32 Random Bits of Movie Trivia You Need to Rewind When You’re Done or We’ll Charge You Two Dollars

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32 Random Bits of Movie Trivia You Need to Rewind When You’re Done or We’ll Charge You Two Dollars

Remember when Blockbuster started transitioning from VHS to DVDs? We thought, Great, how the heck are we going to rewind a DVD before returning it? Then we realized that DVDs don’t need to be rewound. What a joyous time. No more fees for not rewinding! 

We haven’t quite gotten to that point in the random movie fact business yet, but we’re working on it. For now, please scroll back up to the top of this list so the next reader doesn’t have to. Thanks!

Con Air

SIMON WEST WANTED TO DO A Con Air SEQUEL... in space. West floated the idea of the sequel being a studio version where they're all robots or the convicts are reanimated as super-convicts, or where the good guys are bad guys and the bad guys are good guys. Something shocking. CRACKED.COM

Los Enchiladas

GRACKED MITCH HEDBERG'S FILM LOS ENCHILADAS! Не wrote, directed and starred in this very low budget movie that he funded himself. It starred Maria Bamford, Marc Maron, and Dave Attell, was edited by Broken Lizard's Jay Chandrasekhar, and premiered at Sundance in 1999.

Die Hard

In his Die Hard fall, Alan Rickman was supposed to get dropped on the count of three. They dropped him before three, to get a look of pure shock. CRACKED.COM

Star Wars

Alderaan got blown up in Star Wars because Alderaan scenes were too expensive. George Lucas' initial idea was for Alderaan to be the site of the prison Leia would get rescued from, but he didn't have as much money as he wanted, so he just put all those scenes on the Death Star. CRACKED.COM

The Dark Tower

The Dark Tower director Ron Howard wishes the movie was more grown-up. I think it should've been horror, he said, rather than PG-13 and sort of a boy's adventure. CRACKED.COM

Sylvester Stallone

CRACKED Stallone jumped between Rocky and Rambo in the '80s. Between 1976 and 1990, he made 5 Rocky movies and 3 Rambo movies. Between 1982 and 1985, the first 2 Rambo movies dropped between Rocky III and IV.

John Wick

The mirror room scene in John Wick: Chapter 2 was an homage to the 1973 Bruce Lee flick Enter the Dragon. CRACKED.COM

The Purge

CELEBRITIES' FAVORITE SCARY MOVIES KRISTEN BELL watches THE PURGE for her Halloween binge. She is a big fan of scary movies in general.. CRACKED.COM

Get Out

Get Out's shade of light blue for its opening credits is an homage to The Shining. G E T OUT THE SHINING CRACKED.COM

The Red Violin

Samuel L. Jackson's favorite Jackson movies aren't what you think. It's not, say, a bunch of Tarantino movies- his list of his favorite movies only includes one Tarantino film, Jackie Brown, and movies like The Long Kiss Goodnight from 1996 and The Red Violin from 1998. CRACKED.COM

SNL Movies

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM No one has more unproduced SNL movies. Smigel is the king of writing SNL movies that never got made, including flicks about the Ambiguously Gay Duo, the Superfans and Hans and Franz. Schwarzenegger killed the Hans and Franz movie after Last Action Hero tanked.

Avengers

Movies That switched Directors Avengers movies Jon Favreau JOSS whedon The RUSSOS Favreau left before the first one, then Whedon fell off after Age of Ultron. The Russo brothers broke the curse, still going on after several movies. CRACKED.COM

The Addams Family

Trailer-only scenes The Addams Family An entire fake scene (the family at the movies) was shot for a trailer.. CRACKED.COM

Animal House

The Animal House actors got beaten up at a real frat party. They were brought on location to the University of Oregon campus a week early, so one day they went to a party on campus. The brothers hated them being there in the first place, and James Widdoes knocked a beer cup into one of their faces - - that's when the brothers charged them, and they ran (unsuccessfully). Widdoes had a few teeth knocked loose but, he says, that fight cemented us as a group. CRACKED.COM

Predator

Arnie pranked Jesse Ventura on the Predator shoot. In the wardrobe department, Ventura noticed that the tape for Arnold's arms was one inch shorter than his. Not long after, Ventura told Arnold they should measure their arms, so Arnold said Sure and suggested they bet a bottle of champagne. They found out Arnold's arms were three inches bigger - so Ventura was out a bottle of champagne. Arnold had set up the fake tape, knowing Ventura would react the way he did. CRACKED.COM

Knives Out

Rian Johnson fanboyed all over Christopher Plummer during Knives Out. Between takes, he'd try to get Plummer to tell him what it was like to work with John Huston on The Man Who Would Be King, one of his favorite movies. CRACKED.COM

The Godfather

Behind the scenes of The Godfather, the actors liked to moon each other. ON It started with James Caan and Robert Duvall dropping their pants and mooning Marlon Brando at random. Not to be outdone, Brando bared his cheeks while cameras were being set up for the wedding photo scene, in full view of nearly 500 extras. http://entertainment.time.com/2012/03/15/the-anniversary-you-cant-refuse- 40-things-you-didnt-know-about-the-godfather/slide/ots-of-bare-butt-cheeks/ CRACKED.COM

Independence Day

The filming of Independence Day led to UFO sighting reports. When the crew was filming the helicopter carrying communication lighting, people thought it was a UFO and called the police about it. CRACKED.COM

Pinocchio

Disney behind the scenes Pinocchio They made real, working clocks. It was to prove to Walt Disney the beautiful, animated ones made logical sense. CRACKED.COM

The Exorcist

BEHIND-THE-SCENES FACTS The Exorcist is the first horror movie to be nominated for Best Picture. CRACKED.COM It received 10 Oscar nominations in 1974, including Best Supporting Actress for the 15 year old Linda Blair. It lost Best Picture to The Sting, a movie you didn't know existed until now.

