28 Off-Putting Bits of Movie Trivia With a Heart of Gold

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28 Off-Putting Bits of Movie Trivia With a Heart of Gold

No one sets out to make a bad movie, just like no one sets out to drum up a bad movie fact. We’re always on the hunt for the biggest, most awesome movie tidbits, but awesomeness is subjective now, isn’t it? 

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The Godfather

The Godfather predicted DeNiro's Oscar wins. SE THE GODFATHER GARDER m BI JAKE LA MOTTA TOMMY CRACKED.COM This scene shows Marlon Brando next to a poster for boxer Jake LaMotta. DeNiro would go on to win Oscars for depicting LaMotta and the younger version of Brando's character.

The Passion of the Christ

God checked in on Mel Gibson's Jesus tribute. THE PASSION OF THE CHRIST CRACKED.COM Actor Jim Caviezel, who played Jesus in the film, was struck by lightning during production, as was assitant director Jan Michelini - twice.

Poltergeist

The cursed future Super Bowl. POLTERGEIST 1988 - WARS CRACKED.COM A poster on Robbie's wall says 1988 Superbowl XXII - but the movie was filmed in 1982. So what happened when Super Bowl XXII rolled around? The actress who played Robbie's sister fell suddenly ill and died, 5 miles from where the game was being played.

Sid & Nancy

Courtney Love almost played Nancy Spungen, then became her. SID & NANCY CRACKED.COM Long before her infamous, volatile relationship with Kurt Cobain, Love was an aspiring actress. She was almost cast as the infamous, volatile Nancy, Sid Vicious' girlfriend, but ended up getting the (still ironic) role of junkie hanger-on.

Bruce Lee

Bruce Lee's final film foretold his son's death. GAME OF DEATH/THE CROW CRACKED.COM In Lee's final film, he played an actor who is accidentally killed by a false prop gun. Brandon Lee was killed 20 years later when he was shot by what everyone thought was a prop gun.

Wizard of Oz

The Wizard wore the original author's jacket. THE WIZARD OF OZ CRACKED.COM The wardrobe department scavenged an old jacket from a nearby thrift shop. When actor Frank Morgan tried it on, he noticed a tag that said L. Frank Baum - the author of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.

Ronald Reagan

Ronald Reagan saved his own ass. X CODE OF THE SECRET SERVICE CRACKED.COM Reagan called the film the worst picture I ever made, but it was what inspired Secret Service Agent Jerry Parr to get into the security biz. Parr was instrumental in saving Reagan from an assassination attempt 4 decades later.

Quicksilver

Two super pals ended up becoming the same hero at the same time. KICK-ASS/AGE OF ULTRON/DAYS OF FUTURE PAST CRACKED.COM Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Evan Peters, who played aspiring supers in Kick-Ass (2010), ended up playing Quicksilver in the Avengers (2015) and X-Men (2014) franchises right around the same time.

Tropic Thunder

Robert Downey, Jr. got an Oscar nom for lampooning Oscar bait. TROPIC THUNDER CRACKED.COM The whole point of his Kirk Lazarus character was to point out the absurdity of the Oscars rewarding extreme method acting. His living breathing parody got him nominated for Best Supporting Actor.

Bram Stoker

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Bette Davis

Bette Davis kicked Joan Crawford in the face. Crawford finally got back at her during a later What Ever Happened To Baby Jane? scene, in which Davis had to drag her around. Unbeknownst to Davis, Crawford had lined her dress with lead weights, causing the 54-year-old Davis throw her back out. CRACKED.COM

Star Wars

Return of the Jedi originally featured a resurrected Yoda and Obi-Wan. In an early draft, Luke goes to the Imperial capital planet to fight Vader. Just before the duel, flesh-and-blood versions of Obi-Wan and Yoda appear out of nowhere, saying they came back to help him fight Vader and the Emperor. But they, and the Emperor, just watch Luke and Vader duke it out and comment the duel. CRACKED.COM

Goldfinger

MYTH: The girl painted with gold in Goldfinger died In the 1964 James Bond movie Goldfinger, people thought actress Shirley Eaton had died from being covered in gold paint, but she was actually okay and went on to make more movies before she quit acting. CRACKED

James Bond

CRACKED.COM JAMES BOND MAY BE NAMED AFTER A CHURCH IN CANADA. Officially, lan Fleming named his spy after the author of a book on birds. But maybe it isn't a coincidence that Fleming spent a couple weeks in Toronto in 1942, just down the street from St. James Bond United Church (an amalgamation of two other churches, St. James and Bond Street).

