32 Random Bits of Movie Trivia to Take to A Matinee and Share Lemon Drops With

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32 Random Bits of Movie Trivia to Take to A Matinee and Share Lemon Drops With
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As your brain approaches the front door of this list, make sure it fixes its hair and spritzes a little Binaca for added freshness. It wants to make a good first impression, doesn’t it? Good thing it has us here to remind it how to impress these lovely movie facts. 

They deserve to be wined and dined a little. Oh, and be sure to open the car door for them too!

Beauty and the Beast

Jerry Orbach wasn't having any of your Dirty Dancing. Unless it was as a singing candleabra. Orbach played Baby's father - the one who wanted to keep her in the corner - and the equally somber Lennie Briscoe on Law and Order. Не also played Lumiere, the singing, dancing, absurd-accented candlestick from Beauty and the Beast. CRACKED.COM Beauty and the Beast, 1991.

Early Sword Fights

Historical Firsts in The World of Stunts The first realistic 1920 sword fighting In 1920's The Mark of Zorro, Douglas Fairbanks brought in a fencing master, creating the first realistic on-screen swordplay. Prior to this, films had primitive whacking, but this opened doors for the countless swashbuckling films to come. CRACKED

Wolverine

CRACKED COM HUGH JACKMAN HAS HAD LOTS OF INJURIES FROM PLAYING WOLVERINE OVER THE YEARS. He's mangled his junk, mangled his right ear, stabbed himself in his upper left thigh, stabbed himself next to his left eye and in 2013 he almost broke his neck when a stunt went wrong.

Ernest Saves Christmas

Ernest Saves Christmas Frnest goes to camup Hsbodk! And hs hme. Ernest CRACKED cO saves $52 MILLION $60 MILLION In the 70's and 80's, if you had a half-decent outing with yOur first film, you were legally obligated to make a holiday special. It paid off for Ernest, with a 15% increase in

Batman

Sean Young broke her arm in pre -production. BATMAN W Remember the Vicki Vale horse riding scene in Batman? Yeah, that's because they wrote it out aft

Mark Hamill

Star Wars cost Mark Hamill a chance at the lead role in Amadeus. Hamill, who had experience playing the part on stage, really wanted to audition for t

Armour of God II

Jackie Chan is famous for his on-set injuries while doing his own stunts. ARMOUR of GOD 2 OPERATION CONDOR One such injury on the set of Armour of God II required him to get brain surgery, and left him with a metal plate inside his head. CRACKED.COM

Die Hard

Die Hard Then vs. Now 1988 2007 From everyman to superhero In the first movies (especially the 1988 classic), John McClane is just a cop-a normal dude who gets beaten and is in pain. In the latter ones, he casually fights jets and survives falling from tall buildings. CRACKED.COM

Geoffrey Rush

Hollywood's Problematic People On Screen THE LIFE AND DEATH OF PETER SELLERS Geoffrey Rush thought long and hard about taking on the role of PETER SELLERS. Не eventually said yes, and had a great time with it. The make-up was intense, but that's nothing new for Rush, who got his start playing an innkeeper with bad teeth, an eye patch, a West Country accent and a limp. CRACKED

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Last Night in Soho

The Edgar Wright flick Last Night in Soho almost wasn't called that. Wright's first name for the movie was Red Light Area, but it turned out that there was already a movie with Cillian Murphy called Red Lights, so Edgar Wright changed the title when he found out. CRACKED COM

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I Know What You Did Last Summer

The Commercial Success of I Know What You Did Last Summer Lois Arquette's book I Know What You Did Last Summer was written in 1973, and when it became
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Suicide Squad

Cara Delevingne Spent A Lot OfTime Naked To Get Ready For Suicide Squad. Delevingne Delevingne stripped to her birthday suit and howled at a full moon

Casino Royale

Daniel Craig just happened to hit a sandbank on the beach in Casino Royale. In the script, Bond would float off - Craig tried to do that, but hit a sandbank, so he got up and walked out of the water. Which gave us his iconic shot in blue shorts. CRACKED.COM

The Blair Witch Project

BEHIND-THE-SCENES FACTS People thought The Blair Witch Project was real, and that the people in the movie actually died. CRACKED COM Due to the marketing around The Blair Witch Project, which described the unknown actors as missing, presumed dead, many viewers thought they were really watching the final days of the people on the screen. The mother of actress Heather Donahue actually received sympathy cards from concerned audience members.

X2: X-Men United

CHURCH ACTION X2: X-MEN UNITED Churches are where penitent blue mutants go to hide in the X-Universe. Mutant freak storms may vary. CRACKED.COM

The Wizard of Oz

The Wizard of Oz Insect? What insect? In a deleted scene, Dorothy and her gang are attacked by a bug sent by the Wicked Witch of the West. That doesn't happen in the finished movie - but the Witch still refers to it, when she tells her flying monkeys that she's sent a little insect ahead of them. CRACKED.COM

The Conjuring

The old farmhouse THE CONJURING GRACKED.COM The homeowner says people have threatened to destroy the house because it's so full of evil.

Nothing Lasts Forever

The source novel has a much bleaker ending. ORP H NOTHING THE EL LASTS MILLER FROM n FOREVER THOR OF THE ELECTRIFYING NEW THRILLER FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE DETECTIVE KLAXON ICE The hero has to save his daughter, not his wife, but she and the terrorist leader fall off the roof together. CRACKED.COM

The Nightmare Before Christmas

A SEQUEL TO The Nightmare Before Christmas WOULD'VE SEEN JACK VISITING Thanksgiving World AND THE STOP-MOTION WOULD'VE BEEN DITCHED FOR CGI. CRACKED.COM

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