Annabelle

BEHIND-THE-SCENES FACTS The real doll that inspired The Conjuring was a normal Raggedy Ann. WARNING POSITIVEL CRACKED.COM DO NOT In The Conjuring, and the Annabelle spin-off, the evil-possessed doll is a creepy, ventriloquist-dummy-looking toy with wooden skin and large, unblinking eyes. In reality, the toy that inspired the series is a regular Raggedy Ann, which is locked up in Warrens' Occult Museum in Monroe, ст.

The Blair Witch Project

BEHIND-THE-SCENES FACTS People thought The Blair Witch Project was real, and that the people in the movie actually died. CRACKED.COM Due to the marketing around The Blair Witch Project, which described the unknown actors as missing, presumed dead, many viewers thought they were really watching the final days of the people on the screen. The mother of actress Heather Donahue actually received sympathy cards from concerned audience members.

Scream

BEHIND-THE-SCENES FACTS Scream was based on actual events that happened in Florida. GRACKED.COM Danny Rolling went on a killing spree in 1991 in Gainesville, Florida, killing five students in their apartments with a knife and posing their bodies to shock investigators. Screenwriter Kevin Williamson was watching the news story when he noticed an open window in his home, which inspired him to write the Scream script.

Johnny Depp

Johnny Depp gave Jack Sparrow brain damage. the CARIBBEAN PIRATES Sparrow was originally supposed to be more or less a regular pirate. Depp decided to spice it up, and gave him heat-induced brain damage, difficulty walking on land, and other famous quirks. Sparrow might be an iconic character now, but at the time these changes almost got Depp fired. CRACKED COM

Escape from New York

Snake Plissken wasn't supposed to have an eyepatch. ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK It was Kurt Russell's idea. According to Russell, when he proposed the eyepatch to John Carpenter, the director said, That's great! I don't think anybody's worn an eyepatch since John Wayne in True Grit! CRACKED.COM

Shrek

Mike Myers' last-minute change of mind gave Shrek his Scottish accent. SHREK After watching a rough cut of the movie, Myers decided the original Canadian version of Shrek didn't quite work. So to the dismay of the studio (and at great expense!), he decided to rerecord all his lines with a Scottish accent, which he thought would work much better for the character. CRACKED.COM

Ghostbusters

Louis Tully was supposed to be a swinging bachelor. The character was written as a portly young bachelor and indomitable swinger, with John Candy in mind to play the role. Once Rick Moranis got the part, he changed Tully into the relatable shy nerd we all love today. CRACKED.COM

The Thing

John W. Campbell's Who Goes There? is a classic of the golden age of sci-fi. NHO RES RE WHO GOES THERE? . مع - THE THING HOTA JOHN W. CAMPBELL, JR. but The Thing immerses the audience in paranoia by keeping its ambiguity all the way to the end. CRACKED.COM

How to Train Your Dragon

How To Train Your Dragon is pretty similar to its source... except in the books, instead of being a cool black supersonic dragon, Toothless is literally toothless and cannot be ridden at all. CRACKED.COM

The Brave Little Toaster

The Brave Little Toaster ends on a sadder note than its movie adaptation, with the appliances never reuniting with their beloved master. THE Disney BRAVE LITTLE TOASTER PRESENTS THE BRAVE LITTLE TOASTER THOMAS M. DISCH An Adorable Adventure That Kids-Will Treasure! The Illustrated by KAREN LEE SCHMIDT WT Change Services This feels so unsatisfying that the change makes the movie superior, if only for the sake of closure. CRACKED.COM

Jaws

GRACKED.COM BOTH THE BOOK AND THE MOVIE JAWS WERE WIDELY SUCCESSFUL. BUT THE MOVIE HAS A MUCH MORE IMPACTFUL CLIMAX: THE SHARK GETS KILLED BY AN EPIC EXPLOSION AFTER AN AMAZING ONE-LINER, WHILE IN THE BOOK IT SLOWLY FADES AWAY AFTER BEING HARPOONED. ALSO, THE MOVIE ELIMINATES THE UNNECESSARY AFFAIR BETWEEN HOOPER AND ELLEN.

Mean Girls

Mean Girls is considered a '00s classic. OVER 400, 000 COPIES SOLD UNDSAYLOHAN WATCH BEES YOUR Helping your daughter survive cliques, gossip, boyfriends and the new realities of Girl World BACK ROSALIND WISEMAN N THEATRESAPRIL 30 NOTINAFEY MEANGIRLS with MeaGGro.com JOHN THE FULLY REVISED AND UPDATED It's based on Queen Bees and Wannabees, a self-help book filled with cliches which spends many pages demonizing teenagers. CRACKED.COM

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