Midnight

Forgotten Rom-Coms Midnight Challenging the Hays Code, this wacky comedy is way too raunchy for the prudish reputation of old-timey Hollywood. A gold-digging American showgirl is left stranded in Paris, and is romantically pursued by a cabbie while a wealthy man pays her to ruin his wife's love affair. It's pure screwball insanity, and the quick-witted script hasn't aged one bit. 1939 CRACKED.COM

X-Men: Days of Future Past

TIME TRAVEL MOVIES 482 X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST WE WERE GOING TO SEE MAGNETO KILLING JFK. When Matthew Vaugh was supposed to direct the movie, an early idea was to open with Magneto controlling the magic bullet that killed the president. In the end, it was all reduced to a remark by Beast. CRACKED.COM

Ghostbusters

Stay-Puft Splatter: STAY PUFT Dimensions: 112.5 x 37.5 ft. Marshmallow Density: 3.3 lbs/gal Marshmallow Volume: 925,000 gal Total Weight: 1,543 tons CRACKED.COM

AVP: Requiem

AVP: Requiem is the only Alien movie that doesn't have eggs hatching into facehuggers. Facehuggers are seen sparingly in the movie after they escape the crashed ship in the opening scene. CRACKED.COM DOWNLOAD: ALIEN FILMS

Cliffs of Moher

GRACKED COM The Cliffs of Insanity The Princess Bride (1987) Cliffs of Moher are real-life terrifyingly steep cliffs that stretch for 8 kilometres along the Atlantic coast of County Clare in the west of Ireland. Many films have used the location including: The Yank (2013) Blind Pass (2012) Burke & Hare (2010) Into the West (1992) The horerux Cave Hear My Song (1992) The Mackintosh Man (1973) Harry Potter and the Half- Ryans Daughter (1970) Blood Prince (2009) .The Guns of Navarone (1961)

Scarlett Johansson

Scarlett Johansson LAPD Johansson, along with Eva Mendes, starred in My Brother the Pig, which was bad even by a kid's standards. CRACKED COM

Lost Movies

In 1978, a trove of lost movies was found under an ice rink in a Canadian town. 2 litre 18.5 kg 22 They were buried there when Dawson City's old theatres shut down, and lay forgotten until the ice rink got demolished to make way for a parking lot. Over 500 films were salvaged, including old newsreels, some from as far back as 1903. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

Mortal Kombat

The first-ever EDM record to go platinum was the Mortal Kombat soundtrack. 27% The filmmakers absolutely insisted on EDM, and got booted from two record companies for it -- but it paid off. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

Star Trek

The engine room scenes in 2009's Star Trek were shot in a brewery. J.J. Abrams wanted a big, open space that was totally unlike the soundstage sets seen in every Trek before that, so they used the Anheuser-Busch brewery in Van Nuys, California - which has 1.7 million square feet of floor area. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

Ghostbusters 2

Ghostbusters 2's fur coat gag was recycled. They were going to use the gag with the dead skins coming back to life in the first movie, but they just didn't get around to filming it. So they put it in the sequel. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

Superman

Richard Donner was never told what the budget for Superman was. It's a miracle Donner managed to make such a beloved movie, as the producers for some reason wouldn't let him know how much money he had to work with. They'd just tell him, You can't do that, without further guidance. Не didn't even get to see the final cut until the premiere. CRACKED.COM

The Graduate

Robert Redford was too hot for the lead role in 1967's The Graduate. CRACKED.COM Redford badly wanted the role but was rejected by di- rector Mike Nicholls because he didn't think Redford could play a loser. 'Let's put it this way, Nicholls reportedly said, Have you ever struck out with a girl?

Greystone: The Legend of Tarzan

A dog is credited as the writer of Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan. CRACKED.COM Screenwriter Robert Towne hated the finished movie so much that he pulled his name off the film and cred- ited his dog as the writer. The dog, Р.Н. Vazak, ended up with an Oscar nomina- tion.

Super Mario Bros.

John Leguizamo sadly sacrificed a lot to play Luigi in Super Mario Bros. Не had gotten the chance to play Tom Hanks' character's love interest in Philadelphia, but he refused the offer and decided to play Luigi instead. CRACKED.COM

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