30 Random Bits of Trivia About ‘90s Movies That Just Beat Us in Pogs During Recess

We’d give up some Pogs for ‘90s movie facts any day!
30 Random Bits of Trivia About ‘90s Movies That Just Beat Us in Pogs During Recess
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Usually we’d run crying to the teacher when we lost at Pogs, but today was a little different. See, even though we lost some of our best slammers, we got some sweet ‘90s movie facts out of it, so we see it as more of a trade. 

Why can’t everyone else who beats us provide us with a little somethin’ somethin’? Being great on ‘90s movie trivia night would more than make up for our horrible Pog-playing skills.

Reservoir Dogs

INDIE MOVIES OF THE '90s RESERVOIR DOGS TONY SCOTT WANTED TO DIRECT. Tarantino, however, told him he was already securing funding to direct the movie himself. Like a total class act, Scott had no problem settling for a different Tarantino script, True Romance. CRACKED.COM

My Heart Will Go On

James Cameron didn't want My Heart Will Go On for Titanic, and Celine Dion didn't want to sing it Dion was convinced by her creepy husband-manager, and Cameron was convinced by her demo. Smart business move for both of them. CRACKED.COM

Space Jam

Space Jam was a spin-off of a Nike Super Bowl commercial. The 1992 ad featuring Michael Jordan and Bugs Bunny was very popular, leading Jordan's agent to take the now famous duo to the big screen. CRACKED.COM

Jungle Fever

INDIE MOVIES OF THE '90s JUNGLE FEVER SAMUEL L. JACKSON WON AN AWARD THAT TECHNICALLY DOESN'T EXIST. Jackson's performance in this movie was so legendary that he won Best Supporting Actor at the 1991 Cannes Film Festival, even though the festival does not really give that award. Only four people have ever received it. CRACKED.COM

What About Bob?

BILL MURRAY TOOK TO BEING HIS ANNOYING CHARACTER IN WHAT ABOUT BOB? A LITTLE TOO WELL. CRACKED.COM Murray went method with his character Bob Wiley in the film, seeking out ways to anger co-star Richard Dreyfuss, in- cluding yelling that everyone hated him and merely tolerated his presence. Не also playfully shoved producer Laura Ziskin into a lake.

Office Space

The cast ramped up the cussing on purpose. CRACKED COM During production, they heard the studio was angling to get a PG-13 rating. They started spouting more profanity to make that a much harder sell, and managed to keep the R rating.

Street Fighter

Raul Julia was so sick, the shooting schedule had to be changed. STREET FIGHTER Julia was positively emaciated due to his stomach cancer, and his scenes had to be postponed until he gained some weight. So action scenes were shot first - with no time to properly prepare or rehearse. CRACKED.COM

Kids

INDIE MOVIES OF THE '90s KIDS THE CREW RANDOMLY DISCOVERED ROSARIO DAWSON SITTING ON A STOOP. While scouting for locations, the director and the writer noticed 15-year-old Dawson and thought she'd be perfect for a role. She was kinda freaked out, but got over it and started a successful career. CRACKED.COM

Danny DeVito

Pulp Fiction wouldn't have gotten made without Danny DeVito. His production company Jersey Films bought the Pulp Fiction script from Tarantino. DeVito was the person who then shopped the script around, and eventually brought it to Miramax, which made the movie. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

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

Home Alone

Home Alone's movie-within-a-movie was shot in one day, in an abandoned high school gym. They filmed Angels with Filthy Souls on a sound stage in the New Trier West High School gymnasium (which was used for a lot of Home Alone's interior shots, too). NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

Independence Day

You might have seen some of Independence Day's sets in other movies. Independence Day Crimson Tide They used the submarine interior from Crimson Tide and the stealth bomber interior from Broken Arrow. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

Batman & Robin

Coolio was supposed to play the Scarecrow in a Batman movie. Не did his minor cameo in Batman & Robin (at a street race) only because he was supposed to be the villain in Joel Schumacher's next Batman movie - which, of course, didn't happen. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

Pulp Fiction

PULP FICTION JULIA SWEENEY Raquel ROBERT RUTH Coffee Shop DENOR DENDED T and Uni V... I'm not a hero, I'm just a coffee shop- - Get the f*ck down! The coffee shop manager is credited as Coffee Shop because he doesn't get to finish his sentence. CRACKED.COM

