32 Bits of Movie Trivia We Shoved Back Into the Airlock at the Last Possible Second So They Could Marry Our Daughter

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32 Bits of Movie Trivia We Shoved Back Into the Airlock at the Last Possible Second So They Could Marry Our Daughter
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“Sacrifice: To some, it’s just a word. To others, it’s a code. A soldier knows that the life of an individual ant doesn’t matter. What matters is the colony. He’s willing to live for the colony, to fight for the colony, to die for the colony.”

Wow, who knew that the movie Antz could drop so much wisdom? Some truly heroic facts did. See, the movie facts you see here today are only here because of the sacrifices that some brave movie facts made. They laid their lives on the line so that your brain could have these few minutes of movie-fact enjoyment. 

Don’t let their sacrifice be for nothing. Enjoy these facts to the fullest.

A Bridge Too Far

The filming of 1971's A Bridge Too Far had a single million-dollar hour. They had an hour to shoot a scene with Robert Redford - if they didn't, they'd have to pay him a million dollars and try again in a week. Luckily for the budget, they made it. CRACKED.COM

X-Men

Classic movies crushed at the box office X-Men: Days of Future Past blitzed ahead of Edge of Tomorrow. Edge of Tomorrow made $56.6 million, while X-Men: Days of Future Past made $205.9 million by mid-June 2014. CRACKED

Star Wars

The trash in the trash compactor scene was definitely authentic. The smell was so bad Mark Hamill burst a blood vessel in his face, holding his breath. The camera work had to be adjusted for the rest of the scene, to avoid capturing it on film. CRACKED.COM http://www.msn.com/en-au/entertainment/movies/

Flubber

one second of Robin williams' improv added three months of CGI work to Flubber. Williams shoving his face into the Flubber wasn't scripted - he just did it, as was his usual М.О. The VFX team took three full months to get the goo to properly interact with William' face. CRACKED.COM

Titanic

The stars Rose looks at on that door raft are supposed to be the same stars that were in the sky on that fateful night. Neil deGrasse Tyson emailed James Cameron to tell him that his initial shot of the sky was wrong, so Cameron included Tyson's star map of April 15, 1912 in the Titanic Director's Cut. CRACKED.COM

No Time to Die

They poured Coca-Cola on an Italian town's cobblestones for No Time to Die. They were filming a chase scene and the cobblestones didn't have enough grip, so they used Coke and it was incredible how well it was working. 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.

Batman and Robin

Joel Schumacher hates Batman and Robin just as much as anyone else. BANOL SCHWARZENEGGER CHRIS GEORGIA O'DONNELL CLOONEY VS BATMAN ROBIN - THURMAN SILVERSTONE I - WITH - - adidas - - - JONE RO In a 2017 Vice interview, the director took the blame for the big-budget toy commercial masquerading as a film. Не said: I want to apologize to every fan that was disappointed, because I think I owe them that. I take full responsibility. CRACKED.COM

Disney Wine

Ratatouille Chardonnay CHARDONNAY BUY NOW BOURCOCNE RATATOUILLE Disney and Costco stopped plans for their Ratatouille Chardonnay in 2007 (that was supposed to feature Remy) after getting criticism from California winemakers and people who don't support underage drinking. Were we deprived ... or spared? CRACKED

Napoleon Dynamite

BEHINO-THE-SCENES SFACTS That was a helluva throw from UNCLE RICO CRACKED.COM Не actually nailed bike-riding Napoleon in the face with Kip's steak. The impact gave Heder two black eyes that you can see in multiple scenes. The steak fling is especially impressive considering actor Jon Gries is a vegan.

Batman Returns

Michelle Pfeiffer won't put a bird in her mouth (again). CRACKED.COM Pfieffer horked up a real, live bird in Batman Returns, but in the intervening years has realized I could have gotten a disease.

Billy Madison

In Billy Madison, Adam Sandler really hit kids with dodgeballs. When one of them started crying during the filming of the dodgeball scene, his parents came up to Sandler and complained. Sandler asked Didn't they read the script? and the parents told him They're six, they don't read yet. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

Monsters, Inc.

Monsters, Inc. assures us of the safety of the monsters. PROCESSING BY Monaco Labs PRINTS BY Technicolor RODUCED AND DISTRIBUTED ON Eastman Film NO MONSTERS WERE HARMED IN THE MAKING OF THIS MOTION PICTURE. THIS PICTURE MADE UNDER No. 38501 THE JURISDICTION OF Rest easy, kids. Your favorite scary friends were not injured. CRACKED.COM

The Story of the Kelly Gang

The first narrative feature film wasn't The Birth of a Nation. It was The Story of the Kelly Gang from Australia. The 1906 film caused controversy as it depicted outlaw and gang leader Ned Kelly as the hero, and the police as the bad guys. The government tried to ban the film, but it still managed to go international. CRACKED COM

The 35-Day-Long Movie

The longest movie ever has a runtime of over 35 days. LOGISTICS Video installation tracking the global fow of products CRACKED COM The experimental film by Erika Magnusson and Daniel Andersson, called Logistics, shows the production cycle of a pedometer, in reverse chronological order. The 51,420 minute movie records the journey taken by commercial goods from Sweden to China, from freight truck, to train, to cargo ship, all in real time.

