American Beauty is a creepy film about a middle-aged guy who lusts after his daughter’s underage best friend, but it gets even creepier when you look back at it with 20/20 hindsight.

The scene depicted below is supposed to represent Lester’s feelings about his dead-end job and feelings of imprisonment. However, given Kevin Spacey’s fall from grace, those digital prison bars symbolize more than just a scene from a movie!

When Gandalf goes off on his mission in Lord of the Rings to find out the truth about Frodo’s ring, the candles help mark the passage of time. You can see how they’ve melted down considerably compared to when Gandolf first started reading through the scrolls.

In The Shawshank Redemption, Morgan Freeman’s real-life son played a minor role in the film. His face was used as the mugshot for a younger 20-year-old version of Morgan’s character, Red.

The end credits are usually a place where shout outs and thanks are given to everyone who made the movie possible. But, director Wes Craven took a different approach with his campy horror flick, Scream.

He left a message that said, “No Thanks Whatsoever to the Santa Rosa City School District Governing Board.” It was in reference to the board revoking a verbal agreement that would have allowed him to film at Santa Rosa High School.

Remember that scene where actress JoBeth Williams splashed around with a bunch of skeletons in the pool? Turns out those skeletons were real, only she didn’t know it at the time. Apparently, it was cheaper to source real skeletons from a medical supply company than to make fake ones.

In The Dark Night, Bruce Wayne’s car is a Lamborghini Murciélago. The word Murciélago, as it turns out, is Spanish for “bat.”

Sid the sloth first captured everyone’s hearts with his goofy ways in the Ice Age movie franchise. He certainly captured the hearts of the movie’s creators, who paid homage to the character by creating a robot version of him in 2005’s Robots.

When the makers of South Park teamed up to make Team America: World Police, the cheeky satire was anything but politically correct. But, the cobblestone streets in Paris were pretty funny – they were made of croissants!

Did you notice the mural in the remake of Stephen King’s It? There’s a painting of Pennywise the clown depicted on the brick wall behind the boys.

Check out what happens after Yzma pours her drink into the cactus in The Emperor’s New Groove. It turns into the shape of a llama!

You know that annoying FBI anti-piracy warning that’s shown at the beginning of every home DVD movie? We’ve seen it so many times by now that we tend to gloss over it. This is why you may have missed how Fight Club hijacked that screen with a much tougher WARNING…from Tyler.

In Thor (2011), Thor refers to Coulson as “Son of Coul.” It’s a reference to the same way that he’s called Odinson.

The next time you watch Titanic, pay attention to the clock at the end of the movie. It says 2:20, which is exactly when the sink sank.

@Gentle_Master:

“Another interesting fact about the movie is that the whole scene in which Titanic collided with the iceberg lasted 37 seconds which is how long the collision was in real life. Also, the entirety of the movie set in 1912 lasted 2 hours and 40 minutes which is how long Titanic took to sink after it struck the iceberg. The remainder of time in the movie was present day and the credits.”

At the end of Jurassic Park, the T-Rex sustained some pretty gnarly injuries. In Jurassic World, he’s sporting the scars he got from the first film.

You probably didn’t know it, but the 2000 animated comedy film, The Road to El Dorado, had a blink and you’ll miss it moment. When the shaman starts flipping through his book of spells, a Mesoamerican version of the Dreamworks logo can be seen quickly flashing by on one of the pages.

In the animated film Moana, one of the villagers predicts the chicken’s attempt to consume all of Maui. First, the chicken tries to eat a rock, then he tries to eat The Rock (or at least, the character that The Rock voiced in the movie, which happens to be Maui).

The T-Rex isn’t the only thing that was carried over from the original film. The Jeep (#29) that was used in the first film to bring visitors into the park was the same was that was used in Jurassic World to help the boys escape.

Remember the priest from Fight Club? Well, look who actually joined Fight Club. But you can’t ever talk about Fight Club, so the pictures alone will have to do.

Placement of branding is down to a science is almost all movies. But instead of cans of Coke or Pepsi, in the fictional Harry Potter world, there are parodies of real-life cereal brands, like Cheeri-Owls instead of Cheerios.

