31 Random Bits of Movie Trivia That Got Stuck to Our Foot on the Way Out of the Powder Room During An Important Dinner

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31 Random Bits of Movie Trivia That Got Stuck to Our Foot on the Way Out of the Powder Room During An Important Dinner
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Some people wear their heart on their sleeves, and some people wear their movie facts on the bottom of their shoes. What of it? We’re proud to be the latter, so you can laugh all you want, but we’ll see who’s laughing when some poor soul is stumped on a behind-the-scenes tidbit. 

We’ll be there for them, basking in the glow of heroism and the adoration of everyone at the party. Where will you be, hot shot? Sulking in the corner with your cocktail weenie, that’s where.

Jessica Simpson Movies in Ukraine

JESSICA SIMPSON has a standing invite to Ukrainian film fests UKRAINE CRACKED.COM Movies like Blonde Ambition flopped in the States but topped the box office in Ukraine. Film Commissioner Alex Shpiluk explained: She is really the ideal of American beauty and style, like Barbie.

Bridesmaids

BRIDESMAIDS MINDY KALING AND BUSY PHILLIPPS WERE UP FOR ROLES. The two auditioned for Lillian and Megan, respectively, but didn't get the parts. CRACKED.COM

Brokeback Mountain

Inconspicuous CGI Brokeback Mountain Yup, the first thing in our minds when we think of this movie is heavy CGI (and only that, because we don't feel like crying, OK?). Seriously, trees, clouds, mountains, flocks of sheep, entire sceneries were digitally constructed and composited. CRACKED.COM

The Secret of NIMH

The Secret of NIMH was based on a real (and horrific) experiment. The book and movie are about rats escaping from the lab that made them super-smart. That was inspired by an experiment in which mice were put into a very safe environment and left to breed until the whole place got crowded (it was pretty violent and gory). Robert C. O'Brien saw that, and got the idea to write a kids' book about a rat who escapes from it. CRACKED.COM

Batman & Robin

Batman & Robin CRACKED.COM They were so confident it'd be a hit, they hired Joel Schumacher to direct a 5th installment while the 4th was still in production. BATMAN TRIUMPHANT would have featured Batgirl and the Scarecrow.

Goodfellas

In Goodfellas, Joe Pesci's character is assassinated by a shot to the face. THE REALITY But the real Thomas DeSimone vanished in 1979, and was never found. In the movie, Ray Liotta's character says, They even shot Tommy in the face so his mother couldn't give him an open coffin at the funeral. CRACKED.COM

Miami Vice

CRACKED.COM Miami Vice Jamie Foxx forced the ending to be changed. After shooting in the Dominican Republic turned out to be too dangerous, Foxx refused to leave the U.S. again-so the planned ending to be shot in Paraguay had to be scrapped.

Dallas Buyers Club

CRACKED.COM ... Dallas Buyers club The makeup budget was $250. The makeup to transform Jared Leto and Matthew McConaughey into AIDS patients was less than the cost of a modern video game console. The movie was nominated for an Oscar in makeup and hair styling.

Terminator 2: Judgment Day

Terminator 2 The steel mill The final showdown was shot at an actual decommissioned steel mill, which they made look operational through clever lighting. As the temperature during filming wasn't hot at all but instead a chilling 42 degrees, they had to put fake sweat on Linda Hamilton and Edward Furlong. CRACKED.COM

Venom

Tom Hardy just decided to jump into that lobster tank in Venom. The crew put a huge lobster tank in the restaurant, and when Hardy saw it, he said he had to get in it -- so he did, and they worked the idea into the movie. CRACKED.COM

Terminator 2: Judgment Day

31 Random Bits of Movie Trivia That Got Stuck to Our Foot on the Way Out of the Powder Room During An Important Dinner

John Wick

EASTER EGGSTRA REFERENCES MEANINGS JOHN WICK INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS At the end of John Wick 2, Wick walks through a park and everyone around him turns and stares. Many have wondered if this meant that everyone was an assassin, but the directors explained that it was coming from Wick's paranoid state of mind, and that they were trying to emulate the classic sci-fi horror movie where it feels like everyone's a potential danger. CRACKED.COM

The Incredibles

When Mr. Incredible gets i offered a secret job, a card THE INGREDIBLES prints out with the visible phone number: 787-7476. ABC DEF 1 MIRAGE 2 3 GHI JKL MNO 66 - 887 - 7415 4 5 6 PQRS TUV WXYZ 7 8 9 On a telephone keypad, 0 that spells out SUPRHRO (superhero). CRACKED.COM

Sydney Pollack

TOOTSIE UNDERAPPRECIATED DIRECTORS SYDNEY POLLACK Pollack helmed so many flicks that the classics get buried under the generic stuff. The former are all worth another look as Hollywood legends, though: They Shoot Horses, Don't They?, The Way We Were, The Yakuza, Three Days of the Condor, Tootsie, and The Firm. Legend even has it that he ghost-edited Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut, which kinda makes sense. CRACKED.COM

Get Out

BEHIND-THE-SCENES FACTS THE MOVIE ALMOST HAD A MUCH DARKER ENDING. GET OUT Instead of Rod rescuing Chris, the movie was originally going to end with Chris getting arrested. The ending was even shot, however, Peele decided to end it on a happier note after realizing it was a bit too depressing with everything going on in the world. CRACKED.COM

Precious

Precious SAPPHIRE - - I | - J - Park - - CRACKED.COM PUSH Sapphire plays a woman at the day care center toward the end of the film.

