Paul | Canadian First Time Watching | Movie Reaction | Movie Review | Movie Commentary

[@CineRam]

If neither of you have seen "Close Encounters of the Third Kind", that would be why you didn't get the significance of the flat-top mountain (which is a real place in Wyoming). Also, Blythe Danner (who played older Tara) bears a very strong resemblance to Melinda Dillion, who was in "Close Encounters". I suspect that was one of the reasons why Danner was in this movie.

[@Temeraire101]

If not already seen Close Encounters is a must see.

[@BarryHart-xo1oy]

Yes,the flat-top formation is called Devil’s Tower.It would be a great idea for CineBinge to watch “Close Encounters of the Third Kind”.

[@Ahzpayne]

"If"? The fastest way to tell someone you have never seen that movie is to not recognize Mato Tipila. 2nd is to not recognize the famous musical motif. 😀

[@Polum824545201]

let's not forget about watching Lorenzo's Oil, such a good movie also, watching X-Files would be a nice idea, it still holds up imo

[@Temeraire101]

@@Polum824545201 I enjoyed the X Files a lot, but the longer it went on the more unbelievably convoluted it became and I lost interest.

[@frozenharold]

When Jason Bateman shoots and says "It was a boring conversation anyway." Its the scene from Star Wars where Han shoots the the control panel when they are trying to break Princess Leia out.

[@galacticcannibl1966]

Glad someone caught it!!

[@philb2085]

Kids today? 😁

[@richardb6260]

@@frozenharold "We're fine. We're all fine here. How are you?"

[@user-df3jq5tr8c]

Luke, we’re about to have some company.

[@rinesin]

I really hope those two read this comment. 😁

[@TheeJasonReyes]

"IM ON A MISSION FROM GOD" "tell him you FAILED" Coldest line ever I fear 😂

[@jaredragland4707]

Hey, now; it worked for Jake and Elwood.

[@CyberBeep_kenshi]

accurate 😂

[@BogeyTheBear]

Coldest badass line has to be "That was the Stun setting." _(dials up the phaser)_ "This is not." _(fires)_

[@matthewfarrer8395]

“Mulder? Who’s that?” Fuck I’m old :(

[@Gurra88]

Young people not having heard of The X Files make me a sad panda

[@estoy1001]

NO! They're young and should take an interest!😂

[@chris...9497]

Dammit! There's X-Files MOVIES! You'd think they were at least aware of THAT.

[@SecondSince]

Right?! Thanks for the gut punch George! XD

[@Itwasalwaysme_Noone]

They didn't even show him in this reaction, because they didn't understand the huge revelation.

[@UnlicensedOkie]

“Alien” is a term for immigrant. That’s why the hotel guy asked them “what do you mean?”

[@Missy-24]

I'm from a different continent and I got that. Is the Canada - USA cultural divide this deep for them to miss the joke?

[@mellertid]

Men in Black even did the same joke.

[@Biblecmpvictm]

​@Missy-24 it's just more of a Western saying, so it'd make sense (to American and Canadians) that most other countries wouldn't call other immigrants aliens

[@Jumpman67]

@@Missy-24no, sometimes people are sheltered lol. A lot of references seem to go by some.

[@1080lights]

Alien means stranger or foreigner. This is the original meaning, which was then used in for space aliens.

[@J_Dongle]

I love that all of Simon Pegg & Nick Frosts movies are love letters to the genre in which their movie takes place

[@XeonAlpha]

Simone: he’s gonna eat it. George: No! He’s got resurrection powers…. Movie: Well you’re both right 🤣

[@WithTwoFlakes]

Yeah, that was one of the funniest interactions between Simone and George ever. Comedy Gold...

[@FunhausRyan]

Sigourney Weaver is still so gorgeous after all these years. It's easy to see why aliens are obsessed with her!

[@thegunslinger1363]

Sirgormey Weaver is a smokeshow.

[@saltycalmonds]

@@FunhausRyan she was hot af in this movie

[@richardb6260]

@@FunhausRyan Phenomenal bone structure.

