Film Trivia: Sam Neill Goes to Montana

This one reaches back in time a bit, and a few other astute observsers have already mentioned this as well, but I noticed it all by my lonesome, so I'm posting about it without guilt. If you've seen The Hunt for Red October (and a double spoiler alert and shame on you, if you haven't), you'll know that Sam Neill's character, Vasily Borodin, dies at the end of the movie. As Vasily was in the process of defecting to the United States when he gets shot, his dying words are, "I would like to have seen Montana."


Now pop in Jurassic Park, and at the beginning of the movie, you'll see an overhead shot of a bunch of people brushing sand off dinosaur bones. The words "Badlands, near Snakewater Montana" will appear... and just who stands up into frame not long after? That's right, good old Sam Neill. Looks like he made it to Montana after all. Although, nearly getting blown up in a submarine and nearly getting eaten by a T-Rex are both pretty bad in my book. Maybe he should have just opted instead to open an ice cream parlor in some sleepy midwestern town.