Mean Girls

Mean Girls was based on a teen self-help book. CRACKED.COM LINDSAYLOHAN | = SELVING S RACHEL TIM MEADOWS ANA GASTEVER AMYROCHUER 10 TINA FEL III QUEEN AND RAINWABES ROSALING AMANA DEMME - ALE ИНТЕ de DARN OKADA I E MEDIA ANGIRLS Tiny Fey based the film on Queen Bees & Wannabes, a self-help book by Rosalind Wiseman that's aimed to help young girls survive cliques, gossip, and boyfriends.

Ghostbusters

CRACKED YOU'RE TOAST! Bill Murray created linguistic history when he improvised the line, All right, this chick is toast! in 1984's Ghostbusters. The Oxford English Dictionary added it as an alternate usage of the word toast, meaning a person or object that is defunct, dead, finished, etc.

WALL-E

PUN WIN UTRU UFS 35 WALL WALL. E The spaceship's computer in WALL-E was voiced by Sigourney Weaver. Maybe it was to keep aliens away. CRACKED.COM

Bruce Lee

Performers Bookends First episode / Last Episode Bruce Lee Lee was seemingly born into the film industry, with his first as an infant in 1941's Golden Gate Girl, and his final being his most lauded in 1973's Enter the Dragon. CRACKED.COM

Lucrecia Martel

CRACKED LUCRECIA MARTEL SAID MARVEL MOVIES ARE HARD TO WATCH. She declined to direct Black Widow after Marvel wouldn't allow her more creative control. She said, It's hard to watch a Marvel film. It's painful to the ears to watch Marvel films.

Errol Flynn

CRACKED.COM ERROL FLYNN was a sword dancer. One of the most famous swashbucklers of all time, Flynn was as good with a sword as he appeared to be, being taught by masters. Не performed his own stunts and was called the dueling Fred Astaire.

The Incredibles

The Incredibles copied a whole scene from Die Hard With a Vengeance. In the Die Hard movie, a cop points a gun at Samuel L. Jackson (mistakenly thinking he's a bad guy), but Jackson says he has to answer a phone, which he does - - then a bomb blast incapacitates the cop. The exact same things happen in The Incredibles scene when a cop points a gun at Frozone (voiced by Jackson), except Frozone gets a drink instead, and the bomb blast is a freeze ray. CRACKED.COM

Beetlejuice

CRACKED THE BEETLEJUICE PRODUCTION TEAM HAD TO SEARCH THROUGH POSTCARDS TO FIND THE PERFECT TOWN. Because there were no search engines at the time, the team essentially drove through Vermont looking at postcards in different bookstores.

Star Wars

A 'Star Wars' actor survived being stabbed in the heart and suffering a stroke. In 1999, Rebecca Jackson Mendoza survived a stroke caused by a severed aorta after being stabbed by her husband. By 2005 she made a full recovery and was able to play Breha Or- gana in 'Revenge of the CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW

Friday the 13th

'Friday the 13th' was nominated for a Razzie when it came out. 1980 marked the first Razzie awards, and its first 'Worst Picture' nomination with 'Friday the 13th.' The winner, though, was The Village People's disco movie, 'Can't Stop the Mu- sic.' CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW

The Black Cauldron

One of the only acknowledgments of The Black Cauldron in Disneyland is in Tokyo. GRACKED COM Tokyo Disneyland once hosted a Cinderella Castle Mystery Tour, featuring encounters with classic Disney vil- lains, ending with the Horned King.

The Way of the Dragon

Bruce Lee's iconic on-screen fight with Chuck Norris was filmed illegally. They fought in The Way Of The Dragon at the Colosseum in Rome, and really filmed part of the scene there - filming there is against the law, but they bribed some officials and hid filming equipment in bags. CRACKED.COM

The Last Jedi

Snoke's look from The Last Jedi was based on Hugh Hefner. The decision to dress a space dictator as a playboy came from Andy Serkis and Rian Johnson, who after contemplating other dictators to base his look on, eventually settled on Hefner. CRACKED.COM

Lawrence of Arabia

Peter O'Toole and Omar Sharif were drunk during a big action scene in Lawrence of Arabia. The two actors were nervous about filming the Battle of Aqaba, where they charge at full speed alongside hundreds of men riding camels and horses. A bottle of Brandy and two bottles of milk is what it took to make O'Toole feel supremely confident. CRACKED.COM

American Beauty

The screenplay for American Beauty is loosely based on the Amy Fisher/ Joey Buttafuoco story. Alan Ball got the idea for the movie after he saw a comic book about their story that featured two different sides of the same coin, which got him thinking about the truth in the middle. CRACKED.COM

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