[@neomoscoso10]

"GIVE ME THE F🤬ING ALIEN!" "GET YOUR OWN ALIEN!" That cracked me up real good. This film is a lot of fun.

[@carm3d]

The latino room attendant saying "What do you mean aliens??" was thinking they might have meant illegal aliens. The agent named Lorenzo Zoyle was a reference to a movie title "Lorenzo's Oil" Agent Zoyle shot the radio and said, "Boring conversation anyway" as a reference to Han Solo doing the same during the prison break in Star Wars. "I can't believe she's gone" was another Star Wars reference. The "Black Vampire" sword was a reference to the movie "Blade". Watch the book release scene at the very end of the movie closely. The agent who "perished" in the house explosion was in the audience as a very excited burn victim.

[@kurtwinchell]

Lorenzo's Oil is a 1992 Susan Sarandon / Nick Nolte film based on a true story about parents trying to find a treatment/cure for their son, Lorenzo, who was diagnosed with adrenoleukodystrophy (ALD). The experimental treatment that was developed for asymptomatic ALD is derived from olive oil and rapeseed oil (what we call Canola oil in the store), and was named after their child, Lorenzo Odone, thus Lorenzo's Oil.

[@BarryHart-xo1oy]

Fascinating.

[@corralescoyote]

@@BarryHart-xo1oyIt kinda is interesting - the movie definitely made the reference.. it’s only fair someone explains what it’s referring to.

[@anthonyjimenez5270]

Shit, I've had that question in mind for years. Thanks dude.

[@chuppathingy2848]

Lol was that supposed to say Grapeseed Oil? If not that's a hell of an oil

[@nathanmcdougall1093]

@@chuppathingy2848 nope, that's why they call it canola instead

[@galacticcannibl1966]

Jason Bateman shoots the radio and says, "Boring conversation anyway." Is what Han Solo says when they are rescuing Leia from the prison cells

[@ShootAUT]

I'm too old. I can't comprehend how it's possible to _not_ know who Mulder and Scully are.

[@Gurra88]

I was an avid watcher of The X Files when I was way too young. Good times.

[@MisterAnonymous1000]

I'm pretty sure George and Simone are older than me and I know who they are. My uncle was a massive X-Files/Star Trek geek.

[@ciscokid1214]

Yhea im younger than them i kwow the x files ​@@MisterAnonymous1000

[@GarrettJayChristian]

This film is basically a scavenger hunt of other sci-fi films.

[@BarryHart-xo1oy]

That’s a good way to describe it.

[@leonbarnes1402]

done with respect rather than just ripping it off.

[@elmonitorrr2978]

@@leonbarnes1402 thats the fun part cause its done properly

[@theoriginalshew]

And current stuff with Invincible

[@e.brivonyt7955]

Why does this say 8 days ago and this vid was posted today

[@True_Canuck_1]

Paul is basically an R-rated version of E.T. The Extra Terrestrial.

[@josearroyo8008]

NC-17 version

[@BogeyTheBear]

E.T. never wore shorts.

[@Billis75]

22:58 - "Could have just turned it off" - Not if you want to make a Star Wars reference!

[@Smokie_666]

Not to mention the theme that played in the background when they entered the bar.

[@stiimuli]

Yeah, you guys REALLY need to do Close Encounters of the Third Kind

[@snowdenwyatt6276]

And due to their reactions to "Todd" and Jason Bateman, maybe Game Night.

[@Johnny_Socko]

@@snowdenwyatt6276 For Jason Bateman movies I nominate _Bad Words._ So funny and inappropriate, lol.

[@shanewillis316]

Simon Pegg and Nick Frost are always a good watch. I remember watching Paul in theaters. Hard to believe it's 13 years old already.

[@shanewillis316]

P.S the "Boring conversation anyway" line from Jason Bateman was a reference to Han Solo shooting the control console in A New Hope.

[@TheReelStuff]

15 years!? Wow.

