7. Waking Life
Speaking of smiley faces, indie director Richard Linklater placed a brief flash of the smiley faced logo from his accidental hit "Dazed and Confused" in the scoreboard of the pinball game Fireball in his trippy, digitally animated Waking Life, a criminally underrated gem that explores the world of sleep and dreams. Linklater was actually annoyed that the marketing team behind Dazed and Confused featured the yellow happy face on the film's poster since he said the smiley face craze had died by 1976, the year his movie takes place. The Fireball pinball machine itself appears in Dazed and Confused, as well as in Before Sunrise, the first installment of his critically acclaimed Before series starring Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy.