40 Hard-to-Swallow Fact Pills That Are Likely to Get Stuck in Your Brainstem

40 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia That Will Probably Become Distorted in Your Brain Over Time Like a Mental Animorph

12 German Words for Highly Specific Feelings

35 Random Bits of Trivia to Pile High in An Informational Club Sandwich

Heroic ‘I Think You Should Leave’ Star Protects Healthcare Executives With the Power of Song

40 Random Bits of TV and Movie Trivia You’re Digitally Downloading Into Your Dome

Everything movies taught you about swords is a lie

40 Random Bits of TV and Movie Trivia You’re Digitally Downloading Into Your Dome

October 05, 2024

Has it ever felt like maybe katanas are compensating for something? They absolutely are.

Click right here to get the best of Cracked sent to your inbox.

40

Katanas aren't really all that kick-ass. All the fastidious metal-folding by the swordsmith wasn't to make katanas awesome- it was to compensate for the low-quality steel available to forge them. CRACKED.COM — More: 6 Things Movies Get Wrong About Swords (An Inside Look)

39

Viggo Mortensen is the best swordsman, potentially in all cinema

VIGGO MORTENSEN can swing a sword with the best of them. Aragon's swordsmanship wasn't movie magic; Bob Anderson - a trainer and Darth Vader's lightsaber stunt double - called Mortensen the most talented swordsman he had ever trained. — Source: Did You Know?/YouTube

38

Kit Harington is an unbelievably good swordsman

KIT HARINGTON is amazing with a sword. Perhaps attempting to do something more interesting than look over a wall, Kit Harington got incredibly good at using a sword during Game of Thrones, and does most of his own fights and stunts in movies. — Source: Showbiz CheatSheet

37

Chloë Grace Moretz became a butterfly knife expert

CHLOË GRACE MORETZ could stab you with a butterfly knife. Kick-Ass probably would've pissed off America even more if they learned that the cursing, head- chopping thirteen-year old got amazingly good with a butterfly knife. Or maybe not, considering then she could stab any creeps who come at her now. — Source: HuffPost

36

The famous Shining axe was sold at auction

The Shining Jack Torrance's axe is worth a pretty penny. Here's Johnny! is a thing you can do in your home... if you have enough money. The famous axe from The Shining was sold at auction, and then presumably hidden away in a mountain retreat for the next time someone goes mad. — More: 17 Movie Props Available For Ownership (Have Lots Of Money)

35

You aren't likely to actually land many punches. When you're about to attack, your body automatically goes through preparatory motions that telegraph to your rival what you're about to do. You'll have to be very lucky to throw a punch they don't see coming. CRACKED.COM — More: 6 Painful Things Nobody Tells You About Fighting

34

Unsurprisingly, Keanu Reeves is one of the better gunmen in the entertainment business

KEANU REEVES can really shoot. At a certain point after John Wick, Speed, Point Blank, The Matrix, The Bad Matrix Sequels, probably not My Own Private Idaho, Keanu learned to become a professional-level shooter. — Source: AccurateShooter.com

33

40 Random Bits of TV and Movie Trivia You’re Digitally Downloading Into Your Dome — More: 6 Painful Things Nobody Tells You About Fighting

32

Rapiers aren't light, nimble swords. Inigo Montoya makes his sword look pretty much weightless, but historical rapiers are in the same weight range as medieval longswords- about 2.5-4 pounds. — Source: Arms & Armor

31

Blood grooves aren't a thing. No matter what your frat bro told you- that groove along the blade isn't there to let the blood flow and stop the sword from getting stuck in your enemy's guts. The groove, called a fuller, exists only to make the sword lighter. — More: 6 Things Movies Get Wrong About Swords (An Inside Look)

