This movie references loads of other movies. I was wondering how may there are and if we could spot them all
I liked the 'does anybody want a peanut' from Shaun of the Dead the best.
Any more please?
get away from her, you bitch from Aliens
shareOh there were so many. It's clear the writer really loves time travel!
Let's see how many I can remember..
Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure - becoming famous by forming a band. Being worshiped in the future.
Back to the Future 1 - Believing something bad will happen if they touch each other.
Back to the Future 2 - Seeing themselves but trying not to interact
Back to the Future 2 - The characters return to the last scene after traveling through time
Ray's Bradbury A Sound of Thunder (well, that was mention)
Edit: I only addressed the time travel movies :)
Back to the Future 1 - "It always turns out to be your mum"
Back to the Future 3 - "It's a science experiment"
Toby mentions the built-in time machine being "a bit too Terminator"
Flash Gordon - "I love you but we only have 13 hours to save the universe"
"More Firefly and/or Serenity"
The giant ant's a bit "Them!"
"Superman: The Movie" - The opening credits in space.
shareWhen discussing time travel and sci-fi in general they mention Star Trek, Pete says he saw the first Movie and hated it. He then mentions the gold one and the short one implying that he really saw Star Wars (A New Hope) Ray and Toby correct him.
When they are discussing the "editors" and when they think the editors should have come for famous sci-fi writers/directors they mention George Lucas Ray says "Empire" but Toby says "Return of the Jedi" and something about not wanting to miss the Ewok's battle.
The Butterfly Effect "You can't tread on any butterflies"
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"The Butterfly Effect "You can't tread on any butterflies" "
That might actually be more of an expression of how difficult these concepts are to explain in a panicky situation, or the stupidity of the individual saying it (I forgot which one it was, but face it, none of them is a genius).
I mean, the basis of chaos theory is usually explained by the example of a butterfly flapping his wings in one country, eventually causing a tornado or a hurricane in another. Like, how very tiny, simple things can cause terrific, huge events - which means, that if you interfere with a very tiny thing, it can cause major disruption in the world, no matter how small the thing is or seems.
Besides, in the movie 'Butterfly Effect', no one really treads on any butterflies, nor is that phrase uttered in it (as far as I remember).
So it's a failure in pointing out references, in my opinion.
Actually, the "Don't kill any butterflies" is in the movie a couple of times. And it's a reference to a Ray Bradbury story, "A Sound of Thunder" which is where the notion of the Butterfly Effect comes from.
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