The role of Colonel Nathan R. Jessup in A Few Good Men earned Jack Nicholson an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor.
During the fly-by Watney is too far from the Hermes to be rescued and decides to puncture the glove on his spacesuit to release pressure and propel himself toward the crew. "I admit it's fatally dangerous," Watney says, "but I'd get to fly around like Iron Man."
As Thomas and Martha Wayne walk out of a movie theater with their son Bruce, a poster of The Mark of Zorro (1940) can be seen in the background. Most versions of the Batman origin story have the Waynes leaving a screening of the film. This trend is said to have originated because Batman was largely based on the character of Zorro.
According to Quentin Tarantino, some of Ennio Morricone's compositions for The Hateful Eight are actually unused scores from The Thing (1982).
A League of Their Own tells the story of the Rockford Peaches, an All-American Girls Professional Baseball team managed by Jimmy Dugan (Hanks), a former marquee Cubs slugger who initially treats the whole thing as a joke.
The T. rex roar is a combination of a baby elephant's squeal, an alligator's gurgling, and a tiger's snarl. Its breath is the sound of air escaping a whale's blowhole.
After two decades appearing in front of the camera, Poitier made his first foray behind it in 1972 with the western Buck and the Preacher. Poitier's production was one of the first features to be directed by a person of color in America, and co-starred its director and another groundbreaking star, singer and actor Harry Belafonte.
Set in New York City following the Vietnam War, Taxi Driver stars Robert De Niro as Travis Bickle, a 26-year-old honorably discharged U.S. Marine who becomes a taxi driver to cope with his chronic insomnia.
The Milano is named after Peter Quill's childhood crush Alyssa Milano.
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