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Post one Movie fact you think people didnt know.
Mick Fleetwood was in The Running Man. |
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By *inaTitzTV/TS
over a year ago
Titz Towers, North Notts |
If Matt Damon gets lost behind enemy lines, or stranded on Mars one more time, the costs of retrieving him will bankrupt the US government  |
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By *yron69Man
over a year ago
Fareham |
Steve McQueen jumped the wire in The Great Escape on a British not German bike.
Fact 2. The Wild One. Triumph bikes not Harleys. |
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"Steve McQueen jumped the wire in The Great Escape on a British not German bike.
Fact 2. The Wild One. Triumph bikes not Harleys."
Not seen TGE but have seen that clip.
Guess there wasnt that many German bikes when that film was made. |
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By *yron69Man
over a year ago
Fareham |
"Steve McQueen jumped the wire in The Great Escape on a British not German bike.
Fact 2. The Wild One. Triumph bikes not Harleys.
Not seen TGE but have seen that clip.
Guess there wasnt that many German bikes when that film was made."
Maybe. But in those days British bikes were the dog's bollocks. McQueen appreciated that. |
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The Velociraptor noises in Jurassic Park are actually recordings of tortoises mating |
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By *yron69Man
over a year ago
Fareham |
Western tough guy Alan Ladd often had to stand on a box for shots. |
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over a year ago
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"Post one Movie fact you think people didnt know.
Mick Fleetwood was in The Running Man."
Knew that. |
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During one scene in Alien when a computer display is shown, to the right is a picture of the ships cat Jonesy as a kitten. |
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By *yron69Man
over a year ago
Fareham |
Sets and costumes from Cleopatra with Liz Taylor were used in Carry on Cleo. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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The tunnels used in the Italian Job are actually in Coventry |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Trainspoting
Despite being set in Scotland
Only the open part whare Renton is running down princes street is filmed in Scotland
The rest off the movie was filmed in England |
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By *yronMan
over a year ago
grangemouth |
'Dog Soldiers': set in Scotland, filmed in Luxembourg. |
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"The Velociraptor noises in Jurassic Park are actually recordings of tortoises mating"
Wait... they didn't use actual dinosaur sounds?! |
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Jaws was a mechanical rubber shark… |
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Tom Hanks did not receive a salary for Forest Gump. |
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By *J2020Man
over a year ago
somewhere |
In Indiana jones , the lost ark . The fight scene in the street where the bloke draws a sword and jones just shoots him , should of been a protracted fight scene . But Harrison Ford had a serious case of the shits , and couldn’t do the fight scene . So it was reduced to him just shooting the guy . |
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Even though Lord of the Rings was set in Middle Earth, it was shot in New Zealand |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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A Jane Doe body found in the area, shortly after the movie Jaws was filmed, actually appears in the film as an extra in a crowd scene. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Jean Claude Van Damme was originally cast as the Predator. |
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By *evils PuddingCouple
over a year ago
the pub or in the nude in Paisley |
"'Dog Soldiers': set in Scotland, filmed in Luxembourg."
I always thought it was Austria.
Pablo. |
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By *me2u2Man
over a year ago
Glasgow |
"Trainspoting
Despite being set in Scotland
Only the open part whare Renton is running down princes street is filmed in Scotland
The rest off the movie was filmed in England "
Nope,the bar fight scene was filmed in a Glasgow bar |
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By *evils PuddingCouple
over a year ago
the pub or in the nude in Paisley |
Deep Throat is a documentary  |
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Wes Craven took inspiration for A Nightmare on Elm Street from a real-world story.
Craven recounted the story that influenced the creation of Freddy Krueger. He recalled a Los Angeles Times article from the 1970s about a family that escaped the Killing Fields in Cambodia. After fleeing to the United States, the young son had disturbing nightmares in which something was chasing him. The terror caused him to be afraid to go to sleep, so he would try to stay awake for days. The boy eventually fell asleep, but his parents heard him screaming in the middle of the night, and he was dead by the time they got to him. That boy died in the middle of a terrifying nightmare, leading to the main theme of A Nightmare on Elm Street, and its dream-stalking villain Freddy Krueger. There were other reported cases of men in similar situations who took refuge in the U.S. and later died in their sleep. The phenomena later became known as the Asian Death Syndrome.