[@yourneighborhoodxenos]

I was 13 when I watched this in the theater 🥲

[@jasonmcilvain5789]

My 15 year old grew up in this movie

[@ThreadBomb]

@@shanewillis316 We know. Everyone knows, except for Simone and George.

[@TheKamilkrawczak]

Never clicked so fast in my life. Love that movie. Watching every year.

[@StardustandMadness]

I love this movie. Simon Pegg and Nick Frost are hilarious. It was the first time I (as an Aussie who didn’t really know SNL) had heard of Kristen Wiig and I thought she was hysterical in this.

[@tehdipstick]

3:28 The word "alien" doesn't just refer to extraterrestrial lifeforms. It also just means something that's unknown/foreign. As such the term 'alien' is also often used for foreigners, including immigrants.

[@terrylandess6072]

I guess 'It's no fun being an illegal alien' is no longer charting on the radio.

[@belxander293]

Fun Fact: when Ruth asks where the 3rd guy is ("where is the other one?"), because she heard 3 voices or shows 3 shadows the day before, in the French version, she asks "where is the 3rd "type"" ("Où est le 3ème type ?") , because "type" can designate a guy, but it's is a little play on words, because "une rencontre du 3ème type" in French = "encounters of the third kind", like Spielberg's film. (logically translated into French as: "Rencontre du troisième type" for "Encounters of the Third Kind") I think it's a very good adaptation/translation. And the "Boring conversation anyway" after shooting on the radio, is a StarWars Episode IV A New Hope reference, with Han Solo in the Death Star.

[@mr.d.8121]

When they are in hotel and the staff member say " What do you mean 'alien'" I took it that he believed they meant illegal alien.

[@OSVS_Mike]

When George wasn't sure about Devil's Tower, it made me realize they never watched Spielberg's Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Please do!

[@knowledge-girl]

I've never seen it either, but I understood the reference.

[@OSVS_Mike]

@@knowledge-girl Hope you watch it - such a classic.

[@MariusWales]

"Well I'm not gonna eat eat a dead bird. Am I?"🤣

[@Matt_Mosley1983]

*BEST TRIVIA:* This film came about because on the set of SHAUN OF THE DEAD, whilst being interviewed for a magazine, they were asked _"So, what's you're next film about?"_ ... and one of them joked the answer _"Two friends go across America and find an alien"_ ... this story stayed with them over the years and because of constant delays in the making of the third Cornetto movie, they decided to sit down and write it, being made before AT WORLD'S END, this is what made people call it the unofficial entry. Reading this story myself in 2019 inspired me to write a Flat Earth comedy for the duo called FLATHEADS and have it be the first entry in my own 'Cornetto' trilogy (there were afterall 7 Cornetto flavours by the time they made their third official entry so with my 3 that makes 7 😎 Fingers crossed.

[@Insaneian]

So, there's a handful of references to other movies you may have missed: The "mission from God" us a reference to The Blues Brothers "Boring conversation anyway" is a line Han Solo says in the first Star Wars, complete with shooting the communication console. Lorenzo's Oil (Lorenzo Zoil) is the name of a movie...possibly the most obscure reference in the film. The Mountain is Devil's Peak, a real mountain that plays a big plot point in Close Enocunters of the Third Kind. At least you caught the Aliens reference with "get away from her you b!tch" 😅

[@marctowersap8018]

Devil's tower! In Wyoming

[@marctowersap8018]

short round (Jason bateman saying goodbye) is probably a reference to Indiana Jones temple of doom... future academy award winner Ke Huy Quan was short round...

[@Insaneian]

@@marctowersap8018 right! Sorry, conflated it with the movie Dante's Peak 😅

[@gougef]

Over twenty years ago, drove up to Area 51 from Vegas on a lark. Cold winter day, drove out the Warning Sign, visited the black mail (which I think was actually white at the time), and went up to Rachael NV where the LIttle ALeInn is and is a real thing. The whole trip was surreal.

