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The Doof Warrior

MADMAX FURY ROAD COMA the DooF WaRRiOR was discovered in a cave with his murdered mother's severed head as his only company. Now he pays respect to her by wearing her skin over his own, in battle. We suppose that's something of an improvement. CRACKED.COM — Origin Stories That Are Over-The-Top Dark (For No Reason)

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Grand Theft Auto

GRAND THEFT AUTO ONLINE CRACKED.COM If you tip the bathroom attendant 500 times, you'll receive the Epsilon robes from the cult in GTA: San Andreas. — TheGamer

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Kick-Ass

Quicksilver appears in both the Marvel Cinematic Universe (played by Aaron Taylor-Johnson) and the X-Men film series (played by Evan Peters). Both act

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Cars 2

The critically panned Cars 2 made $561 million, over 20 percent more than Cars. CRACKED.COM — Source: 24 Pop Culture Iconic Things (That Bombed Initially)

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The Sound of Music

GRAGKED.COM When The Sound of Music was released in 1965, the critics tore it apart. ROBERT THE - WISE SOUND RODGERS -HAMMERSTEINS OF MUSiC cellus JULIE ANDREWS CREATOPRES PLUMMER RICHARD - Richard HAYDN - ELEANOR PARKER - - I Robert Whe Rodgers - Oscar Hammerstein II Production KALORE - - سلام Active - Ernest Lehman We have been turned into emotional and aesthetic imbeciles when we hear ourselves humming the sickly, goody-goody songs. was one of the harshest reviews. — Source: 24 Pop Culture Iconic Things (That Bombed Initially)

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Moonraker

Moonraker is usually said to be the worst Bond movie. COP It was the all-time highest-grossing one for 16 years. CRACKED.COM — Source: 23 Wildly Successful Movie Failures

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John Lennon

WASTDUD Y ) John Lennon and Dimebag Darrell were both shot by fans on December 8th. CRACKED COM

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Wake Up, Ron Burgundy

CRACKEDCON Director Adam McKay made a new film out of Anchorman's deleted scenes, called Wake Up, Ron Burgundy: The Lost Movie. TEA It feels like an a

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Daniel Radcliffe

The second time Susan Hill's 1983 novel, The Woman In Black, was made into a film, the main character was played by Daniel Radcliffe -- a.k.a Harry Po

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True Lies

Avenres The jet Thor throws the Hulk into in The Avengers is the same jet at the end of True Lies. True Lies CRACKED

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Nomadland

NOMADLAND The majority of the cast were real people. The characters in the movie are actual nomads playing fictionalized versions of themselves. If you look at the credits, you'll see that most of their characters were named after themselves. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Hollywood Walk of Fame

There are more than 2,600 stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame GODZILLA 17 are dedicated to fictional characters GRAGKED COM — Source

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Jonathan Banks

Characters that weren't supposed to last Mike Ehrmantraut on Breaking Bad The now-favorite murdering grandpa was created because Bob Odenkirk had a shooting conflict, and the script needed a character to relay information. Vince Gilligan liked both characters, so he kept writing episodes involving them. CRACKED.COM — AMC
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Hanna-Barbera

Q. Why did so many Hanna-Barbera characters wear ties and collars? Neck ornaments made the characters easier and cheaper to animate, allowing the artists to draw the head and body separate. CRACKED — Source: BBC

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Dracula

Super-Weird Early Versions Of Famous Characters - In the original illustrations for Dracula, Dracula wasn't exactly terrifying. — Source: 9 Incredibly Dumb Early Versions Of Iconic Characters

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Total Recall

Super-Weird Early Versions Of Famous Characters - Total Recall's Quaid was supposed to be an accountant. — Source: Film School Rejects

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Anne Hathaway

To pull off playing a British character in The Hustle, Anne Hathaway took inspiration from Stewie Griffin. While Hathaway looked at actresses like Jul

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Super Mario

The characters in Super Mario games are all just playing pretend. Mario creator Shigeru Miyamoto thinks of the characters as a troupe of actors (or a

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Game of Thrones

Game of Thrones is sO successful even among non-fantasy fans because it puts characters first. Devoting so much time to exploring characters' motivati

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Neon Genesis Evangelion

Schick used Neon Genesis Evangelion characters to shill their razors in Japan. NE RV ick x - Because nothing communicates close shave better than psychologically damaged characters from a depressing anime. CRACKED.COM

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RoboCop

Even though it's set in Detroit, the Robocop movie was actually filmed in Dallas. CRACKED.COM The only real shot of Detroit in the entire movie is the aerial shot in the opening, and that was stock footage. — The Geek Twins / YouTube