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By *ornyguyMan
over a year ago
Hillsborough, NI |
"Trainspoting
Despite being set in Scotland
Only the open part whare Renton is running down princes street is filmed in Scotland
The rest off the movie was filmed in England
Nope,the bar fight scene was filmed in a Glasgow bar"
yeah I have to disagree with the original comment and agree with the response. A fair bit of it was filmed in Glasgow , for example there's the Volcano night club. |
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"A Jane Doe body found in the area, shortly after the movie Jaws was filmed, actually appears in the film as an extra in a crowd scene."
Really? |
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Nicholas Cage, a lifetime comic book reader, prepared for his role as Johnny Blaze a.k.a. Ghost Rider by spending six months setting fire to his own head every day before someone sat him down and explained CGI to him over a glass of milk, the mad lad.
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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In the movie jaws that one fabber helpfully confirmed used a mechanical shark the producers actually, and seriously, considered the possibility of training a great white shark! |
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2 of the girls from The Corrs (remember them?) are in The Commitments.  |
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"Sets and costumes from Cleopatra with Liz Taylor were used in Carry on Cleo."
Knew this one. |
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"Steve McQueen jumped the wire in The Great Escape on a British not German bike.
Fact 2. The Wild One. Triumph bikes not Harleys.
Not seen TGE but have seen that clip.
Guess there wasnt that many German bikes when that film was made.
Maybe. But in those days British bikes were the dog's bollocks. McQueen appreciated that."
They had the BMW but they weren’t suitable for motocross style jumping due to the horizontal engines, they used Triumphs. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Indiana Jones 5 was partly filmed on the North Yorkshire Moors Railway. |
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"In Indiana jones , the lost ark . The fight scene in the street where the bloke draws a sword and jones just shoots him , should of been a protracted fight scene . But Harrison Ford had a serious case of the shits , and couldn’t do the fight scene . So it was reduced to him just shooting the guy . "
The “guy” is Pat Roach. |
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By *lynJMan
over a year ago
Morden |
"Jaws was a mechanical rubber shark…"
The reason it takes so long for the shark to appear in the film is that the mechanical shark kept breaking down. It doesn't appear until about an hour into the film. |
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By *llaandGCouple
over a year ago
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Shaun of the Dead (my second mention this evening, if anyone is checking!) is only the second 15-rated movie to feature the word Cunt.
The first is Glengarry Glen Ross.
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Nicholas Cage, a lifetime comic book reader, prepared for his role as Johnny Blaze a.k.a. Ghost Rider by spending six months setting fire to his own head every day before someone sat him down and explained CGI to him over a glass of milk, the mad lad.
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To prepare for his role in Face Off, Nicholas Cage wore the faces of dead homeless people he found round the back of L.A. cinemas. He skinned then using an antique butter knife he stole from a local pawn shop and used Brad Pitt's mums Pritt Stick to stick the flesh to his face.
He only stopped once the director told him he wasn't going to actuall be wearing John Travolta's face in the movie, he was just supposed to pretend.
Over a glass of milk. |
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The guy who played Ferris Bueller's principal turned out to be a real life p@edophile. |
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over a year ago
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James Cameron, Director of Titanic, drew the charcoal sketch of naked Kate Winslet that appears in the film.
Winston |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Toto earned more than the Munchkins on The Wizard of Oz.
The canine actor earned $125 per week, and the actors playing the Munchkins got $50 a week. 
Winston |
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Jackie Chan was in Enter The Dragon |
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Saving private Ryan is documentary |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Jaws is the name of the movie. Not the name of the shark! |
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Robin Williams ad-libbed so many of his lines as the genie in Aladdin it was no longer eligible for the Oscars as an original screenplay |
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By *J2020Man
over a year ago
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"In Indiana jones , the lost ark . The fight scene in the street where the bloke draws a sword and jones just shoots him , should of been a protracted fight scene . But Harrison Ford had a serious case of the shits , and couldn’t do the fight scene . So it was reduced to him just shooting the guy .
The “guy” is Pat Roach. "
Not pat as the German , it was the scene after the chase around the souk , trying to find his bird . The big burly guy in the Arab outfit . |
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"In Indiana jones , the lost ark . The fight scene in the street where the bloke draws a sword and jones just shoots him , should of been a protracted fight scene . But Harrison Ford had a serious case of the shits , and couldn’t do the fight scene . So it was reduced to him just shooting the guy .
The “guy” is Pat Roach.
Not pat as the German , it was the scene after the chase around the souk , trying to find his bird . The big burly guy in the Arab outfit . "
Yes that’s who I meant the Arab |
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The Terminator was actually played by an actor named Arnold Schwarzenegger and not a cyborg from the future… |
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Bruce Willis is a ghost in the sixth sense |
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Will Smith turned down the role of Neo in the Matrix to do Wild Wild West |
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"Jean Claude Van Damme was originally cast as the Predator."
