I'll stop
referencing earlier movies now, because Tully leaves them all behind.
Not exact matches
Part of the reason why it was so amazing that The Office included Pam breastfeeding (and overcoming
early nursing issues, though I could have done without the drab, ugly nursing cover) is because most of the time, new baby storylines on television shows and in
movies don't
reference breastfeeding at all.
The central notion of discovering one's unique personal identity («the only thing that matters is what you choose to be now») takes us back to an
earlier China and it's free of jokey
references to other
movies.
Credit to the Broken Lizard team that very few of the jokes from the first film are outright repeated and there are sparing
references in general to the
earlier movie.
They talk about Blake's pioneering digital art, which often obliquely if not directly
referenced pop culture; one exhibition of his work was named after the eyeglass vendor in David Cronenberg's Videodrome, Spectacular Optical, and borrowed its ideas from the spatial dynamics in Cronenberg's
early movies.
There are plenty of
references to the
earlier movie that fans will appreciate.
(The
movie makes a sly
reference to a famous
earlier role by Irons.
(Prepare yourself for the
movie's
early references to «flag - twirling» and a historic pocket watch to come back in the most excruciating manner possible.)
Can she still think and feel, transferring some of her personality to whatever she morphed into (as was discussed
earlier in the
movie in
reference to the nightmare bear) and does that mean she's just trapped, voiceless and disembodied in a field?
Penn, best known for writing many of the
early X-Men
movies, adapted the
reference - heavy, self - aware book along with its author, Ernest Cline.
Early on a U.S. marine
references Francis Ford Coppola's 1979 Vietnam War epic when he hums some bars from Wagner's Ride of the Valkyries, famously used during the helicopter attack scene in said
movie.
Referencing B
movies like Creature from the Black Lagoon, Shannon told Vanity Fair that he and del Toro had
early conversations «about the notion that back in the day, when Hollywood was making these kind of creature
movies, Strickland would have been more like the hero.
Like The Muppets did
earlier this year in their caper sequel, «Muppets Most Wanted», many of the lines and inside
references make fun of the old TV show and sequels in general, including the idea of basically re-doing the same
movie over again in order to make more money.
The Boom Boom Bar in the Super Mario Bros. film is named after Boom Boom - one of many
references the
movie makes to Super Mario Bros. 3 and other
early games.
LEGO Marvel Super Heroes nails that Marvel feel, whether its pulling straight from the comics or making direct
references to the 2012 Avengers
movie —
early on, the
movie's ending shawarma scene is brought up in a joking manner.
The title of The Last Silent
Movie references silent
movies of the
early twentieth century, in which speakers are pictured but not heard; their words are conveyed through subtitles.
With
references to the
early digital visuals of science fiction
movies, blueprints and forced perspectival drawings, his urban landscapes explore hidden structures using surprisingly analog techniques.
The improbable subject matter was a
reference to Herzog's 1982
movie Fitzcarraldo, which Dustin Yellin — the artist who founded Pioneer Works in 2012 — had cited
earlier in the evening as an influence.