26 Sacred Bits of Movie Trivia That Cinephiles Will Surely Bow Down To

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It’s hard to please a cinephile. Trust us, we have a few kicking around the office so we know. They like to think they know everything about movies, so to stick it to them, drumming up much lesser-known movie facts has become our biggest goal. 

Hmm, we wonder if that’s why the Cracked higher-ups keep them around — as some sort of sick, twisted motivational tool. We’re starting to think so, since they bring nothing else to the table.

Spectre

Spectre made Day of the Dead parades mainstream in Mexico. Until 2016, Day of the Dead was an intimate, reflective three-day festival. Spectre, with its opening scene of Day of the Dead as an extravagant parade came out in 2015 - and a year later, Day of the Dead became an occasion for big, noisy public parades. CRACKED.COM

Carrie (1976)

CARRIE (1976) Carrie's whole vibe at the end of the film was modeled after Gustave Moreau's 1851 painting The Study of Lady Macbeth. CRACKED.COM

Dune

The Easter egg Jason Momoa snuck into Dune for his son. For his climactic fight in the movie, Momoa included moves from the native Filipino martial art, Kali. Не specifically chose these moves because his kid practices Kali, too, and said it was his way of signalling to his son. CRACKED.COM

Ghostbusters: Afterlife

CRACKED.COM GHOSTBUSTERS: AFTERLIFE The symmetrical book stacking that Ray says refers to the Philadelphia Mass Turbulence of 1947 in the first film can be seen more than once in the background throughout the new movie.

Lord of the Rings

There's a Harvey Weinstein diss hidden in THE LORD OF THe RINGS It's no secret that Peter Jackson had troubles with Weinstein and his Miramax company over LotR, and Elijah Wood revealed that the props department modeled one of the orc masks to look like Weinstein in a show of contempt. CRACKED COM

Judd Apatow

WHENEVER POSSIBLE, JUDD APATOW TRIES TO CAST PEOPLE FROM FREAKS AND GEEKS CRACKED.COM Apatow says, It's a way of refusing to accept that the show was canceled.

Stand By Me

Jerry O'Connell bailed on filming Stand By Me. Не wanted to visit a fair, which turned out to be full of hippies spreading free love and handing out suspicious foodstuffs. Не ate an entire bag of pot cookies. The producers opted to shut down production for two days while he recovered. CRACKED.COM

Romeo + Juliet

ROMEO + JULIET The movie turned a Radiohead B-side track into a hit. parlophone CAS street spirit (fade out) 4. 13 street spirit (fade out) talk show host / bishop's robes bishop's robes Parlophone talk show host includes exclusive poster Immerse your sol in love RADIOHEAD RADIOHEAD street spirit (fade out) CD 1 no #2523 24 7 24388 25232 - DK CORS 6410 - Talk Show Host was the B-side song to Radiohead's Street Spirit (Fade Out). The song was remixed for the soundtrack of Romeo + Juliet. Today it features on the band's Greatest Hits collection. BEHIND THE SCENES CRACKED.COM

The Terminator

CRACKED.COM Arnold Schwarzenegger wanted the Terminator to get drunk. Schwarzenegger suggested a scene where the Terminator becomes intrigued by a beer can, so he drinks it and gets tipsy. James Cameron had to explain to him, It's a machine, Arnold. It's not a human being. It's not E.T. It can't get drunk.

The Addams Family

Trailer-only scenes The Addams Family An entire fake scene (the family at the movies) was shot for a trailer.. CRACKED.COM

V for Vendetta

CRACKED.COM V for Vendetta The movie was almost made in the '90s. Hilary Henkin, writer of movies like Road House and Wag the Dog, wrote a script in the early '90s which the Los Angeles Times called Les Misérables meets A Clockwork Orange. It was never produced, though.

The Blair Witch Project

The original 35-page treatment for The Blair Witch Project had zero dialogue. That was on purpose: the authors described what would happen, but they wanted all the lines to be ad-libbed by the actors themselves. CRACKED.COM

Gone Girl

If Tyler Perry had known Gone Girl was based on a book, with fans who wanted it adapted their way, he'd have turned it down. His agent, who knew about this, didn't tell him the movie was based on a book until after he took the role. CRACKED.COM

Legally Blonde

26 Sacred Bits of Movie Trivia That Cinephiles Will Surely Bow Down To

Alien

RIDLEY SCOTT WANTED TO KILL RIPLEY AT THE END OF ALIEN. Scott says that at the end of the movie, the Xenomorph was gonna kill Ripley, and then reveal it possessed great intelligence by typing coordinates into the ship's computer. Within 24 hours the studio sent an executive to tell him that there's no way that was happening. Не admits now that they made the right choice. CRACKED.COM

The Pirates of the Caribbean

The Pirates of the Caribbean ship returned for the porn parody. Perhaps unable to get the stench of booty out, the owners then sold it in 2010. In 2012, it was caught in Hurricane Sandy. The captain ordered his crew to INBURGH abandon ship much too late, leading to one crewman's death and the captain's own disappearance. CRACKED.COM

Moana

26 Sacred Bits of Movie Trivia That Cinephiles Will Surely Bow Down To

Napoleon Dynamite

BEHINO-THE-SCENES FACTS Low budget, BIG PROFITS CRACKED.COM The original budget was $200,000. It took $400,000 to finish the film for Sundance. Fox Searchlight saw Napoleon there and bought it for $4.75 million. The film grossed more than $46 million and made $130 million in DVD sales.

American Werewolf in London

American Werewolf in London didn't want any supernatural lawsuits. All characters and events in this film are fictitious. Any similarity to actual events or persons, living, dead, or undead, is purely coincidental. After insulting the Prince of Wales in the film, they give a shout-out to him and Princess Di in the credits. CRACKED.COM

Audrey Hepburn

Audrey Hepburn The legendary actress was born Edda van Heemstra Hepburn-Ruston. CRACKED.COM

Most Expensive Movie Poster

It comer to life $1-1.5 million -amount of the highest valued movie poster. CARL LAEMMIE The poster for Boris Karloff's 1932 horror classic The Mummy went on auction in 2018, but TH wasn't sold. UNCAN GRACKED COM

Darth Vader

49% -the share of consumers in the United States who have a favorable opinion of Darth Vader. CRACKED.COM

Netflix Users

elempreDienes 100 GOSSIPGIRL BLINDERS M NEW EPISOD NETFLIX D GODLESS RD SIKAGA THINGS Dech Halls STAR - THE CLONE WARS 80% IX RCH PIG WARS 06 - amount of Netflix users who click and III watch the recommendations given ACK MIRROR by the platform's 21 CRACKED.COM algorithm.

Lord of the Rings (Again)

Iconic by random chance Dwarves J.R.R. Tolkien mistakenly used the spelling dwarves instead of dwarfs in The Lord of the Rings. I am afraid it is just a piece of private bad grammar, rather shocking in a philologist; but I shall have to go on with it. CRACKED

RoboCop

Iconic by random chance RoboCop Paul Verhoeven wasn't a fan of the script when he first read it, and tossed it away after a few pages. His wife Martine stepped in and convinced him to give it a chance. CRACKED

Zoolander

Iconic by random chance But why male models? in Zoolander Ben Stiller wasn't supposed to repeat the question, but blanked out on his lines. It's become a classic, and is often quoted and turned into memes. CRACKED

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