Mind-blowing movie details you probably missed

Early in the film, Red calls Andy Dufresne’s dream of living in Zihuatanejo when he leaves prison: “a s***ty pipe dream”. How does Tim Robbin’s character escape the prison to live his dream? Through a sewage pipe – literally “a s***ty pipe”.

In JJ Abrams’ long-awaited ‘Star Wars’ sequel, Finn accidentally activates the holochess (dejarik) board on the Millennium Falcon. The game picks up in EXACTLY the same place as it was when we last saw Chewbacca and C-3PO playing it back in 1977’s ‘Star Wars’.

The coffee shop owner in ‘Pulp Fiction’ is listed as “Coffee Shop” in the credits, because his sole line of dialogue in the film gets cut short by Tim Roth. A classic dad joke from Tarantino there.

When Marty first travels back to 1955 while being chased by Libyan terrorists at the Twin Pine Malls in 1985, he accidentally destroys a tree on the historic site of the mall. When we later revisit the same scene, we learn how his actions have altered history when the mall is renamed “Lone Pine Mall”. Subtle, but smart.

Trailers for ‘Star Wars: The Last Jedi’ have revealed Luke Skywalker’s robotic hand still bears the blaster marks he received in 1983’s ‘Return of the Jedi’ when he was helping Han Solo escape from Jabba’s skiff.

The cars outside the Continental Hotel in ‘John Wick: Chapter Two’ are exactly the same as they were in the first film, despite being filmed two years apart. The storyline of the second film picks up just hours after the first one, so this attention to detail is appreciated.

The paint job on Ego’s Ford Mustang II King Cobra is an echo of the Star Lord’s space ship the Milano from the first ‘Guardians of the Galaxy’.

Long before it’s revealed Jim Carrey’s Truman Burbank is living inside a TV show studio, we get a huge clue when a bottle of vitamin D appears on his table. Most people get their vitamin D from natural sunlight, something Truman has never enjoyed.

The landscapes of Pixar’s ‘Cars’ trilogy are designed to look like the outlines of classic cars, and hood ornaments. We were too busy laughing at Mater to notice first time around.

The trolls in Peter Jackson’s ‘Lord of the Rings’ prequel turn to stone in exactly same position as the Fellowship encountered them in 2001’s ‘Fellowship of the Ring’, 11 years earlier. That’s what you call attention to detail.

Pixar loves a good Easter, but you had to be looking REALLY closely to have spotted this constellation in the shape of Pixar’s mascot lamp in the opening sequence.

In Richard Kelly’s cult time travel mind-trip a pumpkin carved like Frank’s creepy rabbit mask can be seen on the Darko’s breakfast table. It’s never referenced.

The makers of ‘The LEGO Movie’ made an effort to give the animated hit a stop-motion vibe by adding subtle finger and thumb prints to shiny surfaces in nearly every frame of the film.

“Best boy” is the film lingo title given to assistants of the Key Grip (lighting and rigging) and the Gaffer (electricians). The thousand-gag-a-minute ‘Airplane!’ name checked a “Worst Boy” in its credits, no prizes for guessing who that would be.

In Stephen King’s novel, the town of Derry is terrorised by the presence of Pennywise every 27 years. Andy Muschietti’s new film adaptation arrived in cinemas exactly 27 years after the film adaptation of the book in 1990. Spooky.