They'll none of them be missed

[venta]

Having promised my housemate that I'd take him to the pictures if he was good, I went to see Shrek 2 again last night.

And between us, we started a list of references to other films contained therein. Anyone else want to join in ?


Specific films referenced (rather than use of generic movie clichés):

Arriving in Far, Far Away - Beverley Hills Cop
Fairy Godmother singing - The Fabulous Baker Boys
A giant, stupid thing called Mungo - Blazing Saddles
Three friends (including a fencing Spaniard) planning to storm the castle to prevent the Princess ending up with the wrong bloke - The Princess Bride
Puss carving 'P' on a tree - The Mask Of Zorro
The final scene of people dancing on the stage - The Fifth Element

Some of these I only have Andy's word for, as I haven't seen the films in question.

Comments

[maviscruet.livejournal.com]

Brain Shot.

I know there's hordes more but damned if I can think of any. I'll get back to you.

[venta.livejournal.com]

Can you explain what and where ?

I have seen exactly 0.000005% of the films you could reasonably expect me to have seen (not including that one), and thus can't work it out for myself :(

[maviscruet.livejournal.com]

Sorry, I was unclear.

Brain Shot not a movie, it's more a state of my curernt mind.

So basically, 'I'm brain Shot and unable to think of any but i know they are there.... ' of coruse equally the phrase "brain shot unable to right clearly would be equally true'...

Sorry for the confusion. But nalsa is being much more useful below....

[venta.livejournal.com]

Ah.
Well, I'm sure most educated people would have known there wasn't a film called Brain Shot :)

I was doing a film-quiz with some people from work, which was done with cryptic clues. Kept having conversations like:

Me: Hmmm. A Star and a Man ? Star Man.
Sysadmin#1: Yes
Me: What ?
S: Starman
Me: Eh ? There's a film called Starman ?
S: Yes!