[@JoseFlores-xc7wu]

I never noticed until now that Simon Pegg character has an invincible t-shirt

[@waynecanning4122]

Is it possible you didn’t know who/ what Invincible was when you saw this last?

[@Daveyboy100880]

I don’t know what hurt more - George blanking on Agent Mulder or the complete lack of recognition of Devil’s Tower 😄

[@goldenageofdinosaurs7192]

Yeah, it seemed like he missed a lot of the jokes in this film.

[@Daveyboy100880]

@@goldenageofdinosaurs7192 I guess it was assumed that Simone & George had already watched CE3K on the channel. Honestly, I thought they’d already done it!

[@ThreadBomb]

The CineBinge patrons really screwed up on this one.

[@LudusAurea]

I just realized Simon is wearing an Invincible shirt. This was long before most people had ever heard of invincible or before the show.

[@chris...9497]

See, now you have to react to Jason Bateman in "Hancock". There are SOOOOOOOOO many SF references in this film! I can't believe George has no idea what Devil's Tower is (the strange mountain-like feature he thinks has a spaceship inside it), or that it's the central image in Spielberg's "Close Encounters of the Third Kind". (I also can't believe he doesn't get the joke early in the film when the undocumented alien bringing them their food responds to the question of whether he believes in aliens with "What do you mean by 'alien'?) Oh, and when Spielberg heard about them making this film, he begged to be included. That is actually Steven Spielberg talking through the squawk box to the character Paul.

[@jillfrancis5915]

Don't know if it was mentioned on here yet. Kind of obscure. But when they go into the country bar. The band is playing a country-fied version of the music the band was playing in the Cantina in the Star Wars movie (ep. 4) where Obi Wan first hires Han and Chewy.

[@Insaneian]

The Cornetto Trilogy were written by Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright, directed by Wright, and starring Pegg and Nick Frost. This film is written by Pegg and Frost, and Wright was not involved at all, hence why some folks consider it "unofficial".

[@ethanramy]

Thank you so much guys for this absolutely amazing and wonderful surprise. I love this movie. And cannot wait for guys to watch this. ❤️🍻

[@A-small-amount-of-peas]

Would love to see you guys cover "Spaced" one day. It's only 2 series and it's what gave Simon, Nick and Edgar their start, a very special series for British 90's teenagers and young adults who love movies as they pay homage to so many during it's run

[@MrYin90210]

F#@king love Spaced

[@antonycharnock2993]

I've just posted the same. Definitely need to watch it for some of the references.

[@raspberrybellini]

My daughter and I love spaced. It was originally scripted because of how unrealistic friends was at representing our age group so Pegg, Frost and Edgat Wright created Spaced and let's face it, I'd rather be in Spaced.

[@RickLeMon]

If no one else mentioned it, I was going to. Such a good show.

[@lucasdolding6924]

Spaced, Peep Show, Thick of It, Inbetweeners all the best of 00s British comedy

[@williewilliams6571]

The band during the bar fight was playing the Star Wars creature cantina song.

[@darryljack6612]

If you go back to the scene at Terra's (the old lady) house when Jason Bateman's character gets jumped by Paul, you actually hear him say "Wait paul stop" among his muffled screams.

[@macronencer]

My son and I flew from England to the USA in 2017 to watch the solar eclipse in Idaho (he was 14 at the time), and we hired an RV two weeks beforehand so we could drive from Colorado to Idaho and back and do some sightseeing. Since we'd watched this film together previously, I secretly planned an overnight stop at Devil's Tower. In Wyoming he kept asking me where we were going, and I wouldn't say. But eventually I relented and just replied "you'll know it when you see it." :) It was really great to be there, and at the campsite where we parked, we got to watch Close Encounters of the Third Kind on a big TV outside, with the real Devil's Tower looming up behind it. Incredible memories from that trip!

