28 Random Bits of Movie Trivia to Pick Out of Your Theater Seat and Wonder If It's the One You Just Dropped or If It’s the One That’s Been in There for Who Knows How Long

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28 Random Bits of Movie Trivia to Pick Out of Your Theater Seat and Wonder If It's the One You Just Dropped or If It’s the One That’s Been in There for Who Knows How Long
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We’re not gonna lie. Some of these are fresh out of the fact bag, and some might have been fished out of the cushions. We dusted them off, so it’ll be near-impossible to tell. Either way, your brain will love them all so you shouldn’t worry about it.

Maybe we should have just left it as an “ignorance is bliss” scenario and not warned you at all. Next time.

Predator

Unclean water on PREDATOR They shot the 1987 movie in the jungles of Palenque, Mexico, and many of the cast and crew got sick with travelers' diarrhea because of the unpurified water. Kevin Peter Hall said, Predator wasn't a movie, it was a survival story for all of us. CRACKED

Melissa McCartney

CRACKED A hostile set made MELISSA MCCARTHY physically ill She said that she once worked with someone who ran such a volatile, hostile set that it made her physically ill. My eyes were swelling up, | was absorbing all of this nuttiness. There were people weeping, visibly so upset by this one person.

Fantastic Four

Director Josh Trank almost fought Miles Teller on the set of 2015's Fantastic Four. Trank lobbied to get Teller onboard, then almost got into a fight with Teller - - they ended up chest to chest and almost punched each other. CRACKED.COM

The Lord of the Rings

Peter Jackson fought with the studio over the budget of The Lord of the Rings. One time, he refused to even take a call from the studio when they threatened to sue him, saying he won't interrupt his day with a phone call like that. CRACKED.COM

The Conquerer

THE CONQUEROR was the most carcinogenic set of all time They filmed so close to an atomic bomb test site that 91 out of the 220 cast and crew members got cancer later in life. 46 of those, including John Wayne, died from it. Radiologist Dr. Robert Pendleton said, Blame for their exposure on set would hold up in a court of law. CRACKED

Four Christmases

Hollywood feuds REESE WITHERSPOON VS VINCE VAUGH On Four Christmases, they found each other to be entirely vile. The hatred was so intense that a source said, Sometimes Vince will be standing behind her and he has this look on his face that he just wants to kill her! CRACKED

Batman Forever

Hollywood feuds VAL KILMER & TOMMY LEE JONES VS JOEL SCHUMACHER Schumacher said, I'm tired of defending overpaid, overprivileged actors. I pray I don't work with them again. Не called Jones an asshole and Kilmer psychotic, and said, The two weeks where Kilmer didn't speak to me was bliss. CRACKED

Lost River

Illegal filmmaking Ryan Gosling was arrested for trespassing on Lost River. As a director, Gosling was location scouting in Detroit by trespassing in abandoned buildings without permits. Not recognizing him, police arrested him thinking he was stealing copper piping. CRACKED

The Hangover 2

Illegal filmmaking The Hangover 2 stole an artist S design. When Ed Helms' character gets Mike Tyson's exact face tattoo, they didn't ask artist S. Victor Whitmill for permission to use his original design. Не sued the production, and instead of digitally altering his face in post, they settled out of court. CRACKED

Noah’s Ark

Illegal filmmaking Extras died in 1928's Noah's Ark. For the flood, cameraman Hal Mohr quit when director Michael Curtiz rolled his eyes at his safety concerns. Three extras died, another lost a limb, and a dozen suffered serious injuries, but Curtiz somehow escaped any legal repercussions. CRACKED

Groundhog Day

In Groundhog Day, Phil is cursed by an angry ex. The second draft of the script has a scene in which Phil's recently dumped ex Stephanie uses his business card and his broken watch (permanently stuck at 5:59) to curse him. She performs the spell with the help of a book called 101 Curses, Spells and Enchantments You Can Do at Home. CRACKED.COM

