31 Movie Trivia Nuggets from Pop Culture History for Saturday, November 22, 2025

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31 Movie Trivia Nuggets from Pop Culture History for Saturday, November 22, 2025
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We're not quite ready to fully meld with computers, but we're warming to the idea. Especially when we think about how fast and easy dragging-and-dropping or copying-and-pasting information would be. As you can tell, we're all about getting fun little factoids from, say, movies, then relaying as many of them as we can to your brain.

Those computer functions have been around for so long that we definitely take them for granted. Think about how much easier they've made our lives, and about how much easier they'll make our future lives in that human-computer merger. 

For now, we guess you'll just have to stay old-school and read these awesome movie facts.

The Death Star

CRACKEDCO The Death Star is the size of a small moon, but its habitable space isn't limited to its surface. You'd have to cover THE ENTIRE EARTH (ocea

An Early Version of Indiana Jones

The first ideas for Indiana Jones involved making him a pedo. At an early brainstorming session for the character, George Lucas suggested that he and Marion Ravenwood might have had an affair when he was an adult and she was 11. Не then moved her age up to all of 15 (Once she's sixteen or seventeen it's not interesting anymore.) NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

Deadpool

Deadpool's non-linear plot was just a way to save on filming action scene. They didn't have the money for a big action scene at the start plus more action scenes throughout the first act, so they shot just one and broke it up with flashbacks. CRACKED.COM

Ryan Gosling

EMBARRASSING EARLY APPEARANCES RYAN GOSLING in Frankenstein and Me Gosling's very first film role was in this low-budget family horror, starring Burt Reynolds at a pre-Boogie Nights time when he, erm, wasn't exactly making good movies. The entire, awful-looking thing can be found on YouTube, '90s commercials and all. CRACKED.COM

Borat

Originally, Borat was supposed to be from Moldova. And his name would have been Alexi Krickler, not Borat. CRACKED.COM

Astronauts and Space Movies

Astronauts are really into watching space disaster movies on the ISS. They have movie nights on the ISS, and they watch movies on a screen and projector - they love sci-fi and disaster movies set in space, like Apollo 13. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

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The Man From Earth

The producer of 2007's The Man From Earth thanks people for illegally downloading it. CRACKED.COM After the movie was ille- gally shared via BitTorrent, Eric D. Wilkinson publicly thanked the file sharers because it lifted the pro- file of the film far beyond the financier's expecta- tions.

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The Shawshank Redemption

Easter Eggs in stephen King Movies 87927 The shawshank Redemption Andy Dufresne uses the name of a very bad guy. The adaptation changes Dufresne's fake identity from Peter Stevens to Randall Stevens, as a shout-out to Randall Flagg, a recurring villain in Stephen King's work. CRACKED.COM

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Chucky's toilet humor

CHUCKY Chucky hiding in the toilet is a shout-out to the 1985 comedy-horror, Ghoulies. CRACKED.COM

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Burlesque

THE ACTOR: Cher THE ROLE: Tess in Burlesque WHY SHE She called the movie HATED IT: horrible, and says the director told her, don't care about what

Yoda Condition

CRACKED COM if (age == 900) if 900 age) Yoda condition In computer programming, a Yoda condition is one where the terms of the expression are revers

Psycho

You know what sounds a lot like a person getting stabbed? A melon getting stabbed. In Psycho's famous shower scene, the sound effects were created by

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