Although getting a list of popular titles from a metric site like IMDb, Letterboxd, Metacritic or Rotten Tomatoes may tell you what's popular, there is something special about getting a personalized recommendation from a friend. That does require you to have a friend who has good taste; we all have that one coworker who has seen every Scary Movie sequel a few too many times and doesn't grasp that it's a spoof.
Celebrities and even politicians often single out their personal picks, but why not turn to television characters for their choices? TV and film are now basically the same thing, as we live in an era in which “movie stars” like Nicole Kidman, Robert Downey Jr., Kate Winslet and Matthew McConaughey appear frequently on the small screen.
Tony Soprano Was Obsessed With The Godfather: Part II
It’s no surprise that James Gandolfini’s notorious anti-hero had a soft spot for gangster movies, as he makes frequent references to his love of The Godfather trilogy throughout The Sopranos. However, his wife Carmela does mention that he prefers The Godfather: Part II to the original, especially the segment in which a young Vito leaves Sicily. That said, Tony may have had to take a second look at his close relatives: Dominic Chianese, who plays his “Uncle Junior,” also received an Academy Award nomination for playing Johnny Ola in The Godfather: Part II.Jake Peralta of Brooklyn Nine-Nine Adores Die Hard
It's natural that Andy Samberg’s enthusiastic New York detective has a soft spot for another tough, cool cop with a knack for getting himself out of tough situations. Jake often talks about his love of Die Hard, but he’s really much more of a softie than John McClane; Jake also has a pretty stable marriage, whereas Bruce Willis’ exhausted action hero goes through a pretty nasty divorce. The Christmas action movie is popular among fictional characters; it's also referenced constantly in How I Met Your Mother.The Office’s Dwight Schrute Cried Watching Armageddon
Dwight Schrute is obsessive when it comes to pretty much everything, but his taste in film is surprisingly not so high-minded. In the classic The Office episode “The Fight,” Michael Scott challenges his underling to a karate battle after revealing that he cried at the end of the Michael Bay disaster film Armageddon. Hey, we wouldn’t blame anyone for tearing up when Diane Warren started belting out “I Don’t Want to Miss a Thing.”
Chandler Bing Defended the Merits of Miss Congeniality
Chandler and Joey would have frequent movie nights, especially after they added comfortable reclining seats to their apartment. As an "actor" (his quotes), Joey might've been well-versed within the industry, but Chandler had to stick up for Miss Congeniality when Monica called him out. Apparently, nothing about an FBI agent posing as a model sounded unrealistic to him. Of course, everyone remembers Rachel's favorite movie (Dangerous Liasons) and actual favorite movie, Weekend at Bernie's.
Mr. Robot Hero Elliot Alderson Had a Soft Spot For Back to the Future: Part II
Mr. Robot was a trippy, confounding hacker thriller that made frequent visual allusions to classics such as Blade Runner, The Matrix, Taxi Driver, Pi and Metropolis. That said, Rami Malek’s Elliot Alderson had a strong affinity for Back to the Future: Part II, which encouraged him to think about the possibility of time travel as a child. Mr. Robot ended its final season in 2019, but the entire series takes place in 2015, the year Marty McFly and Doc Brown travel to in the second Back to the Future film.That '70s Show Showed How Much Eric Foreman Cared for Star Wars
That '70s Show went all out on its Star Wars references in the classic Season 1 episode “A New Hope.” Eric Foreman is inspired to stand up to a school bully after watching George Lucas’ science fiction epic with his friends. Eric’s fandom did not wane as he grew older; in the Netflix revival That ‘90s Show, it is revealed that Eric named his daughter, Leia, after the Princess of the Rebel Alliance played by Carrie Fisher.All The Stranger Things Kids Tried to Be Ghostbusters
It would take quite some time to list all the references to classic '80s movies within Stranger Things, as the show has managed to slide in nods to The Goonies, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Gremlins, The Thing and The Empire Strikes Back among many others. However, the second season does open with an embarrassing moment in which Mike, Dustin, Lucas and Will all show up to school for Halloween as different members of the Ghosbusters. We’ll give more credit to Max Mayfield, who earns her nickname from Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior.Mad Men’s Don Draper Appreciated the Original Planet of the Apes
Since Mad Men takes place during the 1960s, the show was able to examine the characters reacting to various historical moments as they occurred. Although he lived through the Apollo 11 moon landing, the assassination of John F. Kennedy and the Vietnam War, Don Draper was still taken aback by the big twist at the end of the first Planet of the Apes film when he took his son to see it on the big screen in New York.
Bart Simpson Is a Big Fan of Jaws
It's unsurprising that Bart Simpson loves movies about sharks, as he plans out a series of pranks aimed at scaring tourists by pretending to be the animals from the Steven Spielberg classic Jaws. Homer is a bit less refined when it comes to his favorites; he had to ask whether The Incredibles was based on a true story. (Kanye seemed to agree with him, however.) @kanyequotez Kanye said this about The Incredibles 👀 #kanyewest #kanye #donda #ye #kanyewestlover911 #kanyetok ♬ Love You So - The King Khan & BBQ Show
