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40 Bits of Trivia About Action Movies to Recite Dramatically As You Dump Hans Gruber Off the Top of Nakatomi Plaza

November 05, 2024

Just call us the Tom Joad of action movie facts. Because wherever there’s a villain gettin’ blown to smithereens, we’ll be there. Wherever there’s a cyborg from the future sent to kill a guy’s mom before he’s even born, we’ll be there. And wherever there’s a cop beatin’ up a good guy, we’ll be there.

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Arnold Schwarzenegger

Arnold Schwarzenegger has said I'll be back in other movies besides the Terminator franchise. Eleven other movies, to be exact. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Mission: Impossible — Fallout

The Mission: Impossible - Fallout team built a hallway set just so they could film a reference to 1967's Point Blank. B CRACKED.COM — Source

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Tropic Thunder (Again)

CRACKED.COM Tropic Thunder Tom Cruise hid his name in the credits and took a reduced fee to portray what in retrospect seems to just be Harvey Weinstein. — More: The 4 Greatest Secret Movie Roles of Famous Actors

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Thor: Ragnarok

CRACKED.COM MCU Blunders Thor: Ragnarok The original idea was even darker than the much maligned The Dark World, and would've featured the same director. — Source: Screen Rant

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Rambo

CRACKED RAMBO THERMOS RAMBO: THE FINAL METAL LUNCH BOX In 1985, Thermos made the last metal lunch box: the Rambo lunch box, with Sylvester Stallone on the front and back, and camouflage sides. After that, lunch boxes became wimpy, ordinary plastic. — American History

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Predator

ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER is often asked by fans to recite his most popular line from PREDATOR: GET TO THE CHOPPER! CRACKED — 20th Century Studios
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The Avengers

CRACKED.COM MCU Blunders Jon Favreau After almost single-handedly launching the MCU, Jon Favreau asked for a raise to direct The Avengers. The notoriously stingy Ike Perlmutter said no, and hired someone else. — Source: Collider

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Tropic Thunder

Easter Eggs Tropic Thunder I don't drop character till I done a DVD commentary. Не doesn't. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Mission: Impossible 7

Apparetly, one Mission: Impossible 7 stunt took weeks of preparation. POLICE NIOS It involved a stuntman on a motorcycle jumping off a high ramp, and it's not just one of the most expensive action sequences that have been shot in England, it also took six weeks of preparation beforehand. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Morbius

MORBIUS EASTER EGGS THE BLIP Spider-Man's Vulture enters the MCU (Morbius Cinematic Universe) the same way Venom left the mainstream MCU- as a result of Doctor Strange's spell. CRACKED.COM

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The MCU

CRACKED.COM Characters losing their hands in the MCU is a nod to Star Wars. Kevin Feige has confirmed that people keep losing their hands on MCU movies as a sneaky shout-out to Star Wars, a franchise with a similar track record. It wasn't intentional at first, but that changed with Phase 2. — Source

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Captain America

What if Spider-man was in the MCU? Captain America's sidekick? Andrew Garfield almost stayed as Spider-Man, crossing over into the MCU and meeting Captain America. CRACKED.COM

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Rambo III

Rambo teams up with the Taliban. In Rambo III, Rambo teamed up with the Taliban against the Russians. Go America! — More: Pop Culture Moments That No Longer Seem So Great

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Solo

Alden Ehrenreich's favorite on-set moment during the filming Of Solo: A Star Wars Story was an impromptu snowball fight. They were filming in the Dolo

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Star Trek Beyond

Idris Elba gave Chris Pine a black eye. STAR TREK BEYOND CRACKED.COM Elba was exhausted while filming a fight scene, and accidentally landed a punch, hard. — Source

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The Terminator (Yep, Again)

CRACKED.COM CSM-101 James Cameron and his movies Не denies that O.J. Simpson was considered for The Terminator. Arnold Schwarzenegger has been telling that story for years, but according to Cameron himself, Arnold is literally just wrong. — BFI

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Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

October on hulu October 1 Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon The first draft for the script was extremely vague about the fight scenes, simply describing them as, the greatest fight scenes ever written in cinema history. CRACKED.COM — Sony Pictures Classics
Mental Floss

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The Villainess

Underrated Action Movies The Villainess Inspired by Luc Besson's La Femme Nikita, this South-Korean martial arts movie stars a trained assassin given a new chance by the government, then trying to return to society, and being brought back to violence by old foes. The cinematography is beautiful, the stunts are brutal, even including POV fight scenes and a sword fight on motorcycles. CRACKED.COM — Trailer on YouTube, Wikipedia

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Spider-Man 2

CRACKED.COM SPIDER-MAN 2 DOC OCK'S ARMS WERE REAL. While CGI was used in wider shots and during complex fight scenes, the arms were animatronics operated by remote control or via crew people. — Screen Rant

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Spider-Man: Homecoming

During Spider-Man: Homecoming, Michael Keaton would whisper... I'm Batman, to Tom Holland when filming fight scenes. NOW YOU KNOW — Source: ComicBookMovie.com

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Wonder Woman

One early scene in Wonder Woman required months of preparation. It's the one where the Amazons fight German soldiers - it also took two weeks to shoot. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Transformers

