30 Movie Trivia Tidbits

DVD commentary tracks require you to slog through hours of actors complimenting each other and barely interested directors to find a single interesting fact. We bring the most interesting behind the scenes facts out for you in image format.
30 Movie Trivia Tidbits

DVD commentary tracks require you to slog through hours of actors complimenting each other and barely interested directors to find a single interesting fact. And you know what? We found ‘em. We found basically all of them! Did we put them all in this article? No. That would be selfish. But we found some of the best ones.

We never would have guessed that showing a toilet flushing was actually a taboo in American cinema until a certain movie broke that boundary. The real reason OJ didn’t land the role of Terminator is frankly too ironic not to include.

We asked you to bring the most interesting behind the scenes facts you know out for us in image format. And boy, did our readers deliver. Not that we’re surprised. The only thing surprising here are the wild factoids within. Read on! The winner is below, but not before we cover the runners up…

CRACKEDCO COME To enhance the scale of the Space Jockey in Alien. Ridley Scott filmed his children in miniature space suits.
CRACKEDC COM The first American film to show a toilet flushing on screen was Psycho.
CRACKEDcO COM Darth Vader only has 12 minates of screen time in the original Star Wars.
CRACKED.COM The actress playing the T1000 as it imitates Sarah Connor near the end of Terminator 2? Leslie Hamilton, Linda Hamilton's real life twin s
Buzz's girlfriend is actually a boy in a wig. The director thought the joke would be too cruel for a girl. CRACKED COM
MICHAEL CAINE ACTUALLY HAD LINES IN THIS SEQUENCE BUT IT WAS THE ARST TIME HE SAW HEATH LEDGER IN_CHARACTER AND HE COMPLETELY FORGOT TO SAY THEM.
CRACKED CO COM ET Ang Lee's Hulk was originally animatronic
CRACKED.COM Studio executives wanted O Simpson to play the Terminator. Mel Gibson, Tom Selleck, and Michaet Douglas were atso considered. Originally,
CRACKED COM FAKE HAIR REAL HAIR SEAN CONNERY WORE A TOUPEE THROUGH ALL OF HIS PERFORMACES AS JAMES BOND.
CRACKEDcO COM Weird British guy helping Indy, Short Round and Willie onto a cargo plane in Temple of Doom? Dan Aykroyd.
CRACKED COM In the scene in Home Alone where Harry bites Kevin's finger Joe Pesci actually bit Macaulay Culkinn leaving a scar which he bears to this
CRACKEDCON SEAN CONNERY YEARS IS ONLY 12 THAN OLDER FORD, HARRIISON
The mask used by Mmichael myers in Halloween was a Captain Kirk mask painted white. CRACKEDCOM.
CRACKEDOO CONT The slow motion sound effect you hear in Dredd was based on a Justin Bieber song that had been slowed down 800 times.
Since Western audiences tend to move their eyes left to right, Geoffrey Rush requested that when sharing the screen with his 'more attractive cast mat
Remember this police officer from Hook? Yep, that's Phil CRACKED.COM Collins
The voice of Boo in Monsters Inc., Mary Gibbs, was just a toddler at the time. The production team had a hard time getting her to sit still to say her
CRACKED.COM Michelle Pfeiffer had to be vacuum-sealed into her latex Catwoman costume. She could only wear: the costume for limited amounts of time
Allen Klein, the owner of the song used in the closing credits of The Big Lebowski, wanted $150,000 for its use. He was persuaded to watch the fim fir
CRACKEDC COM After conceiving of the character of Machete and telling Danny Trejo about it, Robert Rodriguez started receiving phone calls from Danny
CRACKED.COM Dude. Fuck. Man. Dude. Fuck. Man. The worD dude In The Big LebowsHi is LISED approxiately 161 ties In the MIOUIE. The F'-word OR E arIaT
Carrie Fisher never wore a bra with this costume. CRACKED CON
CRACKEDCO GOM For Trainspotting's Worst Toilet In Scotland scene, most of the feces was made of chocolate and smelled delicious.
CRACKEDC coN GLENGARRY GLEN ROSS It's Baldwin's Alec Baldwin's only scene character in the fim BLAKE and his caustic Always Be Closing' monologue were
CRACKEDCO COM WIRES RUNNING DOWN THEIR SLEEVES WERE CONNECTED TO CAR BATTERIES TO MAKE THE SWORDS SPARK
CRAGKED CON According to writer Carl Gottlieb, the line You're gonna need a bigger boat was not in the script, but improviseuy ROY Steer
pep R2D2 and C3PO Appear in the Hieroglyphics in the Ark's Chamber
STANLEY KUBRICK ONLY ECIDED TO IMCLUDE A SAKE IN ThIS SCENE or A CLOCKWORK ORANGE AFTER NE DISCOVERED THAT STAR MALCOLMMCDOVELL was TERRirIEd of RERTI
WHILE MAKING LORD OF THE RINGS. CHRISTOPHER LEE INFORMED PETER JACKSON OF THE PROPER SOUND A MAN MAKES WHEN HE IS STABBED IN THE BACK. HIS EXPERTISE S
Wookie suits are made From Human Hair all of them

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