29 Movie Trivia Nuggets from Pop Culture History for Thursday, November 20, 2025

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29 Movie Trivia Nuggets from Pop Culture History for Thursday, November 20, 2025
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We shouldn't be telling you this, but when your eyes view these facts, they're opening the floodgates and letting in a whole world of trouble. Don't worry, your brain isn't in any danger, but it is about to be taken over by a sludgy soup of movie knowledge. Think of it like coating an apple with whatever sticky, sugary slop they use for candy apples. 

And that'll be the last non-movie related thing you think about for a while, since this movie fact-coating will make you forget absolutely everything else for the day. Maybe jot down some important info before reading.

Fistful of Dollars

Clint Eastwood squints because his eyes are sensitive to light. Shooting in bright light for the Fistful of Dollars trilogy only highlighted the effect. At the time he wasn't even thinking about how it would look on camera. CRACKED.COM

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Joe Son from Austin Powers

CRACKED.COM Joe Son from Austin Powers is in prison for life. Son (who played Random Task) was convicted in 2011 for kidnapping and torturing a woman back in 2000. Then he beat his cellmate to death, adding 27 years to his life sentence.

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Blade: Trinity

BLADE: TRINITY CRACKED.COM The first 2 Blade films laid the critical and financial groundwork for the modern superhero boom. It all went wrong in #3, Blade: Trinity. Studio feuds with Snipes, and a director swap resulted in a disappointing conclusion to the trilogy, and character.

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The Neverending Story

CRACKED.COM THE NEVERENDING STORY Atreyu was supposed to have green skin. Despite having some of the most awesome special effects of the time, and bei

The Birds

Illegal filmmaking Alfred Hitchcock terrorized actors and birds) on The Birds. Hitchcock pelted actress Tippi Hedren with live birds (injuring and killing the birds), and force-fed whisky to seagulls to get them to stay still for longer. Hedren was hospitalized, and he ruined her career when she refused his sexual advances. CRACKED

Some Like It Hot

Tony Curtis and Marilyn Monroe were hotonscreen. Offscreen, he said kissing her was like kissing Hitler. During the filming of Some Like It Hot, Marilyn's issues made the shoot a living hell for the cast and crew. Curtis hated working with her, and compared Marilyn to Hitler when he was asked how he liked doing their romantic scenes. CRACKED.COM Donald Spoto, 1993 Marilyn Monroe. The Biography.

Brad Pitt vs. Shia LaBeouf

BRAD PITT VS. SHIA LEBEOUF ENGLAND POSING AS GERMANY CRACKED COM Director David Ayer encouraged his Fury cast to fight on-set every day and LaBeouf got Pitt's attention with a few hard shots. It worked. It bonded us. You can only get so much out in a conversation with a bunch of boys in that kid of setting. Fighting is really intimate.

Once Were Warriors

In Alan Duff's novel about a Maori family living in poverty, the focus is on the entire Heke family and their trials, lacking a definitive lead character. ONCE WERE WARRiORS The film was written with focus on Beth, the family matriarch, her struggle with her abusive husband, and her identity. By centering the story on her, the film was able to be more focused, with a more definitive, less ambiguous ending. CRACKED COM

Tucker & Dale vs. Evil

Horror movies on streaming Tucker & Dale prime video vs. Evil The DVD release included a special feature cut of the film from the college kids' POV, seeing Tucker and Dale as evil murderers. CRACKED.COM

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Box Office Numbers

Classic movies crushed at the box office Terminator 2 blew away Point Break. In 1991, Terminator 2: Judgment Day was the number one movie at the box office every weekend. Point Break, released a week after T2, also made a strong cultural impact even though it has a silly concept that shouldn't work. CRACKED

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The Comeback

Attack the Block

Sci-Fi Horror Films 2011 Attack the Block What happens when aliens crash land near a low- income British neighborhood, and the only thing that can stop them is a bunch of teens? This movie has plenty of legitimately terrifying moments mixed in with quality comedy. CRACKED.COM

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Robert Englund in 'Wes Craven's New Nightmare'

Actors who played themselves WES CRAVEN'S NEW NIGHTMARE Robert Englung Freddy's Englund, Nancy's Heather Langenkamp, and director Wes Craven all play themselves in this film about Freddy Krueger coming to life. CRACKED.COM

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Zoe Saldana as Nina Simone

Zoe Saldana apologized for her prosthetic nose SINGER ACTIVIST SURVIVOR LEGEND CRACKED.COM Saldana wore a fake nose and dark makeup to play Nina Simone in 2016. By 2020, she realized she'd made the wrong move: I should have done everything in my power to cast a Black woman to play an exceptionally perfect Black woman.

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