Last Of Us 2: 25 Easter Eggs, Details & References You Need To See
18. Various Movie References
The characters of The Last of Us like themselves a movie. It's mentioned at one point how Joel and Ellie occasionally have movie nights, so it's good to know that cinema wasn't lost forever when the cordyceps infection spread throughout the population.
The most obvious references you can find to movies are in the museum flashback section, as Joel and Ellie explore amongst the dinosaurs. Here, Joel will tell Ellie all about various things from the Jurassic Park franchise such as how the sequel wasn't as good, the infamous 'big pile of s**t' scene and how the velociraptors look much, much smaller in real life.
If you explore the bank in downtown Seattle, you can also find reference to the movie Point Break, when Ellie and Dina talk about a film involving "a heist on surfboards".
Finally, Manny mentions throughout how much he likes anime. If you enquire with him further during exploration of Seattle, he'll reveal that the anime he wants to watch is about a "girl riding a wolf". This is likely a reference to Studio Ghibli's Princess Mononoke.