Let's be perfect frank here: film audiences are gradually seeing their perversion for Easter Eggs, homages and meta secrets shape the way movies are actually put together. Instead of the previously complex process of deep, complex story-telling (obviously not for Michael Bay), they're now charged with drawing relatable characters with substance, engaging complicated plots AND an entirely different level of narrative designed to delight geeks. Because that's what Easter Egg hunting comes down to: we are the social outcasts of the film community, standing on metaphorical bridges with metaphorical notepads, probably touching ourselves over what amounts to trainspotting. And yet, somehow, we're congratulated for it, as if watching films in entirely the wrong way is now a virtue. What a bloody world. So to feed your perpetual hunger for Easter Eggs, here's a run-down of the very best secrets, in-jokes and references hidden in 2015's biggest, best and most notable movies. And also Tomorrowland.
20. The John Connor Twist References Salvation's Alternate Ending
Because Paramount are monsters of pantomime scale, everyone in the world was treated to a pre-release spoil of probably the most interesting part of Terminator Genisys. Unless you count the bit where it turns into a 1980s sitcom about a controlling Dad hating his daughter's boyfriends. Which you shouldn't. But the revelation that John Connor is actually a Terminator was a call-back to the initially proposed ending of Terminator Salvation. In the deleted alternate ending that other almost franchise killing sequel, John is actually killed and his flesh is grafted onto Marcus' metal skeleton, might he's wearing a John suit. His side basically chose to keep him and his legacy immortal rather than saving him: the strength of the symbol beating his actual value as a person. Ironically, he then turns evil and kills the heads of the resistance and the machines win. So Genisys was basically just reusing an old story, which is perhaps why it seemed so fascinated with the "invention" of bluetooth.
