10 Movies That Made You Watch Other Movies
These films all made you check out other films.
Most movies are preoccupied enough with telling a good story and winning the audience over that they don't really have the time or interest to get you thinking about other films.
But far beyond mere subtle references and nods to other movies, these films basically gave enthusiastic, prolonged endorsements which basically compelled you to look them up for yourself.
And so, inspired by this recent Reddit thread on the very subject, here are 10 movies that made you go out and watch other movies.
These movies all made quite the case for checking out the films they made explicit reference to, either singing their praises effusively, offering up a delirious homage to one of their most iconic scenes, or making such a bizarre mention of them that you just had to see what the fuss was all about.
Whether or not the film in question lived up to that namedrop is another matter altogether, but it's rarely a bad thing when you come away from a movie with a recommendation for another - even if that other film is considerably better than the one you just finished watching...
10. Everything Everywhere All At Once - Ratatouille
You shouldn't need any excuse whatsoever to watch Pixar's delightful animated classic Ratatouille, but Everything Everywhere All At Once just went ahead and gave you one anyway.
Protagonist Evelyn (an Oscar-winning Michelle Yeoh) is initially heard misremembering the title and premise of Ratatouille, calling it "Raccacoonie" and claiming that it's about a raccoon, rather than a rat, which sits on a bad chef's head and helps him "cook good."
Naturally this leaves Evelyn's daughter Joy (Stephanie Hsu) mildly annoyed to say the least.
The hilarious payoff to this later, however, is that one of the parallel universes indeed features a teppanyaki chef, Chad (Harry Shum Jr.), with a raccoon on top of his head helping him cook.
And better yet, Evelyn even later helps rescue Raccacoonie from animal control, because why the hell not?
Even if you've seen Ratatouille many times before, this was a welcome nudge to revisit it once more, and if you'd somehow got to 2022 without seeing it, it was the perfectly unhinged invitation.