Did you catch this hidden gem from the Toy Story films? Sid from the first Toy Story grows up to be the garbage man in Toy Story 3. Apparently, he didn’t grow out of his shirt after all those years.

Kingsmen, which is a movie about British spies, paid homage to one of the greatest rock bands in history. In one of the scenes, there’s a yellow submarine, which happens to be the title of a famous Beatles song/album.

In real life, we leave fingerprints behind on everything we touch. That extends to cartoons, too. In The Lego Movie, characters with a shiny surface had very clear thumb prints on them!

Appliance brand Dyson, who manufactures the famously expensive vacuum cleaner, is way ahead of its time in so many ways. Which is probably why the 2009 version of the Star Trek movie franchise showcased a Dyson hand dryer as space-age technology in the film!

Since the coffee shop manager in Pulp Fiction had his lines unceremoniously cut off during the robbery scene, he was given a cheeky shout out in the final credits. Quentin Tarantino is probably still laughing about this one!

After Cogsworth the clock becomes human in 2017’s Beauty and the Beast, there’s something very different about him. Take a closer look at his mustache – it’s uneven, just like the hands of a clock!

The Truman Show was way ahead of its time when it was released back in 1998, and I’m not talking about how our lives are now filled with nothing but reality TV.

Back then, we didn’t know that vitamin D was sunshine in a bottle. But in an early scene of the movie, Truman Burbank, who had unknowingly been living his entire life under a dome, had a bottle of vitamin D on the table.

Take a closer look at the band names on Judy Hopps’ iPod Zootopia. It’s poking fun at real-life bands! Fleetwood Yak = Fleetwood Mac, Fur Fighters is Foo Fighters, and as for Guns N’ Rodents and Kanine West? Well, that certainly explains those two goons!

In the movie Unthinkable, there’s a guy who tries to defuse a nuclear bomb. Only, instead of cutting a blue or black wire, he’s using the power of an Excel spreadsheet!

In Spider Man 2, Peter Parker mumbled something about needing on a “strong focus.” After he jumps off a building, an undamaged Ford Focus breaks his fall.

Tim Burton made a subtle play on foreshadowing in 1992’s Batman Returns. He intentionally made the shadow from Selena Kyle’s glasses look exactly like Catwoman’s eye mask!

When God, played by Morgan Freeman in the comedy Evan Almighty, poses as a waiter in the film, his name tag pretty much gives his identity away. If you take a closer look, you’ll see that it says “Al Almighty.”

How could we miss this? Well, it’s probably because most of us aren’t well-versed in ancient Greek culture.

While they were flying through Greece during the song “A Whole New World,” Aladdin tosses an apple to Jasmine. Apparently, throwing a Red Delicious at their loved one is how ancient Greeks used to propose to each other.

After the after credits of the animated fan favorite Finding Dory, there’s something quite fishy (and funny) about Jacques, the cleaner shrimp. While everyone else is toting around slimy algae, his bag is clean and clear!

The Coen brothers won a Best Screenplay Academy Award for their 1996 dark comedy Fargo, but it turns out the movie is even more brilliant than anyone may have realized. At exactly 30 minutes to the actual end of the movie, Steve Buscemi’s character, Carl, says “30 minutes Jerry, we wrap this thing up.”

In 1989’s Batman, the Joker helped make pimples and age spots fashionable. After he started poisoning all the beauty hygiene products, news anchors decided wearing makeup on camera just wasn’t worth it!

In the animated film Up, it wasn’t just old man Carl Fredricksen and Boy Scout Russell who got to go up in the air. If you watch the background, you can see the town’s buildings going up over the years, too.

In 1994’s Pulp Fiction, Uma Thurman’s character, Mia Wallace, mentions her role in fictional TV series “Fox Force Five,” which never made it past the pilot episode. But, she described the assassins in Kill Bill: Vol 1, which didn’t come out until 2003, almost too perfectly!

“There was a blonde one, she was the leader. The Japanese fox was a kung fu master. The black girl was a demolition expert. The French fox’s specialty was sex. The character I played was the deadliest woman in the world with a knife.”

When Marty McFly accidentally time-traveled back to 1955, he did more damage to the timeline than anyone may have realized. Did you catch how the name of Two Pines Mall changed to Lone Pine after he ran over one of the pine trees in the past?

Twenty of the civilian boats that Christopher Nolan used for the 2017 flick Dunkirk came with an interesting past. It turns out that these boats actually took part in the real life evacuation during WWII.

Pay attention to the the 20th Century Fox logo at the beginning of the X-Men movies. When the rest of the logo goes dark, the “x” in “fox” stays lit for a few seconds longer than usual.

When the ship starts to sink in Titanic, this woman (who also played tough woman Vasquez in Aliens), starts telling her kids about “Tír na nÓg, the land of eternal youth and beauty.” According to Irish mythology, this place can only be reached by traveling across the sea – or going underneath the water.

In the first Avengers film, the clock on top of Grand Central Station was destroyed. In the follow-up flick, Avengers: Age of Ultron, the clock has been replaced with a memorial to the first responders from the first film.

The DVD cover on the 20th anniversary edition of Princess Bride is, as Vizzini would say, inconceivable! It can be read right side up or upside down and still say the same thing.

Take a really good look at the rain on the car windows in The Matrix. They look a lot like the lines of code we see peppered throughout the movie.

Audiences were first introduced to a smart-mouthed talking pug named Frank in Men in Black. In the third film, we see him again when Agent J is pulled over by a cop in 1969. There’s a billboard right next to him that advertises a circus – with a “speaking pug!”

Director Christopher Nolan had one corny side hustle going on during filming of his sci-fi drama Interstellar. He didn’t want to use CGI for the farm, so he planted 500 acres of corn and then turned around and sold it for a profit after the movie was finished.

One of Hannibal Lecter’s most famous lines in Silence of the Lambs had him saying “I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti.” It sounded pretty scary, because, well, eating human liver just isn’t kosher.

But, the crazy doc was just making a twisted medical joke that no one seemed to get. All three of these things are MAOI inhibitors. In case you didn’t know, MAOI’s are commonly found in anti-depressants.

In Guardians of the Galaxy, each of the stripes on the prison outfits represents a crime they’ve been convicted of. However, James Gunn says rumors of that Rocket got caught for “indecent exposure” is untrue. On his Facebook page, the director lists these crimes against the galaxy:

“Rocket’s are mercenary activity, grievous bodily harm, arson (he blows up a lot of stuff), escape from prison, and, I believe, public drunkenness.

Quill’s crimes are penny-ante robbery, grift, criminal conspiracy (from his gang involvement with the Ravagers), and having sex with members of a royal family (consensual but on some planets considered an outrageous crime for someone from his caste).

Gamora keeps things simple with her long list of murders and assassinations, all at the behest of Thanos.

And Drax’s crimes are grievous bodily harm, murder, and every variety of destroying stuff you can imagine.”

Kevin never traveled much further than his front yard in Home Alone. But, did you ever wonder what happened to his plane ticket? Oops, looks like it was accidentally trashed!

Ever wonder why Vincent Vega is always on the toilet in Pulp Fiction? Ask any heroin addict – constipation is one of the side effects of heroin abuse.

Kathleen Kennedy, who produced both Jurassic Park and The Goonies, may have acted unintentionally with this one. But, coincidence or not, Twitter user @ShawnRobare pointed out that character Dennis Nedry was wearing the same outfits worn by Chunk, Mouth, and Mikey in The Goonies.

In Cars, there’s an advertisement on the side of the highway for a “top down” truck stop with “all convertible waitresses.” In other words, they’re topless.

The film crew had a hard time hiding the camera’s reflection in this doorknob scene on the set of The Matrix. So, they came up with a brilliant way to pretend it was just a glitch in the system. They dressed up the camera with a coat and half a tie to match the outfit Morpheus was wearing. Headless man? It’s just a blip!

In this scene from Monsters, Inc., it’s clear that one of Boo’s toys is none other than Jesse from Toy Story. You can also see the Pixar ball, which makes an appearance in nearly all their movies, on the floor by the ladder.