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Malcolm X

Malcolm X filmed in Mecca, which was unprecedented. Non-Muslims in the crew were forbidden from entering. A special secondary crew was assembled, while Spike Lee and his own crew had to wait outside. Originally, Warner Bros. suggested these scenes be filmed in New Jersey. CRACKED.COM — Source: 21 Famous Movie Locations With Killer Back Stories

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The Georgias

THE GEORGIAS CRACKED COM While the show uses some exterior shots of the Ozarks, sets based on the Alhonna Resort in the Ozarks were constructed and filmed near Lake Allatoona and Lake Lanier in Georgia. Many other scenes are filmed at Eagle Rock Studios in Atlanta. — Source: youtube

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Bruce Lee

Bruce Lee's iconic on-screen fight with Chuck Norris was filmed illegally. They fought in The Way Of The Dragon at the Colosseum in Rome, and really filmed part of the scene there - filming there is against the law, but they bribed some officials and hid filming equipment in bags. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Wolverine

CRACKED.COM THE WOLVERINE SET IN: JAPAN FILMED IN: SYDNEY t Not only was the Japanese garden scene in The Wolverine not filmed in Japan, it wasn't eve

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Elf

Many of the scenes in Elf were filmed at an abandoned psychiatric hospital in Vancouver. CRACKED.COM In the '50s, Riverview Hospital was home to more than 4,000 ра- tients. The X Files, Super- natural, Saw, Deadpool 2, and many others have filmed scenes on the site. — Tri City News / YouTube

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Community

THE 6TH SEASON OF COMMUNITY WAS FILMED IN A BASEMENT. CRACKED It was filmed under the set of Parks and Rec! — 15 Trivia Tidbits About ‘Community’ / Time

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The Simpsons Movie

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The Toll of the Sea

The first movie filmed in color. 1922 CRACKED.COM There are color films that predate this one, but they all required post-production coloring processes. The Toll of the Sea was the first movie actually filmed in color. — Source

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Superbad

The house party from SUPERBAD GIRAU was filmed half a block from the OJ Simpson murder house.

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The 40-Year-Old Virgin

BEHIND-THE-SCENESFACTS Studio execs thought the cast looked FAT ANDEVIL CRACKED.COM Production stopped after two days because the studio thought Paul Rudd was too fat and Carell looked like a serial killer. To get back on track, Rudd literally stopped eating, according to Leslie Mann. Carell, apparently, just had to lighten up. — Vulture , Cracked

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Velma

GRAGKED.COM Studio execs said no to a lesbian Velma in the Scooby-Doo movies. According to James Gunn, Velma was written as explicitly lesbian in his initial script - but then the studio intervened, making her sexuality ambiguous (and finally giving her a boyfriend in the sequel). — Source

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Alien

Ridley Scott had to fight the studio to use the work of surrealist painter H.R. Giger in Alien. Giger, who designed all the aliens in the movie, almost didn't make the cut because the studio thought his work was too obscene. Scott got into a fight with the studio: I — Deadline

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Run Lola Run

TIME LOOP MOVIES RUN LOLA RUN THERE WAS NO STUDIO MEDDLING. Director Tom Tykwer could do the movie he wanted without answering to any studio suit-because he was the studio suit. Не was a founder of the film's production company, X-Filme Creative Pool. CRACKED.COM — Source: GoodBadFlicks/YouTube

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Nirvana

GRACKED IN UTERO Nirvana recorded their third studio album, In Utero, in only two weeks at a studio in the woods. Their sound engineer on that album said If a record takes more than a week to make, somebody's f*ing up. — Rolling Stone / Loudwire

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Friends

Friends was filmed in front of a live studio audience that they asked to leave before shooting the cliffhangers. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Peter Jackson

Peter Jackson fought with the studio over the budget of The Lord of the Rings. One time, he refused to even take a call from the studio when they threatened to sue him, saying he won't interrupt his day with a phone call like that. CRACKED.COM — Source: Deadline

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Thomas Edison

The first movie studio. 1893 CRACKED.COM Thomas Edison's New Jersey studio, The Black Maria, was built for about $600 to produce short films for the Kinetoscope. — Source

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WandaVision

BEHIND-THE-SCENESFACTS CRACKEDcO THE SHOW USED A LIVE STUDIO AUDIENCE STA CLEASE In order to be more authentic, the first episode was shot with an actual live studio audience on set. Paul Bettany and Elizabeth Olsen say the experience was nerve-wracking. — EW & Variety

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The MGM Lion

Jackie survived an earthquake, a studio explosion, a sinking ship, two train wrecks, and this plane crash: CRACKED COM

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