That’s a good one, I think he was even on set for a few days |
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"Bruce Willis is a ghost in the sixth sense "
Well thanks now that film is ruined, why don't you tell people that Darth Vader is Lukes's father whilst you're at it  |
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over a year ago
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Franco Columbo who's in Pumping Iron with Arnold Schwarzenegger plays a cyborg in The Terminator. |
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"Bruce Willis is a ghost in the sixth sense
Well thanks now that film is ruined, why don't you tell people that Darth Vader is Lukes's father whilst you're at it "
Who is Kaiser Soze? |
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"Will Smith turned down the role of Neo in the Matrix to do Wild Wild West"
That'll surely be the most embarrassing thing he does... |
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In the Day of the Triffids...... the Flesh eating Triffids were really actors in costumes. |
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The noise of the Rancor monster in Return of the Jedi was a slowed down recording of sound designer Dennis Muren's next door neighbour's dachshund. |
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In Apollo 13,the captain of the ship that welcomed the crew back from near disaster in space was Jim Lovell, the real captain of the Apollo 13 mission, who Tom Hanks was playing as they shook hands in the scene. |
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The voice of flash Gordon is not the actor sam jones but an impersonator |
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"Jaws is the name of the movie. Not the name of the shark! "
The shark's name was Trevor, but they thought that wasn't scary enough as the movie's title. |
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One of the buskers in Scrooged was legendary jazz trumpeter Miles Davis. |
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So not the scene of the group getting off the train at Corrour station on the West Highland line then? |
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In the film Hot fuzz.
The scene where Simon Pegg gets stabbed through the hand by Santa.
That Santa was played by director Peter (lord of the rings) Jackson. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Crocodile Dundee wasn’t filmed in Scotland |
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The young sailor that was told to "close the bilge bay hatch" killing men inside but to contain a leak in the Denzel movie Crimson Tide is the little boy from The Champ. |
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Scott Caan (Daniel Williams in Hawaii Five-0) is too short to have ever joined the Hawaii police force.  |
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By (user no longer on site)
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The parts of the Inn of the Sixth Happiness set in the mountains of wartime china were actually filmed in Snowdonia in Wales |
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"The guy who played Ferris Bueller's principal turned out to be a real life p@edophile."
Really? |
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The classic movie, African Queen with Humphy Bogart and Katherine Hepburn. was made at Twickenham studios |
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Elf was made by Jon Favreau, who plays Happy in the Spiderman movies. He also made The Mandolorian |
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By *ty31Man
over a year ago
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The Nazi uniforms worn in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade were genuine not studio reproductions |
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In Die Hard, the crew didn't tell Alan Rickman when they were going to drop him (for the final scene) The look of surprise is totally 100 percent genuine |
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"Will Smith turned down the role of Neo in the Matrix to do Wild Wild West"
Hugh Jackman also turned down Neo, though not to appear with a giant metal bobbin round his neck... |
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By *yron69Man
over a year ago
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"The Nazi uniforms worn in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade were genuine not studio reproductions"
The gestapo officer was played by Ronald Lacey. A British actor who starred in Porridge and as the baby eating Bishop of Bath and Wells in Blackadder II. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"In the film Hot fuzz.
The scene where Simon Pegg gets stabbed through the hand by Santa.
That Santa was played by director Peter (lord of the rings) Jackson."
And his girlfriend breaking up with him is cate blanchet |
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By *yron69Man
over a year ago
Fareham |
Someone added acid to a punch d*unk on the set of Titanic. |
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over a year ago
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In the film kick ass, there is a doppelganger called ass kicker. The two both later appeared in the MCU, both as quicksilver. |
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"In Die Hard, the crew didn't tell Alan Rickman when they were going to drop him (for the final scene) The look of surprise is totally 100 percent genuine"
That's right. Rickman was suspended by a cable about 10m up. The director announced that he was going to count 1 - 2 - 3 and then the stunt coordinator was going to cut the cable for him to drop. The director had actually told the stunt coordinator to ignore those instructions and drop him on 2 to get a better reaction on Rickman's face!
Rickman subsequently talked about this with a mixture of good humour and thinking the director was a total bastard.  |
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Before Avatar, the highest grossing 3d film was a soft core porn film called “The stuardesses” in 1969.
3d films have now been shown in Cinemas for 100 years! The first ever was “the power of love” in 1922. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"In Indiana jones , the lost ark . The fight scene in the street where the bloke draws a sword and jones just shoots him , should of been a protracted fight scene . But Harrison Ford had a serious case of the shits , and couldn’t do the fight scene . So it was reduced to him just shooting the guy .
