"In “Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure” (1989) when Bill and Ted meet their future selves, you can see that the future selves phone booth has the repaired antenna. The event in which they repair the antenna has not happened at this point in the film yet."
"In Dark City (1998) John Murdock spots a teddy bear in a prostitute’s apartment and picks it up. It’s the same one from his childhood bedroom."
"In Independence Day (1996), Jeff Goldblum’s character searches an online database for another character’s address, and finds that she lives on 123 Heresheis Av. There are also a number of other humorous names."
"During the gas station fight scene in Hell or High Water (2016), after Toby opens the car door to leave, it is briefly revealed his brother was holding a gun the whole time."
"“They Came Together” (2014) , which is a parody of RomComs, often includes characters saying that “New York is almost like another character in the movie”. The joke continues in statements in both the credits and the movie poster."
"In Dumb and Dumber (1994) Lloyd is so stupid he has a bootleg Casio watch."
"In Wallace and Gromit and the Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005), Gromit is tuning the car radio and rolls his eyes at a song that briefly plays. That song is “Bright Eyes,” written for the 1978 animated adaptation of Watership Down, a film about rabbits known for its violent and disturbing imagery."
"In The Dead Don’t Hurt (2023), which Viggo Mortensen wrote, directed, and starred in, his Lord of the Rings sword Narsil/Anduril (Aragorn’s sword) makes a cameo at 1:13:30. Viggo asked Peter Jackson for his permission to use it in the specific scene."
"In The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) Alan Lee and John Howe, who are the illustrators of the movies and many Tolkien books, cameo as two of the kings in possession of the nine rings later to become Nazgûl (Ringwraiths)."
"In Blank Check [1994], Preston tricks his dad into ungrounding him by mentioning the dad’s investment plan “442”. Later we discover that Preston actually invested 300k into his dad’s investment."
"The killer in Thanksgiving (2023) uses an industrial oven made by a company that’s apparently owned by the movie’s co-writer."
"In Scream (1996), Matthew Lillard puts the safety on the gun before he puts it down. Gale picks it up after and it doesn’t fire. Never noticed that Stu did that before."
"In The Hudsucker Proxy (1994) by the Coen Brothers, which is set in 1958, this five second scene shows the American flag with only 48 stars because in 1958 there were only 48 states. In 1959, Alaska and Hawaii joined as states and the flag was redesigned with 50 stars."
"Michael Bay has another cameo in “Bad Boys: Ride or Die” 2024, like he did in “Bad Boys For Life” 2020."
"In Twister (1996), on the final piece of debris falling from the F5 tornado, there is writing. It’s director Jan De Bont’s signature."