32 Infantile Bits of Movie Trivia That Look Exactly Like Your Favorite Adult Trivia That Just Died, But With Big Doe Eyes and They Dance for Some Reason

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32 Infantile Bits of Movie Trivia That Look Exactly Like Your Favorite Adult Trivia That Just Died, But With Big Doe Eyes and They Dance for Some Reason
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Here’s to new beginnings! Today, your brain is about to form lifelong bonds with a whole bunch of new movie facts. 

They’re good enough to be remembered forever, so you better remember this day. They’ll all be a little upset if you ever forget your anniversary.

The Winter Soldier

32 Infantile Bits of Movie Trivia That Look Exactly Like Your Favorite Adult Trivia That Just Died, But With Big Doe Eyes and They Dance for Some Reason

The Blair Witch Project

The creepy ambiguous ending of The Blair witch Project was almost way gorier. The ending shows Mike standing in the corner of the room, mirroring the killing ritual of the man who once owned the house. But the alternative endings had Mike pinned to a giant stick figure, and one had him hanging from a noose. CRACKED.COM

The Abyss

The Abyss used an abandoned nuclear reactor vessel. To ensure nobody accidentally floated to the surface, the actors were all strapped down with weights. All the hard work and stress made Ed Harris break down and cry one evening, and Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio famously screamed, We're not animals here! before storming off the set. CRACKED.COM

Ewan McGregor

obi-wan kenobi Ewan MCGregor is related to another star wars actor. McGregor is the nephew of Denis Lawson, who played Rogue Leader Wedge Antilles in the original trilogy. CRACKED.COM

Mission: Impossible II

Tom Cruise asked to have a knife over his eye for Mission: Impossible II. In the fight scene where the bad guy brings the knife this close over his eye, Cruise asked that they use a real knife and bring it nearly to his cornea. CRACKED.COM

Home Alone

CRACKED Joe Pesci insisted on playing golf before Home Alone shoot days. The crew tried to make him come in earlier, but he fought for his right to tee-off by talking passionately (and probably very loudly) about how important it was to him.

It’s A Wonderful Life

James Stewart's despair in It's A Wonderful Life was real. When his character, George Bailey, ends up in a restaurant and, full of despair, calls to God, Stewart felt the loneliness, the hopelessness of people who had nowhere to turn, and started sobbing. Director Frank Capra, a big fan of spontaneous performances, was thrilled. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

Terminator

Arnold Schwarzenegger has said I'll be back in other movies besides the Terminator franchise. Eleven other movies, to be exact. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

Star Wars

CRACKED.COM Star Wars planned for a low-budget sequel. In case his space movie didn't take off, George Lucas had plans in place for a sequel with a much smaller scope. Titled Splinter of the Mind's Eye, it took place almost entirely on a jungle planet. The story eventually became the first Star Wars novel.

Indiana Jones

George Lucas really, really didn't want Harrison Ford to play Indiana Jones. Ford was already in two of Lucas' movies, and Lucas said I don't want him to be my Bobby De Niro, (De Niro was considered Scorsese's actor). Years later, Lucas said, Не was perfect for the part. I can't imagine anybody else in that part. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

The Innkeepers

BTS STORIES FROM HORROR MOVIES 2011 THE INNKEEPERS The movie is based on a haunted hotel Ti West where and his crew stayed while shooting The House of the Devil. During production, they witnessed flickering lights, slamming doors, and according to West, actress Sara Paxton would wake up in the middle of the night thinking someone was in the room with her. CRACKED.COM

Frozen

Animation code from Frozen was used to solve a 63 year old, erm, 'cold' case. CRACKED.COM The Dyatlov Pass incident left nine Russian hikers dead in 1959. Engineers recently relied on animation codes in Frozen to prove a long- standing theory that an ava- lanche resulted in the deaths of the nine hikers.

Shrek

Stephen Spielberg acquired the 'Shrek' rights in order to make a movie in the early '90s. CRACKED.COM Spielberg acquired the rights in 1991, planning to make it into a 2D animated movie star- ring Dan Akroyd as Shrek and Chris Rock as Donkey.

The Fifth Element

The opera song from 'The Fifth Element' was composed to be impossible to actually sing. CRACKED.COM When opera singer Inva Muls came for the part, she sang 85% of what thought was tech- nically impossible, the rest being assembled in the studio.

The Oscars

CRACKED.COM COMICCON dockey Viola Davis She shares an Oscar record with Whoopi Goldberg. Davis and Goldberg are the only black actresses to have been nominated for an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress and Best Actress.