The “guy” is Pat Roach. "
No, pat roach was the guy who got chopped up by the planes propeller |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"In Indiana jones , the lost ark . The fight scene in the street where the bloke draws a sword and jones just shoots him , should of been a protracted fight scene . But Harrison Ford had a serious case of the shits , and couldn’t do the fight scene . So it was reduced to him just shooting the guy .
The “guy” is Pat Roach.
No, pat roach was the guy who got chopped up by the planes propeller "
He also played the sherpa in the bar fight in Nepal |
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By *ryan...Man
over a year ago
1950's Original |
"Toto earned more than the Munchkins on The Wizard of Oz.
The canine actor earned $125 per week, and the actors playing the Munchkins got $50 a week.
Winston "
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And Toto was a rescue dog  |
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By *ryan...Man
over a year ago
1950's Original |
Lassie was always played by a male dog |
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By *ryan...Man
over a year ago
1950's Original |
Casablanca " play it again Sam " was never said  |
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By *yron69Man
over a year ago
Fareham |
Someone once counted that Clint Eastwood kills 58 nazis in Where Eagles Dare. |
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The Vietnam scenes in Full Metal Jacket were mostly filmed in Docklands. |
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over a year ago
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Hit 1989 American buddy cop action comedy film Tango and Cash starring Sylvester Stallone and Kurt Russell was originally a RomCom starring Michelle Pfeiffer and Sigourney Weaver.
The film was chiefly directed by Andrei Konchalovsky, with Albert Magnoli and Peter MacDonald taking over in the later stages of filming, with Stuart Baird overseeing post-production. The multiple directors were due to a long and troubled production process, that included numerous script rewrites and clashes between Konchalovsky and producer Jon Peters over creative differences, finally resulting in a total rewrite, and the leading ladies scenes being completely cut. |
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"In Indiana jones , the lost ark . The fight scene in the street where the bloke draws a sword and jones just shoots him , should of been a protracted fight scene . But Harrison Ford had a serious case of the shits , and couldn’t do the fight scene . So it was reduced to him just shooting the guy .
The “guy” is Pat Roach.
No, pat roach was the guy who got chopped up by the planes propeller
He also played the sherpa in the bar fight in Nepal "
And was in Conan the destroyer. |
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"In the film Hot fuzz.
The scene where Simon Pegg gets stabbed through the hand by Santa.
That Santa was played by director Peter (lord of the rings) Jackson.
And his girlfriend breaking up with him is cate blanchet "
Correct, although you wouldn't know as they all had forensics suit's and masks on, apart from her beautiful eyes giving it away. |
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over a year ago
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"The Velociraptor noises in Jurassic Park are actually recordings of tortoises mating"
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By *ty31Man
over a year ago
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Stallone nearly died filming the fight scene in Rocky 4 when Dolph Lundgren punched him in the chest |
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Gene Hackman blamed the blind man in
Young Frankenstein
Putting on the ritz |
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Vincent Price
Pete Cushing and Christopher Lee all have the same birthday
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"Stallone nearly died filming the fight scene in Rocky 4 when Dolph Lundgren punched him in the chest "
Doesn't surprise me, I saw Dolph walking through Heathrow airport at the time he was he full big roid size and was huge,it didn't help that he had flown in from Japan and was surrounded by lots of very short Japanese people that made him look like a giant. |
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By *ild_oatsMan
over a year ago
the land of saints & sinners |
The film Escape to Witch Mountain was considered unusual for Disney as the main adult stars were all elderly. |
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Sylvester Stallone was originally due to star in Beverly Hills Cop, and Eddie Murphy was originally going to play Winston in Ghostbusters |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Sylvester Stallone was originally due to star in Beverly Hills Cop, and Eddie Murphy was originally going to play Winston in Ghostbusters"
I'm still waiting for my royalties.
Winston |
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Spent a long time in the film industry.
So many places that you are led to believe are exotic are filmed in some pretty normal places around the uk.
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Michael Jackson wanted to play the first ever live action Spiderman. |
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By *gent CoulsonMan
over a year ago
Secret hideaway in the pennines |
Some of the velociraptor noises in "Jurassic Park" are actually tortoises mating. |
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The Punisher (2004)
During the fight scene with the Russian (played by professional wrestler Kevin Nash), our protagonist Frank Castle (played by Thomas Jane) stabs Nash right in the chest with what he thought was a prop knife, but it was a real knife. Nash somehow doesn't break character or even flinch, he smiles like a madman and manages to carry out the scene with a literal stab wound in the top right side of his chest.
