It's not just any filmmaker who can make snappy pop culture references into veritable art, and Quentin Tarantino is simply the undisputed champ of right-on/bizarre/ridiculous pop culture references in film. I can't say I liked Django Unchained, but I can appreciate the eternal gifts of the man whose first dent in cinema was a monologue about "Like a Virgin."
In this video from College Humor, check out the majestic chronology of Tarantino's references. He moves from Doris Day to The Partridge Family to Burt Reynolds to Angelina Jolie with extreme ease, and I personally find it comforting and exhilarating to watch and re-watch the whole thing. Did I mention that this man once dated Margaret Cho? Because he sure did, mortals.
SO NSFW!
Here are some of my other favorite movies that teem with pop culture references: Clueless ("Total Baldwin!") Juno ("Bleeker's mom was possibly attractive once, but now she looks like a Hobbit. You know, the fat one, the one that was in The Goonies."), Mean Girls (Lizzy Caplan played a jilted 17-year-old named Janis Ian!), and of course Sunset Boulevard (because I still wish Tyrone Power were a frequent conversation topic.)
