I just noticed that there was a movie between the opening and end credits of "Transformers: Age of Extinction." I had to watch it while wearing a straitjacket and a bite block, but lo and behold, there was something resembling "film" there.

I grew up with the VHS, I blame pan & scan

In Reservoir Dogs, when the cop's ear is about to cut off the camera pans away and on the wall it says "watch your head". Pretty ghoulish, Tarantino.

I didn't see this until I had seen Citizen Kane several times. In the scene where Kane's mother (Agnes Moorehead) is making arrangements for Charles Foster Kane's future, the camera dollies backwards very quickly, and we see that it has (seemingly) glided over the top of a table that comes into view as the camera moves back. If you look closely, you can see a vase on the table wobbling slightly - the camera didn't move over the top of the table, the table was off to the side and was pushed quickly into the scene as the camera moved past. The wobbling vase gives away the trick. (I don't know why the vase wasn't fastened to the table; maybe Welles wanted there to be a giveaway to the sleight-of-hand??)

A friend pointed this one out to me: at the 10:30 mark, when Michael Caine opens the door for the pickpocket, you see his right hand untucking his watch chain from his vest to create the illusion the boy just stole it from him.

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Am I missing something, or are we talking about Egon holding up 4 fingers then 1 finger to give Venkman the pricing? I always thought it was rather obvious as well, especially with Bill Murray looking directly at Harold Ramis.
If that is not what you are referring to, then I am definitely missing it.

I think what they're referring to is the very real reaction Harold Ramis is having to the smoke in the two wide shots at the beginning and the end. It's making him sick and he looks like he's struggling to stay in character.

Yep, that's it. Never noticed the fingers. It's a combination of also growing up watching it P&S and always looking at Murray during that scene.

Then I see something like this and I've never not noticed that. It's such an obvious bit. Point being, sometimes people notice these things and sometimes they don't.

That was it and either a lot of us saw it on VHS or TV and dealt with a pan & scan transfer that cut the joke off. Or we were so busy listening to Murray that we failed to see the sight gag. Or both.

I know I missed it until now.

speaking about 'Ghostbusters' I never noticed the non-sensical hysterical line from Ray til recently rewatching it:

"Listen... do you smell something?"

Just re-watched the original Tron last night and noticed for the first time that when the trio breaks into Encom and Alan goes to his cubicle to login, he has Kaltuu Barada Nikto on the wall next to him. I am sure everyone recognizes the line from the Day the Earth Stood Still and the words used to stop the Robot/Machine. I guess its a clear predictor of the guy who will stop the MCP in the movie.

same here!

Damn. Ever since I got the SE DVD, I've always noticed Egon do that.

In Ebert's commentary he discusses that move and a number of other effects shots. There's also a pterodactyl flying in the background of one scene in Xanadau since they used stock footage from a monster movie I believe.

What? A pterodactyl?

Yeah it's in the way background flying in slow motion so it looks like a bird. I think it was taken from Son of King of one of those island movies. I'm on mobile but this vid points them out (there are a few flying around):

http://youtube.com/watch?v=0QyRksgacik

Ocean's 12 was the worst movie of the Ocean's trilogy, but conversely it had the best soundtrack out of those films. David Holmes did an amazing job with the music.

For example:
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I can watch any of the Ocean's movies just for the music.

Watched Goodfellas the other day for about the 30th time. During the scene where the guys kidnap Henry's mailman and threaten to shove him in the oven, while Tuttie threatens the guy there is a five year old kid in the right side of the frame watching with his eyes wide open and chowing down on his pizza. Not a huge revelation, but something I've noticed in the 25 years I've been watching this movie.

I had seen Die Hard many many times before I noticed that Theo and Karl had a monetary bet on whether Takagi would give up the code.

Watched that movie with my dad this past Xmas and we both never caught that either!

BTW, since I saw this in theaters, I could've swore that the widened widescreen-presentation showed the face of the terrorist who was waiting for Powell (While he was inspecting the interior of the building) behind the corner.
But for those who grew up watching the fullscreen version, you never even knew that a terrorist was waiting for him!

Yeah I had the toy figures as a kid and remembered their names fit with it also.

It was just recently that I finally realized that the iconic image at the beginning of all James Bond movies of the circular object zeroing in on Bond only to have Bond turn and shoot is actually supposed to be a POV view of inside a gun barrel.

really?

I thought it was the aperture of a lens?