Goldfinger

Rich Jerks Goldfinger Auric Goldfinger The actor couldn't speak English. German actor Gert Fröbe was a brilliant performer, but his English wasn't very good. Не was dubbed by fellow actor Michael Collins. CRACKED.COM

Burn After Reading

The Coen Brothers and their movies Burn After Reading Except for Tilda Swinton's, every role was written for their performer. Brad Pitt didn't know if he should be flattered or insulted by his part, or how to even play such an idiot. Joel Coen just told him, You'll be fine. CRACKED.COM

The Godfather

Government agents mistook James Caan as an aspiring mobster during the production of The Godfather. During production, James Caan used to hang out with Carmine Persico, a.k.a. The Snake, who was a notorious Mafioso and later head of the Co- lombo crime family. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW

Batman

Sean Young broke her arm in pre-production. BATMAN WW.J CRACKED.COM Remember the Vicki Vale horse riding scene in Batman? Yeah, that's because they wrote it out after Young fell off a horse, breaking her arm, and had to be replaced by Kim Basinger.

Ishtar

CRACKED Sun poisoning and a dead cobra on ISHTAR The 1987 movie was shot in the Sahara Desert, where director Elaine May found out she was allergic to the sun. She had to wear bandages completely covering her face. Oh, and a cobra that was supposed to appear in the film died of a heart attack.

Pirates of the Caribbean

BEHIND-THE-SCENES FACTS Robert De Niro accepted the role as Captain Shakespeare probably because he regretted turning down Captain Barbossa De Niro was the first choice to play a villain in Pirates of the Caribbean, which he assumed would be a commercial flop. Не later accepted the role of the gender-fluid captain, after his mistake.

The Shallows

Sharks Movies & TV The Shallows Everyone had to ride their bikes to set. Due to various restrictions on the island location, the cast and crew had to ride bicycles to set and be incredibly mindful to not harm any of the wildlife. CRACKED.COM

Django Unchained

Jamie Foxx kinda trolled Christoph Waltz on the set of Django Unchained. Waltz broke his pelvis by falling off a horse on the set, so Foxx gave him a saddle with a seat belt. CRACKED.COM

Spider-Man: Homecoming

Tom Holland got pranked by the crew on Spider-Man: Homecoming. They got him a new set chair which was actually a toilet seat. Не posted about it on Instagram, with the caption Loving my new set chair. Thanks guys. Should you really be treating number one like number two. #norespect. CRACKED.COM

Robert Englund

BEFORE НЕ BECAME FREDDY KRUEGER, ROBERT ENGLUND WAS PAID TO THROW LEAVES AROUND ON THE SET of HALLOWEEN. Englund said he was conned by his roommate to work as a temporary set builder on the production of the 1978 film. CRACKED.COM

Armour of God II

Jackie Chan is famous for his on-set injuries while doing his own stunts. ARMOUR of GOD 2 OPERATION CONDOR One such injury on the set of Armour of God II required him to get brain surgery, and left him with a metal plate inside his head. CRACKED.COM

Hot Fuzz

The 'Hot Fuzz' character Simon Skinner was written for a Timothy Dalton type before he signed on. - Water - CRACKED.COM Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright wrote the character before thinking to ask Dal- ton himself to be in the film. To their surprise, Dal- ton had loved Shaun of the Dead and signed on for the role.

Mantis

The creator of Mantis is pretty unhappy about what the MCU did to the character. That character has nothing to do with Mantis, Steve Englehart said. CRACKED.COM

Star Trek Beyond

The character Jaylah from Star Trek Beyond is based on Jennifer Lawrence's character in Winter's Bone. Said writer and actor Simon Pegg: We were trying to create this very independent character. But we didn't have a name for it...so we just called it Jennifer-Lawrence-In- Winter's-Bone. CRACKED.COM

Harry Potter

Dolores Umbridge is a sadistic Harry Potter character. She's a parody of a real person. The character is based on a real teacher that J.K. Rowling didn't get along with. She says that the teacher's style reminded her of a three-year-old, and that the dislike was mutual. So she immortalized her as one of the most hated characters in her book series. CRACKED.COM http://www.stylist.co.uk/books/j-k-rowling-reveals-the-real-life-inspiration- behind-professor-dolores-umbridge-in-new-harry-potter-story-halloween

The Princess and the Frog

To cash in on The Princess and the Frog hype, somebody made a lazy, innuendo-loaded ripoff. The Frog Prince is about a frog dishing out lies to get laid, in a royal court with a helicopter parent king and a whiny young princess. the Frog PRINCE To top it off, nothing ever happens, and the animation is as lifelike as a kindergarten doodle. It's as if the very idea of effort was personally offensive to the animators. CRACKED.COM

Cars

Cars' Lightning McQueen is an homage to a Pixar animator who passed away. His name was Glenn McQueen, and he worked at Pixar from 1994 to his death in 2002. Pixar also dedicated its 2003 movie (Finding Nemo) to him. CRACKED.COM

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