[@neil73]

ELO featured on the soundtrack quite heavily - Paul's spaceship at the end has a similar design to the ELO spaceship on their album covers

[@BubbaCoop]

The dog looking up is a reference to Shaun of the Dead argument whether dogs can look up. This movie isn't Cornetto because it wasn't directed by Edgar Wright.

[@IcanhearClemFandango]

Jason Bateman was in a good one called Bad Words. Also, an underrated Simon Pegg film is Hector and the Search For Happiness.

[@marsalien4]

man, that conversation where Simone knew *instinctively* he was going to eat the bird was hysterical. Every single word of George saying he wouldn't eat it built up perfectly to him eating it lol

[@blortmeister]

Simone: "I'm an Earth girl..." Oooo, you need to see Earth Girls Are Easy.

[@shadowdramon01]

12:00: Mulder’s the dude. He’s a conspiracy nut trying to find out what happened to his little sister who was abducted by aliens when they were kids. Scully’s the woman and is a skeptic.

[@BogeyTheBear]

Mulder is Holmes. Scully is Watson.

[@eowyns4181]

finally someone who does Paul! This was one of my comfort movies back in the day and I've always wondered why no-one reacted to it. Cornetto-trilogy credit where it's due, this is still my favourite Pegg and Frost comedies!

[@Lusifer100379]

That Invincible shirt in a Seth Rogen movie is cool to se this many years later.😃

[@JohnGraves1985]

Kristen Wiig's father in this was in Shutter Island as Deputy Warden McPherson. He was the first person Teddy and Chuck spoke to upon arriving at the island. The "old lady" is Blyth Danner, she is the mother of actress Gywneth Paltrow.

[@macronencer]

Ruth is one of the best things in this movie. Her noobie swearing is one of the most hilarious things I've ever heard, and I also love her reaction to the weed. "What do you mean by that? Oh, I have wasps in my brain!" :D

[@ingobordewick6480]

There are so many references in the dialoges to other movies like Star Wars for example. When the agent shoots the radio and says "It was a booring conversation anyways", that's exactly what Han Solo says when he shoots the radio on the death star, when they are rescueing Lea. Just one example.

[@kurtwinchell]

For Jason Bateman movies, I suggest, in no particular order, The Change-Up, Identity Thief, Horrible Bosses, Extract, Game Night, Hancock, The Gift, and an old one Necessary Roughness.

[@CinHotlanta]

Game Night is sooooooo goooooooood

[@yuketage6708]

and Bad Words (2013)

[@Divamarja_CA]

I would also suggest Juno. True story: during pandemic, I rented a movie screen at a local theatre and showed Game Night for friends and family. I love it that much!

[@codyscards6698]

​@@yuketage6708bad words is the best

[@HEWfunkingKNEWit]

Tag

[@edhoncho489]

Dam 😭😭 he had an invincible shirt on way before most ppl knew about it and way before the show was out. Big W 13:24

[@BogeyTheBear]

11:53 In _The X-Files,_ you have Mulder and Scully as the analogues of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson. Mulder is Holmes, Scully is Watson.

[@KYLETIBOR]

I have been waiting a long time for some channel like this to cover this gem.

[@lurkerrekrul]

23:16 - "What? I don't get it." - That's Devil's Tower, an iconic location from the movie Close Encounters of the Third Kind. 25:00 - "Lorenzo's Oil?" - It's the name of a 1992 movie.

[@Wrencher_86]

I hope the guy who's been requesting this for literal years is having a good day today. Nice of you guys to get around to watching it even though it never performed too well on a poll.

[@mdroid7755]

All the references are great but my favorite is Blythe Danner using Ripley's line against Sigourney Weaver.

[@nour2146]

The name Mork is a reference to the sitcom Mork & Mindy starring Robin Williams

[@chuppathingy2848]

Kristen Wiig plays strange characters and is always cute AF

[@mikethelegendarygamer4581]

I wanted someone to react to this, I've seen only a few react to this film, but glad you guys are doing it!