Some people are tough cookies |
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In the final scene of Ferris Buellers Day Off his mum and sister are driving home (Ferris is racing to beat them). Listen to the conversation carefully. Mum had to take time off to pick up the sister and missed out on commission for a deal she was about to make. She states with the money, she was going to buy Ferris a car. His day off cost him a car. |
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In the goonies, the boys go underground on 26th October 1985, the same date that marty travels back to 1955 in back to the future. |
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By *yron69Man
over a year ago
Fareham |
Frog1 (Alain Charnier) in The French Connection was actually a Spanish actor who couldn't speak French. |
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"The Punisher (2004)
During the fight scene with the Russian (played by professional wrestler Kevin Nash), our protagonist Frank Castle (played by Thomas Jane) stabs Nash right in the chest with what he thought was a prop knife, but it was a real knife. Nash somehow doesn't break character or even flinch, he smiles like a madman and manages to carry out the scene with a literal stab wound in the top right side of his chest.
Some people are tough cookies "
Need to watch this. How did they not test the knife? |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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In the opening scene in the film The Thing, the Norwegian helicopter pilots are shouting "its not a dog,dont trust it,its a thing" but in Norwegian |
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over a year ago
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Alfred Hitchcock appears as a cameo in every film he directed! I've seen him in To Catch a Thief and in North, by Northwest. |
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"In the opening scene in the film The Thing, the Norwegian helicopter pilots are shouting "its not a dog,dont trust it,its a thing" but in Norwegian "
Cool. |
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"In the final scene of Ferris Buellers Day Off his mum and sister are driving home (Ferris is racing to beat them). Listen to the conversation carefully. Mum had to take time off to pick up the sister and missed out on commission for a deal she was about to make. She states with the money, she was going to buy Ferris a car. His day off cost him a car."
Yeah, but to be fair, he got a great day and a movie made about it too! |
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By *ryan...Man
over a year ago
1950's Original |
The snow in the wizard of Oz was asbestos |
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By *ryan...Man
over a year ago
1950's Original |
Neos passport in the Matrix (1999)
Expired in the scene on
September 11th 2001 |
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By *ty31Man
over a year ago
NW London |
Roger L Jackson (the voice of GhostFace in Scream) was kept from meeting any of the other cast by Wes Craven to heighten their terror. Jackson is also known for voicing Mojo Dojo in Powerpuff girls cartoons.
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During Scream 1 the prop department forgot to disconnect Drew Barrymore's on screen phone resulting in several calls going thru to a real 911 operator |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Steve McQueen jumped the wire in The Great Escape on a British not German bike.
Fact 2. The Wild One. Triumph bikes not Harleys."
Another fun fact about The Great Escape is that Steve McQueen was such an accomplished motorbike enthusiast he did his own stunts. So much that the rider employed to chase him could not keep up. So some of the chase scenes are Steve in a Nazi uniform 'chasing' himself! |
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In Raiders of the Lost Arc, Indiana Jones role is entirely superfluous.
With or without his actions the Nazis would have found the Arc.
Winston
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Could be wrong but I think McQueen did not do the final barbwire jump. His stunt double did it. |
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over a year ago
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Sylvester Stallone took the lead role in Stop Or My Mom Will Shoot because Arnold Schwarzenegger put out a false rumour that he was interested in the part. |
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"Could be wrong but I think McQueen did not do the final barbwire jump. His stunt double did it. "
I think you are right. Bud Ekins is said to have done it. Although McQueen probably could have done it his insurance and safety would not allow it. |
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over a year ago
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Martin Scorsese was such a fan of Psycho (1960) that for the main fight scene in Raging Bull (1980) he 'mimics' the infamous shower scene to the absolute second.
In both sequences each shot lasts the exact same amount of seconds and the scene/view changes at the exact same second too.
PS - Psycho was the first mainstream release to show a toilet on screen! |
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By *ryan...Man
over a year ago
1950's Original |
Adolf Hitler watched the Charlie Chaplin film
"The Great dictator"
at least twice |
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By *yron69Man
over a year ago
Fareham |
The director of Grease got an infection from the open sewer, backdrop to the race scene. Consequently when the kids had to cross it at the end they were partially wrapped in clingfilm.
Kernickie can be scene nipping across like a big girl in the background. |
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During the filming of the great escape, Charles Bronson mwrDavid Callum and his then wife Jill Ireland.
He later told David that if he was not careful he was going to steal his wife.
