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[Gary Whitta]

I'll start.

In the opening shot of GLADIATOR, that's not Russell Crowe's hand passing through the wheat field. It's some random guy from the crew who was deemed to have the ideal hand for the shot.

 

[G-Pink]

In Run Lola Run, the guy in the ambulance is the Security guard from the bank.

 

[Cheeto]

Riddick movies are not bad movies, they are just misunderstood.

 

[SUPREME1]

Up In Smoke > All

 

[SUPREME1]

Stupid double post.

 

[Borgnine]

More hand movia trivia:

LOTR Return of the King: Sam's hand holding a sword appears in the shot ready to fight Shelob, but it was actually Peter Jackson's hand.

 

[Like the hat?]

back to the future 3 really wasn't that bad of a movie.

 

[crowphoenix]

After the filming of the movie Manos:Hands of Fate, made famous by MST3K, several of the cast committed suicide.

 

[Sanjuro]

In Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles if you pause the film when Donatello is laughing when Raph awakes, you can see the actor in the costume.

 

[levious]

Highlander was a documentary, and the events took place in real time...

 

[omgimaninja]

Jack Purvis plays the chief Jawa in Star Wars: A New Hope

(worthless info I learned from the Trivia Pursuit)

 

[pakkit]

Brazil is the greatest movie of all time.

 

[diunxx]

George Lazenby is said to be the wealthiest actor to have played James Bond.

 

[harSon]

In the beginning of Casino, where Robert Deniro's car blows up, the camera quickly shifts from Robery Deniro to a life sized doll that looks nothing like him. It's pretty fucking awful and it can't be unseen :lol

 

[Fritz]

Atreyu's horse Ajax in the first The NeverEnding Story Movie actually died while they were shooting it's death scene in the swamps. The hydraulic lift broke, the horse drowned. They used the shot, of course!

 

[Solo]

The first 3 Bond movies had the stuntman, Bob Simmons, doing the gunbarrel sequence instead of Sean Connery.

Keeping with Connery/Bond, he was bald and wearing a toupee even before the first film.

 

[ZiZ]

Highlander was a documentary, and the events took place in real time...

mind = blown!!!

it all makes sense now!!!

 

[Geeker]

Atreyu's horse Ajax in the first The NeverEnding Story Movie actually died while they were shooting it's death scene in the swamps. The hydraulic lift broke, the horse drowned. They used the shot, of course!

WTF

 

[Count Dookkake]

Some of the highest regarded films are remakes, adaptations and sequels. Never forget.

 

[Cornballer]

A couple random ones from The Graduate:

• Robert Redford screen-tested with Candice Bergen for the part of Benjamin Braddock but was finally rejected by director Mike Nichols because Nichols did not believe Redford could persuasively project the underdog qualities necessary to the role. When he told this to Redford, the actor asked Nichols what he meant. "Well, let's put it this way," said Nichols, "Have you ever struck out with a girl?" "What do you mean?" asked Redford. "That's precisely my point," said Nichols.
  
• Although Mrs. Robinson is supposed to be much older than Benjamin, Anne Bancroft and Dustin Hoffman are just under six years apart in age.
  
• In Dustin Hoffman and Anne Bancroft's first encounter in the hotel room, Bancroft did not know that Hoffman was going to grab her breast. Hoffman decided offscreen to do it, because it reminded him of schoolboys trying to nonchalantly grab girls' breasts in the hall by pretending to put their jackets on. When Hoffman did it onscreen, director Mike Nichols began laughing loudly offscreen. Hoffman began to laugh as well, so rather than stop the scene, he turned away from the camera and walked to the wall. Hoffman banged his head on the wall, trying to stop laughing, and Nichols thought it was so funny, he left it in.

 

[Syph]

Atreyu's horse Ajax in the first The NeverEnding Story Movie actually died while they were shooting it's death scene in the swamps. The hydraulic lift broke, the horse drowned. They used the shot, of course!