Logan

When Wolverine says So this is what it feels like, at the end of Logan, he might have been talking about love. James Mangold thinks he might have that in mind - r not only death. CRACKED.COM

Pulp Fiction

The Pulp Fiction suitcase contains diamonds. At least that's what an earlier script draft said, according to co-writer Roger Avary. Tarantino just left that out of the finished movie because he'd just used diamonds in Reservoir Dogs, and he didn't want to get too repetitive. Oh, and the orange light was just an idea someone came up with during filming. CRACKED.COM

Twilight

There's an in-universe reason why werewolves are shirtless in the Twilight movies. Every time they transform, whatever they're wearing gets ripped up. And since the Quileute aren't too rich, the filmmakers explain, they can't afford to replace all the shirts they'd be destroying, so they just don't wear any. CRACKED.COM

Ben Affleck

BEN AFFLECK'S HATE FOR DAREDEVIL MADE HIM DO BATMAN During an interview with The New York Times, Affleck explained why he took on the role of Batman in Batman V Superman. That's the movie I want to do. I want to be a part of that. Part of it was I wanted for once to get one of these movies and do it right - to do a good version. I hate Daredevil so much. CRACKED COM

The Princess and the Frog

In The Princess and the Frog, the prince's curse is broken by a romantic kiss. In the original Grimm fairy tale, the prince's curse is broken when he's hurled at a wall by his love. CRACKED COM

Toby Kebbell

CRACKED.COM Toby Kebbell is the actor who brings many of Hollywood's CGI creatures to life. Warcraft Fantastic Four Dawn of the Planet of the Apes Kong: Skull Island

Will Smith

THE AFTERMATH OF AFTER EARTH WAS EXCRUCIATING FOR WILL SMITH. In an interview with Esquire, Smith admitted that the film was the most painful failure in my career. It made him stop working for a year and a half. CRACKED.COM

The Matrix

Cypher is the Matrix character who kills half of Morpheus' crew in one fell swoop. His name means devil. Cypher is short for Lucifer, and because of that has been used for numerous movie villains through the years. CRACKED.COM

Channing Tatum

CHANNING TATUM HATED G.I. JOE THE RISE OF COBRA Look, I'll be honest. I If**king hate that movie. I hate that movie, Tatum said in a Howard Stern interview. According to Tatum, he didn't want to be in the movie because the script was bad, but he was forced to do it because he signed a three-picture deal with Paramount beforehand. CRACKED.COM

The Usual Suspects

Verbal Kint is the character in The Usual Suspects who (spoiler) is secretly Turkish crime lord Keyser Soze. But the name gives away his identity. In Turkish, Soze comes from SOZ and can mean, among other things, talk or say. You know, to be verbal. CRACKED.COM

Big Hero 6

BIG HERO 6 IN THE ORIGINAL COMICS, HIRO WAS A CHILD PRODIGY WHO WAS FORCED TO FIGHT IN ORDER TO SAVE HIS ABDUCTED MOTHER FROM EVERWRAITH, AN ENTITY MADE UP OF SOULS OF PEOPLE WHO WERE KILLED DURING THE 1945 NUCLEAR ATTACKS ON HIROSHIMA AND NAGASAKI. IT WAS TOO EDGY FOR DISNEY. .. S CRACKED.COM

George Clooney

FANS AREN'T THE ONLY ONES WHO HATE BATMAN AND ROBIN. George Clooney also thinks the movie was a disaster, and he says he apologizes for it every chance he gets. Не only took the role because he thought it would further his career. Не even keeps a picture of himself as Batman in his office, to remind him of what happens when you make movies purely for commercial reasons. GRACKED.COM

Carrie Fisher

GRAGKED.COM Carrie Fisher regretted taking her most iconic role, Princess Leia. When asked whether she would have taken the role had she known the film would be big, she said: I would never have done it. All / did when / was really famous was wait for it to end.

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse

They nearly had Tom Holland cameo in Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse. He would have shown up in a scene in a train station, walking in the background with a line like Hey, kid but the idea never got past the planning stage. CRACKED.COM

Source: IndieWire

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