26 Random Bits of Movie Trivia to Loudly and Confidently Tell Everyone Around You While You Wait for That Post-Credit Scene

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26 Random Bits of Movie Trivia to Loudly and Confidently Tell Everyone Around You While You Wait for That Post-Credit Scene

Post-credit scenes have become so commonplace that we actually get a little disappointed when there isnt one. Streaming makes it a little less annoying (since we can easily fast-forward to see if there is one), but in a theater, waiting until the very end is quite the time commitment.

Do people still say “fast-forward”? Either way, dont get your hopes up today. Theres no post-list scene waiting for you at the end of this list.

Terminator 2: Judgment Day

CRACKED.COM Terminator 2: Judgment Day Arnold Schwarzenegger got $21,429 per word. Arnie was paid $15 million for the movie, and with only 700 words of dialogue, the math checks out. It sure beats his $75,000 paycheck for the first Terminator.

Han Solo

CRACKED.COM The Empire Strikes Back George Lucas hated Han Solo's I know. According to director Irvin Kershner, Lucas thought that Harrison Ford's improvised line would cause people to laugh. Preview screenings proved him wrong.

Us

CRACKED.COM Us Jordan Peele is terrified of rabbits. A reason why rabbits play a major part in the horror film is Peele's fear of the Peter Cottontails. Не explains this by his childhood exposure to bunny-infused yet horrifying Watership Down and Night of the Lepus.

Titanic

Celion Dion and James Cameron both hated My Heart Will Go On. Titanic Dion didn't much care for the song in general, and Cameron just didn't think a pop song would fit the epicness of the movie's story. It's not often when you are both wrong and get richer at the same time. CRACKED.COM

Pacific Rim

The four-story jaeger cockpits in Pacific Rim are physical sets, not CGI. CRACKED.COM

The Wolf of Wall Street

A lion tamer walked the lion in The Wolf of Wall Street. They filmed the scene with the lion being walked through an empty office by the trainer, then took out the trainer and added all the people. CRACKED.COM

Predator

Arnie's cigar wasn't really lit at the start of Predator. Somehow, they couldn't get it to light up, so they gave up and added the glow as a visual effect. CRACKED.COM

Jaws

The Jaws scene of Hooper in the shark cage featured a 4'9 stunt double and a shrunken cage. They did that to make the sharks look even bigger than they were. CRACKED.COM

Jim Carrey

Jim Carrey came up with the Big gulps? line in Dumb and Dumber on the spot. 188 77 The two guys standing there weren't even in the movie - they were just watching the shoot. Carrey just decided to start talking to them, and everyone rolled with it. CRACKED.COM

Rain Man

Tom Cruise and Dustin Hoffman ad-libbed their reactions to the fart in the phone booth in Rain Man. Hoffman actually farted, and they just reacted in-character and kept going. CRACKED.COM

Scott Pilgrim vs. the World

It was Kieran Culkin's idea to throw keys at Scott's head in Scott Pilgrim vs. the World. Which means Michael Cera's reaction in the shot is probably genuine. CRACKED.COM

The Social Network

Andrew Garfield just decided to do that little dance when he went up to Jesse Eisenberg at the party in The Social Network. When David Fincher saw that, he thought this guy's going to be a movie star. CRACKED.COM

Dr. Strange

26 Random Bits of Movie Trivia to Loudly and Confidently Tell Everyone Around You While You Wait for That Post-Credit Scene

The Grand Budapest Hotel

Movie: The Grand Budapest Hotel Inspiration: Austro-Hungarian and Prussian photochrom pictures. Director Wes Anderson used photochrom pictures (black-and-white photographs that have been colorized) to create the fictitious Republic of Zubrowska. The Library of Congress's photochrom collection includes all these commercially produced pictures showing views of Europe around the turn of the century. Zubrowska is also the name of a Polish Bison Grass vodka. CRACKED.COM

The Dark Knight

CRACKED COM Movie: The Dark Knight Inspiration: The art of Francis Bacon Christopher Nolan based the Joker's makeup on Bacon's work: I wound up taking a book of Bacon paintings and showing them  a lot of the different distortions and the way the paint would run together and the colors would mix. That debunks the whole some kid did it theory.

Logan

CRACKED COM Movie: Logan Inspiration: Little Miss Sunshine 68 When director James Mangold originally pitched his idea to the studio, he told them: I want to make Little Miss Sunshine with Logan, Charles Xavier, and Х-23. Trap these superheroes in a van on a highway in the year 2029 and see what happens. Which explains a lot.

Shaun of the Dead

26 Random Bits of Movie Trivia to Loudly and Confidently Tell Everyone Around You While You Wait for That Post-Credit Scene

Hail, Caesar!

Channing Tatum learned to tap dance for Hail, Caesar! Despite his role in Step Up, he had to train for three months to perform the six-minute dance sequence in this film. CRACKED.COM

Friday The 13th Part 3

26 Random Bits of Movie Trivia to Loudly and Confidently Tell Everyone Around You While You Wait for That Post-Credit Scene

The Empire Strikes Back

In The Empire Strikes Back, footage of Luke wandering the plains of Hoth was shot from a hotel's back door. It was so cold outside that cameras wouldn't work, and tape recorders instantly froze up. So the crew were restricted to shooting from the rear entrance of their hotel - Mark Hamill staggered in the snow 12 feet away. CRACKED.COM

Deadpool

DEADPOOL SCREENWRITERS RHETT REESE AND PAUL WERNICK ORIGINALLY PLANNED FOR A LONG-WINDED GUN FIGHT AT THE CLIMAX, BUT THE STUDIO DECIDED TO CUT THE BUDGET. THAT'S HOW WE GET THAT MEMORABLE DEADPOOL FORGETS HIS GUNS' SCENE. CRACKED.COM

Gladiator

In Gladiator Russell Crowe wanted to give a Spanish accent to Maximus. Antonio Banderas with better elocution as he described it. ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED? NO! CRACKED.COM

Star Wars

STAR WARS: A NEW HOPE GEORGE LUCAS INITIALLY PLANNED TO END THE ICONIC LEIA RESCUE SCENE WITH LUKE PUNCHING LEIA IN THE FACE TO KNOCK HER OUT. FORTUNATELY, LUCAS HAD THE SENSE TO CUT THAT PART OUT IN THE SECOND DRAFT. CRACKED.COM

Get Out

Jordan Peele nearly ended Get Out on a really depressing note. In the alternate ending, Chris's buddy Rod is not the one to come out from the police car, but two white cops. Chris is then arrested and put in jail, unable to prove his innocence. CRACKED.COM

Rogue One

THE BEST SCENE FROM ROGUE ONE ALMOST DIDN'T HAPPEN. Gareth Edwards wanted the rebels to escape Darth Vader before he even boards their ship. The now iconic scene was shot just four months before the release of the movie, when editor Jabbez Olssen pitched the scene to Kathleen Kennedy, the president of Lucasfilm. CRACKED.COM

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom

George Lucas wanted Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom to take place in a haunted house. But Steven Spielberg declined because he had just finished working on Poltergeist, and wasn't interested in doing that again. CRACKED.COM

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