Omg, childhood destroyed:'(

 

[Ignatz Mouse]

The baby being baptized at the end of the Godfather is Sophia Coppola. Her first film role, and it's transgender!

 

[Dark Octave]

Atreyu's horse Ajax in the first The NeverEnding Story Movie actually died while they were shooting it's death scene in the swamps. The hydraulic lift broke, the horse drowned. They used the shot, of course!

NO FUCKING WAY!!!

You just killed my childhood...or made it even cooler, I need time to figure out which...but no fucking way...

My mind is blown.

I need to tell my girlfriend and my brother and sisters about this ASAP.

Edit: Next your gonna tell me that the guy who voiced Ironhide really died in the sound booth when Megatron shot him at point blank range in Transformers the Movie.

 

[Zoe]

Atreyu's horse Ajax in the first The NeverEnding Story Movie actually died while they were shooting it's death scene in the swamps. The hydraulic lift broke, the horse drowned. They used the shot, of course!

T________T

 

[smokeymicpot]

Tim Burton did not direct Nightmare before christmas.

 

[Count Dookkake]

NO FUCKING WAY!!!

You just killed my childhood...or made it even cooler, I need time to figure it out, but no fucking way...

My mind is blown.

I need to tell my girlfriend and my brother and sisters about this ASAP.

I advise you to never do any research on Milo & Otis.

 

[Wes]

Tommy Lee Jones has a monobrow in Volcano.

 

[sublime085]

The only two actors to win acting Oscars for playing the same character are Marlon Brando and Robert DeNiro for their portrayals of Vito Corleone.

 

[Guzim]

Tim Burton did not direct Nightmare before christmas.

Thank you! So many people don't believe me when I tell them this.

 

[Dark Octave]

I advise you to never do any research on Milo & Otis.

...Dude...no way...

:lol They did put those animals through hell in that movie though.

 

[ShOcKwAvE]

In the beginning of Casino, where Robert Deniro's car blows up, the camera quickly shifts from Robery Deniro to a life sized doll that looks nothing like him. It's pretty fucking awful and it can't be unseen :lol

Same thing in Braveheart when he smashes Mornay's head in with the ball and chain.

 

[Fritz]

WTF

Omg, childhood destroyed:'(

NO FUCKING WAY!!!

You just killed my childhood...or made it even cooler, I need time to figure it out, but no fucking way...

My mind is blown.

I need to tell my girlfriend and my brother and sisters about this ASAP.

Pretty bad, ey? It's one of the most intense images of my childhood. Such a sad scene. I havent watched it since I know, but it gives me the goosebumps just thinking about it. Poor Noah *sob*

 

[Templar Wizard]

Harrison Ford grabs Carrie Fisher's titty ball in return of the jedi as a 'continuation' of a running joke they were having.
Yes, the take was in the final cut.

 

[duckroll]

Atreyu's horse Ajax in the first The NeverEnding Story Movie actually died while they were shooting it's death scene in the swamps. The hydraulic lift broke, the horse drowned. They used the shot, of course!

This is untrue. It's an internet urban legend that has been proven false.

 

[Count Dookkake]

This is untrue. It's an internet urban legend that has been proven false.

Is this the opposite of "never look a gift horse in the mouth"?

 

[jakncoke]

Tony Montana got his name because the dude that gave the characters was a big fan of Joe Montana

They used dried milk in Scarface for the cocaine.

 

[lsslave]

In The Crow the scene which Branden Lee is killed is actually the same scene in which his character is killed before becoming the crow and NOT the scene when everyone is shooting at him near the end like every-fucking person seems to think it is.

(many arguments I have had over this one)

The actor who killed him (since it could be only one person, a point blank shot from a single person) took it pretty hard too.

