33 Epic Bits of Movie Trivia About the Biggest Blockbusters of All Time

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33 Epic Bits of Movie Trivia About the Biggest Blockbusters of All Time
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We can’t believe that the Cracked higher-ups gave us this kind of money to pump out these movie facts, so we’re honestly kind of freaking out. We’ve done some low-budget indie lists before, but helming a project of this size comes with some serious stakes. 

How directors confidently lead the way on multi-million dollar movies like these will forever remain a huge mystery to us. Maybe they pulled off a better acting job than anyone on set by hiding their gut-wrenching fears of failure, but who knows? Either way, they pulled off some blockbuster hits, so maybe we can pull off these blockbuster facts. 

If not, we’ll never work in this fact town again.

Dougray Scott

CRACKED.COM Dougray scott was too late to play Wolverine. You may remember Scott as the bad guy in Mission: Impossible 2. He remembers that as well, a

Mission: Impossible

33 Epic Bits of Movie Trivia About the Biggest Blockbusters of All Time

Tom Cruise

Tom Cruise can hold his breath for up to six and a half minutes. NESAKO While filming Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation, Cruise learned underwater tr

Top Gun

TOP GUN BOOSTED RECRUITMENT NUMBERS FOR THE NAVY, After the movie was released, there was a 500% growth rate for the naval aviator position. CRACKED C

The Fast and the Furious

The first seven Fast and Furious movies wrecked over a thousand cars -- the number is 1,487. If you included the cars from the 8th and 9th movie, plus the ones from Hobbs & Shaw, the total number might cross the 2,000 figure. CRACKED.COM

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Vin Diesel

SFURAISUS FURIOUS Vin Diesel isn't in all of the Fast & Furious movies. He turned down 2 Fast 2 Furious, and only made a brief cameo at the end of The

Leia’s Kiss for Luck

33 Epic Bits of Movie Trivia About the Biggest Blockbusters of All Time

E.T.

STRANGER THINGS INSPIRATIONS E.T. THE EXTRA- TERRESTRIAL Steven Spielberg considered titles like Upon A Star and The Landing. Melissa Mathison's original script was titled E.T. and Me, which is suspiciously similar of the awful E.T. knockoff Mac and Me. CRACKED.COM

Ghostbusters

STRANGER THINGS INSPIRATIONS GHOSTBUSTERS The juvenile joke (and kickass climax) about crossing the streams wasn't in the script. Harold Ramis and Dan Aykroyd came up with the method to defeat Gozer at the last minute, and then changed earlier scenes to foreshadow it. CRACKED.COM

Birdman

BIRDMAN THE SCORE WAS IMPROVISED. In order to keep the movie's fast and loose tone, composer Antonio Sánchez just played the jazz drums and experimented with different tempos for various scenes and scene transitions. CRACKED.COM

The Martian

THE MARTIAN THEY ACTUALLY GREW POTATOES ON SET. In order to show the potatoes in different stages of growth, production grew the spuds themselves on the sound stage next to the one they were using. CRACKED.COM

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDEN DRAGON THIS WAS ZHANG ZIYI'S SECOND FILM. The 19-year-old didn't even have her first film appearance released before she was signed on for the Ang Lee classic. Lee chose her due to Zhang's innate cinematic charisma. CRACKED.COM

Suicide Squad

CRACKED.COM THE SUICIDE SQUAD SUPERMAN WAS GOING TO BE THE VILLAIN. James Gunn's plans were to have the Squad go toe- to-toe with the Man of Steel. Then he changed his mind, not wanting to make the movie's connection to the rest of the DCEU even more complicated.

Robert Downey Jr.

THE AVENGERS ROBERT DOWNEY JR. HID SNACKS THROUGHOUT THE SET. Since he was in most of the scenes, RDJ didn't have time to grab a snack. To keep himself energized, he hid food everywhere and just had his character nibble around as he performed. CRACKED.COM

The Digital Management System for Avatar

One fully finished minute of Avatar took up around 17 gigabytes of storage. The movie had to use a custom cloud computing and digital management system, called Gaia, developed specially by Microsoft just for Avatar. CRACKED COM

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Avatar

AVATAR WAS FIRST PUBLISHED BY MARVEL. Timespirits is a very obscure comic from the '80s that only ran for a few issues, but it certainly looks enough

The Dark Knight

That's really Christian Bale on top of the Sears Tower in The Dark Knight. He told his stunt double You get to do a lot of fantastic stunts. You're not taking that one away from me. CRACKED.COM

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The Mechanical Shark from Jaws

33 Epic Bits of Movie Trivia About the Biggest Blockbusters of All Time

Robert Shaw and Richard Dreyfuss

Robert Shaw and Richard Dreyfuss made Jaws together. Behind the scenes, they feuded the whole time. It started when Shaw complained that he wished he

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Mad Max: Fury Road

MAD MAX: FURY ROAD featured an exciting scene where warriors use poles to swing down from one vehicle to another. At first, George Miller wanted to us

Mission: Impossible — Rogue Nation

33 Epic Bits of Movie Trivia About the Biggest Blockbusters of All Time

Jurassic World

The early concept art for Jurassic World features gun-wielding dinosaurs in humanoid JurassIC WORLD form! Final Concept

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