CRACKED COM Transformers Pearl Harbor Michael Bay used the same footage of the aircraft carrier from Pearl Harbor (2001) in Transformers (2007). — Source

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The Terminator (Again)

ACTOR: Arnold Schwarzenegger in The Terminator THE IDEA: The Terminator should get drunk. Arnold thought the movie could use some slapstick, SO he tho — Source: The 6 Dumbest Suggestions Actors Made Behind The Scenes

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Kill Bill

Beatrix and Elle's fight in Kill Bill owes a debt to Jackass. jackass the movie The first Jackass movie played an influence on the gross parts of that fight, Tarantino said. — Source: Vulture

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Avengers: Endgame

In addition to the Cap VS Cap fight in Avengers: Endgame we almost got a Thor vs Thor one too. There were plans to have Lebowski Thor fight his form

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RoboCop 3

RoboCop revels in graphic violence and satire. RoboCop 3 reins it in for the kiddies. It's a pretty fair indicator of how far the sequel strayed from its roots that Peter Weller refused to return. In the film, Robocop is a lovable hero who helps people fight for their property rights. CRACKED.COM RoboCop 3, 1993 — Source

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John Wick

EASTER EGGSTRA REFERENCES MEANINGS JOHN WICK ENTER DRAGON THE The glass and tricky visuals in those John Wick: Chapter - Parabellum fight scenes recall Bruce Lee's mirror fight scene in the 1973 movie. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Transformers

Michael Bay and his movies C 01 Transformers Megatron is no longer a gun for a reason. According to the writers, it'd be like having Darth Vader transform into his own lightsaber and someone else swinging him around.' CRACKED.COM — Source: IMDb
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The Terminator

CRACKED ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER ONLY MADE $75,000 FOR HIS ROLE IN TERMINATOR. 7 years later, in Terminator 2, he made $15,000,000. — Screenrant / Film Freedonia

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RoboCop

It was SO hot on the Robocop set, Peter Weller sometimes lost eight pounds a day. OU They filmed in Dallas, where it would get over 100 degrees in the summer, and the heat made it so hard to be in the Robocop suit that Weller would sometimes have cool — Source: Mental Floss

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Action Movie Myths

40 Bits of Trivia About Action Movies to Recite Dramatically As You Dump Hans Gruber Off the Top of Nakatomi Plaza — Read more: Myths About Crime We Believe Thanks To Pop Culture

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The Matrix

A big reason the Wachowskis' movie action is SO great? Slow motion. Action scenes are pretty chaotic and busy, and slowing them down lets you take in

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Heroice Bloodshed

CRACKED.COM HONG KONG ACTION MOVIES HEROIC BLOODSHED That was the name for the John Woo-dominated Hong Kong action genre during the '80s. Imagine a crime thriller, but with strong themes of brotherhood, duty, honor, and redemption - and highly stylized action. — Source: Wikipedia

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Jurassic Park

Classic movies crushed at the box office Last Action Hero was flattened by Jurassic Park. Last Action Hero was a box office flop, quickly losing to Jurassic Park which came back into theaters. CRACKED — Universal Pictures, Columbia Pictures
MEL Magazine

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Hardcore Henry

Underrated Action Movies This sci-fi action flick is made up of hundreds of shots taken from head- mounted GoPros, stringed together to make one continuous first-person action shooter. The gimmick can get tiresome, but it's always a technical wonder. The concept's execution is wild, and it easily puts it above than other dumb actioners like Crank or Shoot 'Em Up. Hardcore Henry CRACKED.COM — Trailer on YouTube

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The Getaway

Underrated Action Movies The Getaway When it comes to classic action movies, The Wild Bunch or Bullitt get lots of love. But director Sam Peckinpah and coolest dude ever Steve McQueen also worked together on this underrated, high-octane classic, written by action legend Walter Hill. After a heist gone wrong, with an ex-con and his loyal wife trying to escape several threats and keep the loot. CRACKED.COM — Trailer on YouTube

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Ringo Lam

CRACKED.COM I HONG KONG ACTION MOVIES RINGO LAM Ringo Lam is a legend of '80s Hong Kong action movies. Не directed City on Fire, Prison on Fire, and School on Fire (dude liked fire), but also Full Contact, and the Van Damme flick Maximum Risk. — Source: Wikipedia

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Last Action Hero

Meta Movies Last Action Hero The writers hated the movie. Zak Penn and Adam Leff wrote a send up of the movies Arnold Schwarzenegger or Shane Black made. Then Black rewrote it, and Schwarzenegger starred in it with Penn and Leff disliking the result. CRACKED.COM — Source: We Minored in Film

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Edge of Tomorrow

Tired action tropes that still work Unlikely action hero Ever since Die Hard, action movies have been trying to transform normal dudes into unwitting heroes. One of the best recent examples is Tom Cruise's William Cage, in Edge of Tomorrow. Just give us that damn sequel! CRACKED.COM

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Deep Rising

Underrated Action Movies Deep Rising Right before 1999's The Mummy, Stephen Sommers directed this idiotically fun action-heist-sci-fi monstrosity about a gang of mercenaries finding an empty cruise ship. It's gorier than The Mummy, but it does keep that sense of adventure, and features '90s CGI that could have aged much worse. CRACKED.COM — Trailer on YouTube

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