30

You can strip this one down and sell it for parts

40 Random Bits of TV and Movie Trivia You’re Digitally Downloading Into Your Dome

29

Behind-The-Scenes Accidents Rust This suspended production was cursed. Alec Baldwin accidentally fired a live round from an unchecked prop revolver, killing cinematographer Halyna Hutchins and injuring director Joel Souza. Weeks later, while closing down the sets, a prop technician was bitten by a brown recluse spider, and barely avoided amputation. CRACKED.COM — Source

28

IN 1978'S GAME OF DEATH, A PROP GUN FIRES A REAL BULLET, KILLING BRUCE LEE'S CHARACTER. BRUCE LEE'S SON DIED THE SAME WAY-EXCEPT FOR REAL. In 1993, Lee's son Brandon was filming The crow and facing a shot from a prop gun. A bullet fragment that had jammed in the barrel dislodged and caught Brandon in the gut, killing him. CRACKED.COM — Source

27

Han Solo pops up all over in Firefiy. Apparently, the prop department made a prop of Han Solo frozen in carbonite for Nathan Fillion (who's a big Star

26

The Unknown Prop AIRPLANEII SEQUEL THE In the late 20th century William Shatner and crew attempt to figure out what this machine does. STARTREKIL Tha

25

Haunted Houses

CRACKEDcO In 1976, a TV crew working in an amusement park in Long Beach, California, found that a corpse in the haunted mansion wasn't a prop. IT WAS

24

You can strip this one down and sell it for parts

ONE OF THOR'S HAMMERS WEIGHED 80 POUNDS. Prop master Russell Bobbitt said having one that was too heavy for the actors to lift added authenticity aND

23

40 Random Bits of TV and Movie Trivia You’re Digitally Downloading Into Your Dome

22

40 Random Bits of TV and Movie Trivia You’re Digitally Downloading Into Your Dome

21

40 Random Bits of TV and Movie Trivia You’re Digitally Downloading Into Your Dome

20

South Park

EASTER EGGSTRA Overwatch South Park The easter egg. HALLOWEEN OUTLET In 22's The season Problem with a Poo, the Halloween Outlet features costumes for classic poP culture characters like Darth Vader and Pinhead. Also featured is the masks of two Overwatch characters, Tracer and Reaper. CRACKED.COM — Source

19

There's a subtle Cars Easter egg that references Ferrari's factory in Italy. CHE 44.5-10.8 - Luigi's license plate isn't a random string of the numbers - it says 445-108, and those are the geographic coordinates of that factory. CRACKED.COM — Source

18

HAMIL The TON Easter egg in in The Heights The song You'll Be Back plays over the phone while Kevin Rosario is put on hold by the Stanford admissions office. CRACKED.COM — Source

17

ETERNALS The MCU film has a 2001: A Space Odyssey Easter egg. When the Domo makes its appearance at the beginning of the movie, it's at such an angle that its nose resembles The Monolith in Kubrick S movie. CRACKED.COM — Source

16

CYBERPUNK 2077 HAS AN EASTER EGG FOR A BUG. Embers The game has a Flying Katana glitch that can take players up to a ledge with two chests and the words Well done written in large. The creator of the Easter egg explained that, when he finds a bug, instead of blocking off the area he leaves a little something for players who manage to find it, since they're not supposed to be there. CRACKED.COM — Source: Game Rant

15

Luxo Ball

Pixar Easter Eggs Luxo Ball The Luxo ball is an Easter egg homaging one of Pixar's very first short films, Luxo Jr. The rubber ball appears in almost every Pixar movie. Up CRACKED.COM — Source: Pixar Wiki

14

"I'll just be in this lizard head."

Mark Hamill found a David Bowie review inside a Dewback. In what might be the ultimate Easter egg, the actor said he crawled inside a Dewback while filming in Tunisia and discovered the bar that controlled the lizard's head was wrapped in paper-mache. The newspaper that was used included a review of a concert in Paris given by The Thing White Duke, which Hamill read by flashlight.