A year later Bronson and Ireland married |
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By *ryan...Man
over a year ago
1950's Original |
A wallet with credit cards in, twisted near a microphone, was the sound of Regans neck turning in the Exorcist |
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By *abluesbabyMan
over a year ago
Gibraltar/Cheshire/London |
Traditionally vampires could walk about happily in the sun. The notion they burn to death in sunlight was invented by Nosferatu in 1922 in an unsuccessful bid to stave off legal action by the Stoker family. Who ironically got the court to order all copies of the film be burned.
Luckily at least 1 copy survived! |
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Matrix reloaded when trinity is at the pc screen the nmap code she uses is correct. And she ain't using Windows. |
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"In Raiders of the Lost Arc, Indiana Jones role is entirely superfluous.
With or without his actions the Nazis would have found the Arc.
Winston
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Are you Amy Farrah Fowler ? |
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If you remove the modern day scenes and the credits from James Camerons Titanic, the film would be 2 hours 40 minutes long..... the same length of time it took the real titanic to sink! |
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Fish from marillion was originally slated to play a part in the original highlander film as well as record the soundtrack because of other commitments queen end up recording the soundtrack including a rarely hear version of my way. And Fish didn't end up in the film .
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By *jfrenchMan
over a year ago
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Jaws is supposed to be the biggest shark ever seen and all the way through both the 'expert' marine biologist and the 'expert' shark hunter all refer to the fish as 'him'.
However, Great White females are much, much larger than the males and seeing its meant to be the biggest... well... you can work it out...
PS - it didn't help with gender mix up nicknaming the rubber fake one "Bruce" named after Spielberg's lawyer! |
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All this ludicrous furore about a black actress playing Ariel in The Little Mermaid. In Bram Stoker's Dracula we have...
An Englishman playing a Transylvanian
A Welshman playing a Dutchman
A Canadian playing an Englishman
Several Americans playing Englishmen
A Swazi playing an Englishman
An American woman playing an Englishwoman
An Italian woman playing a Transylvanian woman
An Israeli woman playing a Transylvanian woman.
And - yep - NOBODY cared. Cos they're actors! |
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Fact or fiction?
& fab relevant!
I've heard previously that the scene (& others) in Carry On Camping where Barbara Windsor's bikini pings off was filmed at Eureka site ? |
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By *ryan...Man
over a year ago
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Walt Disney's final words (written down not spoken)were....
" Kurt Russell" |
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The first victim of the shark in Jaws screamed for real because she was injured. |
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In Toy Story (TS2 I think?) there’s a scene where they get something out of a tool box- which is branded with Binford, which is the fictional tool sponsor for Tool Time, the also fictional show from Tim Allen’s Home Improvement sitcom |
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By *ryan...Man
over a year ago
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"Gone with the wind"
took place before light bulbs..
yet several light bulbs or lamp chords are shown in the film |
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By *ryan...Man
over a year ago
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In the Wizard of Oz film,
oil is applied to the Tinman,so he doesn't rust...
Except tin doesn't rust |
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By *ubal1Man
over a year ago
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"Steve McQueen jumped the wire in The Great Escape on a British not German bike.
Fact 2. The Wild One. Triumph bikes not Harleys."
The bike jump scene was actually done by a stuntman friend of Steve McQueen, who also did the motorbike slide in Bullitt. |
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By *ubal1Man
over a year ago
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The very best source of trivia pertaining to movies is available of the IMDB website: thousands of trivial facts, for example, when filming Dr. No, Ursula Andreas was dubbed because she could not speak English.
The Ambassador's nosy secretary was made up to look Chinese, but was actually a well-known English actress, called Zena Marshall, who made multiple appearances in British TV serials during the 1960s.
Peter Arne, who appeared in many films, including Enemy Within and When Eight Bells Toll was murdered by a tramp whom he befriended and helped to regain his health! |
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"Fact or fiction?
& fab relevant!
I've heard previously that the scene (& others) in Carry On Camping where Barbara Windsor's bikini pings off was filmed at Eureka site ?"
I think that's unlikely. Most outdoor scenes were filmed in Black Park which is next to Pinewood Studios |
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By *ubal1Man
over a year ago
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The old abandoned wooden barges that featured very prominently in an British excellent thriller from 1952, called The Long Memory, starring Sir John Mills and Elizabeth Sellars and John Chandos can still be clearly seen on Google Maps near Iwade on the Essex Coast: a testament to the solidity of their construction! |
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By *weedeldumbCouple (MM)
over a year ago
Leeds & Harrogate |
When filming 70's thriller The Marathon Man a scene called for staunch method actor Dustin Hoffman to have slept out all night in a smelly wheelie bin.