Scream

SCREAM ПАПА URUN and the SANTA ROSA DOUBLETREE HOTEL SHEREE GREEN and the SONOMA COUNTY FILM COMMISSION FILM FINANCES, INC. THE SONOMA COMMUNITY CENTER MARCO, KARIN AND NICHOLAS AT CA'BIANCA LES PERRY NO THANKS WHATSOEVER TO THE SANTA ROSA CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT GOVERNING BOARD A high school revoked permission to film at the last second, and Wes Craven called them out big time in the credits. CRACKED.COM

Fight Club

FIGHT CLUB If you are reading this then this warning is for you. Every word you read of this useless fine print is another second off your life. Don't you have other things to do? is your life 50 empty that you honestly can't think of a better way to spend these moments? Or are you so impressed with authority that you give respect and credence to all who claim it? Do you read everything you're supposed to read? Do you think everything you're supposed to think? Buy what you're told you should want? Get out of your apartment. Meet

Toy Story 2

TOY STORY 2 The Pixar lamp Our old friend Luxo Jr. has its own constellation in the first shot of the movie. CRACKED.COM

The Shawshank Redemption

THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION Ellis Boyd Re Determ SHAWSHAHN STATE PRISON REJEC 30265 Red's mugshot at age 20 is Morgan Freeman's son, Alfonso. CRACKED.COM

Fargo

FARGO 30 minutes, Jerry, we wrap this thing up. Steve Buscemi says to wrap it up with exactly 30 minutes left in the movie. CRACKED.COM

The Truman Show

THE TRUMAN SHOW - VITAMIN D ALOPERO 1000 UNITE - WILL Everyone takes Vitamin D because they're not getting actual sunlight. CRACKED.COM

Home Alone

HOME ALONE Buzz's girlfriend is the art director's son. The director thought it would be too mean for Kevin to woof at a real teen girl. CRACKED.COM

To Die For

Forgotten Indie Movies From the '90s 1995 To Die For '90s Gus Van Sant gave us My Own Private Idaho and Good Will Hunting, but this one deserves way more love. It features Nicole Kidman as a sociopathic social climber trying to make it in the news business, an insanely awesome '90s cast, and a soundtrack with classical music and death metal. Come on. CRACKED.COM

Sandra Bullock

SANDRA BULLOCK TURNED DOWN THE ROLE OF NEO. CRACKED.COM DE I DIE кнем BEY MBY The producers of The Matrix approached a number of actors in their long search to find Neo. One of them was Bullock, and they were willing to change Neo into a woman if she accepted. Bullock wasn't interested, deciding that starring in Forces of Nature, a now-forgotten romcom, was a better career choice.

The Nightmare Before Christmas

The studio wanted eyeballs on Jack. Some people at Disney suggested he should have eyeballs, but Selick and Burton just ignored them. Selick says, We were never going to do that. CRACKED.COM

Mortal Kombat

The first-ever EDM record to go platinum was the Mortal Kombat soundtrack. 27% The filmmakers absolutely insisted on EDM, and got booted from two record companies for it -- but it paid off. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

Toy Story

Toy story was very different at first. The original idea featured a weirder Woody and Buzz, and an altogether more sinister feel. CRACKED.COM

Titanic

In Titanic, to discourage Rose from jumping, Jack tells her a story about him and his father ice-fishing in Lake Wissota, Wisconsin. The thing is, Lake Wissota didn't exist when Titanic sank. The lake was created in 1917 while Titanic sank in 1912. CRACKED.COM

Goodfellas

A lot of the dialogue was improvised. GoodFellas Behind the Scenes Scorsese gives actors a lot of freedom to ad-lib, so the dialogue sounds as natural as possible. In the scene where Tommy DeVito kills Spider, the only line actually in the script is Spider's f-you to Tommy. CRACKED.COM

Clueless

CRACKED MY BAD The term first surfaced in 1985, but was explicitly used in basketball. The 1995 movie Clueless brought it to the masses, and also gave us '90s hits whatever and as if.

Seven Years in Tibet

China banned Brad Pitt from crossing its borders, because of Seven Years In Tibet. Apparently, though, they kind of relaxed that rule years later .. they let him in 2014, and again in 2016, both for promotional events. CRACKED.COM

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