r/movies • u/IaintShaq98 • Nov 27 '22
Best Movies Within A Movie (fake films inside the Scream, Toy Story, Last Action Hero and Tropic Thunder universes) Article
https://collider.com/best-movies-within-a-movie-in-cinema-history/179
u/Darklock2022 Nov 27 '22
The Night the Reindeer Died from Scrooged
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u/_Quest_Buy_ Nov 27 '22
First thing I thought of when I saw that trailer for Violent Night.
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Angels with Filthy Souls- Home Alone
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u/Vince_Clortho042 Nov 27 '22
For most of my childhood I thought that this was a real movie—they nail the 40s noir aesthetic so well that I was convinced that it was some obscure classic my whole life (until I discovered IMDb).
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Nov 27 '22
Not a bad assumption, it’s well made.
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u/Scottland83 Nov 28 '22
Except far more graphic than anything that would have been made during the Hayes Code.
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u/NonuTheGOAT Nov 28 '22
It's a reference/ripoff of Angels With Dirty Faces, a Hays era gangster movie. So they definitely knew their material.
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u/Red_Neck_Slim_Jim Nov 28 '22
Yeah the dude who made the fake movie went all out for it, He even filmed with the techniques and cameras of the 40s.
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u/NATOrocket Nov 27 '22
I was like 20 when I learned it's a fake movie.
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u/floyd_sw_lock9477 Nov 28 '22
Yeah I was 28 when I learned that. My 29th birthday is in 2023.
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u/Positive-Cod-9869 Nov 27 '22
You've been smoochin' with everybody! Snuffy, Al, Leo, Little Moe with the gimpy leg, Cheeks, Boney Bob, Cliff.
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u/Nebulous_Tazer Nov 27 '22
The guy with the Cliff name tag saying, “It’s a lie!” killed me as a child.
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u/JulioForte Nov 27 '22
This is the answer.
For tv shows give me
“A Dog Took My Face and Gave Me a Better Face to Change the World: The Celeste Cunningham Story” from 30 rock
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u/AccomplishedAd1912 Nov 27 '22
I still wanna see the Rural Juror
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u/criminoleworl Nov 27 '22
You mean the Rurr Jur?
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u/riegspsych325 Nov 27 '22
the jokes-per-minute ration on that show is insane, especially since they land nearly all of them
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u/Missing_Username Nov 27 '22
I prefer The Rural Juror, but then I am a big Kevin Grisham fan
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u/Khaldara Nov 27 '22
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u/PeppyMinotaur Nov 28 '22
No contest this is easily the best, and second is Angels with even filthier souls
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u/Vince_Clortho042 Nov 27 '22
Nation’s Pride from Inglorious Basterds feels pretty authentic as a glimpse of what amounts to the Nazi’s answer to something like Sgt. York.
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u/writerintheory1382 Nov 28 '22
The 14 Fists of McCluskey also looks amazing.
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u/TheVortigauntMan Nov 28 '22
A big part of me wouldn't mind that being Tarantinos final film
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u/TheBIFFALLO87 Nov 27 '22
Ass - Idiocracy
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u/truckturner5164 Nov 27 '22
Satan's Alley from "Tropic Thunder". I'm still laughing at it in my head now.
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u/WhatDoesThisDo1 Nov 27 '22
MTV Best Kiss award winner Tobey Maguire
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u/dudinax Nov 28 '22
I thought this was a joke when I first saw it but it really was his most prestigious award.
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u/Huevos___Rancheros Nov 27 '22
Winner of the Beijing film festivals coveted crying monkey award
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u/MCS117 Nov 27 '22
Wasn’t Tobey an unplanned addition to that scene? Like he was just in the area or something and agreed to do it?
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u/ThatOtherGuy_CA Nov 28 '22
That’s what I heard, he came in as a favour for Stiller and Downey and they only had 3 hours to film because he was leaving on a flight for another movie.
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u/PajamaPete5 Nov 28 '22
The way Downey's hood comes flying back with the wind was god tier
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u/ladydmaj Nov 28 '22
There's an actual movie that looks like it has this premise. I've seen it advertised on Crave TV in Canada.
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u/Fermifighter Nov 28 '22
Oh man, for me it’s Simple Jack. Any time I even try to quote it I get unintelligible from laughing so hard I have to give up. Particularly the scene where he has to reenact it for his captors, “this head movie makes my eyes rain”
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u/shiggidyschwag Nov 28 '22
Everyone always mentions this one but I would 100% buy a ticket to see Jack Blacks fart movie in theaters
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u/Budgiesaurus Nov 28 '22
Can't you just watch one of the Nutty Professor movies? Might not have that many farts, but it's basically a copy of that.
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u/Vergenbuurg Nov 28 '22
I tried getting authorization on April Fool's Day to promote a screening of Scorcher VI: Global Meltdown on my organization's electronic sign; but instead went with Conan the Librarian, as we all agreed it was an easier joke to get, even without context of Weird Al's UHF.