So he did just that.
And when he arrived on set next morning to shoot the scene he was suitably dishevelled and very whiffy.
"Oh my dear boy!" balked co-star Lawrence Olivier almost retching at the stench and holding his nose "why don't you just try acting?" |
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By *ubal1Man
over a year ago
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The famous actor, Samuel Kydd, from Belfast was extremely prolific in films, on TV, etc., but a very prolific actor, whom you are highly unlikely to have heard of, was Ian Wilson, who played bit parts in a massive number of British films, most of them non-speaking roles.
You will undoubtedly recognise his face, but he largely went uncredited!
Dame Margaret Rutherford had a very untraditional and unusual relationship with her husband, Stringer Davis, who often appeared in her films in bit parts.
Margaret had parents who both suffered mental issues, as Margaret did too, and she decided she did not want to pass on her problems to another generation. Though widely lived and respected she suffered from lability of mood and severe panic attacks, especially before going on stage! |
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Michael Hutchence (Lead singer of INXS) was reputedly told by his accountant that he'd made so much money from their previous album & tour, that he really needed to loose some for tax purposes- and was advised of a new government scheme to invest in the Australian film industry (which could be declared as a write off against tax liability).
He invested in a project put forward by Oz TV star, Paul Hogan...called Crocodile Dundee- which went on to make about $300m U.S. and pay back the investors many times their initial investment  |
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Apart from Harrison Ford, the only person to appear in all of the first three Indiana Jones films was former wrestler and stunt man, turned actor, Pat Roach (of Auf Wiedersehen Pet- Where he played the role of Bomber...which incidentally was one of his wrestling monikers).
He got the role after being turned down to play Darth Vader, but making a good impression on director George Lucas |
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The highest paid actor on The Godfather was Richard Castellano who played the Corleone family enforcer Clemenza. Al Pacino was paid just 35,000 dollars for his role as Michael Corleone. |
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By *aitonelMan
over a year ago
Liverpool |
Nobody will ever know how the seashells are truely meant to be used |
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By *ubal1Man
over a year ago
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David Lodge's favourite film was: The Cockleshell Heroes, which was about the canoe raid on Nazi shops in Bordeaux, directed by Jose Ferrer who was way above the age of the real participants.
Most of the locations can still be visited with the exception of the famous watersplash ford, at which David is soaked by a passing car as he returns to the Royal Marine base.
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By *lynJMan
over a year ago
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"In the Wizard of Oz film,
oil is applied to the Tinman,so he doesn't rust...
Except tin doesn't rust "
But the iron or steel substrate does. Tin is applied in a very thin layer to stop rusting but is easily scratched exposing the metal underneath. |
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"In the opening scene in the film The Thing, the Norwegian helicopter pilots are shouting "its not a dog,dont trust it,its a thing" but in Norwegian "
In Predator, the guy who plays The Predator is also the pilot flying out Arnie at the end of the film |
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If you ever see a film directed by Alan Smithee, it means the real director had some reason to want to disassociate themselves from the project- So the name was chosen for the purpose of allowing this to happen |
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By *rKeefyMan
over a year ago
Ashton |
"The guy who played Ferris Bueller's principal turned out to be a real life p@edophile."
Broderick was charged with causing death by dangerous driving in 1987, but convicted of careless driving and fined £100 |
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Tom cruise was in top gun only because John travolta said no thanks he was doing his 737 aeroplane license |
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In the shining, the cook, hallorann, played by scatman clothes, is also the voice of Hong Kong fuey |
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Nic Cage was cast as Superman for Tim Burtons Superman Lives before the project got canned. Pics on Google of nic cage in superman costume |
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By *yron69Man
over a year ago
Fareham |
"David Lodge's favourite film was: The Cockleshell Heroes, which was about the canoe raid on Nazi shops"
The ones that sold jackboots and maps of Poland? |
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"In Raiders of the Lost Arc, Indiana Jones role is entirely superfluous.
With or without his actions the Nazis would have found the Arc.
Winston
Are you Amy Farrah Fowler ?"
I'd only watched the BBT clip about 10 minutes before this thread started.
Winston |
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George Spelvin, Georgette Spelvin, and Georgina Spelvin are traditional pseudonyms used in programs in American theater by actors who don't want to give their real names or would be credited twice because they played two parts.
