths in another hard to see blurry moment
of space movement. • In 2009’s Star Trek, as the Enterprise
exits warp and enters a whole messed of destroyed ships if you look very carefully you can see
R2D2 just chilling out with all the dead bodies and debris floating in space.
• The tin can then made another cameo in ‘Star Trek into Darkness’ doing basically
the same thing. Considering JJ Abrams is now directing The Force Awakens you can bet that
these two franchises will clash again. Or R2D2 will spend a significant amount of the
film just floating around space wreckage. 8 – Captain Kangaroo in Die Hard with a
Vengeance, • So this might be an odd one to pick up
on simply because the only connection between two films is Bruce Willis and a TV show no
one remembers. • In the film Bruce says he’s been sitting
around smoking cigarettes and watching Captain Kangaroo as a smart ass comment which is a
reference to the song that’s playing on the radio right before Willis’ character
in Pulp Fiction runs into Marcelles Wallace. • And with the fact that Samuel L Jackson
is also in both movies it’s hard to call this a coincidence. But maybe Bruce just really
likes The Statler Brothers. 7 – Bob Kane’s drawing in Batman,
• Back before Stan Lee was popping his head up in every one Marvel’s films, DC were
finding more creative ways to honour their superhero creators.
• In 1989’s Batman we see a nice little Easter egg to comic fans when we are shown
an artist’s impression of what ‘The Bat Man’ looks like and whose signature is on
the cartoon? None other than Bob Kane, the father of Batman himself.
• It’s a nice little touch that doesn’t break the film to say “Hey look we are doing
a tribute, do ya get it?” 6 – Armin Tamzarian in Godzilla,
• No not the good American Godzilla film, I’m talking about 1998 trashfest that happens
to have this Easter egg. • So when Godzilla chases Ferris Bueller
in Taxi, we see the Taxi Driver Id reads Armin Tamzarian, the real name of Principle Skinner
in The Simpsons! This was probably slipped in because the Voice of Skinner, Harry Shearer
appears in the film. • It’s a hard reference to pick up even
if you get to read the ID in the brief time it’s on screen. But hey maybe is a coincidence,
I know like 5 guys named Armin and Tamzarian is my middle name.
5 – Pac Man in Tron, • Pac Man in game about video games? Surely
everyone must know about this one, wouldn’t he be a character in the film Wreck it Ralph
style? • Well no Pac Man can easily be missed as
he spends all of 4 seconds on screen…on a screen. As our villain looks at a computer
screen on the grid, Pac Man is in a tiny part doing his eating yellow dots thing.
• It’s a nice little touch that probably was more noticeable on cinema screen but on
a TV it’s pretty difficult to catch that yellow bastard, now I know how the ghosts
feel. 4 – C-3P0 and R2D2 in Raiders of the Lost
Ark, • Oh man how could you possibly miss two
droids roaming around a temple? What are you a Stormtrooper?
• Well I can understand if you did considering they appear only as wall carvings on a temple
wall. Obviously being a call out to George Lucas involvement in the franchise as well
as Harrison Ford’s being a nice subtle reference for fans.
• That said you have to wonder did the droid duo visit early human civilizations. That’s
it guys, the mystery is solved the pyramids were built by droids for sure.
3 – Freddy’s glove in Evil Dead 2, • Looking for more evidence that Freddy
vs. Jason vs. Ash should still happen? Well check out this reference to the dream demon
himself. • In the scene where Ash goes to deal with
his girlfriends possessed head, we see Freddy’s iconic glove appears on the door of the tool-shed.
This was in response to Wes Craven showing parts of Evil Dead in A Nightmare on Elm Street.
• Though you can’t help but wonder how awesome it would be when two of horror’s
greatest one liner generators go against each other in a fight. Freddy would probably make
fun of Ash’s ‘Boomstick’ 2 – Where’s Wally in Apocalypto,
• Of course that’s why I could never find him in those damn books, he was on a pile
of dead bodies in ancient South America. • Wally or Waldo as he’s known in some
places, appears for a split second with an arrow through his cranium, atop the bodies
of slaughtered Mayans. Because Y’know Mel Gibson is crazy and thought “This will convince
people I’m sane!” • I suppose we should all be thankful it
was a beloved children’s character rather than something horribly racist.
1 – Starbucks Coffee in Fight Club, • Want to try and replicate and Easter egg
hunt in film form? Well don’t bother David Fincher already beat you to it.
• Literally every scene of the film is said to contain one of the mega franchises coffee
cups lying about somewhere. So now next time you watch it you can go hunting for cups,
what a fun game. • Fincher says it came about when Starbucks
refused to be the coffee shop that gets vandalised but would give them as much other stuff as
they wanted and what else would you do with a million coffee cups.