I am watching Demolition Man with Stallone & Snipes and saw a very weird coincidence with true life.

Wesley Snipes breaks out of the Chryoprison and kills 3 people. Sandra Bullock checks the computer for the names of the prisoners and the second name on the list is Scott Peterson.

The only other time I have seen something like that was in the movie Hannibal. They show the FBI's top ten list and on it is Osama Bin Ladan. The movie was made before 9/11 so I would think that not a lot of people would have known who he was at that time.

Anyone know of any other coincidences like these in other movies?

Osama Bin Laden was in fact on the FBI's top ten at the time Hannibal was made, so that doesn't surprise me at all.

Another weird coincidence in Demolition Man is the mention of the Schwarzenegger Presidential Library. 10 years after this movie, Arnold Schwarzenegger begins his political career. There have even been recent rumors that the Constitution could be amended to allow foreign-born Americans to run for President.

Now all we need is the 3-seashell-toilet-thing to be invented.

Totally screwed the prescient thing with that Dahmer reference, though, eh?

In T3, the husband of Claire Daines was Scott Peterson. I believe they renamed him in the movie, but he still shows up that way in the credits

There is also this one regarding Back to the future III and the world series

http://www.snopes.com/sports/baseball/bttf2.asp

Lingering helicopter shots of white Ford Bronco on the 405 Freeway in "Speed" (one year pre-OJ)

agreed, just shows the ignorance of americans.

why? can you name the other 9 people on the FBI Most Wanted List?

I can name all 50 of People magazine's "Most Beautiful People." Who's ignorant now, eh?

of course, or i wouldn't have made that statement.

regardless, before 9/11 osama bin laden was a huge name for anyone who watched the news.

Bin Laden was also mention at the end of Swordfish right? As the guy who was killed by some unknown organisation. Wishfull thinking huh

I'd like to see you prove that. Go now. You have 10 minutes.

He'd need less than that with a high-speed internet connection (or a DVD-ROM with a copy of HANNIBAL in hand)...

Wasn't big enough for Clinton to do anything about him when Syria offered to turn him over to us.

exactly

Back on topic ...

It was pretty strange to watch Day of the Locust (released in the 70s) for the first time about a year ago and see that

I think it was the Goverment of Sudan not Syria.

Ok, but the gist of my message is the same.

actually he was. just one of teh few things clinton did wrong in his presidnecy.

I have one. In the movie Troll there is a little boy named Harry that wants a witch in his apartment building to "teach me how to be a wizard". If you look at the credits the kids name is Harry Potter.

It might not be a coincidence depending if Rowling ever saw Troll or not.

If this is true, I smell a lawsuit brewing somewhere.

Just wait.

Yeah the kids name is Harry Potter Jr.
For some reason though I believe much like a lot of other characters in the HP books, Rowling got Potter's name from English literature or legends.
So they may have just gotton the name from the same place.
And if not, no one could ever say that Rowling is the most original writer in the world. Not that she isn't creative, she just borrows from a lot of other stuff.

Which of the other 9 destroyed 2 US embassies and a Battleship?

Since it was all over the news tonight, I can name another person on the Most Wanted List.

But I think I'm stuck at two.

But bin Laden was in the news a lot before 9/11. Looking at the list, the rest of these guys, not so much.