Best adventure movie easter eggs of all time

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The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers picture

Easter egg: Easter Egg on the Special Extended DVD: Put in the first movie DVD (The Two Towers Part 1), go to Select a Scene. Scroll all the way down past the last scene ("Of Herbs and Stewed Rabbit") and there should be a ring cursor beside "New Scene" and then click on it. It's Gollum's acceptance speech from the MTV Movie Awards. Because of the content, it is not appropriate for children. Please note that this easter egg is not found in the U.K. version.

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Star Trek: First Contact picture

Easter egg: On the two-disc Collector's Edition, on Disc 2, under the "Star Trek Universe" sub menu, use the arrow keys to go "Right" from the Jerry Goldsmith tribute and you will see a Borg node turn from Green to Red. If you click it, a short film about Ethan Phillips, who plays the uncredited maitre d' in the holodeck scene. He also played Neelix on Star Trek: Voyager.

Andrew Quattropani

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Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen picture

Easter egg: In the two disc set, Disc 2 (Special Features), at the main menu select The Human Factor. Once you are in that part go down to Domestic Destruction, push the right button on the remote and a little icon of the Decepticons will appear. It shows a blooper during one of the big scenes.

Chris Skoglund

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Easter egg: On the 2nd disc go to storyboards. Go to the 2nd page and select rhino fight under Deleted Sequences. Press up once to select the rhino and press enter. This will get you to a section called What Happened to the Rhino.

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The Rundown picture

Easter egg: Go to the "bonus features" menu, then select the "cast and crew" menu. On the second page of this menu, highlight "Peter Berg" and hit left once to view an interview with The Rock.

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Easter egg: To activate the Omega 13 on the Main Menu, watch the movie then wait for the credits to roll out. When you get back to the menu, click the Omega 13 button and it will activate. NOTE: This will not work if you press the menu button after the movie ends. You have to let the credits roll.

Brad

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Big Fish picture

Easter egg: From the main menu, scroll to special features. Hit the up button twice and then hit enter.

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Alien Vs. Predator picture

Easter egg: In the 2 disc special edition, on the pre-production menu, towards the bottom, if you click right, you'll highlight a face-hugger. Click it to see an interesting video by Tom Woodruff Jr., the lead alien.

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The Mummy Returns picture

Easter egg: Region 2, disc 2 of The Mummy Returns there is a 'mummification featurette'. To get to it you must highlight and enter Egyptology 201, then enter 'In depth Look at Mummification' section and press right twice to highlight a scorpion. Press enter to see the featurette.

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Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl picture

Easter egg: On Disc 2, select "Fly On the Set." Highlight "Play All" and press right twice to select the skeleton's tooth. Press Enter to view a clip of the construction of the pirates' cave.

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Easter egg: In the Special Edition DVD (with the white slipcover), in the Imaging Station, if you go to the top of the stack of the videotapes and hit the right arrow button, the TV screen changes to say, "They mostly come at night. Mostly." Hit "enter" to see a trailer for "Aliens," a movie James Cameron directed.

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Easter egg: On the second disc of the special edition enter "The Star Trek universe", go to "A Star Trek family's final journey", click left to highlight the top of the rotunda. When you enter, you can watch X-Men director Bryan Singer talk about his cameo.

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