Georgina Spelvin was the name used by a porn star in the 1970s and 1980s. She is now 86! |
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"Nic Cage was cast as Superman for Tim Burtons Superman Lives before the project got canned. Pics on Google of nic cage in superman costume"
Just seen it.
It looks awful. |
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"Nic Cage was cast as Superman for Tim Burtons Superman Lives before the project got canned. Pics on Google of nic cage in superman costume
Just seen it.
It looks awful. "
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The whole concept of the movie looked awful, glad it didn't get made, |
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By *rKeefyMan
over a year ago
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"In Raiders of the Lost Arc, Indiana Jones role is entirely superfluous.
With or without his actions the Nazis would have found the Arc.
Winston
Are you Amy Farrah Fowler ?
I'd only watched the BBT clip about 10 minutes before this thread started.
Winston "
It never even crossed my mind until I saw that episode, now it's ruined somewhat. |
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Pierce Brosman was originally offered to play James Bond after Roger Moore, but had to decline, as he couldn’t be released from his Remington Steele contract. Hence, the part went to Timothy Dalton.
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When Daniel Craig was picked to play bond, he was in a final 2 with Henry Cavill, Cavill was 22 at the time and deemed too young - plus they really liked Craig
IMO that gives Cavill a great chance of becoming the next Bond as he’s only furthered his case with performances like Mission impossible fallout and the man from uncle |
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By *ryan...Man
over a year ago
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"When Daniel Craig was picked to play bond, he was in a final 2 with Henry Cavill, Cavill was 22 at the time and deemed too young - plus they really liked Craig
IMO that gives Cavill a great chance of becoming the next Bond as he’s only furthered his case with performances like Mission impossible fallout and the man from uncle "
Maybe not diverse enough now .
Tom Hardy would have been fav but probably too old...more than likely next a black actor .or woman..or Alien |
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By *ryan...Man
over a year ago
1950's Original |
I am legend film...
after filming... Will Smith tried to adopt the Alsatian ' Abbey ", but her trainer wouldn't part with her |
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over a year ago
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In the life of Brian, Graham Chapman had to wear a rubber band on his willy to make him look more "Jewish" when he appeared at the window naked |
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over a year ago
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The lot used to film the shore scenes in Jaws was the same used for the opening credits of murder she wrote |
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over a year ago
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The ending of Blade Runner is fly over cam footage taken from The Shining. |
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In Saving Private Ryan the mission completed by the Rangers was actually done by the divisional chaplain from the 101st. |
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over a year ago
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There's a guy with his cock out jumping round in the final cheering scene in teenwolf..... |
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"The lot used to film the shore scenes in Jaws was the same used for the opening credits of murder she wrote "
It wasn't to make him look Jewish, its because he's a very naughty boy |
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over a year ago
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The second half of The Shining is actually the book that Jack Torrence is writing in the main hall.
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By *ocusMan
over a year ago
Cambridge |
Martin Sheen was d*unk for real in his first scene for Apocalypse Now. When he punches the mirror he cuts his hand for real and the blood you see is his. |
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"In the opening scene in the film The Thing, the Norwegian helicopter pilots are shouting "its not a dog,dont trust it,its a thing" but in Norwegian
In Predator, the guy who plays The Predator is also the pilot flying out Arnie at the end of the film"
In predator, one of Arnie's SF rescue team, Hawkins, is played Shane black. Who also wrote the film, and lethal weapon and countless others. |
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By *ister CMan
over a year ago
liverpool |
"In Indiana jones , the lost ark . The fight scene in the street where the bloke draws a sword and jones just shoots him , should of been a protracted fight scene . But Harrison Ford had a serious case of the shits , and couldn’t do the fight scene . So it was reduced to him just shooting the guy .
The “guy” is Pat Roach. "
Bomber from auf wiedersehen pet...
I met him in Rhyl when he wrestled and he was a giant of a guy and really really nice from memory |
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"In Indiana jones , the lost ark . The fight scene in the street where the bloke draws a sword and jones just shoots him , should of been a protracted fight scene . But Harrison Ford had a serious case of the shits , and couldn’t do the fight scene . So it was reduced to him just shooting the guy .
The “guy” is Pat Roach.
Bomber from auf wiedersehen pet...
I met him in Rhyl when he wrestled and he was a giant of a guy and really really nice from memory"
Got an old gearbox from him in his scrapyard. Top man. |
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His scrap yard was just over the road from us in Handsworth |
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In dirty dancing Patrick swayze actually caught his old boy in his zipper in one scene, and was never edited out.. |
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R. Lee Ermey pretty much ad-libbed his entire dialogue in the film Full Metal Jacket. |
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