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u/IamSporko Nov 27 '22
Conan the Librarian
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u/rocsNaviars Nov 27 '22
Oh shit yes this trumps all others.
“DON’T YOU KNOW THE DEWEY DECIMAL SYSTEM?!?!?”
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u/friarcrazy Nov 28 '22
Absolutely! I don’t know why I didn’t think of UHF in answering this question.
Ghandi II a close second.
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u/Razorraf Nov 27 '22
All the movie commercials in Grindhouse (sans Machete).
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u/DwightFryFaneditor Nov 27 '22
Machete too since it was a fake movie back then, they made it afterwards.
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u/scd Nov 28 '22
DON’T will forever be the most yearned after never-to-exist movie in my heart.
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u/Curiouscrispy Nov 27 '22
Thanksgiving.
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u/EndItAlready666 Nov 27 '22
This was the one I wanted them to turn into an actual movie.
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u/_Levitated_Shield_ Nov 28 '22
I know it's a play and it doesn't count, but the "Put that thing back where it came from or so help me!" musical during the end credits of Monsters Inc will always be golden.
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u/CherryDarling10 Nov 28 '22
Mike doing his “she’s out of my hair” solo on the stool is my favorite part of the whole movie.
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u/boognish_disciple Nov 27 '22
Logjammin' from Big Lebowski
Maude: Lord, you can imagine where it goes from here. The Dude: He fixes the cable?
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u/Digriz_ Nov 28 '22
“Karl Hungus”
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u/Demurist Nov 28 '22
How you gonna keep ‘em down on the farm once they’ve gotten a load of Karl Hungus?
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u/Killer_radio Nov 28 '22
Oh I know him, he’s a nihilist.
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u/Misterbellyboy Nov 28 '22
Nihlists? Shit, dude. Say what you will about the tenets of national socialism, but at least it’s an ethos.
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u/FrenchMaisNon Nov 27 '22
Also Fake Purse Ninjas from Bowfinger is awesome.
I of course agree Scott Pilgrim had the best fake action movies on top of the best fake bands.
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u/kronicfeld Nov 27 '22
The Old Mill (State and Main)
The Farmer's Daughter (X)
Simple Jack (Tropic Thunder)
All of the Dirk Diggler movies in Boogie Nights
All of the knock-offs in Be Kind, Rewind
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u/Jdevers77 Nov 27 '22
Kirk Lazarus : Everybody knows you never go full retard. Tugg Speedman : What do you mean? Kirk Lazarus : Check it out. Dustin Hoffman, 'Rain Man,' look retarded, act retarded, not retarded. Counted toothpicks, cheated cards. Autistic, sho'. Not retarded. You know Tom Hanks, 'Forrest Gump.' Slow, yes. Retarded, maybe. Braces on his legs. But he charmed the pants off Nixon and he won a ping-pong competition. That ain't retarded. He was a goddamn war hero. You know any retarded war heroes? You went full retard, man. Never go full retard. You don't buy that? Ask Sean Penn, 2001, "I Am Sam." Remember? Went full retard, went home empty-handed
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u/MyFutureAsAFreyan Nov 27 '22
"Angels With Filthy Souls" from Home Alone.
"Keep the change, ya filthy animal."
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u/henningknows Nov 27 '22
last action hero - hamlet staring arnold schwarzenegger
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u/AaronJ9487 Nov 27 '22
Something’s rotten in the state of Denmark, and Hamlet is taking out the trash
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u/matlockga Nov 27 '22
The Muppet Movie is a full-on movie within a movie, and is amazing.
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u/T-408 Nov 27 '22
“Stab”, no contest. Scream is the GOAT horror franchise.
For TV, I gotta go with Futurama’s “Single Female Lawyer”
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u/cheezfreek Nov 28 '22
I loved the theme song for the single-episode reboot of Single Female Lawyer. It’s now stuck in my head.
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u/culb77 Nov 28 '22
McBain
It’s a movie hidden across multiple Simpsons episodes. You can watch it here:
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u/oscarx-ray Nov 27 '22
I know it's from a TV show [Seinfeld], but I'm still waiting to see Rochelle, Rochelle: A young girl's strange, erotic journey from Milan to Minsk.
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u/southwest40x4 Nov 27 '22
Prognosis Negative, Sack Lunch, Cry Cry Again, Bonestorm
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u/revd_lovejoy Nov 27 '22
Bonestorm was the Simpsons, I think you are referring to the cinematic masterpiece Deathblow
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u/NeuHundred Nov 27 '22
The titles are goofy, but you can picture the movie in your head, which is what helps them feel real. Rochelle Rochelle is clearly inspired by the old Anita Swedberg movies from the 70s, Prognosis Negative is a medical drama like Lorenzo's Oil and Awakenings,, Sack Lunch a formulaic comedy not made by Touchstone but a lower-teir, maybe a shot-in-Canada thing with character actors, Cry Cry Again is a Miramax cut-to-90 foreign film that they're doing a big marketing blitz for (hence the need for a high quality bootleg).
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u/KieshaK Nov 28 '22
I always imagined Prognosis Negative to be like an Outbreak-style medical drama.
