Never noticed this before

[scotpens]

I'm not antigun, it just seems anachronistic... in a land with magic, why have a gun?

Why anachronistic? The Land of Oz co-exists with our reality in the same time frame, not in the sixth century or something. Besides, guns and magic aren't mutually exclusive.

 

[Capt. Vulcan]

Reading in to the whole gun issue, it's there from an earlier scene that is cut. There's reference still in the movie where the Witch says she's going to send bugs after them. The group finds out and they arm themselves, which is why the lion has a net, the tin man has bug spray, and the scarecrow has a gun. They cut the jitterbug dancing scene but kept the scene right after where all the characters still have the weapons from the bug attack. The bigger question is why didn't anyone also notice the extra net and bug spray that came out of nowhere as well? Lol.

 

[wonderstoat]

Star Trek 6 - when the enterprise is being pounded by the cloaked Bird of Prey, and a torp laterally breaches the primary hull - the camera jumps to an inside lounge and the screen in the lounge is showing footage of 'splosions ...

 

[Tulin]

Just checked that out -weird.

Not sure if it's meant to be a monitor showing in universe explosions or if it's a monitor the production crew is utilizing to try to give the impression of more carnage actually happening inside the room.

Either way it's weird.

 

[Tulin]

Also, in "Aliens" when Frost goes over the railing on fire in the Atmosphere Processing Station, as the camera looks down the shaft following the body, you can see a crew person look out from a lower level.

 

[JoeZhang]

In the film version of "Popeye" you can see a strange bearded man in rags in the background ... he can be seen peaking in windows and trying to hide behind poles etc... No explanation of who this is or why this guy's lurking behavior is tolerated is forthcoming in the movie ... I only noticed it after viewing the film several times...

This one interests me - anyone know?

 

[Tulin]

Just watched "Grease" again the other night and during the opening "Summer Nights" song/dance number, toward the end of the song as Sandy and the girls are in the school yard, they congregate near a wooden bench and chairs, at which is sitting a lone man, looking away. He is conspicuous by his lone presence, just sitting there on his own, looking in the opposite direction.

Does anybody know if this was the director getting a cameo?

 

[Holdfast]

Credit this to a recent Cracked article: towards the beginning of Jurassic Park, Grant solves his helicopter seatbelt problem by tying two "male" ends together; this foreshadows the revelation that the dinosaurs' genders are somewhat fluid.

That's a cute one. Never thought of that before.

Another nice one like that is in Star Trek: Generations. When Harriman and Kirk et al are on the bridge of the E-B at the start, and he asks them to take their seats (near one of the side consoles), Kirk momentarily strokes the back of the Captain's chair before letting go exactly when Harriman touches it for the first time. It's a neat little bit of symbolism I didn't catch at first.

I was watching the start of "Big." All this time, I've thought that Josh Baskin's parents were divorced or something...

Same thing happened with me. I didn't realize it until you just posted this.

Yup, same here.

I think it's perhaps because the story of being a child in a man's body and having to work out a grown-up male identity for himself works better without Josh already having a strong pre-existing male figure in his life. We probably just unconsciously delete the dad because of that.

Come to think of it, that's probably why the script doesn't feature the dad strongly in the first place.

In the film version of "Popeye" you can see a strange bearded man in rags in the background ... he can be seen peaking in windows and trying to hide behind poles etc... No explanation of who this is or why this guy's lurking behavior is tolerated is forthcoming in the movie ... I only noticed it after viewing the film several times...

This one interests me - anyone know?

+1 I'm curious now. Can't remember it myself, but it's been many years since I saw the film.

 

[Corran Horn]

We had a version of Goonies on VHS (taped from somewhere) that omits the octopus scene after they go down the 'waterslides' to the pirate ship. The end, where Chunk mentions the octopus is still there, though. For years my sister and I thought Chunk was just making that up since it plays to the character. Then, we saw the movie with the octopus sequence intact...

Regarding actors and actresses being noticed upon repeat viewings - happens with Band of Brothers whenever I watch it. Simon Pegg, Michael Fassbender, Jason O'Mara, Jamie Bamber...I either didn't notice any of them the first (or second, or third in some cases) time around or they became 'famous' to me after I'd seen BoB many times and I noticed them then. In fact, I just noticed Andrew Scott (Moriarty in Sherlock) as "Cowboy" Hall a viewing or so back.

 

[propita]

Holy crap! All those guys were in "Band of Brothers"?! I've seen it...I don't know how many times!

As for "Goonies," the octopus was never in the original version or released versions. It must be extended versions with it.

 

[Aldo]

I think the Octopus scene showed up when the movie was shown on 'The Family Channel.' Possibly to make up for the edited language? And also there are some versions that retain the scene where the Goonies go in the convenience store and are hassled by Troy. This scene would have occured right before Cyndi Lauper's song comes on with the Goonies riding their bikes to the coast.