29 Random Bits of Movie Trivia to Pack Into Your Utility Belt Before Running Off Into the Night to Fight Crime

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If there were some sort of bat signal for times when a team needed a ringer for Movie Trivia Night, these would make sure you were ready to swing into action. Too bad there isn’t though, right?

Now you’ll just have to creep around pubs on Wednesday nights, hoping some team is one short. It’s sad, but the only thing sadder would be stepping in and not knowing anything. With these, at least you’ll be prepared for that slightly cooler option.

Monty Python and the Holy Grail

BEHIND-THE-SCENES FACTS THE PYTHONS DIDN'T ENJOY SHOOTING THE MOVIE. THE HOLY GRAIL CRACKED.COM John Cleese says that the infamous Scottish weather made the whole cast miserable. They were constantly wet due to the rain and couldn't afford decent protection because the movie had a limited budget of $400,000.

The Abyss

Behind-The-Scenes Accidents 1989 The Abyss It can never be said enough: James Cameron is a maniac. During an underwater sequence, Ed Harris yelled cut! when he ran out of air, but the crew only gave him oxygen after he almost drowned. Later that day he broke down in his car, and refuses to talk about the incident. CRACKED.COM

The Wolf of Wall Street

BEHIND-THE-SCENES FACTS MARGOT ROBBIE GOT THE ROLE BY SLAPPING DICAPRIO. THE WOLF OF WALL STREET Robbie says that with 30 seconds left on her audition, she realized she had to do something that would impress the casting directors and secure her the role. Instead of kissing DiCaprio as she was supposed to, Robbie slapped the sh*t out of him. CRACKED.COM

A Clockwork Orange

Behind-The-Scenes Accidents 1971 A Clockwork Orange Those eye contraptions in the iconic scenes sure do look painful, right? Malcolm McDowell ended up with scratched corneas and horrifying pain. His eyes were anesthetized for the scene, but the lid-locks kept sliding off his eyelids. Stanley Kubrick, of course, just asked him when he could do the next shot. CRACKED.COM

The Departed

BEHIND-THE-SCENES FACTS MATT DAMON'S APARTMENT IS ACTUALLY A LIBRARY. THE DEPARTED The top floor of the Suffolk University Law School Library in Boston served as the filming location for Damon's beautiful apartment. CRACKED.COM

Walk Hard

BEHIND-THE-SCENES FACTS JOHN С. REILLY DIDN'T LIP-SYNCH ROYAL JELLY. WALK HARD Instead of lip-synching, Reilly actually performed the song live in front of 800 extras. After his first attempt, they realized they weren't filming so Reilly had to do the whole song again. CRACKED.COM

Superbad

BEHIND-THE-SCENES SUPERBAD FACTS Seth Rogen said no effing way to PG-13 GRACKED.COM According to one count, Superbad uses the F word 176 times. Watering it down wasn't an option, even when the studios pressed hard for a cleaner version. We were just like, 'No, says Rogen.

Star Wars

Behind-the-scenes feuds Star Wars Kenny Baker vs Anthony Daniels Baker, who plays R2-D2, has called C-3PO's Daniels boring, infuriating, and rude. And while Daniels has discussed the feud much less, his side of the story kinda confirms Baker's. CRACKED.COM

Cars

There's a subtle Cars Easter egg that references Ferrari's factory in Italy. 44.5-10.8 - Luigi's license plate isn't a random string of the numbers - it says 445-108, and those are the geographic coordinates of that factory. CRACKED.COM

Once Upon A Time in... Hollywood

EASTER EGGSTRA HIDDEN MEANINGS & REFERENCES ONCE UPON A TIME IN... HOLLYWOOD THE JACKIE BROWN REFERENCE When Cliff walks his dog and smokes his acid-dipped cigarette, he quips: And away we go. It signals the beginning of the climactic ending at Dalton's house. In Jackie Brown, Robert Forster's character Max Cherry looks over at Jackie in a department store and, realizing that the plan is about to unfold, says and away we go. CRACKED COM

Parasite

EASTER EGGSTRA Parasite The credits song answers whether Kim Ki-woo could make enough money to buy the Parks house. Bong wrote the lyrics, and Choi Woo-shik (who plays Ki-woo) sings it. The song is about how Ki-woo spent his days trying to earn money to purchase that house. It would take 564 years for Ki-woo to actually save up the money in order to buy that house. It's almost impossible for him to buy the house. CRACKED.COM

Ant-Man

EASTER EGGSTRA MEANINGS AND REFERENCES ANT-MAN THE WASP'S HAIRCUT Hope Van Dyne's bob haircut in Ant-Man is similar to her mother's hairdo (Janet Van Dyne, a.k.a. the Wasp) in the comics. CRACKED.COM

Donnie Darko

EASTER EGGSTRA REFERENCES AND MEANINGS Donnie Darko Bunnies, everywhere. The most obvious one comes in the form of the famous song in the movie, The Killing Moon by Echo & The Bunnymen. At one point a Volkswagen Rabbit drives by at a bus stop, and Donnie's sister Elizabeth has a stuffed rabbit where she sleeps. CRACKED.COM

