31 Random Bits of Movie Trivia That Replaced the Saccharine Montage of Our Late Wife in Our Mind’s Eye

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31 Random Bits of Movie Trivia That Replaced the Saccharine Montage of Our Late Wife in Our Mind’s Eye

You’d think it’d be a tough decision, but when we were given the opportunity to replace our most cherished memories with these random movie facts, we jumped at the chance. Our childhood phone number? Our first dog? That first laugh we got from our class clownery? Who needs all that? We’ve got facts. Facts about movies — the most important things you’ll ever hope to know. 

So when we’re lying on our death bed, we won’t be looking back on lame crap like a beach walk with our first love. We’ll be remembering the time Danny DeVito got bitten by a monkey on the set of Batman Returns.

Ashton Kutcher

CRACKED ASHTON KUTCHER IN JOBS THINK F - - - - - Steve Jobs was a known fruitarian, living on a mainly fruit diet. Ashton tried to replicate this, and wife Mila Kunis said, Не was so dumb. He...only ate grapes at one point...we ended up in the hospital twice. With pancreatitis! It was really dumb!

Martin Scorsese’s Mom

Martin Scorsese put his mom in Goodfellas. She played the mom of Joe Pesci's character. Mrs. Scorsese also made the spaghetti and meatballs served in

Less Than Zero

Bret Easton Ellis found 1987's Less Than Zero movie to be less than thrilling. As a young writer he was excited to see his first book adapted, but yea

Batman Returns

CRACKED.COM Batman Returns Danny Devito got bitten by a monkey. The monkey was trained to deliver a letter to the Penguin, but instead leapt at him and bit him on the crotch. Fortunately for DeVito, the Penguin costume had extra padding in the area.

Batman Begins

Jack Gleeson played a cute kid in Batman Begins Before he was Joffrey, he was just an innocent li'l kid. CRACKED.COM

Peter Pan

Disney behind the scenes Peter Pan Neverland live They filmed some scenes on spare, bare sets, looking like a black box theater production. CRACKED.COM

The Dark Knight Trilogy

Facts about the Batmen The Dark Knight Trilogy christian Bale Bale has gained and lost a grand total of 610 pounds for his various roles-from The Machinist to Ford V Ferrari. CRACKED.COM

That;s incredibly impressive; although, I'm quite interested to know who his nutritionists and trainers are. 

George A. Romero

George A. Romero got his start making short films for Mister Rogers' Neighborhood. Romero, who was just out of college at the time, joked that film- ing Mr. Rogers Gets a Tonsillectomy was the scariest thing he ever shot. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW

Spider-Man

The Green Goblin had a terrifying mask Spider-Man (2002) would have hid Willem Dafoe's acting behind an emotive mask, if it wasn't quickly scrapped after test footage. CRACKED.COM

Zootopia

A taxi company in Zootopia is probably trying to say its drivers drive really, really safely. DECT Thigmo-Taxis A sign for Thigmo-Taxis appears during Judy and Duke's chase in Little Rodentia. Thigmotaxis is the name for the tendency of mice to avoid open spaces and hide behind large objects. Mice start behaving this way instantly when they get anxious or frightened. CRACKED.COM

Spider-Man 2

Spider-Man Movie Villains Spider-Man 2 Alfred Molina was rehearsing for Fiddler on the Roof while filming. A clip of the actor performing If I Were a Rich Man with the help of his tentacle puppeteers can be seen on the film's blooper reel. CRACKED.COM

Movie Theater Seats

Movie theater seats are usually red because they are harder to see in low light. CRACKED.COM Purkinje Effect is the ten- dency of humans' eyes to get more sensitive towards the blue end of the spec- trum as the lights dim. In low light, red is the first color the human eye loses sight of.

Pan’s Labyrinth

CRACKED.COM PAN'S LABYRINTH FLAMES AND SPARKS WERE DIGITAL TO PREVENT FIRES. Because of a drought in the film's shooting location of Segovia, Spain, the timber was dry enough to risk a blazing fire. For this reason, most sparks and fire were added in post and green moss was used to cover the brown, dead vegetation.

Warm Bodies

WARM BODIES CRACKED.COM Writer/Director Jonathan Levine cast then Analeigh Tipton (now Lio Tipton) as Nora in the 2013 zombie-romance Warm Bodies, even though author Isaac Marion wrote her as half-Ethiopian in the 2010 novel that the film is based on.

Kaboria

EMBARRASSING EARLY APPEARANCES CATE BLANCHETT in an Egyptian boxing movie When Blanchett began her film career in 1996, she had already appeared in 1990's Kaboria. Apparently, she was offered the role while backpacking, and never saw the movie out of embarrassment. CRACKED.COM

Pulp Fiction

Mia Wallace from 'Pulp Fiction' is, technically, a Disney princess. CRACKED.COM Miramax was owned by Disney from 1993 to 2005, which means that the film was, in a way, a Dis- ney movie.

A Christmas Story

The bullies were originally reversed. Zack Ward Yano Anaya After a long selection process, Yano Anaya was cast as Scut Farkus, while Zack Ward was to play Scut's toady, Grover Dill. Then the director saw them together and switched them. CRACKED.COM

The Total Recall Video Game

Total Recall 1990 SCORE HI ISSO 1560 CRACKED COM The mind bending, extraplanetary action classic is reduced to a generic platformer with the instantly recognizable Arnold Schwarzenegger replaced with a Some Dude in a green onesie. The barrel-chested hero runs like he isn't going to make it to the toilet.

Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides

CRACKED 2011 ON STRANGER TIDES WAS so BAD IT ENDED AN ERA. The fourth Caribbean movie was the death knell for the pirates craze, when people started realizing these movies were only going to keep getting worse (and also that nobody looks good with gold teeth).

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

In Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, the Joneses book a flight from Berlin to Athens on a commercial zeppelin in 1938. In actuality, no ticket would have been a problem for all of the passengers, since airship travel was no longer a thing due to the Hindenburg crash the year before. CRACKED.COM

Close Encounters of the Third Kind

CRACKED.COM Amazing effects made without CGI Close Encounters of the Third Kind Besides the insane model work, the alien ship was shot on 70 mm film, which has a greater resolution than the 35 mm film used for the rest of the movie. This allowed it to keep a good deal of sharpness and detail in the final composition.

Porky’s

Porky's is the fifth highest grossing movie of 1982, earning $327 million (adjusted for inflation). PORKY'S The teen sex comedy outperformed Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, Poltergeist, First Blood, and Best Picture winner Gandhi. CRACKED.COM

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