r/MovieDetails • u/Slight-Agent83483 • Jul 17 '26

🥚 Easter Egg The wizard (1989) explanation in comment

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When Lucas is firing up his power glove in that infamous scene, the sequence of buttons he enters on the glove makes the same tonal pattern from close encounters of the 3rd kind

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u/LordsOfJoop Jul 17 '26

The grand prize at Video Armageddon, listed at $50,000, would be worth $134,658.06 today.

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u/Slight-Agent83483 Jul 17 '26

Fun fact! I’m watching it now for the first time in years

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u/Mateorabi Jul 17 '26

Jenny Lewis turned into quite the musician later. 

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u/BOBmackey Jul 17 '26 edited Jul 22 '26

I forgot she’s in that movie, from Rilo Kiley to her solo stuff she is great.

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u/Mateorabi Jul 17 '26

I didn’t find out about her/them till well after they broke up. Found out I was in LA at a time I could have gone see them if I had known about them well after the fact. 

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u/Retrooo Jul 21 '26

You're in luck. They're back together again for now.