31 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia We Pulled Out of a Hat, Which Raises Questions About the Whereabouts of Our Rabbit

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31 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia We Pulled Out of a Hat, Which Raises Questions About the Whereabouts of Our Rabbit
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Ridley Scott

When Ridley Scott pitched to direct Alien, he referenced a lot of cult classics. Не wanted it to be the most straight-forward, unpretentious, riveting thriller like Psycho or Rosemary's Baby or even the most brilliant B-level like Night of the Living Dead or Texas Chainsaw Massacre, butl want it to look, and I'm going to do this, like 2001. CRACKED.COM

New Coke

CRACKED.COM NEW cc Conservatism played a big part in the failure of New Coke. de_mark The backlash against the new recipe was particularly strong amongst Southern conservatives, who saw it as a new aggression from those damn Yankees. A University of Mississippi professor called it an intrusion on tradition that Southerners won't like, regardless of how it tastes.

The First PG-13 Rating

The first PG-13 rating. 1984 CRACKED.COM Even though it clocked in at 134 acts of violence per hour (Guinness counted), Red Dawn was the first film to officially find itself between PG and R.

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The Queen Latifah Show

The Queen Latifah Show *Livin ALL CRACKED.co The show was cancelled in 2001 after a 2-season stint. Then, 10 years later, she dredged up its petrified corpse and made another show by the same name. That one actually won the People's Choice Award for Favorite New Talk Show Host (somehow), but was axed after 2 seasons once more.

Macaulay Culkin and Mila Kunis

MACAULEY CULKIN MILA KUNIS Kunis secretly dated the Home Alone star for nearly ten years before breaking it off while promoting Black Swan. What happened? Kunis owns up that it was a horrible, horrible breakup and I *ked up.

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David Fincher

David Fincher spent two days filming the opening scene in The Social Network. The five-minute scene consists of two characters sitting in a bar, talki

Deadpool 2

In Deadpool 2, someone had to be filmed saying every line Deadpool said. That way, the visual effects team could map the right expression to the animated mask. CRACKED.COM

Terminator 2: Judgment Day

The visual effects for the 1988 film Willow were later used in Terminator 2: Judgment Day. CRACKED.COM Industrial Light & Magic creat- ed visuals for Willow which led to a breakthrough in digi- tal morphing technology. The techniques developed for se- quences where characters morph into different animals were later used in T2.

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Dallas Buyers’ Club

Dallas Buyers' Club total makeup budget was $250. But it won an Academy Award for Best Makeup and Hairstyling. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

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Inaccurate Accents

... TELL US NOW. INACCURATE ACCENTS Jesse А. can't stand when actors try to do Boston accents, and Danny M. says, Whoever the voice coach is that Hollywood uses has never heard an Irish person speak and should not be allowed to coach accents. CRACKED.COM

Shaq

Shaa spent a million bucks in an hour CRACKED.COM A good chunk of that went toward cars and house payments for his parents, but he admits a lot of it was frivolous, too: gotta buy rings and diamonds and earrings.

Rocket Raccoon

It was revealed in the comics that Rocket Raccoon is from a planet called Halfworld where animals such as he were raised to care for the insane humans

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