It is an easy-to-find fact but NO ONE KNOWS IT >.< "No its the scene at the end" every time, huge argument X.x


Also: The reason why people think Tim Burton directed The Nightmare Before Christmas is: It is done in his style of animation that he used before and after the movie, Jack Skellington was used by Tim Burton many years before the movie, oh and the movie says "Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas" so its not hard to see why people mix that up

 

[master15]

# In the DVD commentary, Mary Harron says that during the first shower scene with Patrick Bateman, all of the women on set gathered around to watch Christian Bale wash himself. (American Psycho

# Laurence Fishburne lied about his age (he was 14 at the time) when production began in 1976. (Apocalypse Now)

 

[Fritz]

This is untrue. It's an internet urban legend that has been proven false.

Meh, I hate the internet...

 

[Count Dookkake]

The actor who killed him (since it could be only one person, a point blank shot from a single person) took it pretty hard too.

I tangentially know the actor, Michael Massee. Nice guy. I used to work for his family. The death was a real tragedy for all involved.

 

[Solo]

The actor who killed him (since it could be only one person, a point blank shot from a single person) took it pretty hard too.

As a tangential piece of trivia to this, the guy who killed Brandon Lee is the minor villain in 24 S1 (really the main villain before Dennis Hopper shows up).

 

[WyndhamPrice]

Also: The reason why people think Tim Burton directed The Nightmare Before Christmas is: It is done in his style of animation that he used before and after the movie, Jack Skellington was used by Tim Burton many years before the movie, oh and the movie says "Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas" so its not hard to see why people mix that up

Henry Selick (the REAL director of Nightmare Before Christmas) went to my high school. He came to speak a couple years before I got there but apparentely is a pretty cool dude. I'm vaguely interested in Coraline because of this.

 

[rollingstart]

In Back to the Future 2 there is a scene where Biff returns from the past only to wobble out of the car and slowly die. What happened was that in the alternate future Lorraine shoots Biff for 'killing' Marty on the roof.

 

[Stinkles]

In the sequence at the end of Highlander, where he absorbs "the prize" after killing the Kurgan, there's a two frame shot of a marble bust of Connor McLeod exploding.

 

[lsslave]

I tangentially know the actor, Michael Massee. Nice guy. I used to work for his family. The death was a real tragedy for all involved.

As a tangential piece of trivia to this, the guy who killed Brandon Lee is the minor villain in 24 S1 (really the main villain before Dennis Hopper shows up).

Buy the same word of the day calendar? lol sorry

 

[Lucky Forward]

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046889/trivia

[The Dam Busters (1955)] is one of the films that George Lucas used clips from to edit the rough cut of Star Wars (1977) (which utilizes many features of the finale of this film quite closely, notably the briefing, the ground staff waiting for news, the troika formation of the attacking aircraft and so on). In Addition, the following exchange from this film is reproduced almost verbatim (with the exception of the characters' names) in "Star Wars": Gibson: "How many guns d'you think there are, Trevor?" Trevor: "I'd say there's about 10 guns - some in the field and some in the tower".

 

[Gary Whitta]

Tim Burton did not direct Nightmare before christmas.

Yeah this is a great one actually because most people do not realize this...

 

[Count Dookkake]

Regarding the Nightmare Before Christmas thing...

Do people really not read the credits on the screen? I could understand if one had watched the film as a kid, but a teen or an adult?

Buy the same word of the day calendar? lol sorry

I thought that was a funny coincidence.

Spoiler

Never had one of those calendars, though. A lifetime of reading has done me well enough

 

[TheExodu5]

This is untrue. It's an internet urban legend that has been proven false.

This.

I can't believe people were eating that rumor up so easily.

 

[lsslave]

Regarding the Nightmare Before Christmas thing...

Do people really not read the credits on the screen? I could understand if one had watched the film as a kid, but a teen or an adult?



I thought that was a funny coincidence.

Spoiler

Never had one of those calendars, though. A lifetime of reading has done me well enough

You'd be amazed how many people don't care about anything except actors, even less in cartoons unless they recognize a voice

Go to a theater and watch how many people are out of their seats before the first name shows up on screen

Edit to include your response: lol I figured, I was just teasing because the one after the other was well timed

Life is fun when you are literate, although most people require me to dumb myself down or else I spend too much time being a dictionary for my own phrases ;.;