26 Random Trivia Nuggets From Pop Culture History About Movies

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26 Random Trivia Nuggets From Pop Culture History About Movies
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It's too late to change it now, but we just found a way to make Rocky III a whole lot better! Instead of Rocky beating Clubber Lang, we film each one of these random movie facts knocking him out one after another! It won't get repetitive at all, we swear!

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Batman Returns

Most of the actors in the Penguin's lair in Batman Returns were freezing. The set had to be kept super, super cold to keep the penguins happy. Only DeVito was comfortable, because he had lots of body padding, face prosthetics, and a heavy coat. CRACKED.COM

Ernst Blofeld from the 'James Bond' franchise

Villains Gru would look up to James Bond franchise ERNST BLOFELD With his bald head, desire for world power, nondescript European accent, and association with a clandestine organization bent on global disarray, Blofeld is essentially the mold that Gru was forged from. CRACKED.COM

Cameos

You probably missed Bill Murray in Dumb and Dumber To. His character is hard not to notice, but since he never removes the mask, few have realized he'

Halloween

The 1978 Halloween poster features a hidden screaming face. HALLOWEEN The Night He Came Home!

Coyote Ugly

COYOTE UGLY $5 10 MATA 1306 ENALT CO BOUTS BOOZL Coyote Ugly was based on a 1997 GQ article titled ELIZABETH GILBERT The Muse of the Coyote OVER 10 M

Scrapped Storylines

Chewbacca is Han Solo's faithful sidekick and co pilot. He was almost his dad. In a scrapped storyline from Episode llI, Han is a filthy orphan Jungle

Knives Out

At the start of Knives Out, we hear Joseph Gordon-Levitt. He's narrating the true crime story Marta's sister is listening to in the kitchen. CRACKED.COM

X-Men: The Last Stand

X-MEN: THE LAST STAND CRACKED.COM The first 2 X-Men films were critical and financial successes, and gave us Hugh Jackman's Wolverine. The 3rd was rushed, and scheduling conflicts lead to strange character rewrites, tanking what could have been a solid trilogy. X-Men: First Class got X-Men back on track 5 years later.

Scream

CRACKED TUKFZA SCREAM INCLUDED A SOLID NOD TO THE EXORCIST. Director Wes Craven brought in The Exorcist star Linda Blair for a cameo as a reporter. It's a clear tribute to one of the best horror films of all time.

Lion King

SCAR IS DEVOURED BY HIS HYENAS, WHICH IS PRETTY HORRIFIC FOR DISNEY. BUT... ORIGINALLY, IT WAS EVEN WORSE. In an alternate ending to The Lion King, which was storyboarded but never animated, Scar believes that he's won and is engulfed by flames as he celebrates. CRACKED.COM

School of Rock

BEHIND-THE-SCENES FACTS The kids recorded at a studio owned by SONIC YOUTH CRACKED.COM We would go from set every day to to rehearse at the Sonic Youth studios, says Весса (Posh Spice) Brown. Black would come along to jam. We felt like rock stars, says Kevin (Spazzy McGee) Clark, pledging allegiance to the band of Mr. Shneebly.

Batman V Superman

Zack Snyder has a really, really tiny cameo in Batman V Superman. When a henchman says Yeah, we got it as fake Kryptonite is used to lead Bruce Wayne into a trap - that's actually Zack Snyder's voice. CRACKED.COM

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A Quiet Place Part II

The sound effect for the creatures in A Quiet place Part II was made with grapes That was for their searching mode, anyway those clicks were the sound of a stun gun pressed against grapes pitched down. CRACKED.COM

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26 Random Trivia Nuggets From Pop Culture History About Movies
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Aladdin

Disney's Aladdin has a hero you can root for, unlike the original. In the most popular English translation of the original Arabian Nights story, Aladd

Akira

Akira, a 1982 manga by Katsuhiro otomo that was later adapted into a 1988 animated film, is set in a dystopian 2019 against the backdrop of an upcomin

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