The Warner Bros. Logo

Gremlins The classic Warner Bros. logo WB A WARNER COMMUNICATIONS COMPANY PRESENTS The logo used at the beginning of the movie hadn't been used since the '70s, but director Joe Dante petitioned the studio to bring it back. CRACKED.COM

Director’s Cuts

Director's cuts became a thing by accident. In the early '90s, a Warner Bros. employee came across an abandoned print of Blade Runner, and eventually lent it to a movie theater, thinking it was the theatrical cut. It was actually a workprint, before the studio-mandated changes. No one was asking WB to #ReleaseTheScottCut- audiences got it by mistake. CRACKED.COM

Best in Show

Mockumentaries - - 2 Best in Show ChristopherGuest's comedy mockumentary about a dog show had real-life consequences. NBC Sports' Jon Miller found the entire concept and setting hilarious, and started broadcasting the National Dog Show every Thanksgiving since 2002. GRACKED.COM

The First Academy Awards Ceremony

THE VERY FIRST ACADEMY AWARDS RAN A MERE 15 MINUTES,AND A NAZI WON BEST ACTOR OVER A DOG. RINTINUN Rin Tin Tin was the biggest German Shepherd star in Hollywood, having helped Warner Bros. become a major film studio. During the first award show in 1929, he received the most votes for Best (and Goodest) Actor, but the Academy wasn't having it, and a second round of voting led to Emil Jannings winning the award, only to go on and make Nazi propaganda movies until 1945. CRACKED COM

This Is Spinal Tap

This Is Spinal Tap Spinal Tap started as a failed comedy sketch. SpinaL TGO CRACKED.COM The band came together 5 years before the movie, as a one-off sketch for The TV Show --а sketch show that never became more than a pilot.

American Psycho

American Psycho $7 MILLION Killer looks. CRACKED.COM Author Bret Easton Ellis famously said women wouldn't get his novel. Nevertheless, director Mary Harron somehow managed to whip his story into a cult classic black comedy that took in $34 million at the box office alone.

Mulholland Drive

David Lynch's Mulholland Drive was intended to be a pilot for a TV show for ABC, but it was ultimately rejected due to its violence. Не later added an ending and turned it into a critically- acclaimed feature film. CRACKED.COM

Die Hard

Nakatomi Plaza, famously taken over by terrorists in Die Hard, is actually the Fox Tower in Los Angeles - home office of 20th Century Fox, the studio Dynair : OF FOR that made the movie. eñue 20 CRACKED COM

Psycho

Alfred Hitchcock shot Psycho as an episode of his TV show. THE IMPROVISATION: Hitchcock shot Psycho with the crew and assets of his TV show Alfred Hitchcock Presents, because the studio didn't want to give him a cent for a new movie. THE RESULT: An instant classic that influenced pretty much all later horror films. CRACKED.COM

Space Jam

EASTER EGGSTRA SPACE There's a cameo CBM of the first ever Looney Tunes star. Before Bugs Bunny, Warner Bros. created Bosko, the first ever main and recurring cartoon character. CRACKED.COM

Home Alone

Warner Bros. canceled 'Home Alone' because they didn't want to spend $14.7 million on it. CRACKED.COM 21st Century Fox continued the production, and it be- came the highest grossing movie of 1990 at $476 million worldwide. It was nominated for two Academy Awards for Best Original Score and Best Original Song.

Step Brothers

Thanks to Step Brothers, the Catalina Wine Mixer is a real thing. CATALINA WINE MIXER It's a party that was made up for the 2008 movie, but people have started holding an annual Catalina Wine Mixer since then -- and it includes a screening of the movie and a costume contest inspired by it. CRACKED.COM

The Shawshank Redemption

The Shawshank Redemption inspired a dance program at a Filipino jail. - CPS CPO PORC In the movie, Andy Dufresne plays an aria to inmates over the loudspeaker - which gave Byron F. Garcia, security advisor at a prison in Cebu, the Philippines, the idea to play Queen's Another One Bites the Dust for inmates. They danced, and a dance program soon became a regular part of prison life there. Inmates even performed for the public. CRACKED.COM

WarGames

WarGames made Reagan revamp cybersecurity. When he watched the movie, he asked if that could really happen, and they told him it's actually much worse. Ultimately, that led to the passage of the law that evolved into the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. CRACKED.COM

50 First Dates

Adam Sandler inspired a program for coping with dementia. In 50 First Dates, Sandler's character uses videos to remind Drew Barrymore's character (whose memory goes blank every day) about their relationship. That gave the Hebrew Home at Riverdale, New York, the idea to do the same thing for their seniors suffering from dementia-- every day, they watch videos recorded by family members to remind them about their relationship. CRACKED.COM

Trading Places

Eddie Murphy inspired part of a law. His 1983 movie Trading Places features insider trading in futures, which actually wasn't illegal at the time - - though it is in the movie. It only became illegal under the Dodd-Frank act in 2010, which included the Eddie Murphy Rule. That rule made it illegal to trade futures on the basis of non-public information from federal agencies. CRACKED.COM

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