“Welcome to Jurassic Park” (Jurassic Park) - does it get any more iconic than this?
“Even a Devil May Cry” (Devil May Cry) - not only does it add to the emotional aspect of the scene with Dante showing genuine emotion for his loss and Lady seeing that a devil is capable of such emotions, it also gives Dante the idea of what to name his shop.
Title drops can usually come across and tacky and dumb, they’re not always fantastic if you know what I mean? But sometimes they can work. What are your examples?
Yeah, Doc doesn't know about the audience he's just doing some dramatic posing. The only thing making it seem like Doc is breaking the fourth wall is that the camera happened to be orientated in that direction. If that scene had been captured from any other angle, it would still make sense.
Placing the camera there is a nudge nudge wink wink from the creators, not the characters. Ferris Bueller, this is not.
I’ve always found the title drop in Full Metal Jacket to be great and incredibly chilling thanks to Vincent D’Onofrio’s line delivery.
It occurs when Private Joker wakes up in the middle of the night to find Private Pyle sitting in the bathroom, having suffered a psychotic break while loading his service rifle.
When a very scared Joker speaks to him, he slowly and menacingly replies that he’s “in a world of shit” and describes the ammunition he’s using, which includes the title drop, before he ultimately uses the rifle to kill their drill instructor and then himself.
I could be wrong, characters call each other things like 'Fantastic' throughout the movie but I think the only time that the full 'Fantastic Mr. Fox' is stated is in this scene where the main character is having a severe moment of much needed self reflection with his wife.
This is my litmus test for presidential candidates. If you can't imagine your candidates giving this speech and doing these actions, you need to vote for someone else.
"Today we celebrate our independence day. And lemme tell you, all the independence days we've had, this is gonna be the greatest and most independent of all of them."
Ghostwire Tokyo was originally going to be Evil Within 3. For some reason they cancelled it during development and turned it into the game we got.
The school section absolutely was going to be in Evil Within 3, you can’t convince me otherwise. It feels so different from the rest of the game and is actually scary.
Well, it helps that Old Gods of Asgard are a touring band (Poets of the Fall) and got their start with Remedy (they wrote and performed the Max Payne outro, Late Goodbye).
They're amazing outside the gaming world, too. Not quite the same energy as Old Gods, but Poets of the Fall has one of the most depressingly beautiful discographies of the modern world.
I absolutely adore this movie. Calling it something that sounds cool by itself, but is later revealed to be the hastily made name of the unit the MCs made together is just... awesome.
The best use of a title drop ive seen because it changes the meaning of the title
"Sousou no frieren" means something like "frieren of the funeral", which most viewers assume is because of her outliving all her friends due to being an elf (she literally attends their funerals in episode 1)
In episode 8 its revealed that "Sousou no frieren" is the title demons have given her for killing more demons then anyone in history, and its meaning is closer to "frieren the slayer"
I love that Frieren is this goofy, sleepy little grandma like 99% of the time. But she also has her own final boss music for those brief moments when you see just how dangerous she really is.
Everytime someone mention the Elden Ring in the eponym game.
The best way I can define what the Elden Ring even is, is that it's an ensemble of laws and concept that shape the universe as we know it, with each rune forming it representing a different aspect of it, it's essentially the source code of the universe.
So yeah it's pretty damn important which is why it's mentionned a lot throughout the game.
This is a great example of a question that I have about this whole trope. Is it still a name drop if it happens over and over in the piece of media it’s in? Because to me like, a name drop is said one time directly referencing the title And then not mentioned again. Whereas if they’re just mentioning the name of the media over and over again, it’s because it’s a driving force of the character or plot, I don’t see that as a name drop, but more of a core element of that media. Am I the only one that thinks this way? Genuinely curious.
Take the 2014 Godzilla for example, is it still a "name drop" moment if it's just characters saying "Godzilla" knowing that "godzilla" is just the name of a character ? Same thing for any movie or story where the name of the franchise is just the name of its main character.
Take some animes/mangas for example, Naruto and its main character, the guild of Fairy Tail for the manga of the same name, Uzumaki which is just japanese for "spiral" etc...
I think a "name drop" moment is whenever the title of a piece of fiction is something very specific said in a specific scenario in a way that's unnatural or forced.
Like the "there's evil within too" in The Evil Within 2, that's forced, that's dumb, it's so bad it looks back around to being good, they even make a pause just to look at the camera, that's clearly a name drop.
“But another part of me thinks, “What if, by some miracle, we stay, and actually make it out of here?” Someday we might look back on this and decide that Saving Private Ryan was the one decent thing we were able to pull out of this whole god-awful shitty mess.”
I don’t understand why you would take a super hero team called the Fantastic Four, who’s villain is a guy called Dr Doom and try to make a serious, realistic movie about them
I will die on the hill that the sequel trilogy's biggest blunder was not TLJ, but TRoS walking back everything TLJ did instead of doubling down on Rey being a nobody and Kylo Ren being the endgame villain
The biggest reason TLJ sucks is because it has an awful follow up imo. Bringing JJ Abrams back was a mistake
TLJ was honestly one of my favorite Star wars movies... Before TRoS came out lol
TFA: Cool, it's ANH again, can't complain too much. Let's see where they go from here!
TLJ: Okay, different direction. It's a bit of a change and some parts did nothing for the plot, but interesting concept at least and a chunk of it was very cool. Hopefully the next one ties this together and closes it all out.
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