The Meg

How much money could a dumb Jason Statham shark movie, panned by both audiences and critics, possibly make? THE TOMATOMETER ? AUDIENCE SCORE ? MEG 46% 45% liked it The answer is a reasonable $145 million... However we live in an unreasonable world and those are actually just the U.S. numbers. It grossed an insane $530 million worldwide. CRACKED.COM

Thor: Ragnarok

MARVEL STUDIOS THOR RAGNAROK IN THE COMIC BOOK THOR: RAGNAROK, THOR GOES CRAZY (NOT IN A FUN WAY). In the movie, he loses one eye. But in the comic, he rips out both his own eyes, then hangs himself from Yggdrasil, the World Tree. Later, he tears off Loki's head and wears it on his belt. In the end, he shatters Yggdrasil, killing everyone in the universe. CRACKED.COM

Romeo + Juliet

ROMEO + JULIET The rebellion between the older and younger generations were portrayed through wardrobe. The senior Montagues and Capulets were styled to a 1960s/1970s Yves St. Laurent /Jackie 0. look, a style that the younger characters reject. The young Capulets displayed their rejection through Dolce& Gabbana's sleek, black, super-tailored looks. The Montagues did it with an easy, Vietnam vibe of Hawaiian shirts, shorts, and pink-dyed hair. BEHIND THE SCENES CRACKED.COM

Lincoln

Steven Spielberg Movies Lincoln Lincoln was a first for Spielberg at the Oscars. Daniel Day-Lewis' 2013 Oscar (for Best Actor in a Leading Role) was his third Academy Award - but the first any performer won for a Spielberg movie. CRACKED.COM

Vampire’s Kiss

It was Nicholas Cage's idea to eat real cockroaches while filming Vampire's Kiss (1988). CRACKED.COM The script had called for Cage's character to suck a raw egg, but he felt that was too tame. Cage de- cided on cockroaches be- cause they are the thing he hates the most.

A Goofy Movie

Goofy's first yell is SLOWASENEDS TOTALLY RETRO A GOOFY MOVIE CRACKED.COM Though actor/comedian Bill Farmer provided the voice of Goofy, the initial Goofy yell in the movie is from a 1947 cartoon short.

A Christmas Story

The narrator is the real-life Ralphie. A Christmas Story is based on comedian Jean Shepherd's fictionalized accounts of his childhood. Shepherd worked on the adaptation, and voiced grown-up Ralphie. CRACKED.COM

The Wizard of Oz

The Wizard of Oz has an actual name. According to L. Frank Baum, it's Oscar Zoroaster Phadrig Isaac Norman Henkle Emmannuel Ambroise Diggs. CRACKED.COM

Escape From New York

Snake Plissken from Escape From New York went on a failed spy mission. In the novelization, he and his squad were supposed to be captured in WWIII and feed Russia bad intel -- but the Russians didn't fall for it. CRACKED.COM

Gladiator

Hollywood feuds RUSSELL CROWE VS A GLADIATOR PRODUCER While filming Gladiator, Crowe allegedly threatened seasoned producer Branko Lustig, and said that he would kill him with his bare hands, because he was annoying the hell out of him. CRACKED

Three Amigos!

CRACKED THREE AMIGOS! WAS ALMOST DIRECTED BY STEVEN SPIELBERG. Instead it went to John Landis, who directed it while on trial for involuntary manslaughter.

Gizmo

Making Gizmo work was a nightmare. Gizmo was supposed to be in just about 25 minutes of Gremlins, but then Steven Spielberg decided at the last minute that the fuzzball had to have a bigger part. So the puppeteers were left to improvise with a severely limited puppet that wasn't really made for basic stuff, like making it walk. CRACKED.COM

The 40-Year-Old Virgin

BEHIND-THE-SCENES FACTS Carell's pitch was based on his sketch at SECOND CITY CRACKED.COM Carell pitched Apatow on a virgin who brags about his sexual exploits to his poker pals. Не gets busted when he claims a woman's breasts feel like bags of marbles. And we started thinking what would this guy's life be like? says Apatow. A middle-aged virgin.

Iron Man

Powering your Iron Man Suit ESTIMATED ENERGY FOR 90-SECOND FLIGHT: 2 Gigawatts POWER GENERATED BY THE LARGEST U.S. NUCLEAR POWER PLANT: 3.3 Gigawatts CRACKED.COM

Dawn of the Planet of the Apes

The villain of Dawn of the Planet of the Apes is called Koba. That's a nickname Stalin took for himself, so it's a pretty fitting name for a murderous dictator. CRACKED.COM

The Mighty Ducks

CRACKED.COM stor The Mighty Ducks became a legit hockey team. The Mighty Ducks of Anaheim were created as a marketing ploy just as the movie was leaving theaters. Many scoffed at the idea of a Disney- branded team, but the Ducks are still at it and have won a Stanley Cup. (They no longer belong to Disney, though).

American Psycho 2

American Psycho 2 wasn't supposed to be American Psycho 2. When Mila Kunis signed up for a slasher movie, she had no idea it was an American Psycho sequel-because no one did. It wasn't until production kicked off that the producers decided to connect the two films. CRACKED.COM

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