In Shawshank Redemption, they are seen playing checkers instead of the game of 'LIFE'. This is a metaphor to Andy having no life, and sentenced to life in prison.

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In The Meg 2, Jason Statham can swim deep in the Mariana trench and not be instantly crushed by the pressure, this is because this movie has got to be some kind of Chinese money laundering scheme.

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The Truman Show (1998) is not about 33rd US president Harry Truman nor is it a TV show. That really pisses me off.

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In Stanley Kubrick's "2001: A Space Odyssey" (1968), you can clearly hear Darth Vader's distinctive breathing during a large portion of the movie. 9 years later, George Lucas ripped off Kubrick by including Darth Vader as the main antagonist in "Star Wars" (1977).

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Due to the metric system, The Green Mile (1999) was released as “Le #00ad43 1609.344 meters” in Europe.

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Warner Bros. Discovery released Black Adam (2022) and Blue Beetle (2023) within a year of each other. This is a reference to the fact that DC movies are getting beaten black and blue at the box office

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Despite 9 movies having been made in the Planet of the Apes series, to date, they have never explained how or why the apes dragged half the Statute of Liberty to a beach in Malibu, almost 3000 miles from NY.

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Despite its name, The Fifth Element (1997), has almost nothing to do with Boron (Atomic Number: 5, Symbol: B, Weight: 10.81, Density: 2.37, Room Temp Phase: Solid, Melting Point: 2075C)

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In "Dragon Ball z: Super android 13" (1992) the titular character says "Don't you lecture me with that 30 dollah haircut" even though haircuts can't talk

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In the The Flash (2023), Nicolas Cage showed-up as Superman in one of the timelines. But he is completely made and played out as CGI. This is because Nicolas Cage rarely appears in movies. He carefully selects the ouvres he lends his talent to. He only appears in like 1 movie a decade.

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In Sunshine (2007), Cillian Murphy plays a physicist who has developed a nuclear bomb that will change the fate of mankind, this unique premise is only marred by the lack of a fully nude sex scene that the actor revealed was axed because “my Sanskrit simply wasn’t good enough at the time”.

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