13

Werewolves Within

Easter eggs in video game movies werewolves within There's an Easter egg in the lobby of the hotel, but director Josh Ruben won't say what it is. CRACKED.COM — Source: Vanity Fair

12

A new Mario Easter egg in a Sega game has been found. M CRACKED.COM It took 26 years for a player to spot Mario sitting in one of the files of the game Astal released in 1995. — SVG

11

Cowboy Bebop

The show's props and weapons master Nick Komornicki revealed that Han Solo's blaster is hiding somewhere on the Bebop. Fans are trying hard to spot the Star Wars Easter egg. — Source: CBR

10

Independence Day

Movies With Sneaky Shout-Outs To Other Movies - Jasmine's kid's toys in Independence Day are actually an Easter egg. Her son plays with Godzilla toys, a ref3erence to Dean Devlin and Roland Emmerich's 1998 Godzilla movie (Independance Day came out in 1996, but they'd already made the deal Godzilla by then). — Source: Film School Rejects

9

Easter Eggs Dune Each character and group has their own sound, which struggle and fight each other as they play. Each sound is its own Easter egg, as they merge and meld together. CRACKED.COM — Source

8

The Harder They Fall has a Chadwick Boseman Easter egg. C. A BOSEMAN CRACKED.COM A train was given the name in honor of the late icon. — Source: Netflix Twitter

7

EASTER EGGSTRA MEANINGS AND REFERENCES ANT-MAN THE TRAILER EASTER EGG Director Peyton Reed revealed that the guitar riff in the trailer for Ant-Man and the Wasp comes from a 1982 song by Adam and the Ants called Ants Invasion. CRACKED.COM — Source

6

The tradition continues: FAR CRY 6 has an early alternative ending Easter egg You'll have to work a bit harder than before, and the ending involves a beach, pandemic lockdowns, and Gloria Estefan's Conga. CRACKED.COM — Source

5

Except Dan Levy didn't say goodbye

The last scene. Emily Hampshire, who plays Stevie, said that the final scene is an Easter egg, in that it really was the last scene all of them shot together, making those goodbyes very real. — NY Post

4

EASTER EGGSTRA Parasite The Criterion Collection edition of the movie's video release features an Easter egg hidden in plain sight. PARASITE The image has 18 portholes or windows that reveal the original poster of the Kims and the Parks underneath. Those portholes are actually dots and dashes of Morse code — Polygon

3

Princess Bride

There's a Spinal Tap easter egg in Princess Bride OORAL SEA usS Ov ae The hat Rob Reiner wore in Spinal Tap is hanging on the wall of The Grandson's room. — Source: EW

2

The Grand Budapest Hotel uSeS three aspect ratios for its three time periods, and there's an Easter egg in how those ratios MatcH up with the dates. 1

1

Rogue One's Keeper of the Holocron credit in the Lucasfilm section isn't an Easter egg, but somebody's real job title. rcative UiSig Keeper of the H

Tags:

Visual

Scroll down for the next article

Must Read

Movies & TV

Bill Murray Confronted Roger Ebert Over Bad Review For ‘Scrooged’

Science & History

45 Bits of Historical Trivia To Storm the Beaches of Your Corpus Callosum

Movies & TV

Michael Jackson’s Diet Shows That He Had the Same Good Ideas As Frank From ‘It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia’

Trivia & Jokes

12 Farm-Fresh Trivia Tidbits for Friday, December 13, 2024

Movies & TV

‘Nosferatu’ Director Robert Eggers Thanks ‘SpongeBob SquarePants’ for Teaching Kids About Classic Horror

Movies & TV

Chris Rock and ‘SNL’ Were Never Really a Fit

VIRAL ON CRACKED

1

33 Pop Culture Ridiculous Controversies

2

40 Hard-to-Swallow Fact Pills That Are Likely to Get Stuck in Your Brainstem

3

30 Funny Times Someone Had No Clue How the World Works

4

5 Famous Roles Obviously Written For A Different Actor

5

20 Stupid Ways to Ruin Brilliant Movies