In Django Unchained, there’s a mysterious man who asks Django how his name is spelled. When Django tells him that the D is silent, the man responds with “I know.”

The reason is he knows is because he’s actor Franco Nero, who played Django in the original 1966 film.

Easter eggs that are subtle nods to other films are always fun to catch. So, did you happen to catch how one of the Kakamora in Disney’s Moana looks exactly like Baymax from Big Hero 6?

When the credits roll at the end of Frozen, Disney ditched the usual “views and opinions” disclaimer. Instead, they opted for this funny one that most people didn’t stick around to see.

“The views and opinions expressed by Kristoff in the film that all men eat their own boogers are solely his own and do not necessarily reflect the views or opinions of The Walt Disney Company or the filmmakers.”

In the 1987 animated comedy The Brave Little Toaster, Blanky and his other bored appliance friends don’t have anything else to do but compulsively clean the cabin they live in. But, Blanky the blanket is only so tall, so the walls are only cleaned as high as his hand can reach.

Even though parts 1 and 2 of John Wick were released 3 years apart, the cars outside the Continental Hotel remained the same. That’s because, in Hollywood time, only 4 days had passed between the two films. The attention to detail here is impeccable!

James Bond actor Daniel Craig was filming Spectre in the same studio as In The Force Awakens. When he stopped by the sci-fi set, he was given a cameo as one of the stormtroopers. You can hear his voice when he says “You will remove these restraints and leave this cell with the door open.”

Godfather cinematographer Gordon Willis believed that Vito Corleone would look more sinister if we couldn’t clearly see his eyes while he conducted family business. Umm…he was right!

Take a closer look at the rock outcroppings in the animated film Cars. They’re shaped to look like classic cars and hood ornaments!

In Lord of the Rings, while everyone else is waist-deep in the snow, Legolas walks on top of it as easily as Jesus tread on water. This fact wasn’t ever addressed in the film, but the book explains how elves are light of foot.

The 1980 satire flick Airplane that was filled with tons of verbal puns, visual gags, and tons of obscure, cerebral humor. It only stands to reason that the slapstick comedy would end the film on a funny note.

When the end credits roll, the film gives a shout out to the Worst Boy (a satirical take on the Best Boy), and he’s none other than Adolf Hitler!

In The LEGO Movie, Benny the spaceman has a crack in his helmet that was fixed with glue. It mimicked the real-life frustration that every kid faced with the poor construction of the original toy’s helmet.

Did you notice the strange scar that Hercules has in the animated film of the same name? The throw rug he tosses over himself is the evil Scar from The Lion King.

Even the the Christmas tree in The Polar Express is supposed to be at the North Pole, the compass it’s sitting on says otherwise. Every pointer, in every direction, says south!

You know that famous slo-mo shot of Alan Rickman’s terrified face as he’s falling off the building in Die Hard? It turns out that he wasn’t just acting – his terror, or surprise, was actually real. He was told he would be dropped on the count of 3, but the crew tricked him and dropped him on 1.

When Jack Sparrow tells the bone-bribing prisoners in the Pirates of the Caribbean movie that the dog holding the keys is “never going to move,” he’s making a cheeky reference to the original Disneyland attraction the film is based on. The animatronic dog hasn’t moved an inch since the ride first opened in the park in 1967.

Notice anything peculiar about the war rig that Furiosa is driving in MAD MAX: Fury Road? It has a skeletal arm painted on the door, which is exactly where left arm would be hanging – if she actually still had a left arm.

The injuries that Luke Skywalker suffered at the hands of the Wampa in The Empire Strikes Back was just a clever cover-up for actor Mark Hamill’s real-life injuries. Before filming of the second movie commenced, he fractured his nose in a car accident and had to undergo plastic surgery.

Just when you think a kids movies like Shrek are totally innocent, you’re shown a reason why it’s really messed up. Take note of mama bear with her purple bow tie in the top photo. Now, look at where she ends up in the bottom photo.

In Home Alone, Kevin finds a picture of Buzz’s girlfriend and says “woof,” implying that she was a total dog. The film’s director, Chris Columbus, thought it would be mean if he used a photo of a real girl, so the film’s art director had his son dress up as the girl shown in the picture.