'90s Movies Fan Theories

Sid (Erik von Detten) is a horrifying villain in the original Toy Story, but one fan theory posits that he turned over a new leaf. According to Redditor /u/londongarbageman, Sid grows up to become the sanitation worker in Toy Story 3. This transition starts when Sid realizes his toys are alive, which horrifies him because he spent most of his childhood mutilating them. Sid takes it upon himself to make sure this never happens again. He decides to rescue toys that people have thrown away and fix broken ones. This is why he becomes a sanitation worker - the one field with access to the living beings (i.e., broken toys) people consider trash.

If all that fails to back up the theory, Sid and the man on the garbage truck wear the same t-shirt. Coincidence?

Throughout Forrest Gump, it seems like the title character remains stuck in his own world. What if this wasn't the case? Redditor /u/HeroOfOA believes Forrest (Tom Hanks) purposely tells a story that relates to each person he's talking with - and a decent amount of evidence exists to back up the theory.

In the beginning, Forrest talks to a Black waitress about how he was named after a KKK leader who made mistakes. He references segregation in his early years. After that, he chats with a woman who looks slightly older than Jenny. He tells her about Jenny's college dorm and about saving her from a strip club. Next, he moves onto an elderly man, who's probably old enough to have served in Vietnam. He talks to him about combat and losing his best friend during the war. Lastly, he speaks to a woman, around the same age as his mother, about how difficult it was when his mom died. She bursts into tears.

If true, maybe Forrest was a far better storyteller than we ever imagined.

The red pill or the blue pill - which one would you take? This Matrix-in-a-Matrix fan theory sort of proves that neither really matters because none allow access to the real world. The "real world" - gained by taking the red pill and escaping the program - is just another level of the Matrix simulation. It's an illusion to make it seem like you can escape - and that you possess the choice to do so.

There is some proof the red pill may be a farce. Neo (Keanu Reeves) uses his powers when he's supposedly outside of the Matrix. This would be impossible in the real world. Additionally, Agent Smith (Hugo Weaving) can control Bane even after he leaves the simulation. How? Because he never actually left.

At the end of Scream, we're told two killers exist - Billy Loomis (Skeet Ulrich) and Stu Macher (Matthew Lillard). A Reddit fan theory isn't buying the fact that they acted alone, though. According to user /u/Zionhyome, Deputy Dewey (David Arquette) may be the real mastermind.

Dewey remains highly suspicious. He's seemingly always around and has been close to the killer, without ever really getting attacked. The only times he gets assaulted are when he's in view of another character, conveniently covering his tracks. Yet somehow, he's always absent during the showdown.

Lots of evidence exists for a third killer in the original film, which may be Dewey. When Casey finds Steve tied to a chair, he looks to his left and his right, indicating Billy and Stu are hiding on both sides of the house. So who rings the doorbell? Also, who stalks Sidney while both killers are present at the video store with Randy?

Groundhog Day is as brilliant as it is frustrating. Waking up to the same day over and over gets hard to watch - but maybe that's the point. Perhaps the repeated time loop was Phil Conners's (Bill Murray) personal Hell and Ned Ryerson (Stephen Tobolowsky), the insurance salesman, was actually the Devil.

A fan theory by Redditor /u/SuperConductiveRabbi alleges Ned is the Devil, and has it out for Phil. Firstly, Phil and Ned don't really get along. The moment after Phil first encounters (and insults) Ned, he immediately steps into a puddle. Ned laughs and shoots off a snide remark (almost like he was responsible). On the last day of the time loop, Phil finally purchases an insurance policy from Ned, and then he's mysteriously free? Yeah, okay.

The theory also notices one parallel: buying a ton of life insurance is as close as you can get to selling your soul. The Devil would certainly approve.

When a future-cop asks Korben Dallas (Bruce Willis) if he's "classified as human," the erstwhile cab driver replies, "Negative. I am a meat popsicle." This sounds like a sarcastic answer, especially as delivered by Willis, who can always be counted upon to land a one-liner. If he's answering honestly, though, Dallas might be a whole lot older than his appearance suggests.

The implication of "meat popsicle" may be that Dallas has spent time cryogenically frozen. The character has a lengthy military history, so /u/vicrally filled in some gaps, asserting that Dallas was awake for deployments, but cryogenically frozen when in transit across vast interstellar distances or even simply between military engagements. His associate Finger mentions having sat next to Dallas on "a thousand missions," so if soldiers are frozen between missions, Dallas could have been kicking around for decades or even centuries longer than expected.

And if cryogenic freezing is a military practice in The Fifth Element, it pays off nicely when Dallas hides General Monro (Brion James) in his refigerator.