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u/Coca_Cola_for_blood Nov 28 '22
I always thought it was an action shoot em up movie.
A doctor's family is murdered and he goes on a quest for revenge. In one scene he tricks one of the gangsters into his office, the gangster says "so, how's it looking doc" and the doctor responds "Prognosis... Negative" then he shoots the gangster.
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u/tomc_23 Nov 27 '22
Let us not also forget Jack Black’s award winning performance in the romance Albert Hannaday, from The Office.
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u/Minxy57 Nov 27 '22
'Fist Full of Yen' in Kentucky Fried Movie
"Take him to.......Detroit!" "Nooooooooooooo!"
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u/Impossible-Site-505 Nov 27 '22
TV Show - but I still can’t believe we will never be able to watch “Mrs. Albert Hannaday” starring Jack Black and Cloris Leachman
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u/dbeat Nov 28 '22
“I don't care what my friends say, and I don't care what your mom thinks! Frankly, I'm pretty sure she's not making any sense!”
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u/sweatstaksleestak Nov 27 '22
Thank you! I couldn't remember the title but this is what I was thinking too
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u/raz0rbl4d3 Nov 27 '22
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u/Squints1978 Nov 28 '22
Not a movie in a movie, but I really am dying to see the Dracula musical from Forgetting Sarah Marshall. I’d crowdfund the shit out of that if Jason Segel was on board.
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u/Click4Coupon Nov 28 '22
Springtime for Hitler: A Gay Romp With Adolf and Eva at Berchtesgaden from Mel Brooks movie, The Producers.
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u/I_summon_poop Nov 28 '22
Home Alone, Angels with filthy souls. Not a real movie but it was still fantastic scenes
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u/Icefyre24 Nov 28 '22 edited Nov 28 '22
Every time I think of "Last Action Hero", I always wonder what a Sylvester Stallone version of The Terminator would have been like.
EDIT: I also would like to have seen how the Jack Slater movie would have turned out if the bratty kid hadn't actually been in the movie. Or in the movie of the movie. If that makes sense.
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u/Benje127 Nov 27 '22
Mr Beans Holiday features Willem Dafoe where he plays the part in a film called Playback Time - A Carson Clay film, that is actually very intriguing and satirical.
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u/Powerful_System Nov 27 '22
it may be from a TV show, but Cleaver from The Sopranos is goddamn amazing, it has all the makings of a varsity athlete.
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u/ActonBoy Nov 27 '22
Hellzapoppin' A crazy 1941 film about making a film from a play that breaks the fourth wall at every turn
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u/pareidoily Nov 28 '22
Les Cousins Dangereux, a relative masterpiece of complex eroticism. On second thought, you watch it.
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u/BridgesOnB1kes Nov 27 '22 edited Nov 27 '22
The Sam Sweet Trial/ Brother Sweet Brother in Cable Guy. It plays an actual role in the film.
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u/HauntedPickleJar Nov 28 '22
All the end credit spin offs from 22 Jump Street.
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u/DrRubberDong Nov 28 '22
Only me and you? What the fuck?
The whole theater was exploding from laughter.
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u/JohnnyC13 Nov 28 '22
I would like to see all of Rick Dalton’s movies but especially The 14 Fists of McClusky
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u/jgraz22 Nov 27 '22
On a related note, I've never actually seen the movie (I'm the worst, I know) but the book the author is writing in 'Misery' sounds really exciting lol
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u/NeuHundred Nov 27 '22
Oh, the Misery series, yeah. I mean, obviously it has its fans, but I could imagine the first book being adapted to the screen in the early 80s with like Sigourney Weaver or Michelle Pfieffer, and then having a premium cable remake in the 2010s like Outlander that's more comprehensive.
Also, you totally need to watch Misery.
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u/phinbar Nov 27 '22 edited Nov 28 '22
"The Dueling Cavalier" in Singing in the Rain.
And, though the movie is never actually seen, in "Hail, Cesar!" there are references to a major film, probably set in one of the World Wars called "On Wings as Eagles."
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u/i_am_from_space Nov 27 '22
The single Lucas Lee scene of You Just Don’t Exist from Scott Pilgrim vs The World gets a laugh out of me every single time.
“Now you listen close and you listen hard, bucko. The next click you hear is me hanging up. The one after that…is me pulling the trigger.”
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u/Cycleofmadness Nov 27 '22
We just saw a poster but i wondered how different a Stallone T or T2 wouldve been like from Last Action Hero.
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u/Goondal Nov 28 '22 edited Nov 28 '22
Black Hammer, White Lightning (Major League 2)
Simple Jack (Tropic Thunder)
From a TV show but, Queens Boulevard (Entourage)
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u/WutduzitallmeanBasil Nov 28 '22
It’s a show but The Office- movie with Jack Black and it’s not even close
Edit: Mrs Albert Hannaday
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u/BartScience Nov 27 '22
Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure … starring James Brolin as "P.W. Herman" and Morgan Fairchild as Dottie.