[@synaesthesia2010]

That was really Stephen Spielberg on the phone, he did It as a favour as Pegg & Frost were also doing Tintin at the time playing Thomson & Thompson which Spielberg directed

[@noneya3635]

I love that idea George has that Earth is the Mexico of the galaxy where alien teens take their gap year. Please George and Simone write this story now!

[@Seamus.Harper]

22:57 That is a Star Wars Episode IV quote when Han Solo shoots the console in the cell block 😂

[@MikiaStorm]

My daughter and I are taking a month long road/camping trip next year. We are going to be going to all of the extraterrestrial places, including Roswell, Area 51, and Devil's Tower in Wyoming. We will also be hitting up national parks along the way... I can't wait.

[@JakkFrost1]

22:58 direct nod to Han Solo doing and saying the exact same thing in Star Wars 😂

[@terrylandess6072]

Jesse Plemons plays a completely different character in the film 'Battleship' which should help 'wash out' any character remnants from other films/shows. Dude has some versatility.

[@dnish6673]

Or Killers of the Flower Moon.

[@brozy5720]

So many callbacks to so many movies, packed together neatly. Simply funtastic!

[@markhermiston5814]

The band at Tbe Roadhouse are playing the tune from the Cantina in Mos Eisley when Luke and Ben first enter. 😁

[@iKvetch558]

I get it 0:12...I missed the intro, so I actually really appreciate it...thank you, dear Simone. 😜

[@sumelar]

I have fond memories of this movie. The first time I watched it was on a date, in her bedroom. We got partway through the ending, to the point where it became clear how things would turn out, and she decided she wanted to move on to other activities instead of watching any more.

[@rezboi_blu6895]

When paul eats the bird it was right up the road from my house in NM, me and my bro saw them filming we tried to walk up to see simon and nick because we knew exactly what they were filming but we got turned back by staff kind of wish we got to see them I love them bothe

[@laurentifffany]

This was so much fun to watch and revisit. My grandad and I used to watch movies together all the time, seeing whatever was on at the time regardless of knowing anything about it beforehand. I was 14 when this movie came out and because it was rated 15, and we’d seen everything else that was out, my grandad lied about my age so that we could watch this together. It’s one of my more…. ‘memorable’ screenings with him shall we say - I don’t think either of us spoke for about 10 minutes after it finished. I’m not sure who was more embarrassed to be honest…. I definitely left the screening with a broader vocabulary, shall we say!

[@bannjaxx]

@3:25 Jorge thinks they're referring to illegal aliens, not space aliens. @22:57 is a reference to one of Han Solo's coolest lines in Star Wars: A New Hope. And the next scene - that flat top mountain is from Close Encounters of the Third Kind.

[@Fmanzo10]

🎶”Clive likes boning space bears”🎶

[@Cynim]

The flat-top mountain is a reference to Close Encounters of the Third Kind, a classic by Spielberg. Oh, and best Sigourney Weaver death ever!!

[@corralescoyote]

He’s a superb actor and everything, but I can’t ever get over Norm from Fargo being the psycho dad

[@grabtharshammer]

Weird, I always thought that was Brendan Fraser, just older and larger, they do look a bit similar

[@scottallen6160]

I am glad you are back and feeling better George. I had the same surgery. I know that feeling before that procedure. I am still hoping for you Simone to feel better. Looks like you still have the cold. ☹️ I wish you both well! ✌️🥰👍💕

[@brianwalley2131]

"boring conversation anyway" - a reference to the first Star Wars movie

[@CinHotlanta]

The soundtrack really slaps. I got to see this twice in the theaters and I watch it a couple of times a year, such a fun movie. Edgar Wright was going to direct it but was pulled off to do Scott Pilgrim vs. the World instead, so everybody won 😁 It's not Cornetto because there is no Cornetto in the movie, but I often wonder how cheeky it would have been to have somebody eating a Drumstick or Nutty Buddy cone instead 😆 To go further down the rabbit hole, I've heard that parent company Unilever now sells the Cornetto in the US, but under the marketing of Klondike Cones.

[@onemariobro]

Fun facts: the “boring conversation anyways” line is a reference to Star Wars and the location that’s considered obvious is from the movie Close Encounters where the alien ship is flying above the earth

[@johnmguzman7491]

George!! GREAT to see you are up and about and no longer in the hospital!!❤❤

[@enterusernamehere42069]

I've been so excited for y'all to react to this since y'all announced it. Such an amazing movie!

[@pillar81]

22:34 “I’m on a mission from God!” Didn’t notice that Blues Brothers reference the first time I watched this movie.

[@flyingardilla143]

They filmed a lot of the later driving scenes near my house (in northern New Mexico). I think about the movie often when I go down those roads.

[@drdreddmanofmystery9482]

Lorenzo's Oil was a movie. The Devil's Tower in Wyoming is from Close Encounters of the Third Kind.

[@dnish6673]

The "of course" mountain is from Close Encounters of the Third Kind.

[@tremorsfan]

The Little A'lee'Inn is a real cafe in Roswell. Lorenzo Zoil is supposed to sound like Lorenzo's Oil which is a movie about a man who invented a special oil to treat his son's sickness.

[@vvayne5494]

Lorenzo's Oil is a 1992 Drama film about a true story of a young boy who is saved from an incurable condition with a new treatment. I have never seen it, nor do I understand why it was clearly referenced when agent Lorenzo Zoil full name is mentioned.

[@ashvinbhowan1009]

Always wanted to see this movies' reaction.... Ur channel is the only one that has it!!!

[@snizzol]

The CGI is so nice, you almost believe Paul is really among those guys.

[@maximilianschmid9890]

"Bill Hicks:...'II belliew a god crjaetd mie inn 6 dejs.' Jeah? ...lvchs leik hie raschd itt."

[@lightyagami1752]

There are so many references in this movie that are flying clean over your heads (but that's an easy problem to fix, just catch up on all these great shows!): Close Encounters of the Third Kind (my favourite movie of all time) - the opening scene, the Devil's Tower, Wyoming reference, her leaving with the ship, the mother ship reveal, even the helicopter fake-out. Basically the entire backbone of the movie is a Close Encounters homage. The X-Files. Alien(s). The Karate Kid (the hand-rubbing gesture Paul does before applying his powers). Roswell (the TV show, which had a remake more recently - the healing power probably came from there). Total Recall (three-breasted alien chick). Indiana Jones (the short-round reference). Star Wars series. Probably a ton of others.

[@maximilianschmid9890]

"28:52 Issz that Diane Spencer 'bietveen' Frost y Pegg?"

[@SilentBob731]

24:43 Another Classic reference, and Blythe Danner will always be both Hotter and Cooler than her daughter. 24:56 "Lorenzo's Oil" was a 1992 Drama starring Nick Nolte and Susan Sarandon. I've never watched it, but I worked in a video store through the mid-nineties.😉 26:19 Jinx! George owes me a Coke. But we'll let it slide since he did ask for a "squashing", and his wish is granted momentarily. 28:31 Phrasing! C'mon guys, are we not doing "Phrasing" anymore? 30:30 Best trivia section ever, because of that intro. 🤣

[@msmrsro]

Lorenzo’s Oil is a movie about a real life story of a mother who goes to great lengths to save her son from a deadly disease.

[@tsangarisjohn]

Paul was/is an instant classic. Love Paul and the movie! 🤙🏻🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰

[@flashxdoe295]

"boring conversation anyway" is a line from star wars a new hope

[@enigma6598]

Another of people don't know but when Paul says recess piece is from et the movie he gave Spielberg the inspiration for the movie

[@jonttul]

This is the first time I'm noticing Simon Pegg wearing an Invincible t-shirt and this movie was made years before the invincible series. Simon Pegg and Nick Frost really had their finger on what would be popular in the future nerd fandom.

[@Tardisius]

Jason B shoots the Radio..."This is a boring Conversation".....Straight outa Star Wars..Solo in the Detention Center..=))